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Serial Killer Books
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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 384 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 635,166 ratings — published 2023
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 258 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.25 — 383,632 ratings — published 2016
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 214 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.78 — 120,032 ratings — published 2021
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 202 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.36 — 336,465 ratings — published 2016
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 198 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.38 — 320,555 ratings — published 2016
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 197 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.51 — 308,506 ratings — published 2016
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 195 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.55 — 318,629 ratings — published 2016
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 149 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 310,875 ratings — published 2024
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 137 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.26 — 591,050 ratings — published 1988
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.90 — 220,738 ratings — published 2004
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.07 — 375,714 ratings — published 1981
There Is No Devil (Sinners, #2)
by (shelved 111 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,317 ratings — published 2021
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 764,145 ratings — published 2003
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.97 — 612,646 ratings — published 2022
Marrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 100 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,847 ratings — published 2023
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 92 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.11 — 265,845 ratings — published 2018
Black Sheep (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,975 ratings — published 2022
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.64 — 358,175 ratings — published 2018
The Mindf*ck Series (Mindf*ck, #1-5)
by (shelved 85 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.61 — 109,166 ratings — published 2016
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,465,769 ratings — published 2005
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 82 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.08 — 200,703 ratings — published 2025
Born, Darkly (Darkly, Madly, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.63 — 23,846 ratings — published 2017
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,425 ratings — published 2005
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 197,351 ratings — published 2019
Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 195,539 ratings — published 2017
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,580 ratings — published 2007
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.80 — 366,405 ratings — published 1991
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.14 — 112,721 ratings — published 1980
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.94 — 903,131 ratings — published 2021
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,236,223 ratings — published 2006
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.79 — 42,183 ratings — published 2009
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.82 — 117,967 ratings — published 1999
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.03 — 152,400 ratings — published 2007
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,254 ratings — published 2012
Under Your Scars (Under Your Scars, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.34 — 84,696 ratings — published
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.03 — 258,174 ratings — published 1990
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 177,662 ratings — published 2001
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.98 — 229,842 ratings — published 2023
Lovely Bad Things (Hollow's Row, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.65 — 25,309 ratings — published 2022
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.09 — 291,200 ratings — published 2016
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.06 — 182,051 ratings — published 1994
The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.23 — 110,053 ratings — published 1996
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,681 ratings — published 2006
Too Old for This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.80 — 41,012 ratings — published 2025
Jar of Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.13 — 218,531 ratings — published 2018
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.08 — 49,539 ratings — published 2019
The Blood We Crave: Part One (The Hollow Boys, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,431 ratings — published
Still Beating (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.19 — 244,866 ratings — published 2020
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.54 — 54,512 ratings — published 2013
The Fourth Monkey (4MK Thriller, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,396 ratings — published 2017
“Always make people feel like they're the ones in control. It will make it all the more tempting when they realize, they're not.”
― Killer of Mine
― Killer of Mine
“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho












