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Books Like Helter Skelter

by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry · about this book

Loved Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry? If its nonfiction, violent and true crime hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood and The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Helter Skelter: Nonfiction · Violent · True Crime · Cults · Dark

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   True Crime · Forensic Investigation · Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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   If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

   Gregg Olsen

   True Crime · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Psychological Manipulation · Violent

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   The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco

   Robert Graysmith

   True Crime · Investigative Journalism · Forensic Investigation · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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   The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

   Erik Larson

   True Crime · Investigative Journalism · Psychological Manipulation · Nonfiction · Dense Prose

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   Maureen Callahan

   True Crime · Forensic Investigation · Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Intense

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   Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

   Casey Cep

   True Crime · Courtroom Drama · Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · History

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   Elizabeth Kendall

   True Crime · Nonfiction · Psychological Manipulation · Intense · Dark

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   The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It

   Jamie Bartlett

   True Crime · Cults · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Tense and Suspenseful

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   Our Share of Night

   Mariana Enriquez

   Cults · Dense Prose · Violent · Sprawling Epic · Dark

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    Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

    Caroline Fraser

    True Crime · Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Dark · History

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    Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    Adam Higginbotham

    Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Intense · Dense Prose · Dark

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    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

    Stieg Larsson

    Courtroom Drama · Violent · Dense Prose · Investigative Journalism · Dark

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    Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases

    Simon Read

    True Crime · Forensic Investigation · Nonfiction · History

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    A Book of Bones

    John Connolly

    Cults · Dense Prose · Violent · Sprawling Epic · Dark

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    The Radium Girls

    Kate Moore

    Courtroom Drama · Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Dark · History

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    A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens

    Courtroom Drama · Sprawling Epic · Dense Prose · Violent · Dark

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    Alchemised

    Senlinyu

    Psychological Manipulation · Violent · Sprawling Epic · Intense · Dark

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    Robert McCammon

    Courtroom Drama · Sprawling Epic · Dense Prose · Dark · Prison

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    Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

    Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon

    True Crime · Psychological Manipulation · Nonfiction · Prison

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    Psychological Manipulation · Violent · Dense Prose · Sprawling Epic · Dark

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