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Serial Killer Books
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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 394 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 655,419 ratings — published 2023
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 265 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.25 — 399,443 ratings — published 2016
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 216 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.78 — 121,337 ratings — published 2021
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 208 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.36 — 349,186 ratings — published 2016
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 204 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.38 — 331,466 ratings — published 2016
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 203 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.51 — 319,062 ratings — published 2016
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 200 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.55 — 329,667 ratings — published 2016
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 159 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 322,604 ratings — published 2024
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 137 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.26 — 594,053 ratings — published 1988
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.90 — 223,144 ratings — published 2004
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.07 — 378,291 ratings — published 1981
There Is No Devil (Sinners, #2)
by (shelved 111 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,222 ratings — published 2021
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 769,988 ratings — published 2003
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.97 — 624,582 ratings — published 2022
Marrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,220 ratings — published 2023
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 91 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.11 — 267,715 ratings — published 2018
The Mindf*ck Series (Mindf*ck, #1-5)
by (shelved 90 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.61 — 114,138 ratings — published 2016
Black Sheep (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 88 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.96 — 17,319 ratings — published 2022
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.63 — 364,941 ratings — published 2018
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 86 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.08 — 210,592 ratings — published 2025
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,484,968 ratings — published 2005
Born, Darkly (Darkly, Madly, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.63 — 25,369 ratings — published 2017
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,881 ratings — published 2005
Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 198,362 ratings — published 2017
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 199,844 ratings — published 2019
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,783 ratings — published 2007
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,423 ratings — published 1991
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.94 — 924,677 ratings — published 2021
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.14 — 113,574 ratings — published 1980
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 65 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.82 — 118,873 ratings — published 1999
Under Your Scars (Under Your Scars, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.33 — 93,191 ratings — published 2023
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.79 — 42,467 ratings — published 2009
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,250,259 ratings — published 2006
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.03 — 263,381 ratings — published 1990
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.03 — 153,765 ratings — published 2007
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,428 ratings — published 2012
Lovely Bad Things (Hollow's Row, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.65 — 25,798 ratings — published 2022
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 178,842 ratings — published 2001
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.98 — 236,216 ratings — published 2023
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.09 — 299,518 ratings — published 2016
Too Old for This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.79 — 48,351 ratings — published 2025
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.06 — 182,722 ratings — published 1994
Jar of Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.13 — 228,583 ratings — published 2018
The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.23 — 110,820 ratings — published 1996
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,987 ratings — published 2006
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.14 — 91,496 ratings — published 2025
Still Beating (ebook)
by (shelved 51 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.19 — 255,177 ratings — published 2020
Pretty Monster (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.88 — 34,942 ratings — published 2023
The Blood We Crave: Part One (The Hollow Boys, #3)
by (shelved 49 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,262 ratings — published
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 — 50,381 ratings — published 2019
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“For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.”
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“I don't laugh very much," he said, realizing the truth of the statement as he made it, this sudden bit of knowledge disturbing him.”
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