9 must-read mystery books like Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power by Jason Ryan

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Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

By: Jason Ryan

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious low country clan, in all its Southern Gothic i…

If you liked the mystery plot in Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power by Jason Ryan , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen

1. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more

Similar categories in Jared Cohen's Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America by James L. Swanson

2. 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 Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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3. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

Similar categories in Max Marshall's Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty by Mandy Matney

4. Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

By: Mandy Matney

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local … read more

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  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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5. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

7. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

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  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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8. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • audiobook
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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9. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

Similar categories in Barbara McQuade's Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

By: Jason Ryan

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious low country clan, in all its Southern Gothic i… read more

Similar categories in Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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11. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Jacobs's The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

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

12. 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 Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

13. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Cox's Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Switch by Lily Samson

14. The Switch

By: Lily Samson

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“Shocking, seductive, sexy and scandalous. The Switch is a page-turning thriller, a clever mystery,… read more

Similar categories in Lily Samson's The Switch book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • mystery
  • audiobook
" Lilly Samson, The Switch, Quotes, shameless manipulation of. Allergies disclaimer: I would like to stress that this book is not exactly for the unwashed masses: I delayed showering after the last sw…"

-Lily Samson, The Switch

Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

15. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

Similar categories in Howard Blum's When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Windsor Conspiracy: A Novel of the Crown, a Conspiracy, and the Duchess of Windsor by Georgie Blalock

16. The Windsor Conspiracy: A Novel of the Crown, a Conspiracy, and the Duchess of Windsor

By: Georgie Blalock

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl, delivers an enchantingly reimagine… read more

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Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

17. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

18. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography by RoseMarie Terenzio

19. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

21. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Bauerlein's The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty book and Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

20 must-read audiobook books like Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power by Jason Ryan

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4.27

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James L. Swanson

3.44

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Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall

3.50

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3.78

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3.64

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4.19

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Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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Anna Akbari

3.66

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