True Crime category: 7770 books
by Jack Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
A classic from “the dean of true crime” (The Washington Post)—now with a new foreword—this 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Spokane, Washington serial rapist who was exposed as the handsome, privileged son of one of the city’s most elite families.
For more than two...
Psycho USA
Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED!
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity...
Indefensible
The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer—and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach.
After serving eighteen years for a crime he didn’t commit, Steven Avery was freed—and...
Bound by Honor
A Mafioso's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
No one can tell the true story of the Mafia in America better than Bill Bonanno. He was there. He lived it.
Bill Bonanno was born into a world of respect, tradition, and honor. The son of legendary mafioso Joe Bonanno, Bill was a "made" member of the Mafia by the time he was in his...
The Prom Night Murders
A Devoted American Family, their Troubled Son, and a Ghastly Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In 1989, a shocking tragedy shattered an otherwise peaceful small Indiana community. Much-admired pastor Robert L. Pelley was found slain in his home. In his basement were the huddled, blood-soaked bodies of his wife and daughters, executed by shotgun at close range. The doors to the house were locked,...
by Gary C. King
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A Woman With A Passion For Power. . .
Kathy Marie Augustine was not out to make friends. In politics, she rose to the top by playing hardball--and pushing her way through the old boy's network of the Nevada legislature, rising to the rank of State Controller. When she died, only a few people...
I Heard You Paint Houses
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
**Soon to be a NETFLIX film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel, and written by Steven Zaillian.
Updated with a 57-page Conclusion by the author that features new, independent corroboration of Frank Sheeran's revelations about the killing...
by Tobias Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced...
by Kathryn Abnett, Linda Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In Barking, Dagenham & Chadwell Heath - True Crime Books
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham and Chadwell Heath takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along...
Edwin Alonzo Boyd
Life and Crimes of Canada's Master Bank Robber
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Edwin Boyd woke up, rolled out of bed, and got ready to rob his first bank. He began his preparations by disguising himself. He shoved wads of cotton into his cheeks and nostrils, smeared black mascara on his eyebrows, and rubbed rouge on his cheeks.
This book will be especially fascinating...
by Cheri L. Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The author of Wicked Northern New York delivers the most chilling historic true crime stories from the state’s northern tier.
Jefferson County, located in New York’s beautiful North Country, has a dark and violent past. During the long winter months, it was not the cold that was feared,...
The Crimes of Paris
A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets--all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of...
by Gregg Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and true crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan delve into murder and mayhem from notorious Ohio. Two brothers begin murdering young women and couples, and despite an intense manhunt, they manage to escape detection for years. A hospital orderly who loves...
by Keith Russell Ablow, MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The Scott Peterson murder case is the most gripping and highly publicized crime story of the 21st Century. It has captivated a public hungry for the answer to one question: Why would a man with no known history of violent crime or mental illness, with a pretty wife about to give birth to his son,...