16 Best crime books like A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis

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A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

By: Blake Ellis

3.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding true story, a pair of award-winning CNN investigative journalists track down t…

If you liked the crime plot in A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

1. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

By: Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen

4.00

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Kang's Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
"Unfortunately, the theory that 'more is better' is a really, really crappy theory when it comes to arsenic."

-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

"It is perhaps oddly appropriate that the symbol for the god Mercury was the caduceus—two snakes entwined on a winged rod. The symbol is commonly and incorrectly associated with the medical establishm…"

-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Cover of Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings by Michelle Knight, Michelle Burford

2. Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

By: Michelle Knight , Michelle Burford

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Knight's Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"Every time i see a butterfly, it reminds me of how precious life can truly be. To be able to turn from a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly and fly away so freely and gracefully wherever she may …"

-Michelle Knight, Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

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3. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • nonfiction
  • history

4. 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

Similar categories in None's Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

5. The Blood of Emmett Till

By: Timothy B. Tyson

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Timesbestseller r… read more

Similar categories in Timothy B. Tyson's The Blood of Emmett Till book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

6. The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus

By: John Glatt

2.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and … read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

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7. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

Cover of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

8. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

9. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen  Hale

10. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hale's Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott

11. The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

By: Karen Abbott

3.69

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation. In the e… read more

Similar categories in Karen Abbott's The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

12. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Cursed Bread

By: Sophie Mackintosh

3.28

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

Cover of Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case by Charles Bosworth Jr.

14. Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case

By: Charles Bosworth Jr.

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The explosive, first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions--the murder of B… read more

Similar categories in Charles Bosworth Jr.'s Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World by Gregg Olsen

15. 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

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin

16. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Toobin's Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

17. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

By: Joe Pompeo

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more

Similar categories in Joe Pompeo's Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas

18. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

19. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

By: Susannah Cahalan

3.64

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness-how do you diagnose it, how do you t… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Cahalan's The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. Murder, Interrupted

By: James Patterson

3.79

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series - premiering January 20… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Murder, Interrupted book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

21. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

Similar categories in Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

22. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

23. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife by Brad Balukjian

24. The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife

By: Brad Balukjian

4.00

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with somethi… read more

Similar categories in Brad Balukjian's The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Voices in the Snow (Black Winter, #1) by Darcy Coates

25. Voices in the Snow (Black Winter, #1)

By: Darcy Coates

3.88

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children’s toys littered across the road… read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's Voices in the Snow (Black Winter, #1) book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • mystery
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26. The Kingdoms

By: Natasha Pulley

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Kingdoms book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • adult
"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

Cover of The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family by John Glatt

27. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family

By: John Glatt

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas   Morris

28. The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

By: Thomas Morris

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions, A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Morris's The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult by Faith Jones

29. Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

By: Faith Jones

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and a Most Anticipated by People , TIME , USA Today , Real Si… read more

Similar categories in Faith Jones's Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman

30. Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Book ReviewCritically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers … read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis

31. A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

By: Blake Ellis

3.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding true story, a pair of award-winning CNN investigative journalists track down t… read more

Similar categories in Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History book and Blake Ellis's A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

17 Top adult books like A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis

Transform Your Habits

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Mister Magic

Kiersten White

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Transform Your Habits

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

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Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

A.M. Shine

3.93

Transform Your Habits

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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