True Crime category: 7770 books
by Gregg Olsen, Kevin M. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
From the New York Times bestselling series, Notorious USA
PRAISE FOR KEVIN M. SULLIVAN
The Bundy Murders
"Despite the multitude of books about Bundy, The Bundy Murders offers fresh material and ideas about Bundy's predatory movements. Well-researched and...
by Burl Barer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Mother. Caretaker. Murderous monster—by the Edgar Award–winning “Elmore Leonard of true crime” (Tod Goldberg, New York Times–bestselling author).
Jerry Heimann, of Everett, Washington, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer when he hired Barbara Marie Opel as a live-in housekeeper...
Murder in Boston
A Woman Murdered. A City Torn Apart. A Crime That Gripped a Nation. And That's Just the Beginning . . .
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
A shocking true story of crime, punishment, and injustice in a major American city.
Charles Stuart claimed it was a black man who carjacked him, shooting both himself and his wife, ending both her life and the life of their unborn child. The accusation and subsequent manhunt enflamed the long-simmering...
by Malcolm Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2018
Killing a Kiwi in Thailand (The Pattaya Puppy Dog Murder)
Killing a Kiwi in Thailand is the true story of three Western expats who decided to swap living in Bali for residing in resort city of Pattaya, Thailand. Tragedy then struck when one of the expats became involved in an argument with...
by Douglas d'Enno
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Two centuries of true crime—the murders, the scandals, and the vice—all of which stain the history of this world-famous seaside British resort city.
While renowned as a place of culture, fun, and tourism, the town of Brighton, England has a dark side—and a shockingly well-deserved reputation...
A Woman Scorned
The Shocking Real-Life Case of Billionairess Killer Susan Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1999
Rich, beautiful, deadly...
Billionairess Susan Cummings was very rich, even by the exalted standards of Virginia horse country. Shy and single, she used just two rooms of her huge mansion and slept with a .357 Magnum under her pillow. Some people called her haughty. Others said she was strangely...
Louisville Murder & Mayhem
Historic Crimes of Derby City
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
“Lovers of true crime will be thrilled to find a book devoted to Louisville’s more iniquitous side . . . and McQueen captures it all with obvious glee” (The Courier-Journal).
Life in Louisville in the years following the Civil War, and through the turn of the century, was as exciting...
Cruel Games
A Brilliant Professor, A Loving Mother, A Brutal Murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
University of Pennsylvania professor Rafael Robb was in a class of his own. An expert on game theory, his colleagues and students marveled over his brilliance. But his wife, Ellen, knew his dark, calculating side…and in December 2006, after years of alleged psychological abuse, she was finally ready...
Nobody Walks
Bringing My Brother's Killers to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In the vein of The Boondock Saints and Chinatown comes this true crime memoir of brotherly love and vengeance
In 2003, Christopher Walsh was found stuffed in a trash barrel in a storage locker in Van Nuys, California. After the dilatory murder investigation took seven months to file charges,...
The Man Who Robbed the Pierre
The Story of Bobby Comfort and the Biggest Hotel Robbery Ever
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s true account of the thief behind the famed 1972 heist is “an engrossing crime biography . . . [and] a fast-paced romp” (Kirkus Reviews).
Growing up in Rochester, New York, Bobby Comfort wanted to be a good something. It just so happened that he was...
The Carlton Smith True Crime Collection
Fatal Charm, Dying for Daddy, Cold-Blooded, and Killing Season
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Four chilling, true stories of murder from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and coauthor of New York Times bestseller, The Search for the Green River Killer.
As an investigative journalist for the Seattle Times, Carlton Smith covered the Green River Killer case for over a decade. Smith, along with...
by Joseph Cummins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Covering all manner of robberies, from the sack of a city (Panama in 1671), the attempt in 1876 to steal Abraham Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom, to traditional tales of train robberies and audacious bank heists, Heists is a collection of amazing crime stories.
Beginning with the story...
Unholy Covenant
A True Story of Murder in North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Radiant in her white satin wedding gown, Patricia Blakley was living a dream come true. At last, she was marrying the man she loved, Ted Kimble—a fellow Christian and son of a local preacher. But little did she realize her new husband had a dark side. Shock waves rocked the small, North Carolina...
A Wilderness of Error
The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Academy Award-winning filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case
Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Jeffrey MacDonald, a Green Beret doctor, called the police...