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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 421 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 708,853 ratings — published 2023
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 286 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.24 — 452,506 ratings — published 2016
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 228 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.78 — 124,542 ratings — published 2021
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 222 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.35 — 394,784 ratings — published 2016
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 217 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.37 — 373,728 ratings — published 2016
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 212 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.54 — 367,289 ratings — published 2016
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 212 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.50 — 357,112 ratings — published 2016
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 172 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 351,421 ratings — published 2024
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 160 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.26 — 606,030 ratings — published 1988
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.90 — 227,183 ratings — published 2004
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.07 — 387,327 ratings — published 1981
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.96 — 657,718 ratings — published 2022
There Is No Devil (Sinners, #2)
by (shelved 113 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,412 ratings — published 2021
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 787,472 ratings — published 2003
Marrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 111 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,178 ratings — published 2023
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 101 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.07 — 234,821 ratings — published 2025
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.63 — 386,891 ratings — published 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 94 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.11 — 274,439 ratings — published 2018
Black Sheep (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 93 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.95 — 18,235 ratings — published 2022
Born, Darkly (Darkly, Madly, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.63 — 28,286 ratings — published 2017
The Mindf*ck Series (Mindf*ck, #1-5)
by (shelved 93 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.61 — 127,014 ratings — published 2016
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,542,624 ratings — published 2005
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 225,512 ratings — published 2019
Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 207,101 ratings — published 2017
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.87 — 58,040 ratings — published 2005
Under Your Scars (Under Your Scars, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.31 — 112,303 ratings — published 2023
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.08 — 328,929 ratings — published 2016
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 131,561 ratings — published 2025
The Fourth Monkey (4MK Thriller, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.24 — 105,825 ratings — published 2017
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.80 — 385,875 ratings — published 1991
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.93 — 996,430 ratings — published 2021
The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.28 — 46,586 ratings — published 2009
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.93 — 44,350 ratings — published 2007
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.82 — 121,721 ratings — published 1999
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.13 — 116,196 ratings — published 1980
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,292,178 ratings — published 2006
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.02 — 271,575 ratings — published 1990
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.03 — 157,891 ratings — published 2007
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.79 — 43,180 ratings — published 2009
The Doomsday Butcher (Cole Chambers FBI Profiler Thrillers #1)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,247 ratings — published
Too Old for This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.77 — 64,185 ratings — published 2025
Lovely Bad Things (Hollow's Row, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.64 — 27,100 ratings — published 2022
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 44,009 ratings — published 2012
Jar of Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.12 — 257,831 ratings — published 2018
All the Sinners Bleed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.19 — 154,476 ratings — published 2023
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 182,822 ratings — published 2001
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.06 — 185,703 ratings — published 1994
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.98 — 251,438 ratings — published 2023
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 57 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,906 ratings — published 2006
The Quiet Tenant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.81 — 161,277 ratings — published 2023
“Shower while there were two dead bodies in the bathtub, and he was sane. He drilled holes in the heads of living people to make them his unresisting companions, and he was sane. He ate a bicep which he fried in a skillet, tenderised and sprinkled with sauce, and he was sane. For hours he lay with corpses, hugging them, cherishing them, and he was sane. He kept eleven assorted heads and skulls, and two complete skeletons, for eventual use in a home-made temple, and he was sane.”
― The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
― The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
“She was sitting at the kitchen table, naked. She had a chopper in her right hand. Her left hand was flat on the able in front of her. She’d chopped off her thumb, index and middle fingers. They were in a neat row on the table, which was thick with dark blood.”
― Of Darkness and Light
― Of Darkness and Light
