Crime category: 24427 books
The North Country Murder of Irene Izak
Stained by Her Blood
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
A road trip becomes a dead end for a schoolteacher in this haunting cold case of murder that became a fifty-year fight for justice.
In June of 1968, Irene Izak, a young French teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was pulling an all-nighter on the road toward the promise of a new life in Quebec....
Successful Con Artists
Who made millions
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Within criminal law, fraud is considered an intentional deception made for a personal gain or to damage in some way another individual. Fraud is a crime and a civil law violation, but the specific criminal law definition varies in legal jurisdiction. Defrauding people or companies out of money or...
A Thirst for Blood
The True Story of California's Vampire Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The “fast-paced” inside story of the manhunt for bloodsucking serial killer Richard Chase (Publishers Weekly).
Written by the case’s lead homicide detective, this gripping true crime account details the killing spree of one of California’s most gruesome murderers: Richard Chase, aka...
by W. Cleon Skousen, Paul B. Skousen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America’s most notorious mobsters.
True Stories from the Files of the FBI...
Mob Boss
The Life of Little Al D’Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Reminiscent of Wiseguy, Mob Boss is a compelling biography from two prominent mob experts recounting the life and times of the first acting boss of an American Mafia family to turn government witness
Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese organized crime...
Storming Las Vegas
How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and $3 Million
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
“In my world, you are either the hunter or the prey, and I am the hunter. Vegas was my prey. I tell my crew: Vegas makes it, Vigoa takes it.”
–Jose Vigoa[pg. 37]
When it comes to violent crime, the Las Vegas cops and casino owners thought they had seen it all. But they had never witnessed...
Business or Blood
Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES, BAD BLOOD!
Bestselling crime writers Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso reveal the final years of Canada's top mafia boss, Vito Rizzuto, and his bloody war to avenge his family and control the North American drug trade.
Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison...
A Man of Honor
The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
"Friendships, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience-this was the 'glue' that held us together."
These were the principles that the greatest Mafia "Boss of Bosses," Joseph Bonnano, lived by. Born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Bonnano found his future amid...
by Donna Leon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The peace of a Venice library is shattered by the murder of a patron in the New York Times–bestselling series starring “a superb police detective” (Library Journal).
A Seattle Times Best Mystery and Crime Novel of the Year
One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic...
Candy
Collection of Classic Erotica, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Jeff Flanders has a perfectly good life. Until Candace Cain sashays into it and turns it upside-down. Jeff’s got a good-looking wife; he loves her and she loves him. He’s got a job, swinging a desk at a semi-shady finance company, signing off on usurious loans to losers; he doesn’t love it and...
Hunted
The Zodiac Murders - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The Zodiac serial killer claimed the lives of at least five young victims between 1966 and 1974, and mocked the police with telephone calls, taunting letters, and encrypted messages. Thousands of men have been accused; nearly 2,500 have been investigated. Yet the Zodiac has never been identified.
This...
Kitty Genovese
A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A New York Times bestseller!
Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens,...
A Dark and Bloody Ground
A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old...
Blood and Money
The Classic True Story of Murder, Passion, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
New York Times Bestseller: The “gripping” true story of a beautiful Texas socialite, her ambitious husband, and a string of mysterious deaths (Los Angeles Times).
Joan Robinson Hill was a world-class equestrian, a glamorous member of Houston high society, and the wife of Dr. John Hill,...