Crime category: 24427 books

From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author, comes the newly updated compelling narrative nonfiction and historical true crime book, Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers, and Victims of the Twentieth Century. From the assassination of President William...

From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and the bestselling author of Murder at the Pencil Factory, Murder Chronicles, Murder During the Chicago World’s Fair, Serial Killer Couples, and The Sex Slave Murders, comes the gripping historical true crime anthology, Jealous Rage: Stunning True...

Mystery, danger, suspense and nerve-shredding action as we meet Eva Roberts and Dan Bradley, private investigators at the very beginning of their crime thriller adventure. Could you risk it all to protect the innocent? In this short read opening shot, Eva and Dan take on an unusual case...

Law enforcement often struggles to connect the dots to identify someone as a killer beyond a reasonable doubt. Forensic astrology can serve a much-needed civic and legal functionit helps connect dots between the crime and the perpetrator. The stars, after all, do not lie. Real...

Discover the darker history of this South Yorkshire town with these true crime stories and photos. This book takes you on a journey into England’s past, and into the gritty industrial town of Barnsley. With a variety of true-crime tales, it reveals not only the poverty and squalor in which...

The Magaddino crime family of Buffalo/Niagara Falls, New York was controlled by brothers Stefano and Antonio Magaddino. The siblings managed illicit criminal activity that extended from western New York to southern Ontario and the Ohio Valley. The Magaddinos were heavily involved in narcotics and...

Joseph Laratro was a Lucchese crime family member who spent his career in the gambling and betting rackets. As early as 1939 he was arrested for possession of policy slips in an illegal numbers racket. He was also cited for running slot machines for illegal purposes. He was one of thirty-nine men...

The Colombo crime family is one of five major Mafia families in New York City. The youngest of the syndicate organizations in NYC the Colombos evolved during the breakup of the old Joe Profaci family. Profaci controlled an organization of his own following the conclusion of the Castellammarese War...

Joe Gulmi was associated with the Gambino crime family but his exact connection to them is subject to speculation. Multiple New York businesses noticed a man frequenting their establishments on multiple occasions. They assumed for a time that he was a bookie. Soon he began asking them to sign a contract...

Two honest brothers, forced into crime by criminal threat planned the perfect crime to steal valuable Vatican relic in cased in a jeweled receptacle. Their plan succeeds but during escape one brother is killed in an automobile accident. The surviving brother is the only one who know details of the crime...

The shocking inside story of life in a biker gang, from one of Britain’s top true-crime writers As a member of the international motorcycle club known as the Pagans, Daniel “Snake Dog” Boone had a ringside seat to some of the most violent biker battles ever fought. When he joined his...

In this compilation of twenty short stories by Joe Tog, the criminal genre is nailed exactly as it was during the 70s and 80s - he experienced it - both inside prison and on the outside. Step by step he describes how a convicted murderer carried out an audacious escape from Pentridge Prison. An arsonist...

'Explosive' Irish Sunday Mirror 'A fascinating read' Seán O'Rourke, Today with Seán O'Rourke, RTÉ 'Fat' Freddie Thompson first appeared in court in 1997. He was seventeen and already aspiring to be a major crime boss. Over the next twenty years his criminal career would be marked...

She's made a deal with a devil... THE PACT ____________ Eve Weston, daughter of recently deceased con man Alexander Weston, knows a good deal when she sees it - and this one doesn't even come close. But if she doesn't want her vulnerable brother Terry being beaten to a pulp in jail, she can't...