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Across Serial Killers, Murder, True Crime, and Sociology — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Escape from Evil by Cathy Wilson.

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Brutal The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob — Kevin Weeks

Brutal The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Rat Bastards The Life and Times of South Boston’s Most Honorable Irish Mobster — John Shea

Rat Bastards The Life and Times of South Boston’s Most Honorable Irish Mobster

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Blood on Their Hands Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty — Mandy Matney

Blood on Their Hands Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

The Babysitter My Summers with a Serial Killer — Liza Rodman

The Babysitter My Summers with a Serial Killer

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Scoundrel How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free — Sarah Weinman

Scoundrel How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Paddy Whacked The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster — T. J. English

Paddy Whacked The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

The Third Rainbow Girl The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia — Emma Copley Eisenberg

The Third Rainbow Girl The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

Emma Copley Eisenberg

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher Hunting a Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology — Max Allan Collins

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher Hunting a Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology

Max Allan Collins

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Catch the Sparrow A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder — Rachel Rear

Catch the Sparrow A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Scoundrel The True Story of the Murderer Who Charmed His Way to Fame and Freedom — Sarah Weinman

Scoundrel The True Story of the Murderer Who Charmed His Way to Fame and Freedom

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

The Fence A Police Cover-up Along Boston’s Racial Divide — Dick Lehr

The Fence A Police Cover-up Along Boston’s Racial Divide

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher Hunting America’s Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology — Max Allan Collins

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher Hunting America’s Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology

Max Allan Collins

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa — Michael Finkel

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

A Serial Killer’s Daughter My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming — Kerri Rawson

A Serial Killer’s Daughter My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Cannibal Killers Monsters with a Taste for Murder — Moira Martingale

Cannibal Killers Monsters with a Taste for Murder

Moira Martingale

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

The Devil Behind the Badge The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer — Rick Jervis

The Devil Behind the Badge The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Alligator Candy A Memoir — David Kushner

Alligator Candy A Memoir

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

When a Killer Calls A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town — John E. Douglas

When a Killer Calls A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town

John E. Douglas

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Chase Darkness with Me How One True-crime Writer Started Solving Murders — Billy Jensen

Chase Darkness with Me How One True-crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

The Phantom Prince My Life with Ted Bundy — Elizabeth Kendall

The Phantom Prince My Life with Ted Bundy

Elizabeth Kendall

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Serial Killers Shocking True Stories of the World’s Most Barbaric Murderers — Jamie King

Serial Killers Shocking True Stories of the World’s Most Barbaric Murderers

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

The Devil’s Work — Garry Linnell

The Devil’s Work

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Notorious Memphis Gangster Diggs Nolen — Patrick O’Daniel

Notorious Memphis Gangster Diggs Nolen — Patrick O’Daniel

Patrick O'Daniel

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Lost Girls An American Mystery — Robert Kolker

Lost Girls An American Mystery

Themes: Serial Killers • Murder • True Crime

Fans of Escape from Evil by Cathy Wilson will find 24 titles here, all united by Serial Killers, Murder, True Crime. Authors represented include Kevin Weeks, John Shea, Mandy Matney, Liza Rodman, and others.

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