Here are some general true crime books we recommend. This list is a living document and will grow over time so check back once in a while. Episode specific books in the show notes for each episode if they exist:
- Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D Hare
- Helter Skelter – The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
- The Stranger Beside Me – The True Crime Story of Ted Bundy by Ann Rule
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark – One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer – Michelle McNamara
- Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas
- Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI by Robert K Ressler
- Inside the Criminal Mind: Revised and Updated Edition by Stanton Samenow
- The Crime Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by Peter James
- Hunting Humans: The Rise Of The Modern Multiple Murderer Elliot Leyton
- Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World’s Most Savage Murderers by Scott Bonn
- The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers by Harold Schechter
- Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky
- Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky
- Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation’s Most Elusive Serial Killer by Robert Graysmith
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare by Donald A. Davis
- Journey Into Darkness by John E. Douglas
- Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
- Fatal Vision: A True Crime Classic by Joe McGinnis
- Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
- Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
- Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt