True Crime category: 7770 books
by Joe McGinniss
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The sordid, #1 New York Times bestselling true crime story of adultery, addiction, gambling debt, and murder in a privileged suburban town—from author and journalist Joe McGinniss.
The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream and seemingly in...
I'm No Monster
The Horrifying True Story of Josef Fritzl
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
The true crime story that made international headlines: Josef Fritzl held his daughter captive as a sex slave, and fathered seven children with her, creating a hidden family no one knew about-not even Fritzl's own wife.
Did She Kill Him?
A Torrid True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and Murder in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“An intriguing story told in the style of Thomas Hardy or George Eliot, if they traded in true crime” (Kirkus Reviews).
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James...
Murder City
The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real.
In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just...
Murder in Linn County, Oregon
The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This true crime account of a Prohibition liquor raid gone wrong illuminates “a dark and violent stretch in Linn County history” (Corvallis Gazette-Times).
On June 21, 1922, Linn County sheriff Charles Kendall and Reverend Roy Healy drove out to the town of Plainview to arrest a moonshining...
by The Whitechapel Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
London's premier society for the study of Jack the Ripper presents a compact guide to the most famous case of them allThe Jack the Ripper mystery is recognized as being the greatest "whodunnit" the world has ever seen. Conjuring up images of swirling fog, top hats, and dark alleys, it is...
The Doctor's Wife Is Dead
The True Story of a Peculiar Marriage, a Suspicious Death, and the Murder Trial that Shocked Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
A mysterious death in respectable society: a brilliant historical true crime story
In 1849, a woman called Ellen Langley died in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. She was the wife of a prosperous local doctor. So why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been confined to the grim attic of the...
by Vincent Bugliosi
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
"Grips you by the throat from beginning to end."—Cleveland Plain Dealer
ALONE WITH HER NEW HUSBAND on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched...
MAFIA - VOL. 2 THE ANALYSIS OF THE SICILIAN ORGANIZED CRIME
The Analysis of the Sicilian Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Caterina Bartoldi, lived several years in Sicily, she has become a Mafia specialist. In this fascinating book, she takes us from Sicily to the United States and in many other countries, she tells us about this part of History, which is very often confidential, mysterious and difficult to understand....
Mafia and Organized Crime
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Ruthless, cruel, and irresistibly cool: the Mafia has always appealed to the darker side of the imagination. But just what is the Mafia, how does it operate, and what can be done to combat it? James Finckenauer debunks the romantic notions and mystique surrounding the Mafia to reveal the harsh realities...
The New York Times Book of Crime
More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
From the archives of The New York Times, 165 years of the most notorious real-life crimes.
For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime, its reporters racing alongside tabloids to track the shocking incidents that disrupt daily life. This fascinating compilation,...
The 100 Kilo Case
The True Story of an Irish Ex-NYPD Detective Protected by the Mafia, and one of the Most Infamous Drug Busts in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
'Bizarre, dramatic, often funny and never less than compelling' Irish Independent
Peter Daly was nineteen when he left Donegal, bound for America. Nine years later, in 1961, following a stint with the US Army, he joined the New York Police Department.
His beat was the Lower East Side of Manhattan...
Always In Our Hearts
The Story Of Amy Grossberg, Brian Peterson, The Pregnancy They Hid And The Baby They Killed
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2000
Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson grew up in a wealthy New Jersey suburb, meeting and falling in love while still in high school, then set out for college with their classmates. But in November of their Freshman Year, the two young lovers spent a night in a Delaware motel room where, after hiding her...
Killer Kids
Shocking True Stories Of Children Who Murdered Their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Innocent children turned ruthless murderers...Hate-filled and deeply disturbed...They kill with cold-blooded savagery...
Nothing was too good for precious Katy-- sports cars, jewelry, designer clothes. Her father, a successful South Florida businessman, could not resist any of her whims. But...