Books like Torso by Steven Nickel

A sleep‑deprived narrator meets the enigmatic Tyler Durden, and together they form an underground club where men confront their aggression through secret hand‑to‑hand bouts.

A dystopian novel about a woman named Offred in a totalitarian theonomic society called Gilead, exploring themes of subjugated women and resistance.

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.

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

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.

Tom Ripley is hired to travel to Italy and persuade a wayward son to return home, but he becomes obsessed with taking the boy’s life, identity and wealth.

Philip Roth’s Pulitzer‑winning novel follows Jewish American entrepreneur Seymour “Swede” Levov as his idyllic life unravels amid the social and political upheavals of the 1960s.

This book details how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the doctor, became a detective writer. It draws on his education by Dr. Joseph Bell in Edinburgh University on how to observe and reason on even the smallest details when considering physical evidence of a possible crime. Through real life events, crimes and celebrated murders, we learn that Doyle was more like Sherlock Holmes in his methods and observations, and that he was at times, very much a real private detective. This is a fascinating case book on crimes and causes, for Doyle was always looking to help those who needed help. The last fifteen years of his life were spent on investigation and vigorous support of the spiritualist movement, but this did not entirely take away his interest in the various fields of criminology. Some of the major crimes of the early 20th Century are also discussed, and Doyle's observations are interesting to read.

A gripping nonfiction account of LAPD officer Bill Leasure, whose crimes expose police corruption in Los Angeles, revealed through exclusive jail‑cell interviews conducted by Pulitzer‑winning journalist Edward Humes.

An examination of the crimes committed by Richard Cottingham, often cited as New York’s deadliest serial killer.