Start with high-confidence abductions & missing persons books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
A Descent Into Hell
Kathryn Casey
The Last Wild Men of Borneo
Carl Hoffman
When a Killer Calls
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Cave Mountain
Benjamin Hale
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
I'm No Monster
Stefanie Marsh, Bojan Pancevski
The Girl in the Leaves
Robert Scott, Sarah Maynard
American Predator
Maureen Callahan, Amy Landon
Down to the Bone
Caitlin Rother, Christina Delaine
If I Can't Have You
Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
The Daughters of Juarez
Teresa Rodriguez, Diana Montané
I Heard You Paint Houses
Charles Brandt
Pieces of Me
Lizbeth Meredith
The Bone Whisperers
Taina Tervonen, Sarah Robertson
Out of the Woods
Gregg Olsen
College Girl, Missing
Shawn Cohen
Lying in Wait
Ann Rule
Mothers, Murders, and Motivation
Jarrett Ferentino, Ron Lieback
