Crime category: 24427 books
by Edna Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
True stories of crime in Miami by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face.
Set against the neon backdrop of the South Florida city where Miami Herald reporter Edna Buchanan covered the police beat for nearly two decades, this memoir collects true tales of both...
Death of Innocence
The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement—with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he...
by Don Lasseter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The Hanging Judge of California (formerly titled Perfect Justice) probes outrageous decisions by the US Federal 9th Circuit Court in overturning death penalties. California Judge Donald A. McCartin, who sent nine men to death row, speaks out in fury when convicted child-killer Rodney Alcala’s verdict...
Star Spangled Scandal
Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
"There may be no two more addicting topics to people right now than politics and true crime. Star Spangled Scandal delves into both of these—with a heavy dose of sex added in."
— NPR book review
“… and sir I do assure you he has as much the use of your wife as you have.”
—...
All that Remains
A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**Book of the Year, 2018 Saltire Literary Awards
A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month
For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality.**
Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human...
The Court of Last Resort
The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully Convicted
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Edgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason.
In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed...
The Father of Forensics
The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Before there was CSI, there was one man who saw beyond the crime and into the future of forensic science.
His name was Bernard Spilsbury—and, through his use of cutting-edge science, he single-handedly brought criminal investigations into the modern age. Starting out as a young, charismatic physician...
by Donald Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
IntroductionJust read it. Every word in this summarised document is true, and it contains the most important information to ever reach the internet. This document is written to empower the good people of the world against the tyranny which exists all around us in our world today. Effectively, the document...
Terror by Night
The True Story of the Brutal Texas Murder That Destroyed a Family, Restored One Man’s Faith, and Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
At 3:00 a.m. on March 1, 2008, Terry Caffey awoke to find his daughter’s boyfriend standing in his bedroom with a gun. An instant later the teen opened fire, killing Terry’s wife, his two sons, and wounding him 12 times, before setting the house ablaze. Terry fell into deep depression and planned...
The Art of the Steal
How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
The world--famous former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me if You Cannow reveals the mind--boggling tricks of the scam trade--with advice that has made him one of America's most sought--after fraud--prevention experts.
"I had as much knowledge as any man alive concerning the...
by Kieron Gillen, Jody Houser, Ibrahim Moustafa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
"Contains Four exhilarating stand-alone Bond stories from superstar creators. SERVICE: In contemporary politics, where Britain's world standing is often more zero than 007, an assassin plans to exterminate the ""special relationship,"" and lead Britain and the United States...
by Mike Mignola, Thomas E. Sniegoski
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
An uneasiness festers upon the city streets, threatening the peace and safety of law-abiding citizens. A war is escalating, and it seems as though the good and righteous are being crushed beneath the unholy weight of evil’s onslaught. Organized crime is spreading in an unchecked reign of terror.
Until...
by Jeff Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
The story of one of America's most notorious killers is revealed in this true-crime comic unlike any other!
Throughout the 1980s, the highest priority of Seattle-area police was the apprehension of the Green River Killer, the man responsible for the murders of dozens of women. In 1990, with...
by Jack Cheong, Siew Yaw Hoong
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In this volume, we have collected sixteen famous true cases, solved by ordinary people from all walks of life. Though not trained professionally as detectives, they were still able to unravel the mysteries by noticing things that others overlook and applying good sense.