Start with high-confidence cons, hoaxes & scams books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Die, My Love
Kathryn Casey
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
Michael Finkel
The Forger's Spell
Edward Dolnick
The Billionaire's Vinegar
Benjamin Wallace
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Lucky Loser
Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
The Mother Next Door
Andrea Dunlop, Mike Weber
You'll Never Believe Me
Kari Ferrell
Sleep, My Child, Forever
John Coston
Murder, Interrupted
James Patterson
Mississippi Swindle
Shad White
Before He Wakes
Jerry Bledsoe
The Pain Brokers
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
London Falling
Patrick Radden Keefe
