45 Genealogical Mysteries, Historical True Crime Murder Mysteries, and Non-Fiction Generational Narratives & Memoirs

Anyone who studies or follows the science of genealogy knows that many times, the discoveries one makes are often as much of a mystery as any found in the best works of fiction. The compilation found below and credited back to Family Tree Magazine offers a potpourri of works ranging from fictionalized genealogical mysteries to personal memoirs and everything in between written by various authors who have chosen to immerse themselves into the subject of family history...

TITLE	SERIES TITLE and or Category (as applicable)	AUTHOR
Fictional Genealogical Mysteries
1.      In the Blood	Fictional Genealogical Mystery (Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mysteries)	Steve Robinson
2.      The Wicked Trade	Fictional Genealogical Mystery (Forensic Genealogist Series)	Nathan Dylan Goodwin
3.      The Irish Inheritance	Fictional Genealogical Mystery (Jayne Sinclair Series)	M.J. Lee
4.      Three Times Removed	Fictional Genealogical Mystery (Maze Investigations)	M.K. Jones
5.      The Marriage Certificate	Fictional Genealogical Mystery	Stephen Molyneux
True Crime
6.      Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun	True Crime	Frank Vivano
7.      The Cooper’s Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary	True Crime	Joan Hoff & Marian Yeates
8.      Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell	True Crime	Elaine Formal
9.      The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York	True Crime	Patricia Cline Cohen
10.   Murdered by His Wife	True Crime	Deborah Navas
11.   The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York	True Crime	Amy Gilman Srebnick
12.   Only a Few Bones: A True Account of the Rolling Fork Tragedy and Its Aftermath	True Crime	John Phillip Colletta
13.   The Trials of Maria Barbella: The True Story of a 19th-Century Crime of Passion	True Crime	Idanna Pucci
14.   Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America	True Crime	Alan Pell Crawford
Fictional Family Saga
15.   Commonwealth Avenue	Fictional Family Saga	Linda Nevins
16.   The Ghost of Hannah Mendes	Fictional Family Saga	Naomi Ragen
17.   East of Eden	Fictional Family Saga	John Steinbeck
18.   Isle of Canes	Fictional Family Saga	Elizabeth Shown Mills
19.   The Madam	Fictional Family Saga	Juliana Baggott
20.   The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane	Fictional Family Saga	Katherine Howe
21.   Portrait in Sepia	Fictional Family Saga	Isabel Allende
22.   Tinkers	Fictional Family Saga	Paul Harding
23.   The Virgin Blue	Fictional Family Saga	Tracy Chevalier
Non-Fiction Generational Narratives & Memoirs
24.   An American Family: The Kennans, The First Three Generations	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	George F. Kennan
25.   A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara	Memoir	Jeffrey Gundy
26.   A Scattered People: An American Family Moves West	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Gerald McFarland
27.   Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood	Memoir	Trevor Noah
28.   The Campbell Quest: A Saga of Family and Fortune	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Patrick MacCulloch
29.   Family	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Ian Frazier
30.   Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	James Fox
31.   The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Henry Wiencek
32.   Halfway Home: A Granddaughter’s Biography	Memoir	Mary Logue
33.   The Hatch and Brood of Time: Five Phelps Families in the Atlantic World, 1720-1880	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Peter Haring Judd
34.   How Grand a Flame: A Chronicle of a Plantation Family, 1813-1947	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Clyde Bresee
35.   I’m a Stranger Here Myself	Memoir	Bill Bryson
36.   The Langhornes of Langhorne Park	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	D. Brenton Simons
37.   Origins: A Memoir	Memoir	Amin Maalouf
38.   Night	Memoir	Elie Wiesel
39.   Not My Father’s Son	Memoir	Alan Cummings
40.   Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist	Memoir	Buzzy Jackson
41.   Rare Birds: An American Family	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Dan Bessie
42.   Slaves in the Family	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Edward Ball
43.   The Songcatcher	Memoir	Sharyn McCrumb
44.   The Sweet Hell Inside: A Family History	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Edward Ball
45.   Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s Story	Non-Fiction Generational Narratives	Helen Epstein