5 best-selling history books like Mary Ann Cotton: Victorian Serial Killer by Simon Webb

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Mary Ann Cotton: Victorian Serial Killer

By: Simon Webb

3.73

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

A native of County Durham, Mary Ann Cotton was the most prolific female serial killer in British hi…

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1. Carnegie's Maid

By: Marie Benedict

3.98

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspir… read more

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2. Wife in the North

By: Judith O'Reilly

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Judith O'Reilly, a successful journalist and mother of three, agreed to leave London for a rem… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

By: Judith Flanders

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

"Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, … read more

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4. Who Killed Little Johnny Gill?: A Victorian True Crime Murder Mystery

By: Kathryn McMaster

3.89

Format: 272 pages,

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5. Spilled Milk

By: K.L. Randis

3.80

Format: 144 pages,

Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality i… read more

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6. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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7. Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

By: Teresa Van Woy

4.56

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Abducted by her mentally unstable mother, one girl forages her way to the top. "A gripping account… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Twisted: The Secret Desires and Bizarre Double Life of Dr. Richard Sharpe

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

He Had A Successful Career, A Selfless Wife, And Three Loving Children. When high school sweetheart… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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9. The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

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"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

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10. Murdaugh, She Wrote: A Tale of High Crimes in the Lowcountry

By: Kathleen Hewtson

4.02

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best selling author of 'Blood & Marriage' and 'The Night My Husband Killed Me,' this is a … read more

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  • crime
  • true crime
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11. Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder

By: Steven B. Epstein

4.18

Format: 608 pages, Kindle Edition

At just 41 years of age, Florida State law professor Dan Markel was among the most well-known and a… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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12. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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13. The Lobotomist's Wife

By: Samantha Greene Woodruff

4.04

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling historical novel of a compassionate and relentless woman, a cutting-edge breakthroug… read more

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14. Beyond Reason: The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder

By: Ken Englade

4.09

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

The She was a beautiful, gifted descendant of Lady Astor. But Elizabeth Haysom was also a spoiled,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm

By: Mark Sebastian Jordan

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

This chilling true crime history reveals the story of a young woman in nineteenth century rural Ohi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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16. The Silent Quarry (DI Winter Meadows, #1)

By: Cheryl Rees-Price

4.37

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

The Silent Quarry is the first in the DI Winter Meadows series by Cheryl Rees-Price. In 1987 a quie… read more

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  • crime
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17. Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)

By: A.J. Pearce

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

A charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about an adventurous young w… read more

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"Find out what you're good at...and then get even better. That's the key."

-A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)

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18. The Tide Between Us: An Irish-Caribbean Story of Slavery & Emancipation (The O'Neill Trilogy Book 1)

By: Olive Collins

4.19

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

1821: Among the thousands of Irish deportees to the Caribbean British Colonies is a 10-year-old Iri… read more

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19. Fireball: The true story of a Tennessee plow girl who survived poverty, abuse, and eleven husbands with wit, wisdom, and tenacity.

By: Julia Walker

4.35

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

My name is Hazel Lamb…Lindsey, but my momma called me Fireball. I am 84 years old. I only had one y… read more

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20. No One Is Perfect: The True Story Of Candace Mossler And America's Strangest Murder Trial

By: Ron Smith

4.01

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

Thirty years before the O.J. Simpson case, America was fascinated by another "trial of the century"… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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21. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story

By: Daniella Dechristopher

4.01

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
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22. Has it Come to This?: The Mysterious, Unsolved Murder of Frank Richardson

By: Kimberly Tilley

4.04

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Somebody got away with murder on Christmas Eve of 1900 in Savannah, Missouri. Frank Richardson, … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The gentleness in question was not explicitly stated, but readers could be forgiven for thinking Booher’s prosecution was weak and listless and that he had pursued it with all the ferociousness of a …"

-Kimberly Tilley, Has it Come to This?: The Mysterious, Unsolved Murder of Frank Richardson

"When he looked in the mirror, he was startled by his physical transformation. In just a few years, his face had lost its healthy glow, and his strength had faded, leaving a pale, bloated, trembling v…"

-Kimberly Tilley, Has it Come to This?: The Mysterious, Unsolved Murder of Frank Richardson

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23. America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster

By: Mary Kay McBrayer

3.54

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

America’s first female serial killer was not always a killer. America’s First Female Serial Killer … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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24. Mary Ann Cotton: Victorian Serial Killer

By: Simon Webb

3.73

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

A native of County Durham, Mary Ann Cotton was the most prolific female serial killer in British hi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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25. A SCOTLAND YARD MURDER CASEBOOK: Classic Crime - the True Story of Nine Murders and One Detective

By: Simon Lewis

4.00

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In 1924, Patrick Mahon took his pregnant lover for a short holiday by the seaside. A few days later… read more

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13 Best nonfiction books like Mary Ann Cotton: Victorian Serial Killer by Simon Webb

Transform Your Habits

Wife in the North

Judith O'Reilly

5.00

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The Amish Wife

Gregg Olsen

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

Teresa Van Woy

4.56

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Twisted: The Secret Desires and Bizarre Double Life of Dr. Richard Sharpe

John Glatt

3.94

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Pearl: Lost Girl of White Oak Mountain

Bill Yates

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Running From The Mirror

Howard Shulman

4.45

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Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

Teresa Van Woy

4.56

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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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