Crimes category: 7162 books
by Caitlin Rother
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Praise for Caitlin Rother and her true-life thrillers
"Will keep you on the edge of your seat."--Aphrodite Jones
"An exciting page-turner."--M. William Phelps
Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference....
Honor Bound
My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
They were accused of one of the most infamous murders of our time. Targeted by the media, sentenced by the courts, and wrongfully imprisoned for four excruciating years for a crime neither could fathom let alone perpetrate, Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a trial so bizarre...
Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in Histroy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet—moon rocks—from an "impregnable" high-tech vault.
But breaking...
Convict Cowboys
The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Convict Cowboys is the first book on the nation’s first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against a backdrop of Texas history, covering the history of rodeo, the...
On the Farm
Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Now that the publication bans are lifted, you need Stevie Cameron to get the whole story, which includes accounts of Pickton's notoriety that police never uncovered. You need On the Farm.
Covering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killer gave Stevie Cameron access not...
Out of Thin Air
A True Story of Impossible Murder in Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In 1974, two men vanished without a trace under suspicious circumstances, shocking the people of Iceland, where serious crime is almost nonexistent. More than a year later, there seemed to be a breakthrough when a small-time crook named Erla Bolladottir described a dream to police that they interpreted...
by David M. Oshinsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1997
In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era—and beyond.
Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s...
Summary of The Billion Dollar Spy
by David E. Hoffman | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of The Billion Dollar Spy: by David E. Hoffman | Includes Analysis Preview: The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman chronicles the six year relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and engineer, Adolf...
by Geoff Brookes
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Swansea has a dangerous past. It was a seaport where the world came to trade, where the world confronted remote small-town Wales and Swansea confronted the unknown. The grim and bloody events in this book reveal the dark heart of Swansea’s history. Local author Geoff Brookes takes the reader through...
Triumph of Justice
Closing the Book on the O.J. Simpson Saga
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
After the white Bronco, after the bloody glove, after the media frenzy and the verdict that set O.J. Simpson free, Daniel Petrocelli came to pick up the pieces. Outraged by the disastrous miscarriage of justice, the family of murder victim Ronald Goldman sought justice in civil court—their last chance...
Lethal Passage
The Story of a Gun
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old...
Dirty Dealing
Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of a Federal Judge
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
"Cartwright tells the story of the Chagra brothers, Lee and Joe, as they get mixed up with the drug-running community along the border and in short order find themselves hopelessly entangled in a net cast by the DEA. Even readers unfamiliar with the well-publicized events of the book or of the...
by Eric G. Meeks
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Ripped from the headlines, this collection of true crime stories spans the past century of criminal enterprises in Palm Springs and the surrounding communities. Inside, you'll read about the most famous murders, mob connections, conspiracies, fraud scams, prostitution rings, and more.Several...
Where Monsters Hide
Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
An unexplained disappearance spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery.
In October 2014, local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo faced a perplexing missing-person case. It was not like Chris Regan, a devoted father and dependable employee, to take off without explanation. When Frizzo learned...