Murder category: 3028 books
We Are Not Such Things
The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class—a gripping investigation in the vein of the podcast Serial
“Timely . . . gripping,...
In Cold Storage
Sex and Murder on the Plains
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In 1973 the small southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author James W. Hewitt returns to the scene and unearths new details about what happened.
After pieces of Edwin and Wilma Hoyt’s dismembered bodies were...
Murder & Mayhem in the Highlands
Historic Crimes of the Jersey Shore
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Visitors gazing out over the Highlands of coastal New Jersey might never guess that these rolling hills have been a stage for mankind s darkest deeds. In his thrilling new book, Murder & Mayhem in the Highlands, John King shines a spotlight on the region s violent history of kidnapping, murder, smuggling...
by Aaron Elliott, Harold Schechter, Michael Newton
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Another triple feature! Serial Killer Quarterly, “Unsolved in North America”, focuses on 6 American and 2 Canadian cases of multiple murderer in which the slayer has eluded justice.
Three years before Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, a bold and barefoot killer was slipping...
The Fatal Gift of Beauty
The Trials of Amanda Knox
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh’s mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Amanda Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures...
by John J Eddleston
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
The city of Leeds and its nearby partner, Bradford, have seen some of the most intriguing cases of murder this century. This book opens with the story of the man who killed both his daughters because he couldnt afford to take care of them. He was subsequently told by the jury which found him guilty of...
Murder, Salinas Style:
Book Three He Shot the Sheriff
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Henry Reid Farley is just twenty-eight years old on November 8, 1898, when he is elected Sheriff of Monterey County. Less than a year later, Sheriff Farley lay in his grave. Now the citizens of Salinas are out for revenge. Immediately after the sheriffs murder, local gun stores open their doors in...
Marrying the Hangman
A True Story of Privilege, Marriage and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The account of the murder of Diane Whitmore Pikul describes how her wealthy and violent Wall Street husband murdered her and then won custody of her children while under indictment for her murder.
“A young mother, so full of promise, is killed by the ‘perfect’ husband. Sheila Weller takes...
Evil Summer
Babe Leopold, Dickie Loeb, and the Kidnap-Murder of Bobby Franks
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
In 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was abducted while walking home from school, killed by a chisel blow to his head, and later found stuffed in a culvert in a marshy wasteland at the Illinois-Indiana state line. Acid had been poured over his naked body. Evil Summer examines the shocking kidnapping...
Overkill
(Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Notorious USA)
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris take a new look at some of the country’s most notorious crimes. Overkill is a compilation of Notorious Colorado, Notorious Arizona and Notorious Utah.
Colorado’s edition includes three of the country’s most infamous...
Murder At Yosemite
The Stunning True Story of a Horrific Handyman and the Brutal Murders of Four Nature-Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Amidst the breathtaking natural beauty of Yosemite National Park, four terrifying killings took place. For months, law enforcement officials were stumped by the deaths of three tourists: Carole Sund, her teenaged daughter Juli, and a family friend, Silvina Pelosso. But when they found the decapitated...
by Arthur Jay Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
FLOWERS FOR MRS. LUSKIN: The divorce was vicious, but at least it hadn't turned deadly. Then came the flowers.
At the best house in the best neighborhood in Hollywood, Florida, Marie Luskin answered her front door and saw a deliveryman holding a floral arrangement. From behind the leaves and...
The Richard Streicher Jr. Murder
Ypsilanti's Depot Town Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
During the depths of the Great Depression in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a seven-year-old boy is found frozen to death under the Frog Island footbridge in Depot Town after being reported missing the night before by his parents. Upon examination, the Washtenaw County coroner discovers the child is the victim...
Blood in the Sand
A Shocking True Story of Murder, Revenge, and Greed in Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Seductress
Sexy siren Amy DeChant had a lifelong habit of finding men-- rich men-- who would take care of her. And when the money ran out, so did Amy. When she met wealthy bookie Bruce Weinstein at a poker room in Las Vegas, she had found the perfect prey...
The Bookie
300-pound Bruce Weinstein...