15 Top true crime books like American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

Cover of American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

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

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-…

"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

If you liked the true crime plot in American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez by Philip Carlo

1. 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

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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 Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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

3. 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 Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule

4. The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

5. Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

By: None

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The riveting personal account of one sheriffs epic hunt for America's most heinous serial killer. F… read more

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6. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story

By: Ann Rule

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murdere… read more

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7. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

By: None , Mark Olshaker

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer i… read more

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8. Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide And The Criminal Mind

By: Stephen G. Michaud , Roy Hazelwood

4.42

Format: None pages,

Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest and most dangerous of all abe… read more

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9. Devil in The Darkness: The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes

By: None

3.86

Format: 250 pages,

He was a hard-working small business owner, an Army veteran, an attentive lover, and a doting fathe… read more

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10. Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer

By: Ann Rule

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

In her most personal and provocative book to date, the #1 bestselling master of true crime presents… read more

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11. 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 Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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

Cover of American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

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

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century book and Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

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

By: Jillian Lauren

3.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Lauren's Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer book and Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

14. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

15. 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 Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Killer's Shadow:  The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas

16. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

By: John E. Douglas

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Kill… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The journey to reckon with our nation's searing history of racial hatred, intolerance, and discrimination is ongoing, and there are no neutrals in that struggle. The shadow cast by Joseph Paul Frankl…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"With today's technology, conversations that used to be limited to basements and meeting halls, the kinds of words and places that first helped radicalize Franklin, now have tens of thousands of parti…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"Due to the remarkable advances in communications technologies, we find ourselves living at a time when it is far easier to radicalize and inspire hate than ever before. The internet and social media …"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

Cover of When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas

17. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes

18. 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 Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara  Butcher

19. 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

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas

20. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of La disparition de Chandra Levy by Hélène Coutard

21. La disparition de Chandra Levy

By: Hélène Coutard

4.06

Format: 224 pages, None

Une stagiaire volatilisée, un élu démocrate impliqué, une enquête bâclée. Washington DC. 1er mai… read more

Similar categories in Hélène Coutard's La disparition de Chandra Levy book and Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

  • nonfiction
  • true crime

10 Best adult books like American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

Transform Your Habits

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

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

Michelle McNamara

4.12

Transform Your Habits

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

Maureen Callahan

4.09

Transform Your Habits

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

Jillian Lauren

3.38

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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

Transform Your Habits

Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Want-Ad Killer

Ann Rule

3.59

Transform Your Habits

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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