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Crime & Criminals: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Crime & Criminals, updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.63, median 1,127 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 20/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $11.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 89% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 1,127 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Crime & Criminals best sellers
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Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by John Douglas
- List rank#1
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews17,048
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The Jacklighter: Murder, Betrayal, and Justice in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains
by Carla Conti
- List rank#2
- Price$9.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews14
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (One World Essentials)
- List rank#3
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews40,552
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The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy (James Patterson True Crime Book 3)
- List rank#4
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews7,745
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In Cold Blood (Vintage International)
by Truman Capote
- List rank#5
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews26,830
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Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
by Robert K. Ressler
- List rank#6
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews3,837
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Kingpins & Coyotes: 25 Years as a Special Agent Hunting Drug Cartel Bosses and Human Smugglers
by Eric Balliet
- List rank#7
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews20
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The Greatest Hoaxes in History: How Lies Shaped the World - Mind-Blowing Deceptions That Fooled Millions: True Stories of History's Most Infamous Lies, Conspiracy Theories, and Cover-ups That Chang
- List rank#8
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews216
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
- List rank#9
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews9,853
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Dave Grossman
- List rank#10
- Price$9.96
- Rating4.6
- Reviews3,929
Subcategories
FAQ
Is Crime & Criminals a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 20/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,127 reviews and sells for $9.63.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Crime & Criminals?
The median best seller has 1,127 reviews, and 14% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Crime & Criminals best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.63; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $11.99.
Can new books break into Crime & Criminals?
6% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.