Serial Killers

According to the FBI, a serial killer is someone who murders at least three people with significant pauses between incidents. In general, serial killers work alone and kill strangers.

Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
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Crime Thrillers (TO READ)
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YA Serial Killers
66 books — 34 voters

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Jack the Ripper in YA Fiction
16 books — 22 voters
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Fall 2023 True Crime Picks
10 books — 2 voters


We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.
Ted Bundy

Barry Lyga
Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'" Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero! ...more
Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers - Free Preview (The First 10 Chapters): with Bonus Prequel Short Story "Career Day"

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