10 Best crime books like The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered by Gitta Sereny

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The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

By: Gitta Sereny

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirte…

If you liked the crime plot in The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered by Gitta Sereny , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Silent Twins

By: Marjorie Wallace

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with a… read more

Similar categories in Marjorie Wallace's The Silent Twins book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door by Roy Wenzl, L. Kelly, Tim Potter, Hurst Laviana

2. Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door

By: Roy Wenzl , L. Kelly , Tim Potter , Hurst Laviana

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial … read more

Similar categories in Roy Wenzl's Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4) by Elizabeth Jane Howard

3. Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.31

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

From Simon & Schuster, Elizabeth Jane Howard's Casting Off is the next chapter in the Cazalet Chron… read more

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"It is extraordinarily difficult not to hate someone when one feels powerless with them."

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen."

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richti…"

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the i…"

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

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4. Black Water

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

The scene is Grayling Island off the coast of Maine, where a young woman meets a Senator at a Fourt… read more

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5. Holocausto Brasileiro

By: Daniela Arbex

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Neste livro-reportagem fundamental, a premiada jornalista Daniela Arbex resgata do esquecimento um … read more

Similar categories in Daniela Arbex's Holocausto Brasileiro book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
Cover of The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered by Gitta Sereny

6. The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

By: Gitta Sereny

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirte… read more

Similar categories in Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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7. The Killer Next Door

By: Alex Marwood

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

No. 23 has a secret. In this bedsit-riddled south London wreck, lorded over by a lecherous landlord… read more

Similar categories in Alex Marwood's The Killer Next Door book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • crime

8. Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

By: Mara Leveritt

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when D… read more

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9. Prisioneiras

By: Drauzio Varella

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

O trabalho de Drauzio Varella como medico voluntario em penitenciarias comecou em 1989, na extinta … read more

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10. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

By: Gregg Olsen

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the fore… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

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11. Jantar Secreto

By: Raphael Montes

4.17

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Um grupo de jovens deixa uma pequena cidade no Paraná para viver no Rio de Janeiro. Eles alugam um … read more

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  • crime

12. The Darkest Secret

By: Alex Marwood

3.26

Format: None pages,

Taut, emotive and utterly compelling, an unputdownable 'ripped from headlines' read from Alex Marwo… read more

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13. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

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14. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

By: Michael Bible

3.60

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more

Similar categories in Michael Bible's L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • true crime
"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"

-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Cover of Il volto del male: Storie di efferati assassini by Stefano Nazzi

15. Il volto del male: Storie di efferati assassini

By: Stefano Nazzi

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

«Perché l'ha fatto?» Ce lo chiediamo spesso davanti a delitti particolarmente feroci, specie quando… read more

Similar categories in Stefano Nazzi's Il volto del male: Storie di efferati assassini book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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16. Úrsula

By: Maria Firmina dos Reis

3.73

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

O romance trata de uma história de amor entre dois jovens: a pura e simples Úrsula e o nobre bachar… read more

Similar categories in Maria Firmina dos Reis's Úrsula book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

"They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days of cruel torments and utter lack of what is needed most to life we spent in …"

-Maria Firmina dos Reis, Úrsula

"O amor que se nutre no coração do homem generoso é puro e nobre, leal e santo, profundo e imenso, e capaz de quanta virtude o mundo pode conhecer, de quanta dedicação se possa conceber. Ele o eleva a…"

-Maria Firmina dos Reis, Úrsula

"Então Úrsula, a pobre órfã, ajoelhou aos pés do leito, e volvendo em seus braços o corpo inanimado, com seus lábios, trêmulos de dor, tocou os lábios frios e inertes de sua mãe, tentando, embalde, tr…"

-Maria Firmina dos Reis, Úrsula

"Pretenderá em vão lutar contra a tua vontade, e nunca te poderá arrancar da alma a sublime afeição, que deste a outrem. Louco! A mulher só ama uma vez. No seu coração imprimiu Deus um sentir tão puro…"

-Maria Firmina dos Reis, Úrsula

Cover of Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

17. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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18. Finding Sophie

By: Imran Mahmood

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they g… read more

Similar categories in Imran Mahmood's Finding Sophie book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • crime
Cover of The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case by David James Smith

19. The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case

By: David James Smith

4.08

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing … read more

Similar categories in David James Smith's The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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20. The Island of Lost Girls

By: Alex Marwood

3.53

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Sun-drenched glamour and obscene wealth hide evil secrets in this ripped-from-the-headlines thrille… read more

Similar categories in Alex Marwood's The Island of Lost Girls book and Gitta Sereny's The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

  • crime

6 Top history books like The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered by Gitta Sereny

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Marjorie Wallace

3.62

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4.04

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4.17

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3.89

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3.77

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