True Crime category: 7770 books
by Jonathan Kellerman, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 brings together the murderers and the masterminds, the mysteries and missteps that make...
Deadly Mistress
A True Story of Marriage, Betrayal and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
LOVE GONE BAD. MURDER GONE WRONG.
West Coast doctor Kenneth Stahl would do anything to free himself from his wife Carolyn. Then Adriana Vasco—Kenneth's former receptionist and mistress of nine years—obliged by introducing him to ex-con Dennis Earl Godley. The deal was set. Godley would...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
One of our most engaging crime journalists. --Katherine Ramsland
True Love Kills
In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of 45-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman...
by Corey Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
More victims than Bundy . . .
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In Houston, Texas, on a Sunday morning in spring, Coral Eugene Watts trapped two young women in their apartment. Only hours before, he’d killed another woman by drowning her in her bathtub. As Watts attempted to do the same to 20-year-old Lori Lister, her roommate...
The Whisky King
The remarkable true story of Canada's most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie on his trail
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
“True-crime writing at its finest.” —Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception
A rich and fascinating history of Canada’s first celebrity mobster, Rocco Perri—King of the Bootleggers—and the man who pursued him, Canada’s first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dean...
Brady and Hindley
Genesis of the Moors Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The shocking true crime story of child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Great Britain’s most horrific serial killers.
During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent,...
True Crime: Pennsylvania
The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
The history of criminal offense in Pennsylvania is documented in this book, beginning with a general survey of crime in the state and then focusing on its headline cases.
Lindbergh
The Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Edgar Award Finalist: This “sensational” and “absolutely compelling” true crime tale finally answers the question: Who really killed the Lindbergh baby? (San Francisco Chronicle).
On the night of March 1, 1932, celebrated aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son was kidnapped from his...
by Gregg Olsen, M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
A disturbing collection of true crime cases by two masters of the genre.
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Three complete short stories by Investigation Discovery’s Dark Minds show host M. Williams with an introduction to the collection by New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen.
DANCE WITH...
by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
A witty and informative look at classic American murder cases
On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prizewinning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where...
The Murder of Dr. Chapman
The Legendary Trials of Lucretia Chapman and Her Lover
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In this “first-rate blending of true-crime, character-study and history” a 19th-century love con leads to murder and a sensational double trial (Susan Isaacs, New York Times–bestselling author of Compromising Positions).
In 1831 Lucretia Winslow Chapman was a wife and mother of five who...
Victim
The Other Side of Murder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The New York Times–bestselling author’s pioneering true crime classic: It’s “Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood turned inside out” (Newsweek).
During an armed robbery in 1974, five hostages were held in the basement of a small home-audio store in Ogden, Utah, by a group of enlisted US...
Cries in the Desert
The Shocking True Story of a Sadistic Torturer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties--of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until...
Blind Passion
A True Story of Seduction, Obsession, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Beauty
She was a gorgeous swimsuit model. He was a charming Greek sailor. They met on a cruise in November of 1997 and soon thereafter began a clandestine love affair. Little more than a year later, thirty-one-year-old Julie Scully left her millionaire ex-husband and three-year-old daughter behind,...