Crimes category: 7162 books
House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler
The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
To his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine who played chess and hosted summer barbeques in his front yard. But there was a dark side to Sowell—and a horrific secret inside his house. In mid-2007, Crystal Dozier, 38, made plans to...
Life Sentence
Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting -- or, How I Fell Out of Love with the Canadian Justice System (Especially Judges)
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A beloved crime reporter revisits some of her biggest assignments and passes judgement on our judicial system—and especially its judges—in this national bestseller.
When Christie Blatchford wandered into a Toronto courtroom in 1978 for the start of the first criminal trial she would cover...
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...
Girls of Tender Age
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith seamlessly combines a memoir whose intimacy matches that...
Conan Doyle for the Defense
How Sherlock Holmes's Creator Turned Real-Life Detective and Freed a Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods
A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the...
A Little Piece of Light
A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement.
Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early...
Duel with the Devil
The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The remarkable true story of a turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued—a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was served—from bestselling author of the Edgar finalist, Murder of the Century.
In the...
Death of Innocence
The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement—with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he...
Murdering McKinley
The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliant...
The Great War of Our Time
The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
New York Times Bestseller
Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows.
Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA...
by Robert S. Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
In the future, The Mueller Report may be judged as the most important document of our time. And no matter where you reside on the American political spectrum, you will probably agree that it will have far-reaching implications for the balance of power among the three coequal branches of government...
McKinley, Murder and the Pan-American Exposition
A History of the Presidential Assassination, September 6, 1901
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley held a public reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In the receiving line, holding a gun concealed by a handkerchief, was Leon Czolgosz, a young man with anarchist leanings. When he reached McKinley, Czolgosz fired two shots,...
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.”
—...
by Laura Bates
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"Shakespeare Saved My Life touches on the search for meaning in life, the struggles that complicate the path to triumph and the salvation that can be found in literature's great works ... An inspiring account.**"—**Shelf Awareness
A female professor, a super maximum security prisoner,...