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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 203 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 702,866 ratings — published 2023
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 164 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.26 — 604,249 ratings — published 1988
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 785,723 ratings — published 2003
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 142 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 386,190 ratings — published 1981
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 115,940 ratings — published 1980
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,775 ratings — published 2004
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 123 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.11 — 273,261 ratings — published 2018
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.80 — 384,272 ratings — published 1991
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,148 ratings — published 1995
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.63 — 384,192 ratings — published 2018
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,931 ratings — published 2012
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 85 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 348,558 ratings — published 2024
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
by (shelved 85 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.82 — 121,372 ratings — published 1999
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 80 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,903 ratings — published 2005
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.24 — 446,793 ratings — published 2016
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.79 — 43,092 ratings — published 2009
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,682 ratings — published 2012
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,016 ratings — published 1974
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 52,454 ratings — published 2019
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 44,293 ratings — published 2007
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,537,022 ratings — published 2005
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,288 ratings — published
Sidetracked (Mindf*ck, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.35 — 390,065 ratings — published 2016
A Flicker in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.96 — 653,961 ratings — published 2022
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.38 — 369,278 ratings — published 2016
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.07 — 232,511 ratings — published 2025
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,519 ratings — published 1989
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,799 ratings — published 2006
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,086 ratings — published 2004
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.08 — 325,144 ratings — published 2016
Paint It All Red (Mindf*ck, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.54 — 363,165 ratings — published 2016
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,639 ratings — published 1986
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,850 ratings — published 1996
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,327 ratings — published 2004
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.00 — 222,625 ratings — published 2019
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.23 — 419,165 ratings — published 2013
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.55 — 55,480 ratings — published 2013
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,532 ratings — published 1992
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.10 — 128,015 ratings — published 2025
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.50 — 352,404 ratings — published 2016
The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.28 — 278 ratings — published 1988
Game (I Hunt Killers, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,093 ratings — published 2013
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 44 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,785 ratings — published 2008
Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.56 — 56,024 ratings — published 2006
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.78 — 124,274 ratings — published 2021
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,852 ratings — published 2007
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 4.07 — 4,832 ratings — published 2003
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 3.49 — 201,823 ratings — published 2021
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.04 — 589,597 ratings — published 1985
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as serial-killers)
avg rating 4.06 — 185,451 ratings — published 1994
“Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream. -Ted Bundy”
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“Empathy is overrated.”
― Heaven's Captives: A Psychological Horror Thriller
― Heaven's Captives: A Psychological Horror Thriller
