Murder category: 3028 books
Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like...
Taken From Home
A Father, a Dark Secret, and a Brutal Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Grand Junction, Colorado, 2001: When Michael Blagg's adoring wife, Jennifer, and his six year-old-daughter, Abby, disappeared from their home, Michael led the charge to find them, even going so far as to make a nationwide appeal on Good Morning America for information. But seven months later, investigators...
Gone Forever
A True Story of Marriage, Betrayal, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Susan McFarland was a vivacious, successful mother of three young sons. On November 25, 2002, she disappeared. Three days later, her car was found, keys in the ignition. Later that day, her husband reported her missing—and a desperate search began.
Her friends and family hoped against hope...
Bestial
The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA.
San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America. His acts of butchery...
Worth More Dead
And Other True Cases Vol. 10
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
*Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him?
Because they were...*
Worth More Dead
A cold case reopened -- and solved...
The Ice Man
Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Philip Carlo's The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman**.** Devoted Family Man. Doting Father. For thirty years, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history...
Lying in Wait
Ann Rule's Crime Files: Vol.17
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Ann Rule presents a collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories—drawn from her real-life personal files—in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series.
In this gripping collection of investigative accounts from her private archives, “America’s...
Conviction
The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.
Through two trials, America watched with baited breath...
by Rick Porrello
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Be sure to see Kill the Irishman—the major motion picture based on Rick Porrello’s true-crime masterpiece!
A modern warrior known as Greene
Was very quick and smart, and mean.
He scrambled hard and fought like hell,
And led a charmed existence.
They shot him down and blew him up
With most...
Shake the Devil Off
A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A charismatic young soldier meets a tragic end in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net America
Zackery Bowen was thrust into two of America's largest recent debacles. He was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency...
The Stranger In My Bed
The True Story of Marriage, Murder, and the Body in the Box
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
He Found New Brides To Love Him-
All Diane Bertalan really knew of her new husband, John, was that he was a widower, he lavished her with gifts, and he preferred to keep his past a secret. What she didn't know was that the FBI had been watching him for years. In the Fall of 2000, she found out why-it...
by RJ Parker
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
At any given time in the United States alone, there are thirty to fifty unidentified active serial killers at work constantly changing their targets and methods; however, some authorities think that number is even much higher.
"Unsolved Serial Killings by RJ Parker is a fascinating glimpse...
Tacoma Confidential
A True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief's Secret Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Gig Harbor, WA, a quiet Tacoma suburb, knew little of tragedy and scandal—until April 26, 2003. On that day David Brame, distraught over his impending divorce, shot his wife to death in a busy public parking lot. Then, with the couple’s two children only feet away, he turned the gun on himself.
It...
Our Little Secret
The True Story of a Teenager Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The true story of a teenage killer and the silence of a small New England town.
For twenty years Daniel Paquette's murder in New Hampshire went unsolved. It remained a secret between two high school friends until Eric Windhurst's arrest in 2005. What was revealed was a crime born of adolescent...