18 must-read true crime books like The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas

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The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

By: John E. Douglas

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Kill…

"The journey to reckon with our nation's searing history of racial hatred, intolerance, and discrimination is ongoing, and there are no neutrals in that struggle. The shadow cast by Joseph Paul Franklin and his like is long and dark, so the sunlight to eradicate it must be even brighter and stronger. [p. 290]"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"With today's technology, conversations that used to be limited to basements and meeting halls, the kinds of words and places that first helped radicalize Franklin, now have tens of thousands of participants online. Corrosive ideas, hate speech, conspiracies, and even potential crimes have a home online unlike any they have ever known."

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"Due to the remarkable advances in communications technologies, we find ourselves living at a time when it is far easier to radicalize and inspire hate than ever before. The internet and social media have made it much easier to spread philosophies like Franklin's than it was in his time, and he would undoubtedly be delighted to see his face appearing frequently on sites like YouTube."

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

If you liked the true crime plot in The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken, Peter Maiken

1. Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

By: Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The state prosecutor at the Gacy trial recounts the police investigation that led to Gacy's arrest … read more

Similar categories in Terry Sullivan's Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule

2. The Want-Ad Killer

By: Ann Rule

3.59

Format: 378 pages,

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipula… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rule's The Want-Ad Killer book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree by Dennis McDougal

3. Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree

By: Dennis McDougal

3.64

Format: None pages,

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? by Ann Rule

5. Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

The author of eight New York Timesbestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stran… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rule's Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

6. Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

By: None

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The riveting personal account of one sheriffs epic hunt for America's most heinous serial killer. F… read more

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7. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

By: Tom Shachtman , Robert K. Ressler

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Ro… read more

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8. Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer

By: Ann Rule

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

In her most personal and provocative book to date, the #1 bestselling master of true crime presents… read more

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Cover of American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

9. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

10. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

By: Jillian Lauren

3.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Lauren's Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

11. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’ by Nic  Edwards

12. The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’

By: Nic Edwards

3.75

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

On February 13, 2017 , two Indiana teenagers, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, went fo… read more

Similar categories in Nic Edwards's The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’ book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite by John Glatt

13. Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

By: John Glatt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Golden Boy, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert … read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Killer's Shadow:  The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas

14. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

By: John E. Douglas

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Kill… read more

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The journey to reckon with our nation's searing history of racial hatred, intolerance, and discrimination is ongoing, and there are no neutrals in that struggle. The shadow cast by Joseph Paul Frankl…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"With today's technology, conversations that used to be limited to basements and meeting halls, the kinds of words and places that first helped radicalize Franklin, now have tens of thousands of parti…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"Due to the remarkable advances in communications technologies, we find ourselves living at a time when it is far easier to radicalize and inspire hate than ever before. The internet and social media …"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

15. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

By: Laurah Norton

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more

Similar categories in Laurah Norton's Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes

16. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest … read more

Similar categories in Paul Holes's Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling by Ron Franscell

17. Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling

By: Ron Franscell

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare.… read more

Similar categories in Ron Franscell's Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI by Jana Monroe

18. Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

By: Jana Monroe

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, and My Favorite Murder, a riveting memoir of a trailblazing… read more

Similar categories in Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The devil, or whatever force was behind that disembodied knife in her mind, has never made anyone do anything. The devil just applauds when it happens."

-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

"Our answers were rarely found in confessional sessions in a jailhouse interrogation room despite how hard serial killers like Ted Bundy and Edmund Kemper tried to play their interviewers. Our answers…"

-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

Cover of A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind by Ann Wolbert Burgess

19. A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

By: Ann Wolbert Burgess

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolu… read more

Similar categories in Ann Wolbert Burgess's A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky

20. Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

By: Peter Vronsky

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination… read more

Similar categories in Peter Vronsky's Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present book and John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Northern Kentucky University's criminal sociologist J. Robert Lilly, looked closely at the statistics of wartime rapes committed by American GI's serving in Britain, France and Germany. To everyone's…"

-Peter Vronsky, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

Cover of Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic by Billy Jensen

21. Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic

By: Billy Jensen

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author, co-host of the hit podcast and Discovery + docuseries  Long Island Serial Kill… read more

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  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

11 Best adult books like The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas

Transform Your Habits

Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Want-Ad Killer

Ann Rule

3.59

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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan

4.09

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30 Top audiobook books like Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling by Ron Franscell

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Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren

3.38

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Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

James Renner

3.74

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American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

Daniel Stashower

3.50

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Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

Kathleen Hale

3.94

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