Crime category: 24427 books
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
30 inside stories of the American Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta
Images of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific - what is the reality?
Investigative journalist Roger Wilkes has put together the largest ever collection of...
by Eponymous Rox
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
TRUE CRIME: The police are calling them accidents. They say young men are simply drinking too much and meeting a tragic end in icy lakes and rivers. But the public thinks something else has been going on in America's northland since 1997. They're calling the sudden disappearances of hundreds of college-age...
Through the Window
The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Ten-Year-Old Krystal Surles Watched In Horror
As Her Best Friend Was Murdered At The Hands Of An Intruder.
Then with cold-blooded precision he brought a twelve-inch boning knife to Krystal's throat. With a single, violent slash, he severed her windpipe and left her for dead. Miraculously, she...
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder
And Other True Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Includes Ann Rule's insider commentary on the Mary Winkler murder case
REAL-LIFE MURDER. REAL-LIFE MYSTERY.
In some murder cases, the truth behind the most tragic of crimes crystallizes with relative ease. Not so with these fascinating accounts drawn from the personal files of Ann Rule,...
Secrets in the Cellar
A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case that Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their family—though one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been "lost" to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeth's children mysteriously...
by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
"[A] social document of rare importance."—The New Republic
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson...
Midnight in Peking
How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils
Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela...
by Gregory A. Fournier
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, before the term serial killer was coined, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking prey until he made the arrogant mistake of killing his last victim in the basement of his uncle's...
The Innocent Man
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence.
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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
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“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet,...
by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
"America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files -- and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences.
LAST DANCE LAST CHANCE
Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a...
Worth More Dead
And Other True Cases Vol. 10
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
*Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him?
Because they were...*
Worth More Dead
A cold case reopened -- and solved...
The Killer Book of Serial Killers
Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Serial Killers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Terrifying tales of the ultimate evil among us!
The Killer Book of Serial Killers is the complete resource for any true crime fan or student of the lurid, fascinating world of serial killers. Inside you'll find the stories of the world's thirty-five most notorious murderers, including an in-depth...
Wiseguy
The 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best...
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars,...