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2023 |
Best Fact Crime |
Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls |
Kathleen Hale |
Grove Atlantic - Grove Press |
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2023 |
Best Fact Crime |
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation |
Erika Krouse |
Flatiron Books |
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2023 |
Best Fact Crime |
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders |
Kathryn Miles |
Hachette Book Group - Workman Publishing - Algonquin Books |
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2023 |
Best Fact Crime |
American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C. |
Shahan Mufti |
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
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2023 |
Best Fact Crime |
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper |
Daniel Stashower |
Minotaur Books |
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2022 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History |
Margalit Fox |
Random House Publishing Group - Random House |
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2022
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Best Fact Crime
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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
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Elon Green
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Celadon Books
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2022 |
Best Fact Crime |
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away |
Ann Hagedorn |
Simon & Schuster |
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2022 |
Best Fact Crime |
Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice |
Ellen McGarrahan |
Penguin Random House - Random House |
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2022 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade |
Benjamin T. Smith |
W.W. Norton & Company |
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2022 |
Best Fact Crime |
When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer |
Curtis Wilkie |
W.W. Norton & Company |
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2021 |
Best Fact Crime |
Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America |
Mark A. Bradley |
W.W. Norton & Company |
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2021 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia |
Emma Copley Eisenberg |
Hachette Book Group - Hachette Books |
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2021
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Best Fact Crime
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Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
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Eric Eyre
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Simon & Schuster - Scribner
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2021 |
Best Fact Crime |
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country |
Sierra Crane Murdoch |
Penguin Random House - Random House |
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2021 |
Best Fact Crime |
Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife |
Ariel Sabar |
Penguin Random House - Doubleday |
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2020 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America |
Karen Abbott |
Penguin Random House - Crown |
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2020
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Best Fact Crime
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The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
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Axton Betz-Hamilton
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Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing
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2020 |
Best Fact Crime |
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century |
Maureen Callahan |
Penguin Random House - Viking |
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2020 |
Best Fact Crime |
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History |
Peter Houlahan |
Counterpoint Press |
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2020 |
Best Fact Crime |
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall |
James Polchin |
Counterpoint Press |
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2019
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Best Fact Crime
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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
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Robert W. Fieseler
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W.W. Norton & Company - Liveright
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2019 |
Best Fact Crime |
Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal |
Jonathan Green |
W.W. Norton & Company |
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2019 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure |
Carl Hoffman |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
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2019 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century |
Kirk Wallace Johnson |
Penguin Random House - Viking |
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2019 |
Best Fact Crime |
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer |
Michelle McNamara |
HarperCollins Publishers - Harper |
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2019 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia |
Alex Perry |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
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2018
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Best Fact Crime
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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David Grann
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Penguin Random House - Doubleday
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2018 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple |
Jeff Guinn |
Simon & Schuster |
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2018 |
Best Fact Crime |
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land |
Monica Hesse |
W.W. Norton & Company - Liveright |
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2018 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery |
Bill James |
Simon & Schuster - Scribner |
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2018 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery |
Rachel McCarthy James |
Simon & Schuster - Scribner |
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2018 |
Best Fact Crime |
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation |
Brad Ricca |
St. Martin's Press |
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2017 |
Best Fact Crime |
Morgue: A Life in Death |
Dr. Vincent diMaio |
St. Martin's Press |
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2017 |
Best Fact Crime |
Morgue: A Life in Death |
Ron Franscell |
St. Martin's Press |
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2017 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan |
Laurence Leamer |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
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2017 |
Best Fact Crime |
Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England |
Paul Thomas Murphy |
Pegasus Books |
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2017 |
Best Fact Crime |
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness |
Eli Sanders |
Penguin Random House - Viking Books |
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2017
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Best Fact Crime
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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
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Kate Summerscale
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Penguin Random House - Penguin Press
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2016 |
Best Fact Crime |
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide |
Eric Bogosian |
Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company |
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2016 |
Best Fact Crime |
Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him |
T.J. English |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
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2016
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Best Fact Crime
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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
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Allen Kurzweil
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HarperCollins Publishers - Harper
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2016 |
Best Fact Crime |
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime |
Val McDermid |
Grove Atlantic - Grove Press |
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2016 |
Best Fact Crime |
American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic |
John Temple |
Rowman & Littlefield - Lyons Press |
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2015 |
Best Fact Crime |
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America |
Kevin Cook |
W.W. Norton |
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2015 |
Best Fact Crime |
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art |
Carl Hoffman |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
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2015 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Other Side: A Memoir |
Lacy M. Johnson |
Tin House Books |
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2015
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Best Fact Crime
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
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William Mann
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HarperCollins Publishers - Harper
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2015 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation |
Harold Schechter |
Amazon Publishing - New Harvest |
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2014
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Best Fact Crime
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The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
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Daniel Stashower
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Minotaur Books
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2014 |
Best Fact Crime |
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery |
Paul Collins |
Crown Publishers |
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2014 |
Best Fact Crime |
Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal |
Michael D'Antonio |
Thomas Dunne Books |
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2014 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder |
Charles Graeber |
Grand Central Publishing/Twelve |
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2014 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines |
Cate Lineberry |
Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown and Company |
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2013
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Best Fact Crime
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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
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Paul French
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2013 |
Best Fact Crime |
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America |
Gilbert King |
HarperCollins Publishers - Harper |
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2013 |
Best Fact Crime |
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies |
Ben Macintyre |
Crown Publishers |
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2013 |
Best Fact Crime |
More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered |
D.P. Lyle, MD |
Medallion Press |
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2013 |
Best Fact Crime |
The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up |
Richard Lloyd Parry |
Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
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2012
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Best Fact Crime
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Candice Millard
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Random House - Doubleday
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2012 |
Best Fact Crime |
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender |
Steve Miller |
Penguin Group USA - Berkley |
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2012 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter |
Mark Seal |
Penguin Group - Viking |
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2012 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars |
Paul Collins |
Crown Publishing Group |
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2012 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge |
T.J. English |
HarperCollins - William Morrow |
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2011
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Best Fact Crime
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Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
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Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry
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University of Nebraska Press - Bison Original
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2011 |
Best Fact Crime |
Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery |
Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz |
Simon & Schuster/Scribner |
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2011 |
Best Fact Crime |
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin |
Hampton Sides |
Random House - Doubleday |
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2011 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South |
Alex Heard |
HarperCollins |
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2011 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science |
Douglas Starr |
Alfred A. Knopf |
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2010
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Best Fact Crime
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Columbine
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Dave Cullen
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Hachette Book Group/Twelve
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2010 |
Best Fact Crime |
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde |
Jeff Guinn |
Simon & Schuster |
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2010 |
Best Fact Crime |
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art |
Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo |
The Penguin Press |
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2010 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Bostons Racial Divide |
Dick Lehr |
HarperCollins |
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2010 |
Best Fact Crime |
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa |
R.A. Scotti |
Random House/Alfred A. Knopf |
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2009
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Best Fact Crime
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood and the Crime of the Century
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Howard Blum
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Random House - Crown Books
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2009 |
Best Fact Crime |
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago |
Simon Baatz |
HarperCollins |
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2009 |
Best Fact Crime |
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost it to the Revolution |
T.J. English |
HarperCollins - William Morrow |
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2009 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren |
Jonathan Lopez |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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2009 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher |
Kate Summerscale |
Bloomsbury - Walker & Company |
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2008
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Best Fact Crime
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Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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Vincent Bugliosi
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W.W. Norton & Co.
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2008 |
Best Fact Crime |
Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit |
Kevin Flynn |
Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons |
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2008 |
Best Fact Crime |
Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind |
Bruce Watson |
Penguin Group - Viking |
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2008 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Birthday Party |
Stanley Alpert |
Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons |
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2007
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Best Fact Crime
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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James L. Swanson
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HarperCollins - William Morrow
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2007 |
Best Fact Crime |
A Death in Belmont |
Sebastian Junger |
W.W. Norton & Co. |
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2007 |
Best Fact Crime |
Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine |
Kate Clark Flora, Joseph K. Loughlin |
University Press of New England |
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2007 |
Best Fact Crime |
Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer |
Robin Odell |
Kent State University Press |
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2007 |
Best Fact Crime |
Strange Piece of Paradise |
Terri Jentz |
Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
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2007 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder |
Daniel Stashower |
Dutton |
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2006
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Best Fact Crime
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Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
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Edward Dolnick
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HarperCollins
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2006 |
Best Fact Crime |
Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans |
Jed Horne |
Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
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2006 |
Best Fact Crime |
The Elements of Murder: The History of Poison |
John Emsley |
Oxford University Press |
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2006 |
Best Fact Crime |
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa |
Michael Finkel |
HarperCollins |
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2006 |
Best Fact Crime |
Written in Blood |
Diane Fanning |
St. Martin's True Crime |
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2005
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Best Fact Crime
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Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder
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Leonard Levitt
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Regan Books
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Comment: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice
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2005 |
Best Fact Crime |
Are You There Alone? |
Suzanne O'Malley |
Simon & Schuster |
Comment: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates |
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2005 |
Best Fact Crime |
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber |
Julian Rubinstein |
Little, Brown |
Comment: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts |
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2005 |
Best Fact Crime |
Forensics for Dummies |
D.P. Lyle, MD |
Wiley Publishing - For Dummies |
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2005 |
Best Fact Crime |
Green River, Running Red |
Ann Rule |
Free Press/Macmillan |
Comment: The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's Deadliest Serial Murderer |
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2005 |
Best Fact Crime |
Ready for the People |
Marissa N. Batt |
Arcade Publishing |
Comment: My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor |
