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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 409 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 685,501 ratings — published 2023
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 279 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.24 — 429,319 ratings — published 2016
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 224 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.78 — 123,241 ratings — published 2021
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 218 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.35 — 374,394 ratings — published 2016
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 215 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.38 — 353,945 ratings — published 2016
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 211 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.50 — 339,513 ratings — published 2016
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 210 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.54 — 350,624 ratings — published 2016
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 170 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 339,026 ratings — published 2024
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 159 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.26 — 599,658 ratings — published 1988
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.90 — 225,675 ratings — published 2004
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.07 — 382,630 ratings — published 1981
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.96 — 642,490 ratings — published 2022
There Is No Devil (Sinners, #2)
by (shelved 111 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.83 — 81,504 ratings — published 2021
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 779,498 ratings — published 2003
Marrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 109 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,743 ratings — published 2023
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 97 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.07 — 224,655 ratings — published 2025
Born, Darkly (Darkly, Madly, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.63 — 27,020 ratings — published 2017
The Mindf*ck Series (Mindf*ck, #1-5)
by (shelved 93 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.61 — 121,220 ratings — published 2016
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.63 — 374,811 ratings — published 2018
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 — 270,895 ratings — published 2018
Black Sheep (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.95 — 17,868 ratings — published 2022
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,515,891 ratings — published 2005
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,527 ratings — published 2005
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 207,511 ratings — published 2019
Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 203,213 ratings — published 2017
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.08 — 314,282 ratings — published 2016
Under Your Scars (Under Your Scars, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.32 — 103,933 ratings — published 2023
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.94 — 961,715 ratings — published 2021
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.80 — 379,244 ratings — published 1991
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.12 — 115,110 ratings — published 2025
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.93 — 44,140 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.13 — 114,942 ratings — published 1980
The Fourth Monkey (4MK Thriller, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.25 — 99,008 ratings — published 2017
The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.28 — 44,772 ratings — published 2009
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 66 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.82 — 120,348 ratings — published 1999
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,273,051 ratings — published 2006
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.79 — 42,831 ratings — published 2009
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.02 — 268,506 ratings — published 1990
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,787 ratings — published 2012
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
by (shelved 61 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.03 — 155,705 ratings — published 2007
The Doomsday Butcher (Cole Chambers FBI Profiler Thrillers #1)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,346 ratings — published
Lovely Bad Things (Hollow's Row, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.65 — 26,451 ratings — published 2022
Too Old for This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.78 — 57,850 ratings — published 2025
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.10 — 180,909 ratings — published 2001
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.98 — 245,700 ratings — published 2023
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.06 — 184,440 ratings — published 1994
Jar of Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.13 — 244,254 ratings — published 2018
Still Beating (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.19 — 267,634 ratings — published 2020
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,480 ratings — published 2006
All the Sinners Bleed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killer)
avg rating 4.19 — 146,274 ratings — published 2023
“It doesn't escape him that the rock holding it up is the perfect fit for his fist. Or how easily one of those needle spokes would slide right through the girl's eye like Jell-O.”
― The Shining Girls
― The Shining Girls
“He should have recognized that what really fascinated him was the hunt, the adventure of searching out his victims. And, to a degree, possessing them physically, as one would possess a potted plant, a painting or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.”
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