Books like 'A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy'
Readers who enjoyed A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy by Kathy Kleiner Rubin & Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Senseless & Merciless Bundle by Mary Burton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSenseless & Merciless Bundle Senseless Every Serial Killer Knows. . . The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again. . . The Perfect Time. . -
![Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll]()
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAn extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity serial killer in his final murderous spree.January 1978. A serial killer has terrorized women across the Pacific Northwest, but his existence couldn’t be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University’s campus in Tallahassee... -
![The Gold Digger by Liz Tolsma]()
The Gold Digger by Liz Tolsma
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMen Are Disappearing in LaPorte, IndianaIn 1907, shy but loyal Ingrid Storset travels from Norway to support her grieving sister, Belle Gunness, who owns a farm in LaPorte, Indiana. Well-to-do widow Belle, who has lost two husbands and several children, provides Ingrid with enough money to start a small business... -
![The Jane Austen Murders by Jean G. Goodhind]()
The Jane Austen Murders by Jean G. Goodhind
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOriginally published as Killing Jane Austen.Honey Driver is thrilled when members of a film crew check in to her hotel. They offer her work as an extra in their sumptuous new flick about Jane Austen.Honey jumps at the chance — any excuse to don a corset and a frilly bonnet — but soon finds out showbiz isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The cameras have barely begun to roll when . . -
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![The Unclaimed Victim by D.M. Pulley]()
The Unclaimed Victim by D.M. Pulley
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLiving decades apart, two women get caught in the web of an infamous serial killer. In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city... -
![The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman]()
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFact, fiction, and urban legend blend in this haunting story about a young woman mistakenly imprisoned at Willowbrook State School, the real-life institution later shuttered for its horrendous abuses.Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins... -
![The Savage Instinct by Marjorie DeLuca, M.M. DeLuca]()
The Savage Instinct by Marjorie DeLuca, M.M. DeLuca
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEngland, 1873. Clara Blackstone has just been released after one year in a private asylum for the insane. Clara has two goals: to reunite with her husband, Henry, and to never—ever—return to the asylum... -
![The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna]()
The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis novel brings back to life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great character in atmospheric Victorian London as he is faced with a crisis of conscience when confronted with disclosing the identity of Jack the Ripper. "Intriguing and chilling".--New York Times Book Review... -
![Bluebeard by Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell]()
Bluebeard by Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA NEW THRILLER BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF LA’S FIRST KNOWN SERIAL KILLERIn 1919, Kathryn Wombacher finds a lonely-hearts ad placed by one Walter Andrew:"Would be pleased to correspond with a refined young lady or widow. Object, matrimony."Kathryn and Walter fall in love and marry within weeks... -
![A Wicked Snow (Emily Kenyon #3) by Gregg Olsen, Kevin Foley]()
A Wicked Snow (Emily Kenyon #3) by Gregg Olsen, Kevin Foley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHannah Griffin was a girl when tragedy struck on her family's farm. She still remembers the flames reflected against the newly fallen snow and the bodies the police dug upone of them her mother's. It was the nation's worst murder scene in decades and the killer was never found. Two decades later Hannah is a CSI investigating a case of child abuse when the past comes hurtling back... -
![The Perfect Place to Die by Bryce Moore]()
The Perfect Place to Die by Bryce Moore
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStalking Jack the Ripper meets Devil in the White City. In order to save her sister, Zuretta takes a job at a notorious house of horrors—but she might never escape. Zuretta never thought she’d encounter a monster—one of the world’s most notorious serial killers. She had resigned herself to a quiet life in Utah... -
![All The Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce]()
All The Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound by butchery and obscured by the shadows of American history.The winds shift nervously on the Kansas plain whispering of travelers lost and buried, whispering of witches. Something dark and twisted has taken root at the Bender Inn... -
![The Secrets of Lizzie Borden by Brandy Purdy]()
The Secrets of Lizzie Borden by Brandy Purdy
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn her enthralling, richly imagined new novel, Brandy Purdy, author of The Ripper’s Wife, creates a compelling portrait of the real, complex woman behind an unthinkable crime. Lizzie Borden should be one of the most fortunate young women in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her wealthy father could easily afford to provide his daughters with fashionable clothes, travel, and a rich, cultured life... -
![Lizzie by Evan Hunter]()
Lizzie by Evan Hunter
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fascinating novel of a passionate woman, freed of history and legend but trapped by a shocking secret, and the final uncompromising act of a murderous heart... -
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![American Gothic by Robert Bloch]()
American Gothic by Robert Bloch
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Castle: it looms over the streets of modern Chicago. Its stone walls conceal a maze of secret passageways and hidden rooms, private laboratories and concealed trapdoors. The Castle is home to G. Gordon Gregg, physician-murderer. His victims are young, beautiful women. His methods are swift, scientific and painless, his crime perfect. Until a newspaper reporter becomes suspicious... -
![Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish by Stephen Leather]()
Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish by Stephen Leather
Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsInspector Zhang loves mysteries, but as a Detective Inspector with the Singapore Police Force he knows that mysteries are few and far between. There are relatively few crimes in the city state and those that are committed are usually solved quickly. But that all changes when Inspector Zhang is called to a top Singapore hotel where a guest has been found murdered in a locked room... -
![I, Ripper: A Novel by Stephen Hunter]()
I, Ripper: A Novel by Stephen Hunter
Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper. In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London’s seamy Whitechapel District... -
![Don't Go to Sleep by Bryce Moore]()
Don't Go to Sleep by Bryce Moore
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA seventeen-year old girl goes up against the notorious axeman murderer in 1918 in this suspenseful historical fiction story from the author of The Perfect Place to Die. Gianna is the average seventeen-year-old girl living in 1918 New Orleans. She worries about her family's store, the great war, and a mysterious illness that's about to take hold of the city she loves...Categorized as:
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![The Strangler by William Landay]()
The Strangler by William Landay
Rated: 3.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBoston, 1963. A city on the edge. The Boston Strangler has already claimed a dozen victims. For the three Daley brothers, crime is very much the family business but the Strangler's murderous spree is about to bring violent death a lot closer to home:Joe - tough-talking cop whose gambling habits - fast women, slow horses - drag him down into the city's gangland... -
![Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips]()
Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom one of America’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers, a chilling, spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life multiple murder by a con man who preyed on widows—a story that has haunted Jayne Anne Phillips for more than four decades... -
![Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation by Paul Holes, Jim Clemente]()
Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation by Paul Holes, Jim Clemente
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Golden State Killer. The East Area Rapist. The Original Night Stalker. The Visalia Ransacker.The monster who preyed on Californians from 1976 to 1986 was known by many aliases. And while numerous police sketches tried to capture his often-masked visage, the Golden State Killer spent more than 40 years not only faceless, but nameless... -
![Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid]()
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them.For decades, Indigenous women have gone missing, or been found murdered, along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the 'Highway of Tears', and it has come to symbolize a national crisis...Categorized as:
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![Strange, Dark & Mysterious: The Graphic Stories by MrBallen, Robert Venditti]()
Strange, Dark & Mysterious: The Graphic Stories by MrBallen, Robert Venditti
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA vivid, frighteningly illustrated graphic novel collection of nine strange, dark, and mysterious stories, based on true events, from the mind behind the YouTube channel and hit MrBallen PodcastJohn Allen, known popularly as “MrBallen,” has been enthralling audiences with his unique brand of storytelling ever since he burst onto the scene, covering strange and mysterious phenomena ranging from... -
![Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Eric Powell, Harold Schechter]()
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Eric Powell, Harold Schechter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Killer Files, Hell's Princess), teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell (The Goon, Big Man Plans, Hillbilly) to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history, Ed Gein... -
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![Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder by Ann Rule]()
Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder by Ann Rule
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSomebody just shot my kids!' Diane Downs brought her car to a halt in front of a Springfield, Oregon, hospital, her three gravely wounded children beside her. Thus begins the shocking tale of a truly unthinkable crime that shattered the tranquility of a tight-knit community... -
![Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman]()
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the "definitive account of the Jonestown massacre" ( Rolling Stone ) -- now available for the first time in paperback.Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978... -
![The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers by Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks]()
The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers by Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history’s most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on the LeftSince its first show in 2010, The Last Podcast on the Left has barreled headlong into all things horror, as hosts Henry Zebrowski, Ben Kissel, and Marcus Parks cover subjects spanning Jeffrey... -
![Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper by Michael Bilton]()
Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper by Michael Bilton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper case, which spanned over 14 years, is investigated in this book. For the first time, the files have been opened, the detectives are talking and the victims are reliving the nightmare. For over 20 years, the dark secrets of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history have remained a closed book... -
![The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy by Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth]()
The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy by Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTed Bundy was America's first celebrity serial killer, and one of the most chilling enigmas in criminal history. Handsome, boyish and well-spoken, a law student with bright political prospects, Bundy was also a predator and sexual deviant who murdered and mutilated at least thirty young women and girls, many of them college coeds but at least two as young as twelve... -
![Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake, Deborah Herman]()
Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake, Deborah Herman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious criminals and life as one of his “girls”At age fourteen Dianne Lake—with little more than a note...
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