15 Top history books like The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer by Rick Jervis

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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…

If you liked the history plot in The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer by Rick Jervis , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

1. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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3. The Serial Killer's Apprentice

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A psychological examination of the blurred line between victim and accomplice―and how a killer can … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco by Michelle Chouinard

4. The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco

By: Michelle Chouinard

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Michelle Chouinard’s clever mystery The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco, the granddaughter … read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

6. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever by Kim Mager

7. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

By: Kim Mager

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

9. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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10. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

By: John Grisham

4.49

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Cent… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

By: Dan Slepian

4.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of two decades navigating a broken criminal justice sy… read more

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

12. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA by Jesse Katz

13. The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA

By: Jesse Katz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

TATTOOS ON THE HEART meets GHETTOSIDE in this gripping true story about a botched gang murder set i… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O'Connor

14. Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers

By: Ian O'Connor

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aaron Rodgers is regarded by some as the most talented player to ever hold the most important job i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

15. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton by Deb Miller Landau

16. A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton

By: Deb Miller Landau

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A riveting narrative that pieces together the life and murder of Black socialite Lita McClinton Sul… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life by Rachel Clarke

17. The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life

By: Rachel Clarke

4.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling au… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases by Simon Read

18. Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases

By: Simon Read

3.96

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notori… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner

19. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner

4.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler

20. Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

By: Abbott Kahler

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An incredible true story of murder in a utopian community established on a remote Galápagos island … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham

21. Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

By: Elyse Graham

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the scholars, librarians, and university professors who were recruite… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"She was also a woman, which for him was a plus."

-Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

"... because knowledge is, itself, a kind of magic, regardless of whether you get it from the stars or from the sublunary hermeneutics of the human fields of learning."

-Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

"The historical record often neglects certain kinds of stories. For example, in the Library of Congress, OSS veterans helped catalogue the OSS records; this was a good service to the country, but they…"

-Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

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4.60

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3.79

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