12 Top mystery books like Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman

Cover of Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman

Evidence of Things Seen

By: Sarah Weinman

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh…

If you liked the mystery plot in Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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

1. 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 Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable by Joanna Schwartz

2. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

By: Joanna Schwartz

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Schwartz's Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks

3. Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

By: Susan Hendricks

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hendricks's Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

4. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of I Am a Killer: What Makes a Murderer: Their Shocking Stories in Their Own Words by Danny Tipping

5. I Am a Killer: What Makes a Murderer: Their Shocking Stories in Their Own Words

By: Danny Tipping

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? What motivates someone to take a li… read more

Similar categories in Danny Tipping's I Am a Killer: What Makes a Murderer: Their Shocking Stories in Their Own Words book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

6. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty by Mandy Matney

7. Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

By: Mandy Matney

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local … read more

Similar categories in Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence by James Renner

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

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

Similar categories in James Renner's Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

9. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

10. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

Similar categories in Frank Figliuzzi's Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

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

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 Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

12. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry N. MacLean

13. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

Similar categories in Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

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

14. 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 Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman

15. Evidence of Things Seen

By: Sarah Weinman

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

16. 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 Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara  Butcher

17. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

18. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter

19. I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

By: Barbara Rae-Venter

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing withou… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Rae-Venter's I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The cost in time, personnel, and money for trying to identify the Golden State Killer prior to the use of IGG was significant,"

-Barbara Rae-Venter, I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Cover of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

20. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

Similar categories in Jane Marie's Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel by Amy Price

21. Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

By: Amy Price

3.47

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a… read more

Similar categories in Amy Price's Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth  Flock

22. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

By: Elizabeth Flock

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Renowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Flock's The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I saw how their violent actions had both helped and harmed them, and others around them... They all found agency, a voice, and an identity beyond how the men in their towns saw them. But they got no …"

-Elizabeth Flock, The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Cover of Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex  Mar

23. Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

By: Alex Mar

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its… read more

Similar categories in Alex Mar's Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

24. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

Similar categories in Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae

25. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

By: Shane McCrae

3.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more

Similar categories in Shane McCrae's Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"

-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

Cover of A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy by Kathy Kleiner Rubin

26. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy

By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Kleiner Rubin's A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey

27. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

By: Colin Dickey

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obse… read more

Similar categories in Colin Dickey's Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

28. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

Similar categories in Howard Blum's When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic by Billy Jensen

29. 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

Similar categories in Billy Jensen's Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable by Sarah Gerard

30. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

By: Sarah Gerard

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gerard's Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

31. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

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

Jillian Lauren

3.38

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Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendricks

3.62

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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

James Renner

3.74

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

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Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

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Kate Kennedy

3.78

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