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Books like Hunting the Devil

If you loved Hunting the Devil by Richard Lourie, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Serial Killers, Criminals & Outlaws, Murder, and Criminology.

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Top related books to Hunting the Devil

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession and Revenge (True Crime Gift) — Mitzi Szereto

The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession and Revenge (True Crime Gift)

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Manson The Life and Times of Charles Manson — Jeff Guinn

Manson The Life and Times of Charles Manson

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Sleep, My Child, Forever The Riveting True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children — John Coston

Sleep, My Child, Forever The Riveting True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Hidden Demons — Margery B. Metzger

Margery B. Metzger

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases — Ann Rule

A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

A Plot to Kill The Notorious Killing of Peter Farquhar, a Story of Deception and Betrayal That Shocked a Quiet English Town — David Wilson

A Plot to Kill The Notorious Killing of Peter Farquhar, a Story of Deception and Betrayal That Shocked a Quiet English Town

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Thomas Quick The Making of a Serial Killer — Hannes Råstam

Thomas Quick The Making of a Serial Killer

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper — Philip Sugden

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

The Most Dangerous Animal of All — Gary L. Stewart

The Most Dangerous Animal of All

Gary L. Stewart

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Redbone Money, Malice, and Murder in Atlanta — Ron Stodghill

Redbone Money, Malice, and Murder in Atlanta

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Cannibal Killers Monsters with an Appetite for Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh — Chloe Castleden

Cannibal Killers Monsters with an Appetite for Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh

Chloe Castleden

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

The Best New True Crime Stories Partners in Crime — Mitzi Szereto

The Best New True Crime Stories Partners in Crime

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer — Jerry Clark

Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

They All Love Jack Busting the Ripper — Bruce Robinson

They All Love Jack Busting the Ripper

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

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 • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

The Man in the Monster Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer — Martha Elliott

The Man in the Monster Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

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 • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Lost Girls An American Mystery — Robert Kolker

Lost Girls An American Mystery

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

True Crime Case Histories – (Books 4, 5, & 6) 36 Disturbing True Crime Stories (3 Book True Crime Collection) — Jason Neal

True Crime Case Histories – (Books 4, 5, & 6) 36 Disturbing True Crime Stories (3 Book True Crime Collection)

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors Ann Rule’s Crime Files Volume 16 — Ann Rule

Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors Ann Rule’s Crime Files Volume 16

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

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 • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh Book One: Did Jeffrey Dahmer kidnap Adam Walsh? — Arthur Jay Harris

The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh Book One: Did Jeffrey Dahmer kidnap Adam Walsh?

Arthur Jay Harris

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Hidden Demons Evil Visits a Small New England Town — Margery B. Metzger

Hidden Demons Evil Visits a Small New England Town

Margery B. Metzger

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

Hell’s Princess The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men — Harold Schechter

Hell’s Princess The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

Harold Schechter

Themes: Serial Killers • Criminals & Outlaws • Murder

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Serial Killers, Criminals & Outlaws, Murder — the same threads that run through Hunting the Devil by Richard Lourie. Among the authors featured: Mitzi Szereto, Jeff Guinn, John Coston, Margery B. Metzger, and others.

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