Crime category: 24427 books
Beautiful Bad
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
“Filled with unexpected twists, Beautiful Bad is a riveting read.” —Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Anonymous Girl
“The ending will leave you staggered.” —Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish
In the tradition of Gone Girl...
Chris & Nancy
The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The Benoit murder-suicide in 2007 was one of the most shocking stories of the year, and a seminal event in the history of wrestling. It laid bare the devastating prevalence of steroids and its effects on users.
In order to tackle the whole story, dig up the facts, and connect the dots, Irvin...
by Dennis McDougal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The true story of Theresa Knorr, the twisted child abuser who murdered her daughters—with the help of her sons—told by a former New York Times reporter.
In June 1985, Theresa Cross Knorr dumped her daughter Sheila’s body in California’s desolate High Sierra. She had beaten Sheila unconscious...
The Darkest Night
Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Casper, Wyoming: 1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky's car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but Good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable...
Are You There Alone?
The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Executioner's Song, and A Civil Action, Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent history and the legal drama surrounding it.
As a journalist, Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary...
Deadly Mistress
A True Story of Marriage, Betrayal and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
LOVE GONE BAD. MURDER GONE WRONG.
West Coast doctor Kenneth Stahl would do anything to free himself from his wife Carolyn. Then Adriana Vasco—Kenneth's former receptionist and mistress of nine years—obliged by introducing him to ex-con Dennis Earl Godley. The deal was set. Godley would...
by Robin Odell
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
You couldn't make it up: incredible real-life criminal cases
A fascinating A-Z of murderous crimes which spans the globe and the centuries in uncovering the extremes of human criminality in all its strangeness.
This collection of unusual, if not sensational, murder cases recalls strange...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
George said that he was taking his mother to a train in the fall of 1883 when they were overcome by two robbers at the end of the lane at the edge of his farm. In the course of the robbery, he claimed, the robbers killed his mother, and buried her in a ravine on George's property. He fetched a shovel...
by Peter James
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
If he can't have her, then nobody can. . .
Virtual romance becomes a terrifying obsession in Want You Dead. . .
Single girl, 29, smouldering redhead, love life that's crashed and burned. Seeks new flame to rekindle her fire. Fun, friendship and – who knows – maybe more?
When...
Casino
Love and Honor in Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A “riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled” (Kirkus Reviews).
Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews,...
Seattle Vice
Strippers, Prostitution, Dirty Money, and Crooked Cops in the Emerald City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
For more than half a century, Frank Colacurcio and his crime family have been a force in the bars and backrooms of Seattle power and politics, an American crime boss reign to match those of the often-glamorized Mafia dons of New York and Chicago. Seattle Vice tells the story of the Pacific Northwest's...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
One of our most engaging crime journalists. --Katherine Ramsland
True Love Kills
In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of 45-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman...
by Corey Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
“A compelling read.” —Suzy Spencer, New York Times bestselling author of Wasted
“We gotta kill ‘em. They know what we look like.”
On a hot summer night in Houston, two teenage girls—bright, beautiful, success-bound friends—took a shortcut home from a friend’s apartment...
by Art Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Steve Mole was pronounced guilty of killing one person and seriously injuring two others while drunk driving. He was a fifty-ish computer programmer with sole custody of two teenagers—by all accounts a loving father. He was an avid churchgoer, conscientious worker; an everyday non-remarkable resident...