Katherine Ramsland: 41 books

With the same personal style in which she undertook Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today, Katherine Ramsland turns her “participant journalism” toward the world of ghost hunters. She’d acquired a reputedly haunted ring from a self-described vampire, and with it she...

The latest in the New York Times Bestselling Series, Notorious USA!   The “Hoosier State” has its share of serial killers, from pig farmers to nurses to psychopathic businessmen. Indiana also hosted a historic murder that decimated the Midwestern Ku Klux Klan. In these pages,...

Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of the dead as Katherine Ramsland talks to...

Starting with the disappearance of a journalist who was exploring New York City’s vampire subculture, Ramsland follows in her footsteps and well beyond to learn about the vampires of the mid-1990s. No longer attached to images from film or fiction, these people are actively involved in live-action...

Katherine Ramsland and Dana DeVito have taken their mutual love of a good ghost story and produced an entertaining and educational perspective of the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. "Bethlehem Ghosts" first introduces the reader to the history of, and the authors’ theories concerning, ghosts, the...

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself “B.T.K.” (bind,...

WELCOME TO HEARTLAND HORRORS, THE NEWEST box set of the New York Times bestselling series of tales of America’s most notorious criminals and the crimes that shaped the places we call home. In this collection you’ll have no better guide through the darkest side of Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas than...

Detective Teri Lewis has seen her share of gruesome homicides throughout Bucks County, PA. But the discovery of four bodies drained of blood as part of what appears to be a bizarre vampire fetish has her stumped. The autopsies reveal that the victims burned from inside out, and a test of the saliva...

Ancient codes and a legendary killer lure a young detective into a dark and dangerous world. When a murdered historian is marked with a mysterious code, homicide detective Dee Brentano worries about his colleague – her missing father, Alexandre. FBI special agent J. R. Pierce tells her that...

Psychologists involved in assessments for the courtroom or consultations for investigation or risk management follow a distinct protocol. Ramsland offers a comprehensive guide to writers for reference on these procedures and terms, using actual cases as well as examples from fiction and film to illustrate...

The second book in the "Haunted Crime Scenes" series. The series is based on the premise that by working together, Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) and Paranormal Forensic Investigators (PFIs) may someday solve crimes and resolve cold cases hitherto thought unsolvable. This book focuses on...

The latest in the New York Times Bestselling Series, Notorious USA!   Surrounded by the Great Lakes and divided in two, Michigan has a special mystique. Violence extends from a city like Detroit to more genteel college towns, lake resorts, and the murky backwoods. A deer hunter...

WELCOME TO THE NEWEST INSTALLMENT in the New York Times bestselling series of tales of America’s most notorious criminals and the crimes that shaped the places we call home.  This time you’ll have no better guide through the darkest side of Iowa than Katherine Ramsland, one of America’s...

Serial Killer Quarterly's "Cruel Britannia" finishes off 2014 with a four-feature British bloodlust frenzy! Dr. Katherine Ramsland wades through the heavy fog surrounding the "Moors Murders": a series of high-profile child killings committed in the Swinging Sixties by Scottish...