17 Best true crime books like The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius by Scott C. Johnson

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The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

By: Scott C. Johnson

3.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen Kin…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius by Scott C. Johnson , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey Sherman

1. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia by Samantha Leach

2. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

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

3. 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 Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

4. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

Similar categories in Michael Finkel's The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Cover of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max  Marshall

5. 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 Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

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

6. 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

Similar categories in Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder by Ken Englade

7. Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder

By: Ken Englade

3.90

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

The shocking murder that exposed a devoted husband as a cold-hearted killer To Love, Honor-And Mur… read more

Similar categories in Ken Englade's Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

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

8. 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 Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

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

9. 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 Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true 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 Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

10. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

Similar categories in Jane Marie's Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times by Leah Sottile

11. When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

By: Leah Sottile

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious d… read more

Similar categories in Leah Sottile's When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring by Patti McCracken

12. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

By: Patti McCracken

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more

Similar categories in Patti McCracken's The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark    O'Connell

13. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

Similar categories in Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

14. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

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

15. 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 Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

16. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pop culture
  • audiobook
Cover of The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius by Scott C. Johnson

17. The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

By: Scott C. Johnson

3.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen Kin… read more

Similar categories in Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • history
  • true crime
  • pop culture
  • crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Neighborhood Watch by Sarah Reida

18. Neighborhood Watch

By: Sarah Reida

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One of Amazon’s 20 Best Mysteries, Thrillers and Suspense Books of 2024 So Far! A killer terrori… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Reida's Neighborhood Watch book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Lonesome Place for Dying by Nolan Chase

19. A Lonesome Place for Dying

By: Nolan Chase

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Blaine, Washington is a seaside town where on an average day, the most serious police work involves… read more

Similar categories in Nolan Chase's A Lonesome Place for Dying book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • audiobook
Cover of Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer" by Philip Eil

20. Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer"

By: Philip Eil

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who’s serving the opio… read more

Similar categories in Philip Eil's Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer" book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

21. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • audiobook

21 Top audiobook books like The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius by Scott C. Johnson

Transform Your Habits

A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

Samantha Leach

3.22

Transform Your Habits

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

Susan Hendricks

3.62

Transform Your Habits

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Michael Finkel

3.97

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Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Transform Your Habits

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Kate Kennedy

3.78

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