19 Top nonfiction books like The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance by Lawrence Sutin, Jack Sutin, Rochelle Sutin

1. Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance

By: Lawrence Sutin , Jack Sutin , Rochelle Sutin

4.27

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

A gripping memoir wherein Jack and Rochelle Sutin recount their struggle to survive the Holocaust a… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Sutin's Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

2. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders

By: Anthony Flacco , Jerry Clark , Michael Stone

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outsid… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Flacco's The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Bayou Strangler: Louisiana's Most Gruesome Serial Killer by Fred Rosen

3. The Bayou Strangler: Louisiana's Most Gruesome Serial Killer

By: Fred Rosen

4.30

Format: None pages,

In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet … read more

Similar categories in Fred Rosen's The Bayou Strangler: Louisiana's Most Gruesome Serial Killer book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

4. The Murderer's Maid: A Lizzie Borden Novel

By: Erika Mailman

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bram Stoker Award finalist Erika Mailman brings the true story of the brutal murder of Lizzie Borde… read more

Similar categories in Erika Mailman's The Murderer's Maid: A Lizzie Borden Novel book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

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 Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

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

6. 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 Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators

By: Jeffrey L. Rinek

4.16

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

"The voice that narrates In the Name of the An F.B.I. Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's W… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey L. Rinek's In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr.

10. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

By: McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more

Similar categories in McCracken Poston Jr.'s Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. The Summer of Fall

By: Laura Lippman

3.21

Format: 62 pages, None

From the New York Times bestselling author of Lady in the Lake, Dream Girl, and many other noir fav… read more

Similar categories in Laura Lippman's The Summer of Fall book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. Good Girls Don't

By: Mara Wilson

3.44

Format: 82 pages, ebook

Writer-actor Mara Wilson navigates the good-girl-versus- bad-girl tropes from early childhood throu… read more

Similar categories in Mara Wilson's Good Girls Don't book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. The Devil and Harper Lee

By: Mark Seal

3.35

Format: 119 pages, ebook

In the 1970s, a mysterious man captivated and terrorized a small Alabama town. He was elegant and h… read more

Similar categories in Mark Seal's The Devil and Harper Lee book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer by John Coston

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

By: John Coston

3.93

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

The twelve-year rampage of “Missoula Mauler” Wayne Nance—and the shocking end to his murder spree T… read more

Similar categories in John Coston's To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us by Chimene Suleyman

15. The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us

By: Chimene Suleyman

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her… read more

Similar categories in Chimene Suleyman's The Chain: Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Someone You Know: Sixteen Unforgettable Canadian True Crime Stories by Catherine Fogarty

16. Someone You Know: Sixteen Unforgettable Canadian True Crime Stories

By: Catherine Fogarty

3.72

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Someone You Know takes you into dangerous territory--behind closed doors where family, friendship a… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Fogarty's Someone You Know: Sixteen Unforgettable Canadian True Crime Stories book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • true crime
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Displaced: A Holocaust Memoir and the Road to a New Beginning by Linda Schwab

17. Displaced: A Holocaust Memoir and the Road to a New Beginning

By: Linda Schwab

4.43

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

Linda Schwab survives 18 months in a man-made cave, a year as an exile in Poland and Germany, and t… read more

Similar categories in Linda Schwab's Displaced: A Holocaust Memoir and the Road to a New Beginning book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

Cover of Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln by Jesse  Joyce

18. Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln

By: Jesse Joyce

3.59

Format: 138 pages, ebook

None read more

Similar categories in Jesse Joyce's Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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 Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune by Scott Simon

20. Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

By: Scott Simon

3.74

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In this audio treasure trove, Simon explores the fascinating and unsettling history of how a Nazi s… read more

Similar categories in Scott Simon's Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Edge of Doubt: The Trial of Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen by David Miraldi

21. The Edge of Doubt: The Trial of Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen

By: David Miraldi

4.30

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In the tight-knit community of Lorain, Ohio, a whirlwind of horror swept through as unsettling alle… read more

Similar categories in David Miraldi's The Edge of Doubt: The Trial of Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen book and Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

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

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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

Laurah Norton

3.87

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The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

Steve Ryan

4.22

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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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Mackenzie Phillips

3.82

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The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

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Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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