Books like The Boy Next Door (True Crime) by Gretchen Brinck MSW

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

A chilling, factual account of the 1959 shotgun murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members were killed with no clear motive or clues.

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

A true‑crime chronicle that follows editor Michelle McNamara’s obsessive investigation of the Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and murderer who terrorized California for decades.

Stephanie Plum, a New Jersey bounty hunter, faces perilous cases while navigating a quirky support network of family, friends, and crew, including Lula and Grandma Mazur.

Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli race against time to stop a vengeful killer threatening their quiet Montana town.

Jenny discovers love and its darker side when she falls for her new neighbor Rob, a boy who both inspires confidence and threatens her sense of self. A summer of promise turns into a test of trust and emotional resilience.

Math‑whiz from a trailer park uses her intellect to crack a serial killer’s clues, defending her classmates from a systematic murderer.

A serial killer has been terrorizing New York City, and only a renowned expert on criminal behavior can stop him.

After a decade apart, Ronnie must protect tired teen hero worship from a returned crush who once hurt her, while managing responsibilities to her orphaned siblings.

"In this gripping - and sometimes terrifying - account, former South African Police Service (SAPS) head profiler Dr Gérard Labuschagne, successor to the legendary Micki Pistorius, recalls some of the 110 murder series and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his career. An expert on serial murder and rape cases, Labuschagne saw it all in his fourteen and a half years in the SAPS. He walks the reader through the first crime scene he ever attended, his arrest of the Muldersdrift serial rapist, his experience as the head of the task team mandated to catch the Quarry serial murderer, his involvement with the Brighton Beach axe murders, and more. Despite often being stymied by a lack of resources, office politics and political interference, Labuschagne and his team were always determined to get their man - or woman, as in the Womb Raider case. The Profiler Diaries is a fascinating - and often hair-raising - glimpse into what it was like to be a profiler in the world's busiest profiling unit."--