My Libby app will randomly start up in the middle of the night, so I like to fall asleep to romances otherwise it gets extremely creepy lol. I'm currently reading about Jeffrey Dahmer, but have read all of those Bundy books.
I went down the True Crime rabbit hole about two years ago and firmly stayed there. I space them out, about one a month but I'm pretty obsessed. Ann Rule's book on the Green River Killer is good and there's a follow up by his wife at the time. I added When the Corn is Waist High to my tbr.
Halfway through The Girl in the Corn (thanks to your recommendation) and so far I’m really enjoying it! So a big thank you to you! I’m probably going to jump into at least one of these serial killer books next 👍🔪
The way Zombie was written can be disturbing (the same was Wasp Factory can be) but compared to American Psycho or The Girl Next Door, it hardly holds a candle.
True crime addict here! Oh wow Ted Bundy Conversations with a Killer sounds insane!! I need to read it. I think The Stranger Beside Me is such an excellent book as is I'll Be Gone in The Dark.. so many brilliant true crime books out there!
The Phantom Prince and Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Serial Killer are now on my TBR. Thank you for that. I had a professor who was at FSU at the time that Ted Bundy went on his rampage. Her building was not one of the ones that he hit, but she remembers the campus essentially going on lockdown and the RA's in the dormitory she was staying in doing a head count. The dorm she was staying in was two rows back from Chi Omega House, so too far away to hear or see anything. The girls on her floor suspected that a jealous boyfriend caught his girlfriend with another guy and that the situation had come to blows. They had no idea how bad the situation really was. Nowadays, students in a lockdown immediately assume that an active shooter is on the loose or that a bomb has been planted on campus, at least in the States.
in fiction I suggest Nobody Man , a serial killer set in Ireland, the only survivor of a killer revisit and investigates what she remembers of the killings 😀(fiction, I didn't know they did that in Ireland)
Have you read The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson? I loved that book. It is partly about H.H. Holmes and partly about the Chicago 1893 World's Fair/Chicago's architecture. A strange combination that works. That one is still my favorite of True Crime/Serial killers books rabbit hole I went into a few years ago.
I usually don't love serial killer true crime, especially the sensationalist type books. But I have to say -The Man from the Train-by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James had me absolutely enthralled. Perhaps it is because they were investigating a series of historic crimes so there is that little bit of an emotional remove from the victims. It is also really interesting in terms of which crimes blew up nationally and which just stayed local. I believe Bill James is a retired sports writer and you can tell because he writes beautifully. Whether you agree with their conclusions are not it is clear that some really bad stuff was happening around train lines in turn of the Century America.
When the Corn is Waist High sounds good. It's on my wish list now (none of my libraries have it in any format---and they only allow me to recommend the Audiobook, not the ebook or paper copy. So recommended that to the library instead; if they buy it, I'll be first in line to listen to it). Right now, am reading Thomas Olde H's Echo. Halfway through. Creepy. I like the narrative style too. The Ice Ghost (K.O. Gear) just came in from the library. Not sure what genre it belongs to--it might blend a 2 or 3 of them (fantasy, alternate history, maybe sci-fi???). I just read the first part of the book jacket and that was enough to have me put it on hold. Take a peek at the synopsis and see if it is something you might like. Looks different. Might be really good or might be not so good.
Liked Echo. Enjoyable ride. The Ice Lion is the first book. I downloaded it from the library and then realized I already had it downloaded from last year. Really need to get to reading it. And Nophek Gloss. Am reading 2nd book in the Wool trilogy. Almost done. Listened to a nonfiction book that was quite good. Off the Edge. A look at flat earth and other conspiracy theories and the psychology of why people adopt them.
In the serial killer genre, I would recommend John Sandford's early Prey novels. Rules of Prey I believe is the 1st in the series. Later Prey novels tend to touch on different criminals, but, the early Prey novels were almost all serial killers. I believe that the Nazis would fall under the label of mass murderers rather than serial killers. What they did was far more horrific than anything any serial killer has done.
You might be interested in Dr. Todd Grande's book The Psychology of Notorious Serial Killers. Dr. Grande is a clinical psychologist and he gives a pretty detailed look at the background and psychology of each killer. He's also a RU-vidr and has videos on each of the serial killers he profiles in the book. The book is on Scribd as an audiobook.
Have you read Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit By: John E. Douglas , Mark Olshaker Whoever Fights Monsters My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI By: Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman Two great books about the beginning of the Behavioral Science Unit and the start of profiling serial killers. My favorite serial killer novels are: Slob - Rex Miller A Cold Mind - David Lindsey
Someone was obsessed with Ted Bundy this month! Lol the story about the audiobook going off 😂. I watched the Netflix film about Ted Bundy's girlfriend and found it very interesting (and I felt so bad for her!) I am not usually a fan of cozy mysteries either, but I am intrigued by the first book you talked about.
So in a way, you're a bit of a Ted Bundy expert? (Being that you've read his story from different angles). He had some gruesome killings. It's been a while, but I think I recall reading about him going on a rampage thru a girls' dorm? Something like that...
Haha I hate to call myself that but yes I've also watched several documentaries etc... and yes there was horrific scene at a sorority... such an evil man
