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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 202 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 681,671 ratings — published 2023
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 161 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.26 — 598,908 ratings — published 1988
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 778,241 ratings — published 2003
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 382,016 ratings — published 1981
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 114,749 ratings — published 1980
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 123 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.11 — 270,458 ratings — published 2018
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.90 — 225,407 ratings — published 2004
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.80 — 378,051 ratings — published 1991
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.09 — 85,890 ratings — published 1995
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,748 ratings — published 2012
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.63 — 372,853 ratings — published 2018
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 85 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 337,006 ratings — published 2024
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 84 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.82 — 120,137 ratings — published 1999
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 80 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,432 ratings — published 2005
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.24 — 424,684 ratings — published 2016
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.79 — 42,786 ratings — published 2009
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,353 ratings — published 2012
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,128 ratings — published 1974
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 51,526 ratings — published 2019
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 44,099 ratings — published 2007
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,511,249 ratings — published 2005
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,209 ratings — published
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.35 — 370,466 ratings — published 2016
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.38 — 350,578 ratings — published 2016
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,415 ratings — published 2006
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 222,986 ratings — published 2025
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,411 ratings — published 1989
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,052 ratings — published 2004
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.96 — 640,494 ratings — published 2022
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.54 — 347,270 ratings — published 2016
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.08 — 312,182 ratings — published 2016
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,377 ratings — published 1986
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,048 ratings — published 2004
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.23 — 398,377 ratings — published 2013
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.55 — 55,195 ratings — published 2013
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,411 ratings — published 1992
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,009 ratings — published 1996
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 205,886 ratings — published 2019
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.29 — 276 ratings — published 1988
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.50 — 336,414 ratings — published 2016
Game (I Hunt Killers, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,991 ratings — published 2013
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 44 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,527 ratings — published 2008
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.12 — 112,256 ratings — published 2025
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,757 ratings — published 2007
Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.56 — 55,396 ratings — published 2006
The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,816 ratings — published 2003
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.49 — 196,888 ratings — published 2021
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.78 — 123,020 ratings — published 2021
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.04 — 578,983 ratings — published 1985
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 184,149 ratings — published 1994
“Joe “Hunt” Gamsky still purports to be a devotee of Yogananda and is visited occasionally by members of Ananda Church of Self-Realization. I wonder, if they or anyone ever asks Joe how it felt to strangle poor little Richard Mayer; Or how he feels about getting away with that now?”
― The Price of Experience
― The Price of Experience
“My best advice to myself was to act like I’d been there before. I was in way over my head, and I was not skating down the line between good and bad anymore. I tried to justify my actions by reminding myself that it was part of my investigation but even I couldn’t fool myself that much.
I drained my glass and then drained the one that Sara handed me. In no way, was this evening turning out to have career building opportunity written on it. I was getting more nervous by the minute.”
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I drained my glass and then drained the one that Sara handed me. In no way, was this evening turning out to have career building opportunity written on it. I was getting more nervous by the minute.”
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