13 Top history books like The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas

Cover of The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas

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 …

"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 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 contributed to their adult behavior"

-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 contributed to their adult behavior"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

If you liked the history plot in The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door by Roy Wenzl, L. Kelly, Tim Potter, Hurst Laviana

1. Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door

By: Roy Wenzl , L. Kelly , Tim Potter , Hurst Laviana

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Serial Killers by Stephen G. Michaud

2. The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Serial Killers

By: Stephen G. Michaud

3.82

Format: 199 pages,

Twenty-two years in the FBI, sixteen of them as a member of the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit. T… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule

3. The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

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

4. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

5. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story

By: Ann Rule

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murdere… read more

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6. Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide And The Criminal Mind

By: Stephen G. Michaud , Roy Hazelwood

4.42

Format: None pages,

Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest and most dangerous of all abe… read more

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7. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

By: Tom Shachtman , Robert K. Ressler

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Ro… read more

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8. 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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Cover of I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

9. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

By: Michelle McNamara

4.12

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Every obsession needs a room of its own."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"He loses his power when we know his face."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"Twenty-five years is a long time in cop years."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Cover of American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

10. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

11. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming by Kerri Rawson

12. A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

By: Kerri Rawson

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer?   In 2005, Kerri … read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • 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

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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling by Ron Franscell

14. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas

15. 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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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

16. Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

By: Billy Jensen

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pi… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The thought makes my teeth gnash and my lip snarl and my jaw fill with a scream. A scream that always has the same chorus. What they took away, seemingly so easily, was a person. "This was a person!"…"

-Billy Jensen, Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Cover of Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI by Jana Monroe

17. 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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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind by Ann Wolbert Burgess

18. 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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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Evil Has a Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation by Paul Holes

19. Evil Has a Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation

By: Paul Holes

4.44

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

The Golden State Killer. The East Area Rapist. The Original Night Stalker. The Visalia Ransacker. … read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of BY John Douglas Mindhunter Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit (Now A Netflix Series) Paperback - 2 NovEMBER 2017 by John Douglas

20. BY John Douglas Mindhunter Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit (Now A Netflix Series) Paperback - 2 NovEMBER 2017

By: John Douglas

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Tremblez ! by McSkyz

21. Tremblez !

By: McSkyz

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Quatre amis assassinés au bord d’un lac en Finlande, une famille de fermiers tuée en France, une je… read more

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9 must-read adult books like The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

4.12

Transform Your Habits

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan

4.09

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

Kerri Rawson

3.46

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9 Top adult books like Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

James Renner

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

None , Johnny Dodd

4.25

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

4.12

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Karen Kilgariff

4.07

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