Crimes category: 7162 books
Spree Killers
The Enigma of Mass Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
20 April 1999, Columbine High School, Colorado, USA. Lunchtime. Enter Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold armed with shotguns. Pumping bullets into two classmates they left one dead and the other fighting for his life. They went on the rampage through the school leaving in their wake a trail of bloody death...
by Larry J. Kolb
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
A real-life adventure story, offering a unique and compelling picture of the danger, glamour and psychology of espionage.
Raised around the globe by a high-ranking American spymaster, Larry Kolb learned to think, look, and listen like a spy. Overworld—his father's term for the powers-that-be—is...
Hostages
Dramatic Accounts of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
On 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists disguised as repairmen infiltrated a school in Beslan, Russia. Using concealed weapons they took 1100 children and adults hostage. The world looked on aghast as the siege played out on live TV. Hostages tells the incredible and often harrowing stories surrounding...
Snipers and Shooters
The Kill Shot Out of Nowhere
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The art of murder knows many forms, but few more harrowing than murder for reasons of ritual or the supernatural. Supposedly serving a higher cause, they are often little more than acts of self-gratifying blood-lust. Voodoo Killers chronicles the disturbing history of ritualistic killing around the...
Devil Incarnate
A Depraved Mercenary's Lifelong Swathe of Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Athol Visser, or 'Ivan the Terrible', is a ruthless torture technician who has maimed and murdered his way around the globe. He killed his first victim at 16, his last at 60, and, in between, has been a mercenary, drug smuggler, gun runner and spy.
In his own words, Visser takes us on a chilling...
by Henry Joly
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
“ Qu’est-ce que l’assistance ? C’est l’ensemble des secours divers par lesquels une société essaie de seconder la bonne volonté des gens en suppléant à l’insuffisance de leurs moyens, là où ils ont à se procurer le nécessaire. Qu’est-ce que la répression ? C’est l’ensemble...
by Henry Joly
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
“ La vie de M. Bérenger a été longue, « si toutefois, comme dit le poète, il y a quelque chose de long dans ce qui est mortel. » En tout cas, il représente une époque dont les malheurs, les aspirations, les efforts et les regrets, dont les beaux exemples aussi donnés au monde tout entier,...
by Elise Gainer
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Discover the darker side of New York City history with this collection of stories and photos.
Amid the bustle of the city’s ever-changing landscape, Manhattan’s past still whispers. At Fraunces Tavern, George Washington’s emotional farewell luncheon in 1783 echoes in the Long Room. Gertrude...
Greentown
Murder and Mystery in Greenwich, America's Wealthiest Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The “authentic and definitive” story of Martha Moxley’s murder case, including the conviction of her killer, Michael Skakel—includes photos! (Greenwich Time)
On the night before Halloween, 1975, the wealthy community of Greenwich, Connecticut, was rocked by the murder of fifteen-year-old...
Crime and the Craft
Masonic Involvement in Murder, Treason and Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Crime and the Craft: Masonic Involvement in Murder, Treason and Scandal reveals the Freemasons who have been involved in murder, treason, skulduggery and scandal from the time of the English Civil War to the 1980s. Nearly every infamous case investigated by Scotland Yard, including Jack the Ripper,...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Candy Jones became a successful model and later owned her own modeling agency. She published books and articles on self improvement, beauty and other subjects. She also hosted a number of radio shows. From Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania she was raised by her mother and maternal grandmother, who was an...
by Albert Jack
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the best selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries and many more...
The Mysterious Death of God’s Own Banker - Did Roberto Calvi, head of a bank with close connections to the Vatican, take his own life or was there a more sinister...
Summary of Orange Is the New Black
by Piper Kerman | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman | Includes Analysis Preview: Preview of the earlier Chapters: Chapter 1 In 1993, twenty-four year old Piper Kerman was at the Brussels airport, waiting for her suitcase after arriving from Chicago...
Savage Grace
The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland -- beautiful, rich, worldly -- and their handsome, gentle son, Tony. Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a violent...