7 must-read adult books like Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter by Lis Wiehl

Cover of Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter by Lis Wiehl

Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter

By: Lis Wiehl

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the late summer of 1969, the nation was transfixed by a series of gruesome murders in the hills …

If you liked the adult plot in Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter by Lis Wiehl , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. When Rabbit Howls

By: Truddi Chase , None

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Truddi Chase began therapy to discover why she suffered from blackouts. What surfaced was terrifyin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
"I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters."

-Truddi Chase, When Rabbit Howls

Cover of Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken, Peter Maiken

2. Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

By: Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The state prosecutor at the Gacy trial recounts the police investigation that led to Gacy's arrest … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door

By: Roy Wenzl , L. Kelly , Tim Potter , Hurst Laviana

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir

By: Amanda Knox

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In the fall of 2007, twenty-year old college coed Amanda Knox left Seattle to study abroad in Perug… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust

By: Allan Zullo

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different ch… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #1)

By: Joseph Delaney , Patrick Arrasmith

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now h… read more

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7. Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

By: Jeff Guinn

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

Based on new interviews with previously undiscovered relatives and filled with revelations and unpu… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • cults
  • nonfiction
  • crime

8. Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

By: Mara Leveritt

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when D… read more

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9. Under the Christmas Tree (Virgin River, #7.5)

By: Robyn Carr

4.23

Format: 166 pages, ebook

Available on its own for the first time! #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Virgin River a… read more

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10. Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"

By: Harold Schechter

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

Murder Was the Least of His Crimes... The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films P… read more

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11. Zodiac

By: Robert Graysmith

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Who was Zodiac? A serial killer who claimed 37 dead. A sexual sadist who taunted police with anonym… read more

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12. Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties

By: None , None

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne L… read more

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13. The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a spea… read more

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14. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more

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15. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

By: Gregg Olsen

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the fore… read more

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16. The Case for Jamie (Charlotte Holmes #3)

By: Brittany Cavallaro

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

The hotly anticipated final book in the New York Timesbestselling Charlotte Holmes trilogy, in whic… read more

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17. Alone

By: Cyn Balog

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When her mom inherits an old, crumbling mansion, Seda's almost excited to spend the summer there. T… read more

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18. American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation. Berkeley, California, 193… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Before and After

By: Judy Christie

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

7 hours, 57 minutes The incredible, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption sca… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

By: Brittany Cavallaro

3.97

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series! Charlotte Holmes and … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Life is emphatically disappointing to those who expect it to be otherwise."

-Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

"I was excited, I supposed. In a way in which I wanted to throw up from nerves."

-Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

"And then that smile Leander had, something like a wolf after eating a fat peasant child."

-Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

"Did you know that only older forests grow the sort of fungi that feeds the variety of orchid called Goodyera pubescens —"

-Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

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22. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn

4.16

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"

-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Cover of Christmas Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #26) by Joanne Fluke

23. Christmas Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #26)

By: Joanne Fluke

3.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A Festive & Delicious Christmas Cozy Mystery Featuring over a dozen cookie and dessert recipes f… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler

24. Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

By: Max Cutler

3.56

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on insi… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic by Ben Westhoff

25. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Ben Westhoff

4.02

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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

26. 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

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The truth is never skin deep.   It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel by Amy Price

28. Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

By: Amy Price

3.47

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson

29. Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

By: Steven Johnson

3.90

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Map and How We Got to Now returns with the story of … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy by Kathy Kleiner Rubin

30. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy

By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter by Lis Wiehl

31. Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter

By: Lis Wiehl

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the late summer of 1969, the nation was transfixed by a series of gruesome murders in the hills … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

17 Best audiobook books like Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter by Lis Wiehl

Transform Your Habits

Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door

Roy Wenzl , L. Kelly , Tim Potter , Hurst Laviana

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir

Amanda Knox

3.43

Transform Your Habits

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

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31 must-read audiobook books like Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman

Transform Your Habits

The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

Sally Denton

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Sandy Hook

Elizabeth Williamson

4.29

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