18 books like The slave next door

What to read after The slave next door — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Nice Girl

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

Outlaws

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

The house of the prophet Louis Auchincloss · 1980 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares 18.06 Anglo-American literature with this book.

No way of knowing Pamela Donovan · 2003 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares True Crime, General with this book.

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

Death's Shadow Jon Wells · 2013 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares True Crime, General with this book.

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Tress of the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson · 2023 · ★ 4.4 · 551p · ≈ 18h · Moderate \#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Narrated by Michael Kramer. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from… Shares General

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

Car crime Claire Corbett · 2003 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares True Crime, General with this book.

Live from Golgotha Gore Vidal · 1992 · ★ 3.6 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus.… Shares 18.06 Anglo-American literature

Murder in America Stephen T. Holmes · 1994 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "A major revision of the best-selling Murder in America, this Second Edition examines both common and unusual acts of homicide in light of society's changing norms, values, attitudes, and customs. The authors, Ronald and Stephen Holmes, have worked with numerous police departments on more than 300 murder and rape cases. They have authored a variety of books and written many articles addressing… Shares True Crime, General

Bringing Adam home Les Standiford · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This is the story of an unfathomable crime that would forever embed itself into the collective American psyche and lead to sweeping legislative changes in the way that missing person cases are handled. In 1981, Adam Walsh was a healthy and bright 6 1/2 year old boy with his entire life ahead of him. On the afternoon of July 27th, Adam accompanied his mom, Revé, to the local Sears department store… Shares True Crime, General

Human Trafficking and Human Security

Human Trafficking and Human Security Anna Jonsson · 2008 · ★ 1.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This text examines human trafficking from post-Soviet countries, exploring the full extent of the problem and discussing countermeasures, both local and at the global level, and considering the problem in all its aspects. Shares Human trafficking, True Crime, General

Seven Bones

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

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

Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England Randall Martin · 2007 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares True Crime, General with this book.

I'll Haunt You! Shannon Knudsen · 2014 · 24p · ≈ 48m · Light Shares General with this book.

Genocidal crimes Alex Alvarez · 2009 · 12p · ≈ 24m · Light Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century. While many individuals are familiar with the term, few people have a clear understanding of what genocide is and how it is carried out. Discusses the concept of genocide and dispels the widely held misconceptions about how these crimes occur and the mechanisms necessary for its perpetration. Relies upon the… Shares True Crime, General

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