19 Best true crime books like All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

Cover of All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story of Edward Rulloff--a serial murderer who was called "too intell…

If you liked the true crime plot in All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth

1. The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer

By: Skip Hollandsworth

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Te… read more

Similar categories in Skip Hollandsworth's The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer book and Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

2. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

3. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

4. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

By: Neil Bradbury

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more

Similar categories in Neil Bradbury's A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them book and Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Cover of Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt

5. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"

-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Cover of The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston

6. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

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

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Stashower's American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper book and Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

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

8. 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 Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

9. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

By: Joe Pompeo

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

10. 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 Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • science
Cover of All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

11. All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story of Edward Rulloff--a serial murderer who was called "too intell… read more

Similar categories in Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind book and Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • science
Cover of An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels

12. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder

By: Susan Wels

3.33

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more

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

13. 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 Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

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  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

14. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville

15. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

By: Greg Melville

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."

-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

Cover of Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Katwala

16. Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector

By: Amit Katwala

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A thrilling account of the creation of the so-called lie detector, exploring shocking murders and d… read more

Similar categories in Amit Katwala's Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector book and Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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Cover of Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman

17. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

By: Sarah Weinman

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind by David B.  Nelson

18. Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind

By: David B. Nelson

3.83

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

"Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took. . … read more

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  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

19. Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

By: Greg King

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Ni… read more

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  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael Wolraich

20. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

By: Michael Wolraich

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfa… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age by Annie  Reed

21. The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age

By: Annie Reed

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Before there was Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, there was Cassie Chadwick. The first woman–using … read more

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  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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3.94

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3.38

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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Neil Bradbury

4.12

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3.49

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3.94

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Jonathan Rosen

4.07

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4.29

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