18 books like Born Killers

What to read after Born Killers — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Outlaws

Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.

Nice Girl

Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.

Serial Killers Up Close and Very Personal Victoria Redstall · 2011 Shares Serial murderers, True Crime with this book.

The Fourth Monkey

The Fourth Monkey J. D. Barker · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called, "A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind." For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which proves he has taken another victim who may… Shares Serial murderers

Things a Killer Would Know Paula Doneman · 2006 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A no-holds-barred account of the deadly rampage of rapist and serial killer, Leonard Fraser.In April, 1999, schoolgirl Keyra Steinhardt was bashed, raped and murdered in a brazen daylight attack as she walked home from school in the central Queensland town of Rockhampton. The disappearance of Keyra made international headlines as the community and law enforcement officers hunted for the… Shares Serial murderers, True Crime

Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares True Crime with this book.

There But For the Grace of God Fred Rosen · 2007 · ★ 3.0 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate They stared into the faces of pure evil . . . and survived!Ted Bundy . . . Jeffrey Dahmer . . .David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz . . . Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer . . .These are some of the names that strike terror into even the bravest of hearts. Human monsters, they preyed upon the unsuspecting, freely feeding their terrible hungers. Their crimes were unspeakable, as they maimed, tortured, killed,… Shares Serial murderers, True Crime

Invisible Darkness Stephen Williams · 1996 · ★ 4.0 Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and… Shares True Crime

Vargulf

Vargulf Tim Garrity · 2009 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Moderate When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in Boston's historic North End Detectives Ed Fischer and John Nadeau are called in to investigate. Despite the brutality of the crime, there are no leads and it appears to be an isolated incident. However, a second murder just twenty-four hours later in Boston's Backbay Fens seems eerily similar and the victims appear to be linked. Before the… Shares Serial murderers

Portrait of a Killer Patricia Cornwell · 1960 · ★ 3.5 · 391p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer - Jack the Ripper.". "For over a hundred years the murders have remained among the world's greatest unsolved crimes, and a wealth… Shares Serial murderers, True Crime

Seven Bones

Seven Bones Peter Seymour · 2011 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares True Crime with this book.

The True Face of Jack the Ripper Melvin Harris · 1994 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Melvin Harris, the man chiefly responsible for exposing the "Ripper Diary", now reveals the true face of Jack the Ripper. Harris disposes of all previous candidates and by using FBI techniques he tells the story of how he tracked down the real Ripper. He came to the conclusion that Robert D'Onston Stephenson was a likely suspect for the murders Shares Serial murderers, True Crime

Serial Killers Peter Vronsky · 2004 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Serial murderers, True Crime with this book.

The complete Jack the Ripper Donald Rumbelow · 1975 · ★ 3.9 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow's The Complete Jack the Ripper... It is 1888 in London's Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered. Opium smoking Inspector Fred Abberline is called upon to investigate these horrific murders and through his visions track down and trap Jack the Ripper. David Rumbelow's… Shares Serial murderers, True Crime

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares True Crime

The midnight assassin Skip Hollandsworth · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Serial murderers, True Crime with this book. Shares Serial murderers, True Crime

Killing for Sport Pat Brown · 2003 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate While other profilers tend to conceal the clear facts behind complex technical language and psychobabble, Pat Brown actually tells it like it is. Killing for Sport will intrigue you with its honest portrayal of the predator-next-door, how he hunts for him victims, why he likes to torture them, where he tends to stash their bodies, and more. Movies such as Silence of the Lambs, Seven, American… Shares Serial murderers, True Crime

Guilty of Nothing Kevin King · 2008 · 70p · ≈ 2h · Light Shares Serial murderers with this book.

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