true crime books

In late August 1976, 23-year-old Elizabeth Plunkett vanished from Brittas Bay in County Wicklow, Ireland. Her body was discovered weeks later—raped, strangled, and bound to a lawnmower. Nearly 50 years later, her sisters are demanding justice for a crime that was never prosecuted.

When the United States opened Guantánamo Bay detention camp in 2002, it became the site of documented torture affecting approximately 780 men and boys from 48 countries. Over two decades later, verified interrogation techniques including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and sexual assault remain central to understanding post-9/11 American detention practices.

In August and September 1976, English serial killers Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw abducted, raped, and murdered two young Irish women in what became known as Ireland's first serial killing case. Despite confessing to both murders, neither man was ever convicted of the crimes.

A quiet Danish town is shaken by assault, kidnapping and murder. When the perpetrator is finally caught, it turns out to be someone one of the friends knows intimately — and that changes everything.

Virginia Giuffre, recruited as a minor into Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking ring by Ghislaine Maxwell, became the first victim to publicly expose the network in 2011. Over the following decade, she pursued multiple settlements and legal actions that unsealed court documents and implicated powerful figures—before her death by suicide in April 2025.

If you stream audiobooks or e-books on Mofibo and have a taste for real crime, Danish true crime authors have produced some of the most compelling narratives in Nordic non-fiction — from biker gang warfare and serial killers to billion-kroner fraud scandals and unsolved murders.