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.…
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2. 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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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
By: Kathleen Hale
3.94
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. Eyes of a Monster
By: Ron Peterson Jr.
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia apartment in 1981. Her ki… read more
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9. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer
By: John E. Douglas
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Kill… read more
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"The journey to reckon with our nation's searing history of racial hatred, intolerance, and discrimination is ongoing, and there are no neutrals in that struggle. The shadow cast by Joseph Paul Frankl…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer
"With today's technology, conversations that used to be limited to basements and meeting halls, the kinds of words and places that first helped radicalize Franklin, now have tens of thousands of parti…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer
"Due to the remarkable advances in communications technologies, we find ourselves living at a time when it is far easier to radicalize and inspire hate than ever before. The internet and social media …"-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer
10. 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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11. 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
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12. 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
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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
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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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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
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16. 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
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"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
17. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
By: C. Alexander Hortis
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more
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18. 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
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"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
19. 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
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20. 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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21. What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl
By: Katherine Dykstra
3.43
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and neve… read more
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22. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
By: John E. Douglas
4.15
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration … read more
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"I miss my dog,"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
"I familiarize myself with every detail of their crimes and loathe what they did. At the same time, I may feel tremendous empathy and sorrow for what they went through in their young lives that contri…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
"Within just about every serial predator, there are two warring elements: A feeling of grandiosity, specialness, and entitlement, together with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness and…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
23. 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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24. A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious Killers
By: Deborah Holt Larkin
4.07
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in Califor… read more
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25. 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
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"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
26. 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
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27. Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial.
By: Ron Peterson Jr.
4.30
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
Under The Trestle is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980… read more
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28. In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders
By: Kathryn Casey
4.17
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER. On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorn… read more
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29. Rakowiska
By: Magdalena Majcher
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Oparta na faktach powieść o głośnej zbrodni w Rakowiskach. Wnikliwa i odkrywcza próba odpowiedzi… read more
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30. The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland
By: John Railey
3.87
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
In the summer of 1967, nineteen-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl … read more
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31. 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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