True Crime category: 7770 books
Give a Boy a Gun
A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The war between society and the antisocial personality has long been a subject of fascination, and few have explored it as thoroughly as award-winning author Jack Olsen. In his national best seller Son: A Psychopath and His Victims, Olsen studied a psychopathic rapist who found the perfect protective...
Flowers for Mrs. Luskin
Who ordered the deadly delivery for the millionaire's wife?
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
"Flower delivery for Marie Luskin!"
That was a curious surprise. Her husband Paul used to send her flowers all the time, but those days had passed forever. A year and a half before, following Paul's affair with another woman, Marie kicked him out of the house his parents had helped...
Crazy for You
A Passionate Affair, a Lying Widow, and a Cold-Blooded Murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
A LOVING FATHER
A typical morning in the Atlanta suburbs: Businessman Rusty Sneiderman drops his beloved son off at the Dunwoody Prep nursery. In the parking lot, a minivan pulls up next to his car. The driver pulls out a gun-and shoots Rusty four times in the chest.
A HEARTBROKEN WIFE
Sneiderman's...
Honor Bound
My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
They were accused of one of the most infamous murders of our time. Targeted by the media, sentenced by the courts, and wrongfully imprisoned for four excruciating years for a crime neither could fathom let alone perpetrate, Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a trial so bizarre...
Where Monsters Hide
Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
An unexplained disappearance spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery.
In October 2014, local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo faced a perplexing missing-person case. It was not like Chris Regan, a devoted father and dependable employee, to take off without explanation. When Frizzo learned...
Return Again to the Scene of the Crime
A Guide to Even More Infamous Places in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Return again to the scene of the crime and visit the secret hideouts of Nazi saboteurs, anarchist plotters, charlatans, fakers, gangsters, and even a love-sick matron dubbed the "Torso Killer." See up close the murdering matrimonial bluebeard Johann Hoch and probe the unsolved mysteries...
by Matthew Condon
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Continuing on from the bestselling true crime stories Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers, All Fall Down follows Terry Lewis as he becomes police commissioner and the era of corruption at the highest levels of the police and government goes on. As the Queensland police become more connected with...
by Lucy Worsley
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The history of the evolution of the traditional English murder, from Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to the cozy crimes of the Golden Age.
Murder—a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this fixation...
City of Devils
The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Now one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of the Year"
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking—winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction—comes City of Devils, a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made...
by Corey Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
To the outside world, Anthony Allen Shore was an average guy: a twice-divorced father who drove a tow truck in suburban Houston. Handsome and charismatic, he generally kept a low profile. But in his mind he was a superstar . . .
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A musical prodigy who never realized his potential, Shore found...
by Michael A. Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
“I have taught ... for two generations and was a reading coordinator. ... Being an avid reader, I can honestly say that this is the best literary work I have read.” A. Bryan, Amazon.com. Five star reviewAs the world’s attention was focused on the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
A breathtaking history of Britain’s executioners—from the seventeenth court of King Charles II to the UK’s last official hangman of the twentieth century.
In 1663, Jack Ketch delighted in his profession and gained notoriety not only because of those he executed—dukes and lords—but...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Big John La Rocca was a somewhat insignificant crime boss as far a big cities are concerned. He got his start as a whiskey runner after he failed running a gas station. The Pittsburgh crime structure is different than New York, Philadelphia or Chicago. For example crime in the city was controlled...
by Robin Bowles
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
A bullying and sexually abusing father produced videos of his terrified 5 year old daughter for over 5 years to sell internationally to satisfy a network of child porn lovers. Read here in short but gripping detail how Bart Huskey met his match at the hands of cops in cyberspace.In 1996 Robin...