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Recommended crime books (3)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into crime here are some crime books from United States of America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

1.
In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote EN

Rating: 4     263 Votes
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, t... continue

2.
The Expats

The Expats by Chris Pavone EN

Rating: 3.5     79 Votes
Description:
An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems
Recommended: 31 Oct 2022

3.

The Trees by Percival Everett EN

Rating: 5     2 Votes
Description:
The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that similar murders are taking place all over the country. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can't look away.


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