18 Top true crime books like Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare by Carlton Smith

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Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

By: Carlton Smith

3.52

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Search for the Green River The account of the family tragedy th…

If you liked the true crime plot in Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare by Carlton Smith , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Final Vows

By: Karen Kingsbury

3.83

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

An account of the murder of an ex-con's wife describes how an educated, religious woman met, fell i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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2. If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children

By: Gregg Olsen , Rebecca Morris

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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3. 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

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

4. The Snake and the Spider

By: Karen Kingsbury

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It began with a teenager kissing his mother good-bye. It ended with the discovery of human bones in… read more

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5. Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

By: Jerry Bledsoe

3.37

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this powerful and riveting tale of three families connected by marriage and murder, of obsessive… read more

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6. Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment

By: Jerry Bledsoe

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everybody knew Velma Barfield as the perfect wife and a loving grandmother. But there was something… read more

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7. Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science

By: William M. Bass , Jon Jefferson

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass cre… read more

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8. Missy's Murder

By: Karen Kingsbury

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

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9. A Mother's Trial

By: Nancy Wright

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Describes the ordeal of a woman diagnosed with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a disorder that compel… read more

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10. Deadly Little Secrets: The Minister, His Mistress, and a Heartless Texas Murder

By: Kathryn Casey

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Ann Rule says, "Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today"--high praise indeed from… read more

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11. Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

By: John Bloom , Jim Atkinson

4.34

Format: 168 pages,

Edgar Award Finalist: The "sensational" true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that… read more

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12. We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

By: M. William Phelps

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author, television personality, and host of the #1 podcast "Paper Ghosts… read more

Similar categories in M. William Phelps's We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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13. A Tangled Web

By: Leslie Rule

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling a… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Rule's A Tangled Web book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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14. Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case

By: Charles Bosworth Jr.

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The explosive, first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions--the murder of B… read more

Similar categories in Charles Bosworth Jr.'s Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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15. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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16. Eyes of a Monster

By: Ron Peterson Jr.

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia apartment in 1981. Her ki… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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17. Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs

By: Amanda Lamb

4.01

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

A perfect life. A perfect lie. When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina with he… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lamb's Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

By: Angela Kelly

3.78

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL BOOK, FULLY ENDORSED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH II From Her Majesty’s trusted confidant and D… read more

Similar categories in Angela Kelly's The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

By: Jay Wellons

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as… read more

Similar categories in Jay Wellons's All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

By: Bradley J. Edwards

4.29

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

“A thrilling page-turner about the pursuit of justice” (New York Post), this is the definitive stor… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"How much did you make last year?"

-Bradley J. Edwards, Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

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22. The Murder of Katherine Brown: A Shocking True Crime Story

By: Rod Kackley

3.44

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

Step into the heart-pounding world of The Murder of Katherine A Shocking True Crime Story, where f… read more

Similar categories in Rod Kackley's The Murder of Katherine Brown: A Shocking True Crime Story book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • true crime
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23. Blood Games

By: Jerry Bledsoe

4.03

Format: 607 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Blood comes the story of a greed so powerful i… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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24. The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder

By: John Glatt

4.01

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to the legendary Fontainebleau ho… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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25. Above the Fire

By: Michael O'Donnell

3.98

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

O'Donnell's debut, Above the Fire, is a novel which finds hope and resilience in the timelessness o… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice by Rebecca  Rosenberg

26. At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice

By: Rebecca Rosenberg

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At Any Cost unravels the twisted story of Rod Covlin, whose unrepentant greed drove him to an unspe… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare by Carlton Smith

27. Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

By: Carlton Smith

3.52

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Search for the Green River The account of the family tragedy th… read more

Similar categories in Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Home for Erring and Outcast Girls by Julie Kibler

28. Home for Erring and Outcast Girls

By: Julie Kibler

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, followin… read more

Similar categories in Julie Kibler's Home for Erring and Outcast Girls book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • audiobook
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29. The Nanny

By: Ruth Heald

4.15

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

I clutched baby Chloe’s blanket, tears streaming down my face as I remembered the night she disappe… read more

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"The disappearance of a young baby has shocked the expat community in Bangkok. Julie and David McFarlane, who live in the Sukhumvit area, reported the baby missing yesterday morning. The police have a…"

-Ruth Heald, The Nanny

"There were still things her mother liked to buy herself. Mainly sweet thing: Bourbons, Haribo, Flake bars. Her mother delighted in them all. After years of always eating healthily and often too busy …"

-Ruth Heald, The Nanny

Cover of The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia by Stephan Talty

30. The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia

By: Stephan Talty

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justi… read more

Similar categories in Stephan Talty's The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia book and Carlton Smith's Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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31. Dead In The Water

By: Penny Farmer

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

True Crime: The book behind the major NEW Amazon Prime three-part TV documentary. It contains the s… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

19 must-read audiobook books like Dying for Daddy: The True Story of a Family's Worst Nightmare by Carlton Smith

Transform Your Habits

If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children

Gregg Olsen , Rebecca Morris

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Cruel Deception

Gregg Olsen

4.83

Transform Your Habits

We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

M. William Phelps

4.10

Transform Your Habits

A Tangled Web

Leslie Rule

4.01

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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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