18 Top true crime books like Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty by Mandy Matney

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Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

By: Mandy Matney

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local …

If you liked the true crime plot in Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty by Mandy Matney , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey Sherman

1. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks

2. 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 Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max  Marshall

3. 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 Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

By: Mandy Matney

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local … read more

Similar categories in Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • law
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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

Cover of Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

6. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

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

7. 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

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry N. MacLean

8. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

Similar categories in Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

9. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

By: Laurah Norton

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more

Similar categories in Laurah Norton's Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival by Omid Scobie

10. Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

By: Omid Scobie

3.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the internati… read more

Similar categories in Omid Scobie's Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Everyone already knows that King Charles might have preferred a life as Queen Camilla's tampon."

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"The King has lived a full life out in the public as an outspoken environmental activist, an occasional meddler in politics, a successful businessman, a flawed father, and a philandering husband who d…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"And, despite calls from campaigners for a redesign, one of Britain's highest-honor medals bestowed by King Charles to ambassadors and diplomats for distinguished service still features a depiction of…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

"A stubborn eccentric who has spent most of his life waiting and planning for his ascension, even at the cost of his relationships with his own sons, the former Prince of Wales is not only far less po…"

-Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival

Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

11. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

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

12. 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 Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • 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 Serial Killer's Apprentice by Katherine Ramsland

13. The Serial Killer's Apprentice

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A psychological examination of the blurred line between victim and accomplice―and how a killer can … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power by Jason Ryan

14. Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

By: Jason Ryan

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious low country clan, in all its Southern Gothic i… read more

Similar categories in Jason Ryan's Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight by Shawn Cohen

15. College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

By: Shawn Cohen

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A gripping true crime book about a college girl who disappeared in plain sight When Lauren Spierer―… read more

Similar categories in Shawn Cohen's College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder Under God's Eye: The nightmare killing in Stanford's church by Scott Herhold

16. Murder Under God's Eye: The nightmare killing in Stanford's church

By: Scott Herhold

3.93

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

The murder of Arlis Perry inside Stanford Memorial Church flummoxed detectives for nearly 44 years.… read more

Similar categories in Scott Herhold's Murder Under God's Eye: The nightmare killing in Stanford's church book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • true crime
Cover of Behind the Doors of Justice: The Murdaugh Murders by Rebecca "Becky" H. Hill

17. Behind the Doors of Justice: The Murdaugh Murders

By: Rebecca "Becky" H. Hill

3.05

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

"From beginning to end, here is the true story of the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial from a cour… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca "Becky" H. Hill's Behind the Doors of Justice: The Murdaugh Murders book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

18. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

Similar categories in Howard Blum's When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

19. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

20. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Bauerlein's The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty book and Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Defending Alex Murdaugh: Not Guilty by Reasonable Doubt by Crime and Cask

21. Defending Alex Murdaugh: Not Guilty by Reasonable Doubt

By: Crime and Cask

3.80

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

"Defending Alex Murdaugh" Not Guilty by Reasonable Doubt, by Crime and Cask is a deep dive into the… read more

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18 Top audiobook books like Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty by Mandy Matney

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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman

3.71

Transform Your Habits

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

Susan Hendricks

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Mandy Matney

3.78

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

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If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

3.79

Transform Your Habits

One Perfect Couple

Ruth Ware

3.68

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