30 best-selling nonfiction books like Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder by Rachel Rear

Cover of Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder by Rachel Rear

Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

By: Rachel Rear

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of a young woman's murder, unsolved for over two decades, brilliantly investigat…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder by Rachel Rear , here is a list of 30 books like this:

Cover of While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness by Eli Sanders

1. While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

By: Eli Sanders

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly i… read more

Similar categories in Eli Sanders's While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule

2. The Want-Ad Killer

By: Ann Rule

3.59

Format: 378 pages,

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipula… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rule's The Want-Ad Killer book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

3. Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties

By: None , None

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne L… read more

Similar categories in None's Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

Cover of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

4. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

5. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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

6. 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 Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • 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

7. 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 Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence by James Renner

8. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

Similar categories in James Renner's Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen  Hale

9. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hale's Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

10. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case by Charles Bosworth Jr.

11. 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 Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

12. 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 Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite by John Glatt

13. Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

By: John Glatt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Golden Boy, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert … read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

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

14. 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 Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas

15. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes

16. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest … read more

Similar categories in Paul Holes's Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman

17. Evidence of Things Seen

By: Sarah Weinman

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

18. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

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

19. 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 Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • 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 Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

20. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

Similar categories in Roseanne Montillo's Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State by Charles A. Gardner

21. Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State

By: Charles A. Gardner

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Prison Break, the Manhunt, the Inside Story The True Story of the Prison Escape That Inspire… read more

Similar categories in Charles A. Gardner's Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling by Ron Franscell

22. 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 Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman

23. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

By: Sarah Weinman

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice by Benjamin Gilmer

24. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

By: Benjamin Gilmer

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Gilmer's The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime by Debora Harding

25. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

By: Debora Harding

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more

Similar categories in Debora Harding's Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin

26. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

By: Lisa Belkin

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman

27. Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Book ReviewCritically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers … read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder by Rachel Rear

28. Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

By: Rachel Rear

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of a young woman's murder, unsolved for over two decades, brilliantly investigat… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Beverly Lowry

29. Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

By: Beverly Lowry

3.41

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author… read more

Similar categories in Beverly Lowry's Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir by Sara Kruzan

30. I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir

By: Sara Kruzan

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

There is perhaps no crime more disturbing than the abuse of a child—and no court cases as upsetting… read more

Similar categories in Sara Kruzan's I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance -- A Memoir book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five by Tony       Wright

31. Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five

By: Tony Wright

4.03

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Things Aren’t The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five explores the bizarre and tragic 1978 disap… read more

Similar categories in Tony Wright's Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five book and Rachel Rear's Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

28 best-selling audiobook books like Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder by Rachel Rear

Transform Your Habits

While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

Eli Sanders

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Want-Ad Killer

Ann Rule

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

Transform Your Habits

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan

4.09

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5 best-selling adult books like Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State by Charles A. Gardner

Transform Your Habits

The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

Karen Abbott

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Waltham Murders

Susan Zalkind

3.09

Transform Your Habits

Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State

Charles A. Gardner

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder

Mikita Brottman

3.54

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