True Crime category: 7770 books
Shrunk
Crime and Disorders of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
SHRUNK: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful stories by Canadian and international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about the many complex mental health issues they face and the care involved in dealing with them.
Unlike any other book within the genre...
by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
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...
Before He Wakes
A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
New York Times**–bestselling author: “In the art of true-crime reportage, Jerry Bledsoe is the best in the country . . . Before He Wakes has the suspense of a novel” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).**
Barbara Stager was known as a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader...
I, Monster
Serial Killers in Their Own Chilling Words
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
What goes through the dark minds of such notorious killers as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader (the "BTK Killer"), and others? In this chilling book, you'll read exactly what they were thinking in their own words as they committed horrible crimes....
True Crime Stories: Monsters And Criminals From The Last 250 Years: Sickly Serial Killers From The Past
True Crime Stories, #4
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
How are serial killers made? Perhaps, if someone could answer this question, then the police and the community would be able to prevent people from killing in the first place. As it is, this question remains unanswered though many different hypothesis are put forward by the experts.
Until a...
by "Doc" Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Inside/Out is based on a true crime. One of murder, grand larceny and political corruption.It’s an election year and the Mayor needs the best Detective on the job.Veteran Detective Cod Overture and his partner Leo Lapaka are assigned the task of solving the killing of two police officers.Their...
Death Sentence
The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
In this “true story that reads like a novel,” the #1 New York Times–bestselling author reveals the facts behind a notorious Southern murder case (Library Journal).
When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his forty-six-year-old fiancée, Velma Barfield, was...
My Father's Kidnapping and Retrieval in Pakistan
A father's nightmare and a son's desperate struggle to save him
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
What would you do if your parent was snatched from his home by brutal thieves? It’s a question most people thankfully never have to answer. But when, Syed Saqib, a Pakistani born American, arrives in his native country for what is supposed to be a celebratory family reunion, he quickly has to ask...
PEOPLE True Crime Stories
PEOPLE Magazine Presents Cults
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
The Editors of PEOPLE Magazine present True Crime: Cults.
Murder
A Tale of Modern American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
What exactly is it about murder that claims such a powerful hold on the American imagination? In this book, Sara L. Knox examines postwar America’s preoccupation with this act of violence. Demonstrating how American culture both consumes and produces tales of murder, Knox examines numerous relevant...
We'll Find You
A Shocking True Crime Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2019
"We'll find you no matter what." When Mollie Tibbetts disappeared on July 18, 2018, her mother, Laura Calderwood, promised she would never quit searching.
Mollie's father, two brothers, along with a legion of friends and other family members, took the same vow.
A special law enforcement...
The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition
The Year's Best True Crime Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of...
by Jeffrey Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
A shocking true account of a global network of unimaginable proportions.
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When telecommunications companies merge, the news is immediately analyzed by the media and government agencies. Owners of the companies' stock immediately vote on the wisdom of the move by buying...
Gangland Chicago
Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This engrossing tale of gangs and organized criminality begins in the frontier saloons situated in the marshy flats of Chicago, the future world class city of Mid-continent. Gangland Chicago recounts the era of parlor gambling, commercialized vice districts continuing through the bloody Prohibition...