18 best-selling true crime books like Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness by Harold Schechter

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Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

By: Harold Schechter

4.07

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. c…

If you liked the true crime plot in Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness by Harold Schechter , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

1. Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

By: Tori Telfer

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are likely Jack th… read more

Similar categories in Tori Telfer's Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History book and Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"They caused the greatest disappointment,"

-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

"Distanciar-se do crime é natural, mas distancie-se demais e o crime se tornará ilusão."

-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

"Why did that one friend scoot her chair away from me when I told her I “empathized but didn’t sympathize"

-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

"One otherwise-great book on the subject includes a line implying that the “cute girl behind the deli counter slicing our bread"

-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

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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

Similar categories in Ann Rule's The Want-Ad Killer book and Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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3. Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes

By: Emily Craig , Emily Craig

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Teasing Secrets from the Deadis a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the mos… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Goddess of the Hunt (The Wanton Dairymaid Trilogy, #1) by Tessa Dare

4. Goddess of the Hunt (The Wanton Dairymaid Trilogy, #1)

By: Tessa Dare

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lush and seductive novel, exciting new author Tessa Dare takes desire to brazen heights. Ev… read more

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Cover of Cruel Deception by Gregg Olsen

5. Cruel Deception

By: Gregg Olsen

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what a… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's Cruel Deception book and Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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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
  • crime
  • audiobook

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. 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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Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

9. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Bluebeard

By: Jim Clemente

3.76

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A NEW THRILLER BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF LA’S FIRST KNOWN SERIAL KILLER In 1919, Kathryn Wombache… read more

Similar categories in Jim Clemente's Bluebeard book and Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • crime
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

13. 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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  • 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 Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

15. 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

Similar categories in Susan Jonusas's Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family book and Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • 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 Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness by Harold Schechter

17. Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

By: Harold Schechter

4.07

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. c… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness book and Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

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

18. 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

Similar categories in Richard Hammer's Beyond Obsession: The Shocking True Story of a Teenage Love Affair Turned Deadly book and Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator by Joakim Palmkvist

19. The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

By: Joakim Palmkvist

3.48

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling true crime story of poisonous family secrets, love gone wrong, and a cold case that refu… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos by Mark Chiusano

20. The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos

By: Mark Chiusano

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turnin… read more

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

21. 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

Similar categories in Emily Zarka's Serial Killers: Real and Imagined (The Great Courses) book and Harold Schechter's Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

17 best-selling audiobook books like Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness by Harold Schechter

Transform Your Habits

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

Tori Telfer

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Want-Ad Killer

Ann Rule

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Cruel Deception

Gregg Olsen

4.83

Transform Your Habits

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

Steve Jackson

3.90

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18 Best audiobook books like Cruel Deception by Gregg Olsen

Transform Your Habits

My Sweet Angel: The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood

John Glatt

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Cruel Deception

Gregg Olsen

4.83

Transform Your Habits

Written in Blood

Diane Fanning

4.10

Cold Kill: The True Story of a Murderous Love

Jack Olsen

3.33

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