53 books
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Serial Killer Books
Showing 1-50 of 11,098
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 367 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 592,096 ratings — published 2023
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 252 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.25 — 361,619 ratings — published 2016
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 206 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.79 — 117,427 ratings — published 2021
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 198 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.36 — 317,112 ratings — published 2016
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 194 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.51 — 291,025 ratings — published 2016
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 193 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.39 — 302,343 ratings — published 2016
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 191 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.55 — 300,666 ratings — published 2016
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 140 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 286,462 ratings — published 2024
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 136 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.26 — 585,327 ratings — published 1988
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.90 — 217,516 ratings — published 2004
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.07 — 370,653 ratings — published 1981
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 752,284 ratings — published 2003
There Is No Devil (Sinners, #2)
by (shelved 104 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.84 — 77,505 ratings — published 2021
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.97 — 588,209 ratings — published 2022
Marrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 96 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,208 ratings — published 2023
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 92 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.11 — 262,071 ratings — published 2018
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.64 — 346,541 ratings — published 2018
Black Sheep (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.95 — 16,227 ratings — published 2022
The Mindf*ck Series (Mindf*ck, #1-5)
by (shelved 80 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.61 — 102,068 ratings — published 2016
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,422,108 ratings — published 2005
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.86 — 55,587 ratings — published 2005
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 73 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.08 — 179,351 ratings — published 2025
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 193,278 ratings — published 2019
Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.11 — 189,832 ratings — published 2017
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,220 ratings — published 2007
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.80 — 358,095 ratings — published 1991
Born, Darkly (Darkly, Madly, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.63 — 18,770 ratings — published 2017
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.82 — 116,334 ratings — published 1999
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.94 — 855,861 ratings — published 2021
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.14 — 111,150 ratings — published 1980
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,207,692 ratings — published 2006
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.79 — 41,770 ratings — published 2009
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 42,928 ratings — published 2012
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
by (shelved 59 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.02 — 150,178 ratings — published 2007
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.99 — 221,816 ratings — published 2023
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.09 — 276,516 ratings — published 2016
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 175,559 ratings — published 2001
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.06 — 180,871 ratings — published 1994
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.03 — 254,713 ratings — published 1990
The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.23 — 108,685 ratings — published 1996
Under Your Scars (Under Your Scars, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,088 ratings — published 2023
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,053 ratings — published 2006
Lovely Bad Things (Hollow's Row, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.66 — 24,401 ratings — published 2022
Jar of Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.13 — 201,346 ratings — published 2018
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.54 — 54,047 ratings — published 2013
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.91 — 33,436 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.04 — 545,655 ratings — published 1985
The Blood We Crave: Part One (The Hollow Boys, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,062 ratings — published
Still Beating (ebook)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.20 — 226,862 ratings — published 2020
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.08 — 47,799 ratings — published 2019
“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
“Joe Hunt said he just kept shooting, a lot of times. He said that at one point Ron Levin's brain jumped out of his skull and fell on his chest. Joe seemed like he thought that was kind of neat in a weird way, as if it had surprised him. He was very casual when he was telling me all of this, matter-of-fact, except when he laughed about the brain.”
― The Price of Experience: Money, Power, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles
― The Price of Experience: Money, Power, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles












