True Crime category: 7770 books
Flim Flam
Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Flim Flam explores the world of Canadian white-collar crime, a place inhabited by hustlers, wild gamblers, and crazy dreamers. It takes the reader to the Vancouver Stock Exchange, where dream salesmen have peddled wild stories of easy money, through the "moose pasture" scams of northern...
by Quentin Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
HowI helped Steal £250,000,000...and other interesting stories
A Novel Based On True Events
Quentin Reynolds
From City Boy to Organised Crime....
Married with four kids, a nice house and a steady job, everything changed the day Quentin Reynolds left his...
Murder at Rocky Point Park
Tragedy in Rhode Island's Summer Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The true story of a heartbreaking crime at a nineteenth-century amusement park.
On a summer day in 1893, against a backdrop of laughter and barrel organ music at Rocky Point Amusement Park, little Maggie Sheffield was murdered—by her own father.
But the tragedy aroused a strange reaction...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers. –Allison Brennan
"Phelps's writing reads like a mystery novel." --Suspense Magazine
The crime stunned quiet Mineral Wells, Texas: 49-year-old Bob Dow shot execution-style in his own bed, his invalid mother locked in the next...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer.” —TV Rage
“Phelps is a true-crime veteran.”—New York Post
The missing-persons case of Heather Strong, a young, beautiful suburban mother, baffled Florida detectives. When the file was handed to a veteran investigator,...
Hunting Charles Manson
The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
"Hunting Charles Manson the best true crime book you will ever read....Lock your doors, keep the night lights on, and read this book." - Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling crime novelist
In the late summer of 1969, the nation was transfixed by a series of gruesome murders...
Hello Charlie
Letters from a Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
The 1991 abduction and murder of thirteen-year-old Heather Dawn Church baffled police for three agonizing years, and became one of the most infamous murders the quiet and scenic city of Colorado Springs had ever seen. It was legendary homicide detective Lou Smit who finally broke the case, sending...
The Murder of Mary Ashford
The Crime that Changed English Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Historical true crime comes to life with this fictionalized account of a nineteenth-century murder that changed the course of British legal history.
England, 1817. In the small hours of May 27th, a young servant girl from the village of Erdington left a party in the company of a man with a bad...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Phelps shows how the ugliest crimes can take place in the quietest of suburbs. --Library Journal
When librarian Martha Gail Fulton was gunned down in a Michigan parking lot on a quiet evening, there were two obvious suspects--Gail's husband George, a former military officer . . . and George's...
Hitman
The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Martin Scorsese's The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of gangster Johnny Martorano in Hitman.
For two decades Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected...
Vinny Gorgeous
The Ugly Rise and Fall of a New York Mobster
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
A vain man of good looks but no family ties to the Mob, Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to prison in 2003. When the Mafia was crawling with secret operatives and informants...
Scarface and the Untouchable
Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago–a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller
A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“An extraordinary achievement. The writing is riveting, the research impeccable.” *—*Sara Paretsky
“Gripping. ... Reads...
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...
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...