Calling all true crime fans! The Crime Museum Book Club is a monthly book club featuring American true crime history, law enforcement, and survivor stories. We hope to start insightful discussions about cases, authors, and individuals affected by particular crimes. We hope you’ll join us!
The book club will be held on the Alcatraz East Facebook Page.
Join us today!
March 2025 Book:
Devil in the Darkness: The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes by JT Hunter
February 2025 Book:
Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr.
January 2025 Book:
A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in American History by Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken
December 2024 Book:
Avery: The Case Against Steven Avery and What Making a Murderer Got Wrong by Ken Kratz and Peter Wilkinson
November 2024 Book:
To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett by Mark Gardner Lee
October 2024 Book:
The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI’s Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
September 2024 Book:
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of The Carribbean and the Man Who brought The Down by Colin Woodard
August 2024 Book:
In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent’s Relentless Pursuit of the Nation’s Worst Predators by Jeffrey L. Rinek
July 2024 Book:
Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leoning
June 2024 Book:
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
May 2024 Book:
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter
April 2024 Book:
Columbine by Dave Cullen
March 2024 Book:
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate–An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs
February 2024 Book:
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
January 2024 Book:
The Delphi Murders: The Quest to Find the “Man on the Bridge” by Nic Edwards with Brian Whitney
December 2023 Book:
Prohibition: Thirteen Years that Changed America by Edward Behr
November 2023 Book:
Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi
October 2023 Book:
Monster: My True Story by Aileen WWuornos
September 2023 Book:
The Prison Guard’s Daughter: My Journey Through the Ashes of Attica by Deanne Quinn Miller
August 2023 Book:
My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachael Deloache Williams
July 2023 Book:
A Father’s Story: A Compelling and Insightful Account by Lionel Dahmer
June 2023 Book:
We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder by M. William Phelps
May 2023 Book:
Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film by Alexandra Zapruder
April 2023 Book:
A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
March 2023 Book:
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser
February 2023 Book:
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door by Roy Wenzl et. All
January 2023 Book:
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI’s Original Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
December 2022 Book:
Newton: An American Tragedy by Matthew Lysiak
November 2022 Book:
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family by John Glatt
October 2022 Book:
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
September 2022 Book:
A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming by Kerri Rawson
August 2022 Book:
Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa by James Neff
June 2022 Book:
All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes by Sue Black
May 2022 Book:
Ma Barker: America’s Most Wanted Mother by Chris Enss
April 2022 Book:
Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator by Gary Noesner
February 2022 Book:
Devil’s Know: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt
December 2021 Book:
Don’t Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman
November 2021 Book:
Monster: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murders by Anne E. Schwartz
October 2021 Book:
A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and How Her Family Fought Back by William D. LaRue
September 2021 Book:
The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue by John Glatt
August 2021 Book:
BAD KARMA: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell by Paul Wilson
July 2021 Book:
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
June 2021 Book:
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
May 2021 Book:
Hell’s Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter
April 2021 Book:
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
March 2021 Book:
The Night Stalker: The Disturbing Life and Chilling Crimes of Richard Ramirez by Philip Carlo
February 2021 Book:
The Devil’s Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley by Jessica Garrison
January 2021 Book:
The Killer’s Shadow: The FBI’s Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker
December 2020 Book:
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen
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