8 Best true crime books like Cults that Kill: Shocking True Stories of Horror from Psychopathic Leaders, Doomsday Prophets, and Brainwashed Followers to Human Sacrifices, Mass Suicides and Grisly Murders by Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar

Cover of Cults that Kill: Shocking True Stories of Horror from Psychopathic Leaders, Doomsday Prophets, and Brainwashed Followers to Human Sacrifices, Mass Suicides and Grisly Murders by Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar

Cults that Kill: Shocking True Stories of Horror from Psychopathic Leaders, Doomsday Prophets, and Brainwashed Followers to Human Sacrifices, Mass Suicides and Grisly Murders

By: Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar

3.67

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

What happens when true believers go too far? Thousands of religious, political and self-improvemen…

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Cover of Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage by Kody Brown, Meri Brown, Christine Brown, None, Janelle   Brown

1. Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage

By: Kody Brown , Meri Brown , Christine Brown , None , Janelle Brown

3.17

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The stars of the hit show Sister Wives present an uncensored, unedited look at life in their plural… read more

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  • cults
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2. Communion: A True Story

By: Whitley Strieber

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with hi… read more

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"Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a la…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

"Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the band of dream, weaving imagination & reali…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

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3. Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)

By: Karin Slaughter

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in … read more

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4. Life After Death

By: Damien Echols

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In 1993 three teenagers, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley Jr were arrested and cha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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5. Schindler's List

By: Thomas Keneally

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews… read more

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Cover of The Treatment (The Program, #2) by Suzanne Young

6. The Treatment (The Program, #2)

By: Suzanne Young

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . Can Sloane and James survive the lies and secrets surroun… read more

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7. 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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8. Fragile

By: Lisa Unger

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

New York Timesand USA Todaybestseller, Good Morning AmericaTop Book Pick, Walmart Bookclub Pick, Ha… read more

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9. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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10. Cults That Kill: Probing the Underworld of Occult Crime

By: Larry Kahaner

4.58

Format: None pages,

A shocking expose of the pervasive influence and growing threat of violence relating to satanic cul… read more

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11. The Amityville Horror

By: Jay Anson

3.83

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more

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  • true crime
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12. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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  • true crime
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Cover of Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items by J.W. Ocker

13. Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

By: J.W. Ocker

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated compendium that reveals the true stories behind the most infamous, creepy, and bizar… read more

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14. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

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  • true crime
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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15. Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)

By: Victoria Fulton

3.29

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This addictive YA horror about a group of teen ghost hunters who spend the night in a haunted LA ho… read more

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"It's nice to have someone who knows you that well and still wants to see your face every day."

-Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)

"I don't want to escape. I want to face him. And then, one by one, the girls he killed begin to show me their faces."

-Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)

"Sometime they like to show me how they died. I don't know why, maybe it makes them feel less alone, less isolated. Maybe they just want someone to know, to witness it, so it gives their short life a …"

-Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)

"He's the endgame boy. The one you make your dad be nice to at dinner, even if dinner is only Kentucky Fried Chicken. He's the boy you tell every secret to in the quiet of night and under the blanket …"

-Victoria Fulton, Horror Hotel (Horror Hotel, #1)

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16. 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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  • true crime
"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

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17. And Then I Woke Up

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.48

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a c… read more

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"We were monsters once, and although we are not anymore, we know we remain unforgiven."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

". . . it’s those differences — even the smallest and most trivial — that scare us the most."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Relationships aren't scientific, they're not mathematical. They're chaotic, abstract, irrational."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Macey once told me that the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

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18. The Deep

By: Alma Katsu

3.33

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Someone, or something, is haunting the Titanic. This is the only way to explain the series of mi… read more

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Cover of She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women by Jennifer   Wright

19. She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women

By: Jennifer Wright

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered—for revenge, for love, and even for pleas… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by T.J. English

20. Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

By: T.J. English

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scint… read more

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Cover of Cults that Kill: Shocking True Stories of Horror from Psychopathic Leaders, Doomsday Prophets, and Brainwashed Followers to Human Sacrifices, Mass Suicides and Grisly Murders by Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar

21. Cults that Kill: Shocking True Stories of Horror from Psychopathic Leaders, Doomsday Prophets, and Brainwashed Followers to Human Sacrifices, Mass Suicides and Grisly Murders

By: Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar

3.67

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

What happens when true believers go too far? Thousands of religious, political and self-improvemen… read more

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3.17

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Whitley Strieber

3.51

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3.49

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Thomas Keneally

4.20

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Jessica Knoll

4.02

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Alice Winn

4.53

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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4.11

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