Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Bluegrass Conspiracy | 1990 | Sally Denton | Buy |
| 2 | The Money and the Power | 2001 | Sally Denton | Buy |
| 3 | American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857 | 2003 | Sally Denton | Buy |
| 4 | Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman’s Passage in the American West | 2005 | Sally Denton | Buy |
| 5 | Passion and Principle | 2007 | Sally Denton | Buy |
| 6 | The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas | 2009 | Sally Denton | Buy |
| 7 | The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right | 2012 | Sally Denton | Buy |
| 8 | Las Vegas Periphery: Views from the Edge | 2012 | Sally Denton | Buy |
| 9 | The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World | 2016 | Sally Denton | Buy |
| 10 | The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land | 2022 | Sally Denton | Buy |
Sally Denton’s non-fiction books span more than thirty years of investigative reporting on American power, corruption, and hidden history. Her first book, The Bluegrass Conspiracy (1990), uncovered a drug-trafficking network in Kentucky that involved police officers and prominent families. She followed it with The Money and the Power (2001), a co-written history of how organized crime helped build Las Vegas into a major American city.
Several of her books focus on the American West and the Mormon corridor. American Massacre (2003) told the story of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, while Faith and Betrayal (2005) traced a pioneer woman’s journey westward. The Profiteers (2016) examined the Bechtel Corporation and its role in shaping American infrastructure and foreign policy. Her most recent book, The Colony (2022), reported on a fundamentalist Mormon community in Mexico. Each book stands alone, so readers can pick up whichever subject interests them.