Crime category: 24427 books
Gangsters of Harlem
The Gritty Underworld of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
For the first time in paperback, author Ron Chepesiuk chronicles the little known history of organized crime in Harlem. African American organized crime has had as significant an impact on its constituent community as Italian, Jewish, and Irish organized crime has had on theirs. Gangsters are every bit...
by Sara Blaedel
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
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Louise Rick--head of the police department's elite Special Search Agency charged with missing persons cases--returns in Sara Blaedel's twist-filled suspense novel...
A housewife is the target of a shocking, methodical killing. Shot with a hunting rifle through...
by Mark Horner
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
"Horner skillfully compiles facts and recites dialogue from thousands of pages of police supplemental files, court transcripts, and personal interviews." -- Weekly Alibi (Albuquerque
"Horner tells this incredible story of the life and death of Girly Chew with the vivaciousness...
Dead Man Running: An insider's story on one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs ... The Bandidos
An insider's story on one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs ... The Bandidos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A first hand account of perhaps the most powerful and influential crime group currently operating in Australia and North America. It is the first time ever that an insider has told the true and chilling story of the bike gangs that dominate the drug and illegal weapons trade. They'll come after me....
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
On November 14, 1912, house detectives at the Saratoga Hotel in Chicago discovered the body of a woman in room 409 on a blood-soaked mattress. The labels in her clothing led police to Cincinnati, where friends and relatives identified the belongings of Mrs. Emma Kraft, a highly-respected widow who...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Here's a true crime story that is too bizarre to be believed. In 1921, the Roseburg, Oregon, dentist Dr. Richard M Brumfield tried to fake his own death by putting the dead body of the local hermit, Dennis Russell, in the flaming wreckage of Doc's roadster--after he removed the man's teeth and set...
by Phil Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Her throat had been slashed twice from left to right, while a deep vertical wound had ripped her abdomen open from the breastbone, exposing her entrails to the heavens. Soon Scotland Yard received a letter from the killer, written in red ink, ending with words that would become forever feared –...
American Justice
A True Crime Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Three shocking tales of violence, intrigue, and the search for truth from a two-time Edgar Award finalist and Ann Rule’s “favorite true-crime writer.”
In this riveting collection, prize-winning investigative journalist James Neff examines the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder mystery; the terrifying...
Mobbed Up
Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The spellbinding saga of Teamster boss Jackie Presser’s rise and fall
In his rise from car thief to president of America’s largest labor union, Jackie Presser used every ounce of his street smarts and rough-edged charisma to get ahead. He also had a lot of help along the way—not just...
by David Pietras
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Whether you think they are evil, disturbed, or just crazy you are part of a society that exhibits both a repulsion and fascination with the lives and minds of serial killers.
When we look back at these crimes we see pure evil. It is amazing what one human being could do to another. For some of the...
Drug Lord: A True Story
The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
"Drug Lord is the real thing. Raw, immediate, indispensable."-Don Winslow, author of The Power of Dog and California Fire and Life
"The [drug smuggling] business goes on, the slaughtered dead pile up, the US agencies continue to ratchet up their budgets, the prisons grow larger...
by Corey Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
More victims than Bundy . . .
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In Houston, Texas, on a Sunday morning in spring, Coral Eugene Watts trapped two young women in their apartment. Only hours before, he’d killed another woman by drowning her in her bathtub. As Watts attempted to do the same to 20-year-old Lori Lister, her roommate...
The Murder of the Century
The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
“No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.”—Dave Eggers
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover...
Dancing with the Devil
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
IN AMERICAN GANGSTER, THE FEDS TOOK DOWN INFAMOUS HEROIN DEALER FRANK LUCAS. BUT THE KINGPIN BEHIND LUCAS’S CRIMINAL REIGN, LEROY “NICKY” BARNES, REMAINED “MR. UNTOUCHABLE.” UNTIL ONE UNDERCOVER AGENT PROVED TOUGH ENOUGH—OR CRAZY ENOUGH—TO INFILTRATE HIS DOMAIN AND NAIL THE MOST DANGEROUS...