Crime category: 24427 books
Early Organized Crime in Detroit
Vice, Corruption and the Rise of the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Though detectives denied it, the Italian mafia was operating in Detroit as early as 1900, and the city was forever changed. Bootleggers controlled the Detroit River and created a national distribution network for illegal booze during Prohibition. Gangsters, cops and even celebrities fell victim to...
Gotti's Rules
The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster—“one of the most respected crime reporters in the country” (60 Minutes)—comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the unique viewpoint of notorious mob hit-man...
Love Gone Wrong
True Crime Collection
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Box set from Notorious USA: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine state with a darker side than most. The mecca for wealthy retirees to enjoy their younger girlfriends, yachts and marble-floored mansions, where recreational drugs, sex and booze flow like...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
“Phelps is a true-crime veteran.” —New York Post
Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor’s little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn’t lie...
Blood Games
A True Account of Family Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling author of Bitter Blood weaves “a powerful account” of greed that led to an unspeakable crime (The New York Times Book Review).
As they slept in their North Carolina home, wealthy Lieth Von Stein and his wife Bonnie suffered a vicious assault with a knife...
by Darren Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Previously published as Becky, this is the heartbreaking story behind the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a crime that shocked the nation and tore a family in two. A vulnerable and shy girl, Becky Watts was brutally murdered and dismembered by her own step-brother on 19 February...
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Features new material on the Golden State Killer's case and an updated afterword by Patton Oswalt.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel...
Bigwig
The Remarkable Rise and Fall of Tony Mokbel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Finally the Tony Mokbel story can be told. the inspiration for Channel Nine's FAt tONY & CO, the new crime series from the producers of UNDERBELLY.An epic tale of family, crime and betrayal set against the backdrop of Melbourne's bullet-riddled suburbs. the cradle-to-cage story of how milk-bar...
The Mastermind
Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur
“A tour de force of shoe-leather reporting—undertaken,...
Top Hoodlum
Frank Costello, Prime Minister of the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
“DeStefano tells Costello’s story well.”—Kirkus Reviews ** **
The definitive book on the ultimate mob boss—featuring new FBI revelations, rare family photos, and never-before-published material . . .
To authorities, Frank Costello was “The Prime Minister of the Underworld” and “one...
Queen of Thieves
The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka Marm” Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country’s top receiver of stolen goods, she...
by James Surowiecki
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A year ago it would have been difficult to conceive of an anthology of stories soley devoted to corporate malfeasance. Today, the challenge has been to keep it confined to one volume. From P.J. O’Rourke’s hilarious “How To Stuff A Wild Enron,” in which he compares trying to understand Enron’s...
by Terry Ganey
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Like a real-life Hannibal Lecter--the psychopathic murderer from Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lambs"--Charles Hatcher was cunning, sadistic and totally remorseless. He was a man with no conscience. He killed sixteen people, three of them children.Hatcher was also responsible for a different...
Carl Williams
The Short Life & Violent Times of Melbourne's Gangland Drug Lord
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Unlikely crime boss, serial killer, prison snitch, suburban boy turned bad, cult hero - who was the real Carl Williams?
When the 'baby-faced killer' met his shocking end in Barwon Prison's maximum-security unit, he left in his wake a trail of brutal murders, an underworld in flames, a police...