Crimes category: 7162 books
Mindhunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1998
Now a Netflix original series
Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.
In...
Lethal Guardian:
A Twisted True Story Of Sexual Obsession, Family Betrayal And Murder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
"A dark, true account of obsession." --Gregg Olsen
"Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." --TV Rage
Smart, gorgeous redhead Beth Carpenter was a successful attorney in Connecticut's upscale coastal towns. Her brother-in-law, Anson...
Drugs, Crime and Public Health
The Political Economy of Drug Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it discusses theoretical perspectives and provides...
by V. L. Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Lizzie Borden, after research, I found is a 7th cousin, 3 times removed. I have always had a fascination about Lizzie Borden and have read about her over the years. When I found we were related, I just HAD to know more and try and figure out the murders. I think I have really figured out this who-dunit...
by Timothy Egan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
“No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection.”
—TONY HILLERMAN
On the night of September 14, 1935, George Conniff, a town marshal in Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington, was shot to death. A lawman had been killed, yet there seemed...
by James Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
As seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series: In these two true crime thrillers, a reluctant hitman and a cheating husband fight for their lives . . . and a single mother exacts her revenge.
In Murder, Interrupted, rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing...
Deadly Greed
The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
From the author of Above Suspicion: The “riveting” true story of Charles Stuart, who murdered his pregnant wife and pinned the crime on a black man in 1980s Boston (Kirkus Reviews).
On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that...
Fear Came to Town
The Santa Claus, Georgia, Murders
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In the town of Santa Claus, Georgia, the holiday spirit lived all year round...until Jerry Scott Heidler came to town...
In Santa Claus, Georgia, the streets were named Candy Cane Road and December Drive. Christmas was the lifeblood of the people. One terrible night in December 1997, Heidler...
The Michigan Murders
The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper’s Reign of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Edgar Award Finalist: The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized midwestern town, and the serial killer who could have lived next door
In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her...
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2011
Mass Murder in the Sky: The Bombing of Flight 629 is a 7,063 word historical true crime story about mass killer, Jack Gilbert Graham.It tells the shocking story of hatred, revenge, mass murder, terrorism, and a bizarre dynamite bomb Christmas gift that brought a plane down in the Colorado sky...
Lies Told Under Oath
The Puzzling Story of the Pfanschmidt Murders and of the Surviving Son—Victim or Villain?
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In 1912, a prosperous Illinois farm familyCharles; his wife, Mathilda; their fifteen-year-old daughter, Blanche; and boarding schoolteacher Emma Kaempenwere brutally murdered, the crime concealed by arson, and the familys surviving son, handsome Ray Pfanschmidt, arrested. He was convicted by the press...
Fire Lover
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
**The hunt forthe most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century—in this Edgar Award–winning true crime story that’s “stranger than fiction” (The New York Times).
From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The...
A Day in Prison
An Insider's Guide to Life Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A rare glimpse at twenty-four hours in the life of an inmate—from doing laundry in “the hole” to surviving a fight—by an ex-con and professional prison coach.
No one is prepared for the reality of incarceration. In this fascinating and utterly candid guide, prison coach John “Doc”...
by Alejandra Ibarra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2019
El Chapo Guzmán: el juicio del siglo es un valioso documento periodístico que señala aspectos vitales para comprender la violencia, impunidad y corrupción de nuestros políticos, así como el turbulento y manipulador ejercicio de la justicia norteamericana.
Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul fue de...