9 Top true crime books like The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia by Samantha Leach

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The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia by Samantha Leach , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Bright Young Women

By: Jessica Knoll

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • crime
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

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2. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

By: Kate Flannery

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more

Similar categories in Kate Flannery's Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • coming of age
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Madievsky's All-Night Pharmacy book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • audiobook
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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6. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

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7. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

Similar categories in Max Marshall's Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

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

8. 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 Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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9. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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10. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • mental health
Cover of How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone by Cameron Russell

11. How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone

By: Cameron Russell

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Russell's How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When the World Didn't End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner

12. When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

By: Guinevere Turner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood… read more

Similar categories in Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • coming of age
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

Similar categories in Monica Potts's The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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14. Prom Mom

By: Laura Lippman

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Lippman's Prom Mom book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • crime
  • audiobook
"How do you live with yourself? How does anyone live with themselves, in the end? The way I see it, you either admit to yourself exactly who you are - or you lie to yourself the way you lie to the res…"

-Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

15. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

16. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By: Alexander Stille

3.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Stille's The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin

17. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

By: Lisa Belkin

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Adult Drama: And Other Essays by Natalie Beach

18. Adult Drama: And Other Essays

By: Natalie Beach

3.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book in... Harper’s Bazaar Elle Bookpage Vulture’s “Into It” From the wri… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Beach's Adult Drama: And Other Essays book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius by Scott C. Johnson

19. The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

By: Scott C. Johnson

3.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen Kin… read more

Similar categories in Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of) by Hannah Pittard

20. We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of)

By: Hannah Pittard

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Hannah Pittard’s memoir is so exquisitely crafted ― I loved it.” ―Ann Napolitano, New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Hannah Pittard's We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of) book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

21. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

21 Top audiobook books like The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia by Samantha Leach

Transform Your Habits

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

Kate Flannery

3.67

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

Samantha Leach

3.22

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21 must-read audiobook books like Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

Transform Your Habits

We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Transform Your Habits

There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

Anna Akbari

3.66

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