 | Based on the story of Winnie Judd, also known as the “Trunk Murderess” in 1931 Arizona.
|  | Atkins brings readers back to a nearly real, very corrupted Phenix City, Alabama in the 1950s.
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 | Years after the trial and conviction of Grace Marks in 1843, a doctor seeks to study her.
|  | by John BoyneBoyne draws on the murder of Cora Crippen by her husband in 1910.
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 | by Peter CareyNed Kelly was an outlaw in 19th century Australia.
|  | Although the serial killer in this book is fictional, Carr’s 1890s feature real political, criminal, and financial figures. |
 | by Agatha ChristieChristie traveled multiple times on the actual Orient Express, and loosely based this book on two events: the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s infant son and a blizzard that delayed the train for six days in Turkey (information from agathachristie.com). |  | by Patricia D. CornwellInspiration for this book comes from the Colonial Parkway Killer, a murderer in 1980s Virginia.
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 | Crecian writes a story set in late Victorian England, just after Jack the Ripper.
|  | Girl A by Abigail Dean The protagonist of this story grew up in a House of Horrors, which was the name used to refer to the home of the Turpins.
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 | Room by Emma DonoghueDonoghue’s writing was inspired by the case of Josef Fritzl.
|  | by Dominick DunneThis is a fictionalized version of the murder of Martha Moxley by Michael Skakel.
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 | by Thomas HarrisIn creating the serial killer in his book, Harris drew on multiple actual murderers.
|  | Based on an unsolved murder case from 1969. Because of this book, the case was re-opened.
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 | The real Black Dahlia was Elizabeth Short, who was found murdered in Los Angeles in 1947.
|  | Kent writes about the life of Agnes Magnusdottir, an Icelandic woman executed in 1830 for murder.
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 | by Norman Mailer Mailer tells the story of criminal Gary Gilmore.
|  | This book was inspired by the murder of Mitchell Siegel, which remains unsolved.
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 | Based on a true 1957 crime in Glasgow, Scotland.
|  | Sutton by J.R. MoehringerThis is a fictionalized biography of Willie Sutton, who repeatedly robbed banks and broke out of prisons in the first half of the 20th century.
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 | The story of the Chappaquiddick incident.
|  | Half of the story was inspired by the Smuttynose Island murders in 1873.
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 | Loosely based on the murders of the Krim children in 2012.
|  | by Josephine TeyTey goes back to the 1480s in this fictionalized investigation of Richard III and the Princess in the Tower murder.
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 | Based on unregulated blood-selling in Eastern China.
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