13 must-read biography books like The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien

Cover of The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien

The Hillside Stranglers

By: Darcy O'Brien

2.77

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

For weeks in the fall of 1977, as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young wome…

If you liked the biography plot in The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Playing With Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal

By: John Glatt

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse. Nothing could have shocked the … read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Playing With Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez by Philip Carlo

2. Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

By: Philip Carlo

4.02

Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The shocking true story behind the serial killer case that inspired the hit Netflix series! Pain… read more

Similar categories in Philip Carlo's Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer by Bruce   Henderson

3. Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer

By: Bruce Henderson

4.07

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

Some books about serial killers are dramatic and emotional. Trace Evidence, by contrast, has a stea… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Henderson's Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng & Leonard Lake Torture Murders by Don Lasseter

4. Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng & Leonard Lake Torture Murders

By: Don Lasseter

3.73

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

In 1985, Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were spotted shoplifting. Ng escaped, but Lake's capture led p… read more

Similar categories in Don Lasseter's Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng & Leonard Lake Torture Murders book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken, Peter Maiken

5. Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

By: Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The state prosecutor at the Gacy trial recounts the police investigation that led to Gacy's arrest … read more

Similar categories in Terry Sullivan's Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule

6. The Want-Ad Killer

By: Ann Rule

3.59

Format: 378 pages,

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipula… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rule's The Want-Ad Killer book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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7. Deadly American Beauty

By: John Glatt

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Greg DeVillers was a top biotech executive, and Kristen Rossum was embarking on a career in toxicol… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Deadly American Beauty book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer by None, Johnny Dodd

8. Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

By: None , Johnny Dodd

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thrillerThis incredible story shows how John Dou… read more

Similar categories in None's Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree by Dennis McDougal

9. Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree

By: Dennis McDougal

3.64

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in Dennis McDougal's Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? by Ethan Brown

10. Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?

By: Ethan Brown

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER A SOUTHERN LIVING2016 BOOK OF THE YEAR An explosive, true-life southern go… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Brown's Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule

11. The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

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Similar categories in Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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12. The Hillside Stranglers

By: Darcy O'Brien

2.77

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

For weeks in the fall of 1977, as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young wome… read more

Similar categories in Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal by Ann Rule

13. Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal

By: Ann Rule

3.71

Format: 272 pages,

Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a po… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rule's Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith, Tomás Guillén

14. The Search for the Green River Killer

By: Carlton Smith , Tomás Guillén

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The true story of America's most notorious serial killer case ever. read more

Similar categories in Carlton Smith's The Search for the Green River Killer book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of One Deadly Night : A State Trooper, Triple Homicide, and a Search for Justice by John Glatt

15. One Deadly Night : A State Trooper, Triple Homicide, and a Search for Justice

By: John Glatt

4.35

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's One Deadly Night : A State Trooper, Triple Homicide, and a Search for Justice book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

16. Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolesce… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Ramsland's Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

17. Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"

By: Harold Schechter

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

Murder Was the Least of His Crimes... The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films P… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

18. To Have and To Kill

By: John Glatt

3.87

Format: 252 pages,

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Similar categories in John Glatt's To Have and To Kill book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

19. The Crime of the Century

By: Dennis L. Breo

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

On July 14, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck murdered eight student nurses in their quiet Chicago town … read more

Similar categories in Dennis L. Breo's The Crime of the Century book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

Cover of The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation by Robert        Rand

20. The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation

By: Robert Rand

4.13

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the primary source material for NBC's Law and… read more

Similar categories in Robert Rand's The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation book and Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

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

21. 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 Darcy O'Brien's The Hillside Stranglers

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime

10 Top history books like The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien

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Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

Philip Carlo

4.02

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Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer

Bruce Henderson

4.07

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Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng & Leonard Lake Torture Murders

Don Lasseter

3.73

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Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

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6 Top adult books like Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer by Johnny Dodd

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Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

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The Want-Ad Killer

Ann Rule

3.59

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Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

None , Johnny Dodd

4.25

Transform Your Habits

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan

4.09

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