19 best-selling nonfiction books like When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas

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When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. 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 When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket

By: Brian McDonald

3.66

Format: 259 pages,

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Similar categories in Brian McDonald's Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket book and John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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3. Gone Forever

By: Diane Fanning

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Susan McFarland was a vivacious, successful mother of three young sons. On November 25, 2002, she d… read more

Similar categories in Diane Fanning's Gone Forever book and John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

4. 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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5. 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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6. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. 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 When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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

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8. 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 When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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 When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case by Charles Bosworth Jr.

10. Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case

By: Charles Bosworth Jr.

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The explosive, first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions--the murder of B… read more

Similar categories in Charles Bosworth Jr.'s Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case book and John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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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 When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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13. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) book and John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. 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 When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Grim Paradise: The Cold Case Search for the Mackinac Island Killer by Rod Sadler

16. Grim Paradise: The Cold Case Search for the Mackinac Island Killer

By: Rod Sadler

3.68

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were… read more

Similar categories in Rod Sadler's Grim Paradise: The Cold Case Search for the Mackinac Island Killer book and John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family by John Glatt

17. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family

By: John Glatt

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family book and John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

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

18. 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 When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Serial Killer's Apprentice

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A psychological examination of the blurred line between victim and accomplice―and how a killer can … read more

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  • true crime
  • 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

20. 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 When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • memoir
  • 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

21. 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 When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

5 best-selling memoir books like When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas

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

Jillian Lauren

3.38

Transform Your Habits

When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

John E. Douglas

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

Paul Holes

4.10

Transform Your Habits

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

Jana Monroe

3.68

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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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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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