19 must-read true crime books like The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him by Leslie Ghiglieri

Cover of The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him by Leslie Ghiglieri

The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

By: Leslie Ghiglieri

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A 1986 FAMILY TRAGEDY PROPELS THIS GRIPPING TRUE CRIME DEBUT AS A MOTHER SEARCHES FOR ANSWERS IN TH…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him by Leslie Ghiglieri , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Red Zone: The San Francisco Dog Mauling Case by Aphrodite Jones

1. Red Zone: The San Francisco Dog Mauling Case

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.00

Format: 371 pages,

It was the story that shocked the nation and captured headlines for more than a year. In January 20… read more

Similar categories in Aphrodite Jones's Red Zone: The San Francisco Dog Mauling Case book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? by Ann Rule

2. Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

The author of eight New York Timesbestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stran… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rule's Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of American Black Widow by Gregg Olsen

3. American Black Widow

By: Gregg Olsen

3.75

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable stor… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's American Black Widow book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal by Aphrodite Jones

4. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more

Similar categories in Aphrodite Jones's LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

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

5. 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 Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder by Steven B. Epstein

6. Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder

By: Steven B. Epstein

4.18

Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition

At just 41 years of age, Florida State law professor Dan Markel was among the most well-known and a… read more

Similar categories in Steven B. Epstein's Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Meaning of Malice: On the Trail of the Black Widow of Highland Park by John Leake

7. The Meaning of Malice: On the Trail of the Black Widow of Highland Park

By: John Leake

3.99

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

Sandra Bridewell was a beautiful socialite in the affluent Dallas suburb of Highland Park in 1978-8… read more

Similar categories in John Leake's The Meaning of Malice: On the Trail of the Black Widow of Highland Park book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Murder in the Family: Inside story of the Jersey murders by Jeremy Josephs

8. Murder in the Family: Inside story of the Jersey murders

By: Jeremy Josephs

3.93

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

As this true crime tale of murder shows, even the most successful families can hide terrible secret… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Josephs's Murder in the Family: Inside story of the Jersey murders book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Murder on Elm Street: A True-Life Crime Story by Jeremy L Luberts

9. Murder on Elm Street: A True-Life Crime Story

By: Jeremy L Luberts

3.96

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

Little Falls, MinnesotaThanksgiving 2012 When two teenage cousins break into a residence on Elm St… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy L Luberts's Murder on Elm Street: A True-Life Crime Story book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • true crime
Cover of Murder Outside the Back Door by John Tommasi

10. Murder Outside the Back Door

By: John Tommasi

4.00

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Greed, arrogance and lust led Robert Anderson to kill his wife of nearly twenty years. He was a pil… read more

Similar categories in John Tommasi's Murder Outside the Back Door book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • true crime
Cover of The Napa Murder of Anita Fagiani: A Cold Case that Caught a Serial Killer (True Crime) by Raymond A. Guadagani

11. The Napa Murder of Anita Fagiani: A Cold Case that Caught a Serial Killer (True Crime)

By: Raymond A. Guadagani

3.92

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a fifty-one-year-old former beauty queen and m… read more

Similar categories in Raymond A. Guadagani's The Napa Murder of Anita Fagiani: A Cold Case that Caught a Serial Killer (True Crime) book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Missing and Presumed Dead by Michael Fleeman

12. Missing and Presumed Dead

By: Michael Fleeman

3.85

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

On a cold Southern night in 2013 under a full moon, 20-year-old Heather Elvis parked her car at a b… read more

Similar categories in Michael Fleeman's Missing and Presumed Dead book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of I Will Ruin You: The Twisted Truth Behind The Kit Martin Murder Trial by Emilio Corsetti III

13. I Will Ruin You: The Twisted Truth Behind The Kit Martin Murder Trial

By: Emilio Corsetti III

4.30

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

Lb>Did the State of Kentucky convict an innocent man? Moments before boarding a passenger flight… read more

Similar categories in Emilio Corsetti III's I Will Ruin You: The Twisted Truth Behind The Kit Martin Murder Trial book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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

14. 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 Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr.

15. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

By: McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more

Similar categories in McCracken Poston Jr.'s Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of My Ghost Has a Name: Memoir of a Murder by Rosalyn  Rossignol

16. My Ghost Has a Name: Memoir of a Murder

By: Rosalyn Rossignol

3.74

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

This memoir about a friend’s murder—and the mystery surrounding her daughter’s role in it—is “a tru… read more

Similar categories in Rosalyn Rossignol's My Ghost Has a Name: Memoir of a Murder book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him by Leslie Ghiglieri

17. The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

By: Leslie Ghiglieri

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A 1986 FAMILY TRAGEDY PROPELS THIS GRIPPING TRUE CRIME DEBUT AS A MOTHER SEARCHES FOR ANSWERS IN TH… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of New Castle's Kadunce Murders: Mystery and the Devil in Northwest Pennsylvania (True Crime) by Dale Richard Perelman

18. New Castle's Kadunce Murders: Mystery and the Devil in Northwest Pennsylvania (True Crime)

By: Dale Richard Perelman

3.49

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

Author Dale Richard Perelman tells the tragic story of the 1978 murders and the mystery surrounding… read more

Similar categories in Dale Richard Perelman's New Castle's Kadunce Murders: Mystery and the Devil in Northwest Pennsylvania (True Crime) book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • true crime
Cover of Stolen by Rebecca Petty

19. Stolen

By: Rebecca Petty

4.48

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

“Andi’s missing,” said the frantic caller. A call that changed the trajectory of many lives.May 15,… read more

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Cover of First Degree Rage: The True Story of 'The Assassin,' An Obsession, and Murder (The "Rage" True Crime Series) by Paula May

20. First Degree Rage: The True Story of 'The Assassin,' An Obsession, and Murder (The "Rage" True Crime Series)

By: Paula May

3.86

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

A North Carolina Sheriff’s Detective recounts a shocking case of domestic deception and brutal murd… read more

Similar categories in Paula May's First Degree Rage: The True Story of 'The Assassin,' An Obsession, and Murder (The "Rage" True Crime Series) book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

Cover of Breaking Point by Suzy Spencer

21. Breaking Point

By: Suzy Spencer

3.77

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Fortune Hunter, “a classic true-crime tapestry” (… read more

Similar categories in Suzy Spencer's Breaking Point book and Leslie Ghiglieri's The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

16 Best nonfiction books like The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him by Leslie Ghiglieri

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Red Zone: The San Francisco Dog Mauling Case

Aphrodite Jones

4.00

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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

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American Black Widow

Gregg Olsen

3.75

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LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

Aphrodite Jones

4.32

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High on Arrival

Mackenzie Phillips

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

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Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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