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Serial Killer Thrillers

Rank Title Author Added

1

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

20,387 members

499 reviews

3.9

3 Members: blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963

2

The Wasp Factory

7,861 members

219 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: blackdove07, sturlington, ahef1963

3

by Thomas Harris

11,438 members

126 reviews

3.8

2 Members: blackdove07, sturlington
Explanations: sturlington: Hannibal Lecter

4

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

7,210 members

281 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

5

Green River, Running Red

1,454 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

6

450 members

7 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

7

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

14,213 members

163 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington
Explanations: sturlington: Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill

8

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

7,268 members

227 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

9

by James Patterson

5,610 members

73 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

10

by Michael Connelly

5,302 members

108 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

11

by Michael Connelly

5,115 members

85 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

12

My Sister, the Serial Killer

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

4,665 members

294 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

13

by James Patterson

4,401 members

74 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

14

by James Patterson

3,911 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

15

The Final Girl Support Group

by Grady Hendrix

3,756 members

128 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

16

by Tess Gerritsen

3,512 members

71 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

17

by Chelsea Cain

2,610 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

18

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

by Stephen Graham Jones

2,282 members

77 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

19

2,232 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

20

by John Sandford

2,179 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

21

The Perfect Husband

by Lisa Gardner

2,067 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

22

Deeper Than the Dead

1,844 members

94 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

23

All the Sinners Bleed

1,536 members

64 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

24

by Chelsea Cain

1,453 members

88 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

25

by Joyce Carol Oates

1,383 members

66 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

26

The Church of Dead Girls

by Stephen Dobyns

1,029 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

27

1,006 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

28

by Stuart Woods

853 members

32 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

29

by Lisa Jackson

807 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

30

800 members

140 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

31

by Lisa Jackson

769 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

32

Never Saw Me Coming

701 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

33

The Rosary Girls

by Richard Montanari

650 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

34

by Joy Fielding

647 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

35

The Night Stalker

by Philip Carlo

612 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

36

by Anne Frasier

480 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

37

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

423 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

38

by Erica Spindler

371 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

39

by Terry Sullivan

350 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

40

332 members

12 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

41

The Search for the Green River Killer

by Carlton Smith

318 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

42

by Anne Frasier

294 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

43

By Reason of Insanity

by Shane Stevens

293 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: bluepiano

44

by Bentley Little

265 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

45

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

by Robert D. Keppel

261 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

46

Inside the Mind of BTK

by John Douglas

253 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

47

Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers

by Darcy O'Brien

244 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

48

The Michigan Murders

by Edward Keyes

213 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

49

The Shoemaker: The Anatomy of a Psychotic

by Flora Rheta Schreiber

204 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

50

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

by Melissa G. Moore

190 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

51

Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt for the BTK Strangler

by Robert Beattie

108 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

52

Killer Instinct

by Robert W. Walker

81 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

53

Edward Gein: America's Most Bizarre Murderer

by Judge Robert H. Gollmar

79 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

54

Innocent Blood: A True Story of Terror and Justice

63 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

55

by Gayle Wilson

53 members

1 review

3.8

Member: dara85

56

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

48 members

1 review

4.1

Member: dara85

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September 2013
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