a list of books about cases that are (or are widely considered to be) miscarriages of justice. largely around wrongful (murder) convictions, but may be about other events (e.g. the horizon scandal)
created by ghxstfolk
last updated April, 2026
The Dreams of Ada
Robert Mayer
The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case
James Neff
Hillsborough - The Truth
Phil Scraton
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The Great Post Office Scandal: The story of the fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
Nick Wallis
The Reykjavik Confessions: The Incredible True Story of Icelandâs Most Notorious Murder Case
Simon Cox
Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
Barry Scheck
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
Brandon L. Garrett
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions and the Norfolk Four
Tom Wells
When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted
Jim McCloskey
The Longest Injustice
Alex Alexandrowicz
Signs of Murder: A small town in Scotland, a miscarriage of justice and the search for the truth
David Wilson
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
Rabia Chaudry
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