13 Best memoir books like Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer by Jim Cosgrove

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Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

By: Jim Cosgrove

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A chilling investigation into the unsolved “boy in the woods” murder; journalist Jim Cosgrove chron…

If you liked the memoir plot in Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer by Jim Cosgrove , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. In Colder Blood

By: None , J.T. Hunter

3.59

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

CRIME SCENE PHOTOS ARE GRAPHIC Two families, mysteriously murdered under similar circumstances, ju… read more

Similar categories in None's In Colder Blood book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

2. The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing

By: Dan Morse

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The full true story of the Lululemon murder and what really happened to Jayna Murray and Brittany N… read more

Similar categories in Dan Morse's The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

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3. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

By: David von Drehle

4.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more

Similar categories in David von Drehle's The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. 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 Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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5. 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 Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. 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 Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • true crime
  • memoir
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7. 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 Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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8. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Kingston's Did I Ever Tell You? book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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

9. 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 Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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10. Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

By: Cliff Sims

3.05

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Sims’s vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration w… read more

Similar categories in Cliff Sims's Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

11. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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12. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

By: Mark Bowden

3.92

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From Mark Bowden, a "master of narrative journalism" (New York Times), comes a true-crime collectio… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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13. A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

By: Ann Wolbert Burgess

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolu… read more

Similar categories in Ann Wolbert Burgess's A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

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

14. 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 Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. 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 Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II by Judy Rakowsky

16. Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II

By: Judy Rakowsky

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

" Jews in the Garden reads like the best of narrator-guided murder-mysteries. But in this case the … read more

Similar categories in Judy Rakowsky's Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
Cover of Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer by Jim Cosgrove

17. Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

By: Jim Cosgrove

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A chilling investigation into the unsolved “boy in the woods” murder; journalist Jim Cosgrove chron… read more

Similar categories in Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

18. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
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19. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

Similar categories in Margalit Fox's The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • true crime
  • memoir
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

20. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Jim Cosgrove's Ripple: A Long Strange Search for a Killer

  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

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None , J.T. Hunter

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4.00

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

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4.10

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Susan J. Eischeid

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Elizabeth Graver

4.08

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Emmanuel Acho

4.53

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Lauren Grodstein

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