10 Best mystery books like The Serial Killer's Apprentice by Katherine Ramsland

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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 …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Serial Killer's Apprentice by Katherine Ramsland , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Secrets in the Cellar

By: John Glatt

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Secrets in the Cellar book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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2. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

3. 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

Similar categories in Jillian Lauren's Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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4. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

By: James L. Swanson

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more

Similar categories in James L. Swanson's The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

5. 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

Similar categories in Frank Figliuzzi's Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry N. MacLean

6. 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

Similar categories in Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

7. 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 Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by C. Alexander Hortis

8. 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

Similar categories in C. Alexander Hortis's The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Serial Killer's Apprentice by Katherine Ramsland

9. 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

Similar categories in Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

By: Steve Ryan

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will… read more

Similar categories in Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

11. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Secret History of Bigfoot

By: John O’Connor

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… read more

Similar categories in John O’Connor's The Secret History of Bigfoot book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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

Similar categories in Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true 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 College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight by Shawn Cohen

14. College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

By: Shawn Cohen

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A gripping true crime book about a college girl who disappeared in plain sight When Lauren Spierer―… read more

Similar categories in Shawn Cohen's College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy by Kathy Kleiner Rubin

15. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy

By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Kleiner Rubin's A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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16. Wilderness Reform

By: Matt Query

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The authors of the “impossible to put down” (The Guardian) thriller Old Country return with a terri… read more

Similar categories in Matt Query's Wilderness Reform book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber by Steven Hale

17. Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

By: Steven Hale

4.10

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

"An eye-opening journey to a place that’s hard to access, rarely seen and shrouded by myths of mons… read more

Similar categories in Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of This Girl's a Killer by Emma C. Wells

18. This Girl's a Killer

By: Emma C. Wells

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Meet Cordelia Black. Cordelia loves exactly three things: her chosen family composed of her best fr… read more

Similar categories in Emma C. Wells's This Girl's a Killer book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever by Kim Mager

19. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

By: Kim Mager

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more

Similar categories in Kim Mager's A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox

20. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

Similar categories in Margalit Fox's The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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21. The Hollywood Assistant

By: May Cobb

3.73

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman bec… read more

Similar categories in May Cobb's The Hollywood Assistant book and Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice

  • mystery
  • audiobook

19 Best audiobook books like The Serial Killer's Apprentice by Katherine Ramsland

Transform Your Habits

Secrets in the Cellar

John Glatt

4.16

Transform Your Habits

A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren

3.38

Transform Your Habits

The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson

3.44

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5 Best adult books like The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

Steve Ryan

4.22

Transform Your Habits

To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer

John Coston

3.93

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