Crime category: 24427 books

A frightening journey into the realm of the gangster state immaculately researched and beautifully crafted. Amongst the finest non-fiction crime writing you will ever read. – JACQUES PAUW Ministry of Crime is the definitive proof that South Africa is steered not by statesmen or big business,...

Award Winner! For twenty-five years, the trusted family doctor in a small Wyoming town had been raping and molesting the women and children who most relied on him. Mostly Mormons, the naive victims sometimes realized on their wedding nights the truth about what had happened in Dr. Story's office. In...

Murder...Crime...Weapons....Simply thinking of such things is enough to send shivers of terror into our hearts. Even the words are dark and scary. We all like to imagine that we are safe, that the world is a rational and reasonable place. But who knows what the person standing next to you is really capable...

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...

Art thieves are hitting North Bend’s wealthiest residents with a vengeance, and the most sophisticated security systems can’t seem to stop them. The homeowners are outraged, and the sheriff’s office is baffled. How do the thieves know which valuables lie behind those stone walls and iron gates,...

FAT CAT & GUN SMOKE, TWO NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLERS. TWO BOOKS IN ONE! Two hardboiled neo-noir crime fiction titles for the PRICE OF FOUR! Fat Cat and Gun Smoke are part of the 'Neo-Noir Crime Thriller' series. FAT CAT, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLER Johnny Calypso, broke...

There are killers who stalk their prey, learning all they can about an intended target before striking. Some commit the act of murder out of hatred or revenge for someone in their lives. Killers like Detlev Guenzel searched for like-minded souls who would allow them to indulge in their deepest darkest...

Thrilling, disturbing, shocking and moving, Trouble Is Our Business: New Stories by Irish Crime Writers is a compulsive anthology of original stories by Ireland’s best-known crime writers. Patrick McGinley, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Colin Bateman, Eoin McNamee, Ken Bruen, Paul Charles, Julie Parsons,...

From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and the bestselling author of Murderess on the Loose, Murder of the Doctor’s Wife, Murder at the Pencil Factory, and The Sex Slave Murders, comes the gripping historical true crime short, Murdered by the King of Western Swing: The Beating Death...

From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author of Murdered by the King of Western Swing, Murder at the Pencil Factory, Murder of the Doctor’s Wife, and Murder During the Chicago World’s Fair, comes the gripping historical true crime short, Murder of the U.S. Attorney:...

Leading anthologist Maxim Jakubowski presents the very best in crime writing from around the world - 40 short stories from an all-star line-up of international writers. They cover the full spectrum of crime fiction, from noir and thrillers, to whodunnits and procedurals, with settings that...

Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equipped with...

This unparalleled reference spans the entire scope of world history offering a thorough investigation into the most infamous crimes and their perpetrators throughout recorded time. Arranged by subject, from Assassination to Terrorism, each chapter begins with an essay that introduces the topic and...

A Lingering Crime follows Jack Watson as he is arrested for a crime he did not commit and extradited to Florida, a State he has never visited, to stand trial for murder. Upon discovering that the murdered teacher is the man who subjected him to sexual abuse many years ago, Jack sees how he has come...