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Explore 24 books like The Man with Candy by Jack Olsen — a handpicked selection united by Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons, True Crime, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Lost Girls The Unsolved American Mystery of the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Murders — Robert Kolker

Lost Girls The Unsolved American Mystery of the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Murders

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Dear Jacob A Mother’s Journey of Hope — Patty Wetterling

Dear Jacob A Mother’s Journey of Hope

Patty Wetterling

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Beneath the Tamarind Tree A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram — Isha Sesay

Beneath the Tamarind Tree A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

True Crime Stories Shocking Tales of Real-Life Murderers, Thieves, Con Artists and Gangsters — Jamie King

True Crime Stories Shocking Tales of Real-Life Murderers, Thieves, Con Artists and Gangsters

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Smash, Smash, Smash The True Story of Kai the Hitchhiker — Philip Fairbanks

Smash, Smash, Smash The True Story of Kai the Hitchhiker

Philip Fairbanks

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Lost in the Valley of Death A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas — Harley Rustad

Lost in the Valley of Death A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Helltown The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod — Casey Sherman

Helltown The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

The Adventurer’s Son A Memoir — Roman Dial

The Adventurer’s Son A Memoir

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders — Mike Rothmiller

Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders

Mike Rothmiller

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Unbelievable Crimes Volume Two Macabre Yet Unknown True Crime Stories — Daniela Airlie

Unbelievable Crimes Volume Two Macabre Yet Unknown True Crime Stories

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

The Life We Chose William “Big Billy” D’Elia and the Last Secrets of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Family — Matt Birkbeck

The Life We Chose William “Big Billy” D’Elia and the Last Secrets of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Family

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Stalking Claremont Inside the Hunt for a Serial Killer — Bret Christian

Stalking Claremont Inside the Hunt for a Serial Killer

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Missing Sarah Pryor A Mother’s Testimony of Choosing Love Over Grief and Emptiness — Barbara Smith Pryor

Missing Sarah Pryor A Mother’s Testimony of Choosing Love Over Grief and Emptiness

Barbara Smith Pryor

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Impossible Odds The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six — Jessica Buchanan

Impossible Odds The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six

Jessica Buchanan

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Deep in the Woods The 1935 Kidnapping of Nine-Year-Old George Weyerhaeuser, Heir to America’s Mightiest Timber Dynasty — Bryan Johnston

Deep in the Woods The 1935 Kidnapping of Nine-Year-Old George Weyerhaeuser, Heir to America’s Mightiest Timber Dynasty

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Gone at Midnight The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation — Jake Anderson

Gone at Midnight The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Expert Witness The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance — Ann Wolbert Burgess

Expert Witness The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance

Ann Wolbert Burgess

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Hope A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland — Amanda Berry

Hope A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

Evil Summer Babe Leopold, Dickie Loeb, and the Kidnap-Murder of Bobby Franks — John Theodore

Evil Summer Babe Leopold, Dickie Loeb, and the Kidnap-Murder of Bobby Franks

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

For the Love of a Son — Jean Sasson

For the Love of a Son

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

The Killer Across the Table Inside the Minds of Psychopaths and Predators — John E. Douglas

The Killer Across the Table Inside the Minds of Psychopaths and Predators

John E. Douglas

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

My Brother the Killer — Alix Sharkey

My Brother the Killer

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

News of a Kidnapping — Gabriel García Márquez

News of a Kidnapping — Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

A House in the Sky A Memoir — Amanda Lindhout

A House in the Sky A Memoir

Amanda Lindhout

Themes: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons • True Crime • Biography & Autobiography

If The Man with Candy by Jack Olsen is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Robert Kolker, Patty Wetterling, Isha Sesay, Jamie King, and others.

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Charmer A Ladies Man and His Victims — Jack Olsen

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The Misbegotten Son A Serial Killer and His Victims – The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross — Jack Olsen

The Misbegotten Son A Serial Killer and His Victims – The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross

Cold Kill The True Story of a Murderous Love — Jack Olsen

Cold Kill The True Story of a Murderous Love

The Misbegotten Son A Serial Killer and His Victims: The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross — Jack Olsen

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