24 Best crime books like The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More by Kim Daly

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The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

By: Kim Daly

3.93

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for newcomers and hardened crime junkies alike, The True Crime File is an impulse gift book…

If you liked the crime plot in The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More by Kim Daly , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. 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 Kim Daly's The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
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2. The Darkest Corners

By: Kara Thomas

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Darkest Cornersis a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly tru… read more

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3. Little Deaths

By: Emma Flint

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, i… read more

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  • crime
Cover of The Big Book of Serial Killers: 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers by Jack Rosewood, Rebecca Lo

4. The Big Book of Serial Killers: 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers

By: Jack Rosewood , Rebecca Lo

3.62

Format: 120 pages,

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • horror

5. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

By: Bill Schutt , None

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more

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6. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case

By: Lou Raguse

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

7. 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

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  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • crime
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8. The Reaping (Steinbeck and Reed, #2)

By: Jess Lourey

4.26

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

By-the-book forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and rogue BCA agent Van Reed must catch a cold-case … read more

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  • crime
Cover of Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud by Becky Holmes

9. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By: Becky Holmes

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
Cover of I Am a Killer: What Makes a Murderer: Their Shocking Stories in Their Own Words by Danny Tipping

10. I Am a Killer: What Makes a Murderer: Their Shocking Stories in Their Own Words

By: Danny Tipping

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? What motivates someone to take a li… read more

Similar categories in Danny Tipping's I Am a Killer: What Makes a Murderer: Their Shocking Stories in Their Own Words book and Kim Daly's The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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11. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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12. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder book and Kim Daly's The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
Cover of The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

13. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

By: Sam Kean

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more

Similar categories in Sam Kean's The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science book and Kim Daly's The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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14. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Baume's Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture book and Kim Daly's The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

  • nonfiction
Cover of Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry N. MacLean

15. 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 Kim Daly's The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder by John Glatt

16. The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder

By: John Glatt

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the true story of a Col… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
Cover of Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang

17. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

By: Lydia Kang

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
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18. 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

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

19. 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 Kim Daly's The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
Cover of The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family by John Glatt

20. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family

By: John Glatt

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
Cover of How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways by Eve Kellman

21. How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways

By: Eve Kellman

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you on a date that doesn’t feel right? Can’t shake that creepy guy at the bar? Worried yo… read more

Similar categories in Eve Kellman's How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways book and Kim Daly's The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

  • crime
  • adult
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22. The Secret History of Bigfoot

By: John O’Connor

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women by Jennifer   Wright

23. She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women

By: Jennifer Wright

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered—for revenge, for love, and even for pleas… read more

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  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • crime
Cover of Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman

24. Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

By: Casey Sherman

3.50

Format: 509 pages, ebook

Before Charles Manson, there was Tony Costa―the serial killer of Cape Cod 1969: The hippie scene… read more

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  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • crime
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25. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

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  • adult
  • horror
Cover of Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

26. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
Cover of Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects by Harold Schechter

27. Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects

By: Harold Schechter

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
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28. Dear Hanna

By: Zoje Stage

3.73

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Bab… read more

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  • crime
  • horror
Cover of The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More by Kim Daly

29. The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

By: Kim Daly

3.93

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for newcomers and hardened crime junkies alike, The True Crime File is an impulse gift book… read more

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  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • crime
Cover of The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer by Rick Jervis

30. The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer

By: Rick Jervis

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking true-crime story of a Texas border patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex wor… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Crimes of the Centuries: The Cases That Changed Us by Amber Hunt

31. Crimes of the Centuries: The Cases That Changed Us

By: Amber Hunt

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes—both infamou… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult

20 Top adult books like The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More by Kim Daly

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

Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case

Lou Raguse

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

Becky Holmes

3.88

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11 best-selling adult books like The Secret History of Bigfoot by John O’Connor

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson

3.44

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

3.87

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