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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
Gary L. Stewart, Susan D. Mustafa · 367 pages
"An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious--and still at large--serial killers in America. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to searc
The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco
Robert Graysmith · 552 pages
The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles
Donald H. Wolfe · 416 pages
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Kate Summerscale · 384 pages
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land, Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was
The Cases That Haunt Us
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 384 pages
Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizi
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Maureen Callahan · 285 pages
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Jeff Guinn · 495 pages
Based on new interviews, this revealing account of one of the most notorious criminals in American history puts Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the 60s, revealing a rock star wannabe whose killings were directly related to his musical ambitions.
Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
John E. Douglas, Johnny Dodd · 344 pages
A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, sexually assaulting and strangling a series of women, taunting the police with frequent co
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
William J. Mann · 528 pages
Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, and the diverse cast that surrounded him before he was murdered in 1922-- including three beautiful, ambitious actresses, the ruthless founder of Paramount locked
Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer
David Reichert · 320 pages
The riveting personal account of one sheriffs epic hunt for America's most heinous serial killer. For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer--the most notorious serial killer in American history. He was the first detective on the case in 1982 and doggedly pursued it as the body count climbed to 49 and it became the most infamous unsolved cas
Jane: A Murder
Maggie Nelson · 200 pages
"In Jane, Maggie Nelson explores the life of her aunt, long assumed to be the third victim in a series of brutal rape-murders near the University of Michigan in the late 1960s. Born a few years later, Nelson never met her mother's sister, though she always felt drawn to her in ways she couldn't quite explain. At the age of twenty-three (the same age as Jane at the time of her murder), Nelson exper
Murder in Greenwich
Mark Fuhrman, Stephen Weeks · 432 pages
"The night of October 30, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned and stabbed ... The golf club that killed Martha came from the house of Thomas and Michael Skakel, two boys who had been with Martha the night she died. Wealthy and prominent in their own right, the Skakels were related to the Kennedys ... When the police started looking closely at the Skakels' involvement, the family re
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
Michael Capuzzo · 448 pages
Autobiographical The story of some retired Phila Detectives and Police and a Forensic sculptor. They solve cold cases and at the time of the writing were on the case of the Boy in the Box, which is a still unresolved murder or a still unknown boy found in 1957. This book also tells the story of the Vidocq Society as they are called
After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive
Lisa R. Cohen · 379 pages
On the morning of May 25, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz left his apartment to go to his school bus stop. It was the first time he walked the two short blocks on his own.But he never made it to school that day. He vanished somewhere between his home and the bus stop, and was never seen again.The search for Etan quickly consumed the downtown Manhattan neighborhood where his family lived. Soon afterwa
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson · 548 pages
Meet Lisbeth Salander - the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide. "As vivid as bloodstains on snow . . . a perfect introduction to the unique strengths of Scandinavian crime fiction"LEE CHILD Lisbeth Salander gets under the skin of her targets like no-one else. Those who underestimate her live to regret it. If they're lucky . . . Mikael Blomkvist - disgraced journalist
The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases
Deborah Halber · 304 pages
The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement -- and one another -- at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizar
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Paul French · 280 pages
On a frigid morning in January 1937, the mutilated body of a British schoolgirl is discovered at the base of the Fox Tower. Who could commit such a crime? Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumor and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through an already nervous Peking. Is it the
Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper
Geoffrey Gray · 319 pages
"Geoffrey Gray reopens one of the great unsolved criminal cases of the 20th century: the puzzling story of "D. B. Cooper," the only skyjacker never to be caught by authorities"--Provided by publisher.
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry · 676 pages
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? H
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
Stevie Cameron
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Truth
Lawrence Schiller · 621 pages
In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenet Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under the spotlight of public suspicion and an affluent, tranquil city torn apart by a crime it couldn't handle, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town uncovers the mysteries that have bewildered the nation.Why were the
Lethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
Nick Pron · 512 pages