True Crime category: 7770 books
Connie's Secret: The True Story Of A Shocking Murder And A Family Mystery At A Time When Appearances Were Everything
The true story of a shocking murder and a family mystery at a time when appearances were everything
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Gripping true crime, based on the murder that sent to the gallows the last man in NSW to be hung. On 4 February 1939, Connie Sommerlad was brutally butchered and her brother left for dead in their family farmhouse in rural Tenterfield. It was a murder that would rock the tight-knit community; a murder...
Innocent Until Interrogated
The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
On a sweltering August morning, a woman walked into a Buddhist temple near Phoenix and discovered the most horrific crime in Arizona history. Nine Buddhist temple members—six of them monks committed to lives of non-violence—lay dead in a pool of blood, shot execution style. The massive manhunt...
by Gary Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Leaving Vegas a fascinating glimpse into the world of Kansas City mobsters in the 1970sYou don't have to be a local history buff to be interested in the chronicles of Kansas City's infamous mob family. Those of us who were around here in the mid-1970s recall the headlines. Gary Jenkins,...
Murder by the Book
The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
**"Enthralling . . . A page-turner that can hold its own with any one of the many murder-minded podcasts out there."
—Jezebel
From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William...
Star Spangled Scandal
Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
"There may be no two more addicting topics to people right now than politics and true crime. Star Spangled Scandal delves into both of these—with a heavy dose of sex added in."
— NPR book review
“… and sir I do assure you he has as much the use of your wife as you have.”
—...
Los asesinos de la luna
Petróleo, dinero, homicidio y la creación del FBI.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2019
El autor de Z, la ciudad perdida, David Grann, regresa con un emocionante True Crime que desvela una de las conspiraciones más monstruosas de la historia de Estados Unidos.
Best Seller de The New York Times, mejor libro del 2017 según Amazon y Ganador del Edgar Allan Poe Award al Best Fact...
Killer Families: True Crime
Murder In The Family, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
MURDER IN THE FAMILY. MURDER BY DADS, MOMS, KIDS & SPOUSES.
The family home is supposed to be a place where family members find a safe haven from the stress of outside life. A place where they feel protected and loved. Yet for many this is simply not the case.
The true...
Bitter Remains
A Custody Battle, A Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The bestselling true crime author of Under Cover of the Night recounts Laura Ackerson’s disappearance and murder in North Carolina, the discovery of her remains in Texas, and the aftermath…
On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler...
Anyone You Want Me to Be
A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
JOHN DOUGLAS -- THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MINDHUNTER AND THE UNDISPUTED MASTER PROFILER OF SERIAL CRIMINALS -- TELLS THE CHILLING TRUE STORY OF JOHN ROBINSON, THE INTERNET'S FIRST SERIAL MURDERER.
In Olathe, Kansas, a balding, pudgy father of four sits in prison convicted on three counts of homicide...
The Killer of Little Shepherds
A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Winner of the Gold Dagger Award
A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal investigation.
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside, eluding authorities for...
Closing Time
The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: “A first-rate achievement” (Truman Capote).
In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man...
by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
In this unputdownable true crime collection from New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, discover fascinating cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can and will kill.
The author of The Stranger Beside...
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...