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Serial Killer Thrillers

Rank Title Author Added

1

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

18,224 members

453 reviews

3.9

2 Members: blackdove07, ahef1963

2

The Wasp Factory

7,124 members

204 reviews

3.8

2 Members: blackdove07, ahef1963

3

Green River, Running Red

1,254 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

4

401 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

5

by Thomas Harris

10,095 members

103 reviews

3.8

Member: blackdove07

6

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

6,600 members

271 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

7

by James Patterson

5,032 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

8

by Michael Connelly

4,825 members

100 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

9

by Michael Connelly

4,695 members

75 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

10

by James Patterson

3,997 members

70 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

11

by James Patterson

3,353 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

12

by Tess Gerritsen

3,173 members

65 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

13

2,040 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

14

by John Sandford

1,976 members

33 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

15

The Perfect Husband

by Lisa Gardner

1,819 members

38 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

16

Deeper Than the Dead

1,662 members

83 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

17

by Chelsea Cain

1,351 members

85 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

18

843 members

39 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

19

by Stuart Woods

788 members

31 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

20

by Lisa Jackson

710 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

21

by Lisa Jackson

689 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

22

The Rosary Girls

by Richard Montanari

607 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

23

by Joy Fielding

600 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

24

The Night Stalker

by Philip Carlo

481 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

25

by Anne Frasier

436 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

26

The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer

379 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

27

by Erica Spindler

335 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

28

by Terry Sullivan

304 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

29

294 members

12 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

30

The Search for the Green River Killer

by Carlton Smith

276 members

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

31

by Anne Frasier

272 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

32

By Reason of Insanity

by Shane Stevens

247 members

5 reviews

4

Member: bluepiano

33

The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer

by Robert D. Keppel

239 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

34

by Bentley Little

237 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

35

Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers

by Darcy O'Brien

222 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

36

Inside the Mind of BTK

by John Douglas

201 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

37

The Michigan Murders

by Edward Keyes

187 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

38

The Shoemaker : The Anatomy of a Psychotic

by Flora Rheta Schreiber

184 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: dara85

39

Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter

by Melissa G. Moore

172 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

40

Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt for the BTK Strangler

by Robert Beattie

102 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

41

Killer Instinct

by Robert W. Walker

71 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

42

by Judge Robert H. Gollmar

66 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

43

Innocent Blood: A True Story of Terror and Justice

56 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

44

Eye of the Beast: The True Story of Serial Killer James Wood (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

47 members

1 review

4.1

Member: dara85

45

by Gayle Wilson

45 members

1 review

3.8

Member: dara85

46

335 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

47

by Ronald Malfi

220 members

8 reviews

3.8

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Started: sturlington
September 2013
Type: Unnumbered

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