16 Top true crime books like A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders by Simon Farquhar

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A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

By: Simon Farquhar

4.33

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction. In September 1970…

If you liked the true crime plot in A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders by Simon Farquhar , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of I Would Find a Girl Walking by Kathy Kelly, Diana Montane

1. I Would Find a Girl Walking

By: Kathy Kelly , Diana Montane

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"I would be drinking and lonely, thinking about all the couples having fun together. And here I am,… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

2. The Murder of Rachel: A Stranger Murdered My Daughter When She Was 21. This is the Whole Story

By: Wanda Moran

3.80

Format: 654 pages,

This book tells a story of an ordinary girl from an ordinary family who died in the most extraordin… read more

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3. The Roanoke Girls

By: Amy Engel

4.22

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die. After her mother's … read more

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4. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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5. Yorkshire Ripper - The Secret Murders: The True Story of How Peter Sutcliffe's Terrible Reign of Terror Claimed at Least Twenty-Two More Lives

By: Tim Tate , Chris Clark

3.75

Format: 40 pages,

In 1981, Peter Sutcliffe, the 'Yorkshire Ripper', was convicted of thirteen murders and seven attem… read more

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6. 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

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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7. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

Similar categories in Ray Fysh's Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases book and Simon Farquhar's A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Manhunt: How I Brought Serial Killer Levi Bellfield to Justice by Colin Sutton

8. Manhunt: How I Brought Serial Killer Levi Bellfield to Justice

By: Colin Sutton

4.24

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING MARTIN CLUNES What does it take to catch one of Britain's most feared… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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9. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

10. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

Similar categories in Frank Figliuzzi's Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers book and Simon Farquhar's A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell by Corbin Reiff

11. Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell

By: Corbin Reiff

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"The new Chris Cornell biography is the book his legacy deserves." — Kerrang! "Reiff unearths pl… read more

Similar categories in Corbin Reiff's Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell book and Simon Farquhar's A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

  • nonfiction
Cover of A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious Killers by Deborah Holt Larkin

12. A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious Killers

By: Deborah Holt Larkin

4.07

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in Califor… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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13. My Life With Murderers

By: David Wilson

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Professor David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men - especially men wh… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped by Lynnette Williams

14. Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped

By: Lynnette Williams

4.50

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Georgia Williams’ murder at the hands of college pal Jamie Reynolds was a crime that shocked the c… read more

Similar categories in Lynnette Williams's Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped book and Simon Farquhar's A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper

By: Carol Ann Lee

4.29

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Much has been written about the brutal crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, and - thirt… read more

Similar categories in Carol Ann Lee's Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper book and Simon Farquhar's A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Pembrokeshire Murders by Steve  Wilkins

16. The Pembrokeshire Murders

By: Steve Wilkins

4.11

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

The dramatic and compelling account of how a serial killer was finally unmasked after evading justi… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of To Hunt a Killer: How I Brought Melanie Road’s Murderer to Justice by Julie Mackay

17. To Hunt a Killer: How I Brought Melanie Road’s Murderer to Justice

By: Julie Mackay

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murdere… read more

Similar categories in Julie Mackay's To Hunt a Killer: How I Brought Melanie Road’s Murderer to Justice book and Simon Farquhar's A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Face of Evil: The True Story of Serial Killer Robert Black by Robert Giles

18. The Face of Evil: The True Story of Serial Killer Robert Black

By: Robert Giles

3.68

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

‘THIS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE CASES IN WHICH THERE IS NO MITIGATION, AND SO I PROPOSE TO SAY NOTHING I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of A History of British Serial Killing: The Definitive History of British Serial Killing 1888-2008 - by the UK's Leading Expert by David           Wilson

19. A History of British Serial Killing: The Definitive History of British Serial Killing 1888-2008 - by the UK's Leading Expert

By: David Wilson

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating and informative new book, Professor David Wilson tells the stories of Britain's… read more

Similar categories in David Wilson's A History of British Serial Killing: The Definitive History of British Serial Killing 1888-2008 - by the UK's Leading Expert book and Simon Farquhar's A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders by Simon Farquhar

20. A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

By: Simon Farquhar

4.33

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction. In September 1970… read more

Similar categories in Simon Farquhar's A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders book and Simon Farquhar's A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Pure Evil: Inside the Minds and Crimes of Britain’s Worst Criminals by Geoffrey Wansell

21. Pure Evil: Inside the Minds and Crimes of Britain’s Worst Criminals

By: Geoffrey Wansell

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A fascinating exposé of the country's most violent murderers and their horrifying crimes, based on … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

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I Would Find a Girl Walking

Kathy Kelly , Diana Montane

4.82

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American Black Widow

Gregg Olsen

3.75

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Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

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Manhunt: How I Brought Serial Killer Levi Bellfield to Justice

Colin Sutton

4.24

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The Evil Within: Murdered by her stepbrother – the crime that shocked a nation. The heartbreaking story of Becky Watts by her father

Darren Galsworthy

4.27

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Della's Web: The Many Husbands of a Suburban Black Widow

Aphrodite Jones

3.84

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Goodbye, Dearest Holly: Ten Years On

Kevin Wells

4.12

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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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