Books like Seduced by Madness by Carol Pogash

By Their Father’s Hand chronicles the March 2004 murder spree at the Wesson family home in Fresno, California, exposing a violent tapestry of incest, abuse, and psychosis led by a manipulative patriarch.

Anne Bird tells the true story of reconnecting with a hidden family and uncovering the chilling reality that her brother, Scott Peterson, murdered his wife Laci and unborn child.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

Sharon Marshall, a brilliant and beautiful student, was drawn into a lifetime of deception by her murderous fugitive father, creating one of America’s most baffling criminal cases.

A harrowing true‑crime narrative of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight, who survived ten years of kidnapping and abuse by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, and the investigative reporting that uncovered their story.

In 1921, John S. Williams’s Georgia plantation, still run by enslaved labor, becomes the site of a chilling federal investigation after the governor orders the destruction of evidence. The case, involving the murder of slaves and a trial that captured national attention, marks a turning point in the treatment of black Americans.

A true‑crime account of a teenage girl who, driven by adolescent turmoil and abuse, plots to murder her mother with the aid of an obsessed boyfriend.

An investigative look at Hollywood’s most infamous deaths, from Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne to the murders of Thomas Ince, William Desmond Taylor, and the mysterious fate of Sharon Tate, revealing the shadows behind the silver screen.

A true‑crime account of Kristin Rossum, a toxicology specialist whose hidden life leads to her husband’s mysterious death by overdose in 2000, exposing betrayal, illicit affairs, and the investigation that uncovered her murder.

Final Analysis traces the brutal murder trial of Susan Polk, a Northern California housewife arrested for killing her husband Felix, unpacking their decades‑long, abusive relationship and the meticulous police investigation that led to her conviction.

A factual, in‑depth biography of serial killer Randy Kraft, who murdered 67 victims in California.

A thorough, journalistic account of the Laci and Scott Peterson murder investigation, detailing courtroom proceedings, investigative breakthroughs, and exclusive interviews, written by former judge and legal analyst Catherine Crier.

A gripping legal thriller about a prosecutor's quest for justice after a brutal murder in Washington, D.C.

A chilling investigation into the dark practices of doctors and nurses in a nursing home.

An innocent village girl falls under the spell of a charming but unattainable young man, leading to a dangerous obsession and a tragedy in her carefree life.

Paradis draws back the curtain on the fascinating world of forensic psychology and revisits the most notorious and puzzling cases she has handled in her multifaceted career.--Introduction.