29 must-read nonfiction books like What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood by Kerry Daynes

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What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood

By: Kerry Daynes

4.35

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Kerry Daynes, leading forensic psychologist, opens up the case files of some of her most perplexing…

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1. The Jigsaw Man

By: Paul Britton

3.00

Format: None pages,

Forensic psychologist Paul Britton asks himself four questions when he is faced with a crime scene:… read more

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2. Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

By: Peter Everett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organ… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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5. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

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6. What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert

By: Peter Faulding

3.59

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping a… read more

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  • science
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

By: Benji Waterhouse

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • medical
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

By: Sohom Das

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that h… read more

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  • science
  • true crime
  • medical
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry

By: Ben Cave

4.26

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • true crime
  • medical
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

By: Gwen Adshead

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more

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  • science
  • true crime
  • medical
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

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  • science
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Jak człowiek staje się mordercą. Mroczne opowieści psychiatry sądowego

By: Richard Taylor

3.94

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

'An intricate and brilliantly written psychiatric perspective on the most perplexing of crimes' Ker… read more

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  • science
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood

By: Kerry Daynes

4.35

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Kerry Daynes, leading forensic psychologist, opens up the case files of some of her most perplexing… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Daynes's What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood book and Kerry Daynes's What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood

  • science
  • biography
  • true crime
  • medical
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. When the Dogs Don't Bark: A Forensic Scientist’s Search for the Truth

By: Angela Gallop

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Never before has criminal justice rested so heavily on scientific evidence. With ever-more sophisti… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Real Silent Witnesses: Shocking cases from the World of Forensic Science

By: Wensley Clarkson

3.71

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

WITH A FOREWORD BY NIGEL McCRERY, CREATOR OF SILENT WITNESSGoing beyond the popular TV show, this i… read more

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  • science
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Stitched Up

By: Shahed Yousaf

4.18

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? Told from the inside out, th… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • mental health
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19. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. My Life With Murderers

By: David Wilson

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Professor David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men - especially men wh… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

By: Amanda Brown

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doct… read more

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  • true crime
  • medical
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals by Jonathan Levi

22. Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals

By: Jonathan Levi

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has co… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies

By: Amanda Brown

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more

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  • true crime
  • medical
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories by Chris Atkins

24. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories

By: Chris Atkins

4.34

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story by Lysa Walder

25. Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

By: Lysa Walder

4.14

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mom watches, … read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"Najgorsza w tym wszystkim jest zwykła samotność. Możesz żyć samotnie w nieskazitelnie czystym otoczeniu, mając pod ręką wszystko, czego potrzebujesz. I nadal możesz być zupełnie odizolowany."

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

"Czasami ludzie są samotni i potrzebują jedynie kilkuminutowej rozmowy. Nie jesteśmy tu po to, by być doradcami czy mediatorami: naszym zadaniem jest pomoc w nagłych wypdakach. Ale czasami aby pomóc, …"

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

Cover of Talking with Serial Killers: A Chilling Study of the World's Most Evil People by Christopher Berry-Dee

26. Talking with Serial Killers: A Chilling Study of the World's Most Evil People

By: Christopher Berry-Dee

3.55

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

The Man Who Talks to Serial Killers World-renowned investigative criminologist Christopher Berry-De… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer by David Berridge

27. Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer

By: David Berridge

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It'… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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28. The Secret Prison Governor

By: Anonymous

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor (warden) … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies: The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist by Rhona Morrison

29. I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies: The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist

By: Rhona Morrison

3.82

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Prepare to be intrigued, amazed and astonished as you join Dr Rhona Morrison on an often funny, and… read more

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Cover of Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist. by Rebecca Myers

30. Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

By: Rebecca Myers

3.97

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he want… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

27 best-selling audiobook books like What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood by Kerry Daynes

Transform Your Habits

Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

Peter Everett

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

Wendy Joseph

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

Richard Shepherd

4.33

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17 Best audiobook books like Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer by David Berridge

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

Sohom Das

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

Kerry Daynes

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Prison Doctor

Amanda Brown

4.01

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