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True crime buffs will love our gripping selection of the best true crime ebooks that dig through the depths of real-life criminal minds. Serial killers, psychopaths, and white-collar criminals are all here in the deadly pages of the best true crime books online. Discover your newest true crime obsession right here.

True crime buffs will love our gripping selection of the best true crime ebooks that dig through the depths of real-life criminal minds. Serial killers, psychopaths, and white-collar criminals are all here in the deadly pages of the best true crime books online. Discover your newest true crime obsession right here.

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Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
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Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

byMax Cutler

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan. Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our desire to belong, to find a deeper meaning in life, to live everyday with divine purpose. Their existence creates a sense that any one of us, at any time, could step off the cliff’s edge and fall into that daunting abyss of manipulation and unhinged dedication to a misplaced cause. Perhaps it’s this mindset that keeps us so utterly obsessed and desperate to learn more, or it’s that the stories are so bizarre and unsettling that we are simply in awe of the mechanics that make these infamous groups tick. The premier storytelling podcast studio Parcast has been focusing on unearthing these mechanics—the cult leaders and followers, and the world and culture that gave birth to both. Parcast’s work in analyzing dozens of case studies has revealed patterns: distinct ways that cult leaders from different generations resemble one another. What links the ten notorious figures profiled in Cults are as disturbing as they are stunning—from Manson to Applewhite, Koresh to Raël, the stories woven here are both spellbinding and disturbing. Cults is more than just a compilation of grisly biographies, however. In these pages, Parcast’s founder Max Cutler and national bestselling author Kevin Conley look closely at the lives of some of the most disreputable cult figures and tell the stories of their rise to power and fall from grace, sanity, and decency. Beyond that, it is a study of humanity, an unflinching look at what happens when the most vulnerable recesses of the mind are manipulated and how the things we hold most sacred can be twisted into the lowest form of malevolence.

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About True Crime

True Crime books focus on real-life sensational, shocking, or strange events and crimes. From serial killers and psychopath books to the best books on white collar crime, it’s all here in chilling digital detail. Based on our natural fear, curiosity, and contempt, true crime ebooks strive to investigate some of the most horrifying criminal occurrences in modern life: the offenders, the victims, and the circumstances. It's common for us, as readers, to try our best to solve or figure out what happened in advance of the investigators. All of this is usually underpinned with intriguing and disturbing clues and information. True crime ebooks sometimes have both objective and subjective narratives, just like in other nonfiction. There’s typically an assumption of moral judgments in these books because most of these horrific crimes go against the norms of common morality. Thankfully, atrocities like sexual assault, murder, and terrorism fall well outside of the regular spectrum of acceptable behavior. True crime nonfiction is a primarily modern phenomenon, but murder ballads from Scandinavia and the British Isles have been around since before the printing machine. The mystery surrounding murder and other violent crimes persists, even as the genre has risen in popularity and become more stylized. Popular true crime writers like Truman Capote, Michelle McNamara, and Charles Cullen are some of the most well-known and sought-after in the genre.

True Crime books focus on real-life sensational, shocking, or strange events and crimes. From serial killers and psychopath books to the best books on white collar crime, it’s all here in chilling digital detail. Based on our natural fear, curiosity, and contempt, true crime ebooks strive to investigate some of the most horrifying criminal occurrences in modern life: the offenders, the victims, and the circumstances. It's common for us, as readers, to try our best to solve or figure out what happened in advance of the investigators. All of this is usually underpinned with intriguing and disturbing clues and information. True crime ebooks sometimes have both objective and subjective narratives, just like in other nonfiction. There’s typically an assumption of moral judgments in these books because most of these horrific crimes go against the norms of common morality. Thankfully, atrocities like sexual assault, murder, and terrorism fall well outside of the regular spectrum of acceptable behavior. True crime nonfiction is a primarily modern phenomenon, but murder ballads from Scandinavia and the British Isles have been around since before the printing machine. The mystery surrounding murder and other violent crimes persists, even as the genre has risen in popularity and become more stylized. Popular true crime writers like Truman Capote, Michelle McNamara, and Charles Cullen are some of the most well-known and sought-after in the genre.