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True crime

Books I have read about true crime, brought together across genres, periods and countries.

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Cover of La ciencia en la sombra. Los crímenes más célebres de la historia, las series y el cine a la luz de la ciencia forense

La ciencia en la sombra. Los crímenes más célebres de la historia, las series y el cine a la luz de la ciencia forense

J.M. MuletA very entertaining book to understand what forensic science really can do and what the series and movies exaggerate.

Cover of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John CarreyrouThe story of Theranos is so absurd that at times it feels like fiction, and it's amazing how well he reconstructed fraud and, above all, how investors, media and employees were accepting signals that looked obvious from the outside.

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In Cold Blood

Truman CapoteCapote reconstructs the murder of a family and everything that happens afterwards with such precision that for a moment you forget you're reading a real story.

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The Billionaire’s Vinegar

Benjamin WallaceA very entertaining story about a bottle of wine supposedly belonging to Thomas Jefferson, millionaire collectors and a world full of ego, money and possible fraud. It reads almost like a mystery novel.

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Magnetizado

Carlos BusquedThe author enters the mind of an Argentine serial killer in 1982 who killed several taxi drivers. Through interviews and other documents, Carlos Busqued is able to relive what was going through Ricardo Melogno's head at age twenty and what led him to commit those murders.

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The Adversary

Emmanuel CarrèreThe true story of a man who in 1993 murdered his entire family in France and then tried to commit suicide. He had built his life around fiction, only telling lies, and only came to light after the murders.

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Divine Boys

Laura RestrepoBased on a real event with a fictional story around it, fast-paced, good characters and very tough at times.

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Arquímedes Puccio, el siniestro líder del clan

Mente CriminalThe story of an Argentine family that in the 1980s kidnapped businessmen, locked them up in their own house (in a bathroom), and then, upon collecting the ransom, killed them.

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Cannibal Killers: Monsters with a taste for murder

Moira MartingaleHistory of cannibalism and current accounts of cannibal killers, why it happens, the mind of the cannibal killer. It's a strong and very graphic book at times, but very interesting if you like the subject or are one of those who watch serial killers on Netflix.

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Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden KeefeThe story of the family that created oxycodone and caused the opioid crisis in America. Great book, great story, very well documented, and I'm not surprised it was on every business book ranking last year.

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Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo

Regina CardóRegina Cardó tells how for years she received guests at her home in the colony of Anzures and the relationship she ended up having with Jorge Riosse, a kind and talented young tenant who, after his death, was linked to several murders of women in Mexico in the nineties. I read it because for a few years I lived right in front of that house and loved learning about the history of the place and understanding what the colony was like back then.