Read-alikes and related books

Books like Serpico

If you loved Serpico by Peter Maas, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Memoirs, True Crime, and Biographies & Memoirs.

Memoirs True Crime Biographies & Memoirs

Top related books to Serpico

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Serpico.

Fireproof Memoir of a Chef — Curtis Duffy

Fireproof Memoir of a Chef

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Spinach King The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty — John Seabrook

The Spinach King The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Home of the Happy A Murder on the Cajun Prairie — Jordan LaHaye Fontenot

Home of the Happy A Murder on the Cajun Prairie

Jordan LaHaye Fontenot

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Varsity Blues Scandal Within the Scandal — John Wilson

Varsity Blues Scandal Within the Scandal

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Velvet Hammer Judge Belvin Perry, Jr.’s Capital Murder Cases and Memoir — Belvin Perry

The Velvet Hammer Judge Belvin Perry, Jr.’s Capital Murder Cases and Memoir

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

False Claims One Insider’s Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption — Lisa Pratta

False Claims One Insider’s Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Long Way Home — Justin Sand

The Long Way Home

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Prophet’s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints — Sam Brower

Prophet’s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

In the Pines A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning — Grace Elizabeth Hale

In the Pines A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

Grace Elizabeth Hale

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Easter Sunday Massacre — Karen Holcomb

The Easter Sunday Massacre

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Lafferty Girl Surviving Trauma, Abuse, and My Father’s Crimes — Rebecca Lafferty

The Lafferty Girl Surviving Trauma, Abuse, and My Father’s Crimes

Rebecca Lafferty

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Unveiling: A Mother’s Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life — Ruth Markel

The Unveiling: A Mother’s Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Licking the Knife A Memoir — Sabrina Capper

Licking the Knife A Memoir

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

When The Bullet Hit’s The Bone — Anthony Salvatore Raimondi

When The Bullet Hit’s The Bone

Anthony Salvatore Raimondi

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Inside the Cartel How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash, and Dismantled a Colombian Narco-Empire — Martin Suarez

Inside the Cartel How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash, and Dismantled a Colombian Narco-Empire

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

My Time to Stand A Memoir — Gypsy-Rose Blanchard

My Time to Stand A Memoir

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

History of “Billy the Kid,” — Charles A. Siringo

History of “Billy the Kid,&#8221

Charles A. Siringo

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Dangerous Ways — LARRY. FORMATO

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Wonderland A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even — Nicole Treska

Wonderland A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Life of a Gym Screw — Phil Currie

The Life of a Gym Screw

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Whatever Happened to Rosemarie? — Vera Christa Doederlein Hastie

Whatever Happened to Rosemarie?

Vera Christa Doederlein Hastie

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

Silent Witness How DNA Uncovered the Truth and Empowered My Healing — Ashley Spence

Silent Witness How DNA Uncovered the Truth and Empowered My Healing

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The Confessions of a Thug — Philip Meadows Taylor

The Confessions of a Thug

Philip Meadows Taylor

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

The California Kid From USC Golden Boy to International Drug Kingpin — Owen Hanson

The California Kid From USC Golden Boy to International Drug Kingpin

Themes: Memoirs • True Crime • Biographies & Memoirs

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Serpico by Peter Maas — spanning Memoirs, True Crime, Biographies & Memoirs and featuring authors such as Curtis Duffy, John Seabrook, Jordan LaHaye Fontenot, John Wilson, and others.

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