True Crime category: 7770 books
True Crime: Illinois
The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
From the early days of piracy to twentieth-century mob massacres, the state has been plagued with some of the worst crimes in history. This book begins with a general overview of crime in the state and then focuses on its headline stories.
Without Pity
Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
THEY KILL WITHOUT CONSCIENCE.
ANN RULE PORTRAYS THEIR SHATTERING CRIMES WITHOUT PITY.
In eight stunning Case Files volumes, from A Rose for Her Grave to the #1 blockbuster Last Dance, Last Chance, Ann Rule reigns as "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews). Now, she updates the most astonishing...
by Nigel Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Charles Manson, Aileen Wuornos, Burke & Hare, the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer, and other remorseless serial murderers whose crimes made history.
From Victorian era graveyards to a rented room in Paris to an isolated Indian farm and the California hills, the shocking murders collected...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
"M. William Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." —TV Rage
At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse. Yet so many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred under...
Daughter of the Razor
An Australian True Crime Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
An unforgettable Australian true crime story of prostitution, sexual, physical and mental abuse and violence inside the walls of family silence in the slums of Sydney in the 1930s.
Maria shares her story of growing up as the daughter of a woman connected to Sydney’s infamous Razor Gang. ...
Women Who Kill: True Crime Stories of Killer Women, Serial Killers and Psychopathic Women Who Kill for Pleasure
Serial Killers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
When male serial killers are on the loose they tend to make headlines, for example Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. Men like these are infamous for the terror that they inflicted in the general population. Many of these men are diagnosed as psychopaths.
The reasons for them going down the paths...
Cruel Deception
The True Story of Multiple Murder and Two Devastated Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Morgan's Texas-born mother Tanya, a nurse and devoted wife, pulled up stakes with her grieving husband Jim, and moved on. It was the best way to put the past...
The Pastor's Wife
The True Story of a Minister and the Shocking Death that Divided a Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
When Pastor Matthew Winkler was found dead at his Fourth Street Church of Christ parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee, both police investigators and parishioners were shaken and mystified: How could evil strike this cradle of faith? Meanwhile, Mrs. Winkler and her three daughters were still missing…
A...
A Twisted Faith
A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen investigates the sensational story of a minister who seduced four of his female congregants, and hatched a cold-blooded plot to murder his wife.
On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a house...
More Tough Crimes
True Cases by Canadian Judges and Criminal Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
More Tough Crimes follows the exceptional success of Tough Crimes: True Cases by Top Canadian Criminal Lawyers (2014) and Shrunk: Crime and Disorders of the Mind (2016), the first two books in Durvile’s True Cases Series. What makes this series so unique and successful is the window provided into...
Death by Cannibal
Minds with an Appetite for Murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Peter Davidson, the author of Homicide Miami, the true crime story that inspired the film Pain and Gain, compiles the true stories of some of America's most notorious cannibal murderers.
They violated one of civilized society’s most sacred taboos, and they’re anathema even in...
Forever and Five Days
The Chilling True Story of Love, Betrayal, and Serial Murder in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The bestselling author’s “auspicious debut in the true-crime genre . . . [a] sensitive and searching story of the murders of at least six nursing home patients” (Publishers Weekly).
Outside the dining hall of the Alpine Manor nursing home, there is a sign that reads, “This is Grand...
Corroborating Evidence III
A True Crime Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
In this newly revised and expanded third edition of “Corroborating Evidence,” William Rasmussen, author of three previous true-crime books, continues his investigation into famous, unsolved criminal cases by focusing on two separate, unrelated stories. The first zeroes in on the Cleveland Torso...
Fatal Vision
A True Crime Classic
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The electrifying true crime story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children—murders he vehemently denies committing...
Bestselling author Joe McGinniss chronicles every aspect of this horrifying...