Books like A rage to kill, and other true cases by Ann Rule

John E. Douglas recounts his 25‑year career in the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, detailing how psychological profiling helped him solve some of the nation’s most infamous serial killings.

An investigative account of Diane Downs, a sociopathic mother who murdered her three children while seeking affection from a married man, revealing the chilling details of her trial and the psychological profile uncovered by Ann Rule.

Ann Rule’s true‑crime biography exposes the chilling rise of serial killer Ted Bundy and the devastating realization she faced when she discovered the killer was her friend.

A chilling true‑crime account of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard’s ‘fasting treatment’ at Starvation Heights, where wealthy sisters Claire and Dora Williamson met a deadly fate and their wealth was siphoned by a quack doctor driven by greed.

While the City Slept follows the 2009 murder of Isaiah Kalebu in Seattle, revealing how gaps in mental‑health services and missed warning signs allowed a dangerous sliver of a young man to rise. The book offers a journalist’s careful study of crime, love, and systemic failure.

Acclaimed for her "devastatingly accurate insight" (The New York Times Book Review) into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her bestselling Crime Files series. For this sixth stunning collection, Rule has culled from her private files the most-asked-about homicide cases -- riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled d by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out at innocent victims. Torn from the headlines, here is the case that shocked a nation: the Seattle city bus ride that turned to mayhem and murder at the hands of a gunman. Ann Rule unmasks the forces that drove quiet, clean-cut Silas Cool to shoot the driver, causing the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartment building. The catastrophe left three dead -- including Cool -- and dozens injured. While the scene unfolds as in a terrifying movie, Rule finds very real answers to the haunting question "how could this happen?" -- and expertly constructs the unseen chain of events that resulted in an explosive and shattering tragedy.Included here are nine other sensational cases that illuminate Rule's unique and authoritative view of the human psyche gone temporarily berserk. No one can match Rule's meticulous research, or reveal the motives to murder in such explicit and chilling detail. You may think you know who is safe and who is dangerous; in A Rage to Kill, Ann Rule frighteningly shows that none of us are truly protected from the flashes of irrational violence that can erupt from the killers among us.

A true‑crime account of Laura Leslie Brock’s disappearance in 1972, her subsequent murder, and the shocking link to a 1973 want ad that led a young woman to the killer, written by Ann Rule.

"In the Name of Love" chronicles the ruthless crimes of a sociopathic killer and the remarkable resilience of a survivor who endured nearly eight years of unimaginable hardship while maintaining hope and moral clarity.

A compilation of American murder case studies written by true‑crime author Ann Rule.

A true‑crime biography of David Brame, Gig Harbor’s chief of police, whose 2003 double suicide and murder shocked Washington state, revealing a twisted personal life and the investigation that followed.

True‑crime chronicle of Randall Woodfield, a former athlete turned I‑5 highway serial killer whose 44 murders across California and Washington shocked authorities and the public.

A nonfiction study that argues for O.J. Simpson’s innocence by reviewing case evidence, investigative procedures, and courtroom proceedings associated with the 1994 murder case in California.

Ann Rule investigates a shocking Christmas‑time murder on the Washington coast, exposing the greed, sex, and scandal that led to a brutal killing.