Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman · 289 pages

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

The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story

Ann Rule · 512 pages

There are actually two stories here: one describes the gradual disintegration of a seemingly normal, affable, brilliant man into a sexual psychopath so evil, so methodical in his vicious killings, that one wonders if he was at all human. The other story is that of Ann Rule herself, a decent, hard-working, middle-aged mother of four who meets and befriends a nice young man working beside her in a c

The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

Douglas Starr

This book is a riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics. At the end of the 19th century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as "The Killer of Little Shepherds," terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era's most renowned criminologist. The

The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers

Harold Schechter · 426 pages

THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY'S MOST HEINOUS!Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can't hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Deprave

The Jigsaw Man

Paul Britton · 565 pages

An appalling, self-serving book full of pop-psychology and in some cases downright false claims. For instance, Britton tries to play down his role in the investigation of Colin Stagg in the Rachel Nickell case, despite the fact that he was advising the police even while they were interviewing Stagg at the time of his first arrest. An update on the Rachel Nickell case – in the form of an audiob

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

The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Serial Killers

Stephen G. Michaud · 307 pages

Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest, most dangerous of all aberrant offenders - the sexual criminal. In a career spent investigating and studying these macabre outlaws, Hazelwood has encountered every type, from sexual sadists to serial rapists. His cases have ranged from autoerotic deaths to staged suicides, and have included famous investigations from Toronto's

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

Peter Vronsky · 422 pages

Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling

Michael Cannell · 304 pages

Documents the nearly two-decade manhunt for a serial bomber in mid-twentieth-century New York, citing the contributions of police captain Howard Finney and psychiatrist James Brussel in developing investigative techniques that would shape new approaches in American law enforcement.

Columbine

Dave Cullen · 417 pages

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat

Cross and Burn

Val McDermid · 464 pages

The crime fighting team of clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan investigate a serial killer who is targeting women who look suspiciously like Carol. "A killer is on the loose, a killer who threatens both Tony and Carol but in very different ways" -- from author's web page. The crime fighting team of clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan in

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote · 343 pages

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

The 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 Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare

Don Davis · 320 pages

John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

Sam L. Amirante, Dan Broderick

Huntress Moon

Alexandra Sokoloff · 382 pages

The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

Michael Newton

The 7th Victim

Alan Jacobson

The Dead Eyes Killer lurks in the backyard of the famed FBI Profiling Unit. His brutal murders, unlike any others previously seen, confound the local task force, despite the gifted profiling skills of Special Agent Karen Vail. But along with Vail's insight and expertise comes considerable personal and professional baggage. On leave pending a review of her assault on her abusive ex-husband, Vail mu

The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

Claudia Rowe · 288 pages

Say Goodbye

Lisa Gardner · 360 pages

Lisa Gardner, the New York Times bestselling author of Hide and Gone, draws us into the venomous mind games of her most terrifying killer yet.Come into my parlor . . .For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be true--but prostitutes are disappearing, one by one, with no explanation, and

Hunted

Elizabeth Heiter · 400 pages

Terror stalks a small Virginia town. FBI rising star, criminal profiler Evelyn Baine, knows how to think like a serial killer. But she's never chased anyone like the Bakersville Burier, who hunts young women and displays them, half-buried, deep in the woods. As the body count climbs, Evelyn's relentless pursuit of the killer puts her career'and her life'at risk. And the evil lurking in the Burier'

Stranded

Alex Kava · 323 pages

Discovering the remains of a young woman in a highway ditch, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell and her partner, Tully, embark on a frantic cross-country effort to capture a serial killer who is targeting truckers and travelers at rest stops.

Red Dragon

Thomas Harris · 353 pages

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Feed your fears with this terrifying classic that introduced cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter. FBI agent Will Graham once risked his sanity to capture Hannibal Lecter, an ingenious killer like no other. Now, he’s following the bloodstained pattern of the Tooth Fairy, a madman who’s already wiped out two families. To find him, Graham has to underst