8 Top true crime books like The Schoolgirl Strangler by Katherine Kovacic

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The Schoolgirl Strangler

By: Katherine Kovacic

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The shocking true story of a serial killer in 1930s Melbourne. November, 1930. One sunny Saturda…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Schoolgirl Strangler by Katherine Kovacic , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

By: Michelle Knight , Michelle Burford

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Knight's Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings book and Katherine Kovacic's The Schoolgirl Strangler

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"Every time i see a butterfly, it reminds me of how precious life can truly be. To be able to turn from a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly and fly away so freely and gracefully wherever she may …"

-Michelle Knight, Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

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2. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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3. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

By: Kate Clifford Larson

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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4. Blood Stain

By: Peter Lalor

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

This horrific true crime work tells the story of Katherine Knight, a grandmother and slaughter hous… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • australia

5. The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe’s Killer

By: None

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The story of the police sting that resulted in the confession of Daniel Morcombe's killer reads lik… read more

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6. Working Class Boy

By: Jimmy Barnes

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

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7. Captive: The Story of the Cleveland Abductions

By: Allan Hall

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Captive: One House, Three Women and Ten Years of Hell, Allan Hall reconstructs one of the most s… read more

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8. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

By: Philip Carlo

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

There were times at home when Richard would have one of his outbursts and break things and then loc… read more

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9. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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12. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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13. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

By: Desmond Shum

3.91

Format: None pages, Audiobook

This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is na… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By: Emma Carey

4.38

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From a terrible accident that left her paraplegic, Emma Carey has become an inspiration for hundred… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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15. Trust (Martin Scarsden, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.05

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

He violated her past and haunts her present. Now he's threatening their future. She breathes deep… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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16. Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.01

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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17. Mr Einstein's Secretary

By: Matthew Reilly

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A SECRETARY LIKE NO OTHERIN AN EPIC SPANNING 40 YEARSAll Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to stu… read more

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  • audiobook
"But to hate is cheap. One does not need any money to hate."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"Every decision comes down to a choice. This is the right choice."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"Some readers turn up their noses at such books, considering them to be too lowbrow. But not I. One who reads such a book reads it for pleasure, for joy. pg43"

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

"I am supposed to be this brilliant man. Well, here is the most important thing I know: retain your inner joy. If you do that, you will live a successful and happy life."

-Matthew Reilly, Mr Einstein's Secretary

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18. Wild Place

By: Christian White

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic suburb of Camp Hill in Australia.… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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19. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

By: John E. Douglas

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Kill… read more

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer book and Katherine Kovacic's The Schoolgirl Strangler

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The journey to reckon with our nation's searing history of racial hatred, intolerance, and discrimination is ongoing, and there are no neutrals in that struggle. The shadow cast by Joseph Paul Frankl…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"With today's technology, conversations that used to be limited to basements and meeting halls, the kinds of words and places that first helped radicalize Franklin, now have tens of thousands of parti…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"Due to the remarkable advances in communications technologies, we find ourselves living at a time when it is far easier to radicalize and inspire hate than ever before. The internet and social media …"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

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20. The Unbelieved

By: Vikki Petraitis

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

'So you believed the alleged rapists over the alleged victim?' Jane's voice took on an indignant pi… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. The Nurses' War

By: Victoria Purman

4.29

Format: 608 pages, ebook

There is more than one way to fight a war...An extraordinary story of grit, love and loss, based on… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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22. I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

By: Gary Jubelin

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of… read more

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. My Annihilation

By: Fuminori Nakamura

3.34

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this … read more

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  • crime
"Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said "Even gods cannot change the past." In which case, the gods are useless."

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

"Take a look around the internet. The ditches into which all evil is eventually swept. People hide their faces and type away without a care, no self-awareness for how their words will be picked up by …"

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

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24. Scar Town

By: Tristan Bancks

4.04

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Will Haddon and his twin friends, Dar and Juno, find a safe full of money and human… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
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25. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas

4.15

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I miss my dog,"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"I familiarize myself with every detail of their crimes and loathe what they did. At the same time, I may feel tremendous empathy and sorrow for what they went through in their young lives that contri…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"Within just about every serial predator, there are two warring elements: A feeling of grandiosity, specialness, and entitlement, together with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness and…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

Cover of Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies by Stephanie  Wood

26. Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies

By: Stephanie Wood

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry an… read more

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. Girl in the Walls

By: A.J. Gnuse

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing and suspenseful coming-of-age novel about an orphan hiding within the walls of her fo… read more

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  • audiobook
"Últimamente he intentado cambiar la imagen en mi cabeza. Imaginarme que quienquiera que se esconda ahí tiene el rostro de alguien que recuerdo. Alguien que he perdido. No siempre es fácil, pero creo …"

-A.J. Gnuse, Girl in the Walls

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28. The Fall Between

By: Darcy Tindale

3.93

Format: 336 pages, ebook

On a hot November morning, the first body lies in a cattle trough . . . It will be another two hour… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook
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29. The Schoolgirl Strangler

By: Katherine Kovacic

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The shocking true story of a serial killer in 1930s Melbourne. November, 1930. One sunny Saturda… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. Psykhe

By: Kate Forsyth

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Kate Forsyth gives voice, power and agency to Psykhe telling this much loved myth from the perspect… read more

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  • audiobook
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31. Shadows of Winter Robins

By: Louise Wolhuter

4.19

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Sometimes you must shine a light on the dark places to see what was always there​. Winter Robin… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
  • audiobook

25 Top audiobook books like The Schoolgirl Strangler by Katherine Kovacic

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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Michelle Knight , Michelle Burford

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Kate Clifford Larson

3.30

Transform Your Habits

Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

Chris Hammer

3.96

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20 Top fiction books like The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis

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The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

Chris Hammer

4.29

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The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

Chris Hammer

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

Margaret Hickey

4.06

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Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2)

Dinuka McKenzie

4.00

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