21 best-selling nonfiction books like Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI by Jana Monroe

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

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…

"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

"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 were far more likely to be found at the morgue, or on a coroner’s examining table, or in those grisly crime photos that were my office décor for half a decade. And, yes, there is a price to be paid for that knowledge."

-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 were far more likely to be found at the morgue, or on a coroner’s examining table, or in those grisly crime photos that were my office décor for half a decade. And, yes, there is a price to be paid for that knowledge."

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

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI by Jana Monroe , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

1. 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 Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks

2. Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

By: Susan Hendricks

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hendricks's Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

3. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Ingrassia's A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

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

4. 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 Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

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

5. 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

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

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

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery by Earl Swift

7. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

By: Earl Swift

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more

Similar categories in Earl Swift's Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds by Michelle Horton

8. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer by Holly Marie

9. Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer

By: Holly Marie

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing.   At ten months old, H… read more

Similar categories in Holly Marie's Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara  Butcher

10. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Cover of Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling by Ron Franscell

11. 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

Similar categories in Ron Franscell's Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

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

12. 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 Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

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

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

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • 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 Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

14. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

Similar categories in Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects by Harold Schechter

15. Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects

By: Harold Schechter

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told … read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

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

16. 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 Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares by Lindsey Wade

17. In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares

By: Lindsey Wade

4.16

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Dogged determination and DNA leads Detective Lindsey Wade and her team to the truth behind a thirty… read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Wade's In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

18. 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 Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic by Billy Jensen

19. Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic

By: Billy Jensen

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author, co-host of the hit podcast and Discovery + docuseries  Long Island Serial Kill… read more

Similar categories in Billy Jensen's Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • 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

20. 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 Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Spencer Henry

21. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

By: Spencer Henry

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Based on the popular podcast, The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American cul… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Henry's Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death book and Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook

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3.64

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