AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Dear Killer

Katherine Ewell · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

Do Not Disturb

A.R. Torre · 374 pages

"Too much of a good thing can kill you ... I broke the rules. I left, I killed, I loved it. But it was for a good cause, so that should count for something, right? But it wasn't enough. I'm afraid it will never be enough. Now that taste of freedom, of normalcy, calls to me. But so does the blood.."--

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerMorally Gray CharacterPsychological Thriller
❤️

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeff Lindsay · 304 pages

Kriminalroman. Miamipolitiet og politiofficer Deborah Morgan prøver at finde en seriemorder. Deborah håber sagen vil fremme hendes karrieremuligheder, og hun får hjælp af sin bror Dexter, der arbejder for politiet. Han er også seriemorder - men det er ikke ham, sagen drejer sig om

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerPsychological ThrillerMorally Gray Character
❤️

Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom

Tsugumi Ohba · 200 pages

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legen

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerPsychological ThrillerMorally Gray Character
❤️

The Wicked Heart

Christopher Pike · 244 pages

He did not want to kill. Dusty Shame was a high school senior, and a serial killer. Already he has murdered three young women, and he has more planned. Yet Dusty did not want to hurt anybody. There was something inside him, or perhaps outside him, that compelled him to kill. Sheila Hardolt has lost her best friend to Dusty's insane attacks. It will be her task to probe the clues Dusty has left

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerPsychological ThrillerDark
❤️

Tenderness

Robert Cormier · 229 pages

Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his parents. Now he's looking for tenderness--tenderness he finds in killing girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive and sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness that she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other's salvation or destruction?

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerPsychological ThrillerDark
❤️

Hidden Bodies

Caroline Kepnes · 448 pages

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerPsychological ThrillerDark
🙂

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 297 pages

WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her legSince she left town eight years a

Serial KillerMorally Gray CharacterPsychological ThrillerThriller
🙂

Normal

Graeme Cameron · 303 pages

He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you, waving to let you into the lane ahead of him. He also has an elaborate cage in a secret basement under his garage. The food he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will -- one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her. This is how it's been for a long time. It's normal ... and it wo

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerPsychological ThrillerDark
🙂

The Eyes Are the Best Part

Monika Kim · 304 pages

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerFirst Person NarratorThriller
🙂

Over Your Dead Body

Dan Wells · 303 pages

**JOHN AND BROOKE ARE ON THEIR OWN,** hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest--but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use. Meanwhile, Brooke's fractured

Morally Gray CharacterSerial KillerTeen ProtagonistDark
🙂

Blood Sugar

Sascha Rothchild · 336 pages

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterPsychological ThrillerThriller
🙂

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel)

Suzanne Collins · 528 pages

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterDarkTeen Protagonist
🙂

Ripley's Game

Patricia Highsmith · 267 pages

Mr. Ripley emerges from retirement to preside over one last deadly game, but can he persuade an innocent man to commit murder?

Villain ProtagonistPsychological ThrillerMorally Gray CharacterDark
🙂

The Cleaner

Paul Cleave · 407 pages

Three-letter word for omniscient being, middle letter 0 ... Joe. After all, Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, including both his day job at the police department and his 'night work'. Nor is he bothered by the daily news reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, murdered seven women. But Joe knows the Carver only killed six. He knows that for a fact. And Joe is going to

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerDarkThriller
🙂

The Young Elites

Marie Lu · 392 pages

I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel fat

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterDarkYoung Adult
🙂

Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy

Brynne Weaver · 351 pages

Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, o

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerMorally Gray CharacterDark
🙂

Hannibal

Thomas Harris · 546 pages

Sequel to: [The Silence of the Lambs][1] Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall. In one of the most eagerly anticipa

Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerPsychological ThrillerDark
🙂

Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 4

Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata · 416 pages

**Contains Volumes 7 and 8 of Death Note!** Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Will Light's noble goal succ

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterSerial KillerTeen Protagonist
🙂
Villain ProtagonistSerial KillerDarkLondon
🙂

The Coldest Winter Ever

Sister Souljah · 360 pages

A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller “50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —Essence Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The instant classic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel. I came busting into the worl

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterDarkFirst Person Narrator
🙂

Monsters

Emerald Fennell

Psychological ThrillerMorally Gray CharacterTeen ProtagonistDark
🙂

The Kind Worth Killing

Peter Swanson · 320 pages

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterPsychological ThrillerDark
🙂

As Good as Dead: The Finale to a Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 480 pages

An amazing thriller part of the 3 part series, and the final book. the main character, Pip Fitz-Amobi is about to head to college, but she is still daunted by the results of her previous investigations regarding other crimes (see *a good girls guide to murder*, and *as good as dead*). These days, she is death threats in the wake of her well known-true-crime podcast, but she can't help noticing an

Serial KillerMorally Gray CharacterDarkYoung Adult
🙂

The Silent Wife

A.S.A. Harrison · 331 pages

Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They've been together for twenty-eight years, and with no children to worry about there has been little to disrupt their affluent Chicago lifestyle. But there has also been little to hold it together, and beneath the surface lie ever-widening cracks. When it becomes clear that their precarious world could disintegrate at any mo

Villain ProtagonistMorally Gray CharacterPsychological ThrillerDark

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.