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Serial Killers Books
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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 188 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 601,328 ratings — published 2023
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 159 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.26 — 586,584 ratings — published 1988
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 754,764 ratings — published 2003
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 371,651 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 4.14 — 111,526 ratings — published 1980
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.90 — 218,081 ratings — published 2004
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 120 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.11 — 262,929 ratings — published 2018
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 42,981 ratings — published 2012
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.80 — 359,861 ratings — published 1991
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.09 — 81,974 ratings — published 1995
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.64 — 349,559 ratings — published 2018
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 82 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.82 — 116,687 ratings — published 1999
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 80 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,775 ratings — published 2005
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 74 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 291,961 ratings — published 2024
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.79 — 41,849 ratings — published 2009
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 33,528 ratings — published 2012
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.25 — 365,609 ratings — published 2016
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,731 ratings — published 1974
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,279 ratings — published 2007
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.08 — 48,166 ratings — published 2019
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,430,321 ratings — published 2005
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,894 ratings — published
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,932 ratings — published 1989
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,193 ratings — published 2006
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,975 ratings — published 2004
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.36 — 320,708 ratings — published 2016
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.97 — 592,727 ratings — published 2022
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 49 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.39 — 305,758 ratings — published 2016
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.09 — 279,178 ratings — published 2016
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.17 — 363 ratings — published 1988
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,248 ratings — published 2004
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.08 — 184,635 ratings — published 2025
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,381 ratings — published 1986
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.55 — 304,024 ratings — published 2016
Game (I Hunt Killers, #2)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,695 ratings — published 2013
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.54 — 54,137 ratings — published 2013
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,838 ratings — published 1992
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 44 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,429 ratings — published 2008
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 194,117 ratings — published 2019
Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.56 — 53,466 ratings — published 2006
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.51 — 294,233 ratings — published 2016
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 330,387 ratings — published 2013
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 4.08 — 4,756 ratings — published 2003
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,627 ratings — published 1996
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,453 ratings — published 2007
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 181,135 ratings — published 1994
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.79 — 118,009 ratings — published 2021
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.50 — 183,165 ratings — published 2021
Blood of My Blood (I Hunt Killers, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,221 ratings — published 2014
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.04 — 548,908 ratings — published 1985
“I’m just saying that statistically, a psychopath is more likely to end up as a CEO than a serial killer.”
― The Naturals
― The Naturals
“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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