Crimes category: 7162 books

Cover of A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight
by Victoria Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012

Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks, When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Lizzie Andrew Borden (b.1860 – d.1927) was tried and acquitted in the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. Media coverage of the...
Cover of The Windsor Conspiracy
by Mike Ponder
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

**Is Prince Charles really a Windsor? Was the Queen Mother an evil manipulator? This fast-paced thiller is based on a conspiracy behind Britain's Royal Family.**Has the monarchy's lust for power gone too far? The severed finger of a kidnapped man is mailed to newspaper journalist Joanna Doyle, with...
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Spymistress

The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II

by William Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011

The New York Times Bestseller by the Author of A Man Called Intrepid Ideal for fans of Nancy Wake, Virginia Hall, The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum, The Woman Who Smashed Codes, The Wolves at the Door by Judith Pearson, and similar works Shares the story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder...
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The Skeleton Crew

How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases

by Deborah Halber
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

Solving cold cases from the comfort of your living room… The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes–wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement—and one another—at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America...
Cover of Death Row's Oddest Inmates
by Ty Treadwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

Robert Vickers killed his prison cellmate because the other man drank his Kool-Aid. Varnall Weeks believed that after his execution he would be reincarnated as a giant turtle who would rule the universe. Hit man and former Elvis impersonator James Paster tried to escape from his cell by slathering...
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For Laci

A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice

by Sharon Rocha
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of December 23, 2002. She spoke to her mother, Sharon Rocha, at 8:30 p.m. that night. This would be the last time anyone from her immediate family ever spoke to her. A search began which lasted an...
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Bitter Remains

A Custody Battle, A Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price

by Diane Fanning
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016

The bestselling true crime author of Under Cover of the Night recounts Laura Ackerson’s disappearance and murder in North Carolina, the discovery of her remains in Texas, and the aftermath… On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler...
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Three Sisters in Black

The Bizarre True Case of the Bathtub Tragedy

by Norman Zierold
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history. On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of twenty-four-year-old Oceana “Ocey” Snead facedown in...
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The Poison Tree

A True Story of Family Terror

by Alan Prendergast
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016

Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years—until his children plotted a deadly solution. One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to...
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A Rip in Heaven

A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath

by Jeanine Cummins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991,...
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Son of a Gun

A Memoir

by Justin St. Germain
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath** Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001....
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My Stolen Son

The Nick Markowitz Story

by Susan Markowitz, Jenna Glatzer
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010

The true story of the shocking crime behind the hit movie Alpha Dog One week after fifteen-year-old Nick Markowitz vanished, his mother received the news: Nick's body had been found in a shallow grave. Now she tells her own gripping story-the unbelievable motive for the murder, the shocking identity of the accused, and her own nine-year battle to bring her son's killers to justice.
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Richie

A Father, His Son, and the Ultimate American Tragedy

by Thomas Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016

The “powerful and moving” true story of a Long Island family torn apart by drugs, violence, and the unbridgeable divide between generations (Kirkus Reviews). George Diener, World War II veteran and traveling salesman, and his wife, Carol, had old-fashioned values and ordinary aspirations:...
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In the Best of Families

The Anatomy of a True Tragedy

by Dennis McDougal
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Ronald Reagan's personal attorney Roy Miller was a California success story. The Miller family's friends could never have imagined the horror and darkness that were to follow as Michael, the Miller's youngest son killed and raped his own mother.
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