14 Top biography books like Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

By: Harold Schechter

3.46

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychop…

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Cover of The Wrong Case (Milo Milodragovitch, #1) by James Crumley

1. The Wrong Case (Milo Milodragovitch, #1)

By: James Crumley

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary detective story from one of the great American crime fiction authors.  Milo once … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby

3. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

By: Molly Caldwell Crosby

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare by Steve    Jackson

4. Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare

By: Steve Jackson

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A WildBlue Press original true crime story from the New York Times bestselling author of MONSTER an… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith, Tomás Guillén

5. The Search for the Green River Killer

By: Carlton Smith , Tomás Guillén

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The true story of America's most notorious serial killer case ever. read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators by Steve    Jackson

6. No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

By: Steve Jackson

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

7. Three Sisters in Black

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages,

The bizarre true case of the 'Bathtub Tragedy". It started when a beautiful young woman named Ocey … read more

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8. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

By: Gregg Olsen

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the fore… read more

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9. 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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10. On the Farm

By: Stevie Cameron

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Now that the publication bans are lifted, you need Stevie Cameron to get the whole story, which inc… read more

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11. The Devil Came to St. Louis

By: Troy Taylor

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

According to legend, the most famous exorcism in American history occurred in St. Louis in 1949, cr… read more

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12. Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages

By: Nathan Belofsky

3.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

An irreverent jaunt through medical history's most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest b… read more

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Cover of Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Susan J. Eischeid

13. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • 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
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

15. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

By: Harold Schechter

3.46

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychop… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men book and Harold Schechter's Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax by Philip E. Ginsburg

16. Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax

By: Philip E. Ginsburg

3.93

Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition

Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie Hilley grew up in a small Alabama town believing she was … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal by Nathan Masters

17. Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal

By: Nathan Masters

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick s… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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18. To the Bridge

By: Nancy Rommelmann

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother … read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet van der Zijl

19. An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

By: Annejet van der Zijl

3.73

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became one… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you no longer had a future, what else is there left but dreams of the past?"

-Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

"If there was one thing that was truly American, it was the belief that it was always possible to start again."

-Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

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20. Hotel Sacher

By: Rodica Doehnert

3.47

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

One woman takes hold of her legacy in an epic tale of Viennese romance, deception, and danger. Vien… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row by Karen Conti

21. Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row

By: Karen Conti

4.08

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the cr… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Beast: A Chilling True Story of a Psychopathic Child Killer (True Crime) by Ryan  Green

22. The Beast: A Chilling True Story of a Psychopathic Child Killer (True Crime)

By: Ryan Green

4.08

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

In July 1981, just days after his release from jail, Clifford Olson Junior unleashed hell on Britis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Beyond Obsession: The Shocking True Story of a Teenage Love Affair Turned Deadly by Richard Hammer

23. Beyond Obsession: The Shocking True Story of a Teenage Love Affair Turned Deadly

By: Richard Hammer

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The chilling true story of a beautiful violin prodigy, her devoted boyfriend, and the devastating f… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Stray: Memoir of a Runaway by Tanya Marquardt

24. Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

By: Tanya Marquardt

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Brutal and beautiful, Stray is the true story of a girl who runs away and finds herself. After gro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"When I left, I took everything with me...I reached under my bed where there were two leather-bound journals that had gold lettering on the front covers and that fastened with a flimsy lock. I read th…"

-Tanya Marquardt, Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

"We were magical and alive - we cared about music and conversation, sex and spit and blood, holding on tight to the space between youth and adulthood. When I look back at that time, my nostalgia can b…"

-Tanya Marquardt, Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

Cover of Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek

25. Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone

By: Brian Switek

3.71

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone." --Wal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Cold Case Solved (True Crime) by Shuler

26. The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Cold Case Solved (True Crime)

By: Shuler

3.78

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

  For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Townhouse Massacre: The Unforgettable Crimes of Richard Speck by Ryan  Green

27. The Townhouse Massacre: The Unforgettable Crimes of Richard Speck

By: Ryan Green

4.04

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

“It just wasn’t their night” – Richard Speck On the evening of 13 July 1966, an intoxicated Richard… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Curse: A Shocking True Story of Superstition, Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism by Ryan  Green

28. The Curse: A Shocking True Story of Superstition, Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism

By: Ryan Green

3.89

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1894, Leonarda Cianciulli was born into an abusive household. As a young girl, she attempted sui… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Serial Killers: Real and Imagined (The Great Courses) by Emily Zarka

29. Serial Killers: Real and Imagined (The Great Courses)

By: Emily Zarka

3.41

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Monster stories aren’t just meant to entertain. They’re meant to inform, even educate. Above all, t… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump

30. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

By: Fred C. Trump

4.07

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Drop Off by Edward J. McFadden III

31. Drop Off

By: Edward J. McFadden III

3.63

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Nature morphs and twists, and beasts that shouldn’t exist stalk the sea. At the edge of the abyss,… read more

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6 Best adult books like Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

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Ann Rule

3.59

Transform Your Habits

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

Susan Jonusas

3.45

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

Harold Schechter

3.46

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Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax

Philip E. Ginsburg

3.93

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The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

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