Crimes category: 7162 books
by David Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
When it comes to America's most famous and notorious criminals, no legend has been larger than real life than that of the robber duo Bonnie and Clyde.
The murderous lovers found each other in the slums of Depression-era Dallas and embarked on a wild crime and killing spree - so why is it their...
School Massacres
True horror on a Kobo
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
There seems to be at least one high school shooting every year in America, where a lone gunman enters a school they attend and randomly opens fire on innocent students and teachers. One of the most prominent school shootings was that at Columbine High School, near Littleton, Colorado. On Tuesday,...
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...
Bodies of Evidence
From the Case Files of Notorious USA Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Box Set - Notorious Washington, Oregon, and Idaho
WITH PHOTOS A New York Times bestseller by authors Gregg Olsen (“If Loving You Is Wrong,” “Starvation Heights”) and Rebecca Morris (“Ted and Ann – The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy”), authors of the upcoming...
Carolina Crimes
Case Files of a Forensic Photographer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
A former forensic photographer leads readers through the twists and turns of twelve homicide cases that gripped South Carolina during her career.
Rita Y. Shuler’s fascination with the criminal mind began with her exposure as a young girl to a 1953 double-homicide that shocked South Carolina....
by Spooner Lysander
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Embellished with eloquent and pithy style it states the defenses of freedom of choice. Spooner has blatantly offered a repudiation of proscription of the non-coercive vices and their effects on the idiosyncrasies of human beings. The book is rich with variety of opinion of mans dos and donts. Moreover it is a rational evaluation of crime laws.
Crime and Human Rights
Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Crimes against humanity are amongst the most shocking violations imaginable. Savelsberg's text provides a much-needed criminological insight to the topic, exploring explanations of and responses to human rights abuses. Linking human rights scholarship with criminological theory, the book is divided...
L.A. Despair
A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Legendary noir author John Gilmore takes the reader on a mad, tumultuous all-night drive without remorse or pity, through the high and low life of Hollywood and the City of Angels. This is the true-crime capstone to a celebrated collection of works, a blood-and-semen-soaked noir trail of all-night diners,...
by Bryan Lightbody
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
In 1888 a series of notorious murders were perpetrated by an enigmatic killer known only as Jack the Ripper who terrified the Whitechapel district of East London. Six women were murdered in a four month period with the killings ending as suddenly as they began with an unknown motive. Whitechapel tells...
The Death Shift
Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
One of the most shocking and insidious cases in the history of medicine: the crimes of one nurse were hidden by a hospital for years… It’s 1980, and Genene Jones is working the 3 to 11 PM shift in the pediatric ICU in San Antonio's county hospital. As the weeks go by, infants under her care begin...
The Linda Wolfe Collection
Five True Crime Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Five torn-from-the-headlines true crime books from an Edgar Award–nominated author and “one of our best reporters” (John Leonard).
Linda Wolfe delves deep into the crimes that defy explanation—and the twisted minds of those who commit them. In these five books, she combines masterful...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Kitty Genovese's death in March 1963 echoed worldwide as a reminder of man's lack of care for other human beings. Three separate attacks by her assailant were witnessed by 38 of her neighbors in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. None of them took the time to call the police, a call that would...
His Name Is Ron
Our Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A memoir by the family of murder victim Ron Goldman.
His Name Is Ron is not about O. J. Simpson or his “Dream Team,” or another rehash of the “Trial of the Century.” It is about Ron Goldman—and a quiet, close-knit family that overnight became enmeshed in one of the ugliest and most...
Grave Murder
The story behind the brutal Welkom killing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
She is a petite, innocent-looking young woman with fantasies of skinning and flaying human skin. He is a diagnosed schizophrenic who fantasises about committing cold-blooded murder. When they meet, they will plan and execute one of the most horrific crimes ever documented in this country. In April...