16 Best nonfiction books like Missing, Presumed by Alan Bailey

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Missing, Presumed

By: Alan Bailey

3.92

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Between 1993 and 1998 six Irish women, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty eight, disappeared. T…

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1. True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

By: James Renner

3.66

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

When an eleven-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on pos… read more

Similar categories in James Renner's True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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2. Journey Into Darkness (Mindhunter #2)

By: None , Mark Olshaker , John E. Douglas

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Mindhunter," John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Invest… read more

Similar categories in None's Journey Into Darkness (Mindhunter #2) book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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3. Columbine

By: Dave Cullen

4.29

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more

Similar categories in Dave Cullen's Columbine book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

4. Missing: Missing Without Trace in Ireland

By: None

3.80

Format: 654 pages, Paperback

Examines the cases of Ireland's women and children who have vanished in sinister and mysterious cir… read more

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5. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

By: Tom Shachtman , Robert K. Ressler

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Ro… read more

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6. The Girl in the Leaves

By: Robert Scott , Sarah Maynard

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

THE STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE MASS MURDERS EVER RECORDED. AND THE GIRL WHO ESCAPED WITH HER … read more

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7. Who Killed These Girls?: The Twenty-Five-Year History of Austin's Yogurt Shop Murders

By: Beverly Lowry

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of … read more

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8. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

By: Michelle McNamara

4.12

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer… read more

Similar categories in Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"Every obsession needs a room of its own."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"He loses his power when we know his face."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"Twenty-five years is a long time in cop years."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

"I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face."

-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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9. Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

By: Susan Hendricks

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hendricks's Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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10. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

Similar categories in Louise Kennedy's Trespasses book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • irish literature
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11. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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12. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
  • true crime
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13. The Vanishing Triangle

By: Claire McGowan

3.42

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of What You Did comes a true-crime investigation that cast a dark shado… read more

Similar categories in Claire McGowan's The Vanishing Triangle book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"Indifference can be fatal. Until we treat every case, every unsolved murder and every suspicious disappearance as equally important, we can’t hope to build up a true picture of what killers are doing…"

-Claire McGowan, The Vanishing Triangle

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14. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest … read more

Similar categories in Paul Holes's Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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16. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By: Jonathan Freedland

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Freedland's The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • nonfiction
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17. When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

By: Leah Sottile

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious d… read more

Similar categories in Leah Sottile's When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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18. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

By: Sarah Weinman

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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19. A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and How Her Family Fought Back

By: William D. LaRue

4.25

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

KATY DIED THREE DAYS AFTER THE BRUTAL ATTACK. JUSTICE ARRIVED THREE DECADES LATER. In the early mor… read more

Similar categories in William D. LaRue's A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and How Her Family Fought Back book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

20. Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

By: Greg King

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Ni… read more

Similar categories in Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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21. Missing, Presumed

By: Alan Bailey

3.92

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Between 1993 and 1998 six Irish women, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty eight, disappeared. T… read more

Similar categories in Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed book and Alan Bailey's Missing, Presumed

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
  • true crime

13 Best crime books like Missing, Presumed by Alan Bailey

Transform Your Habits

True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

James Renner

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Journey Into Darkness (Mindhunter #2)

None , Mark Olshaker , John E. Douglas

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Columbine

Dave Cullen

4.29

Transform Your Habits

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

4.12

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13 Best adult books like Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks

Transform Your Habits

Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendricks

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

James Renner

3.74

Transform Your Habits

While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

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