Crime category: 24427 books
Why They Do It
Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
What drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? Why They Do It is a breakthrough look at the dark side of the business world.
From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the insider traders at McKinsey, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings...
by Deon Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
A former assassin in post-apartheid South Africa is drawn back into his former profession in this “rip-roaring adventure” (The Washington Post).
Six-foot five-inch Thobela “Tiny” Mpayipheli was once a feared freedom fighter, trained by the Stasi and KGB. Now, he’s a family man working...
by Caitlin Rother
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
From the New York Times bestselling series, Notorious USA (Previously published as The Fugitive With One Shoe) Welcome to Georgia, where the all-mighty dollar trumps mercy and lawfulness on an all-too-regular basis. Where hit men can be hired for small sums and lovers can be manipulated...
Guilty by Popular Demand
A True Story of Small-Town Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Murder and miscarriage of justice in a rural communityThe townsfolk of Logan, Ohio, a mined-out area of the Appalachian foothills, cheered as an innocent man was convicted and sent to death row. The occasion was the conviction of Dale N. Johnston. His trial ended nothing; the tragedies had just begun....
Through the Rain
A True Crime Memoir of Murder and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In a motel room on the east side of the city, a little girl is brutally murdered by her mothers sadistic boyfriend for failing to know her ABCs. The family disappears, along with the childs body, and the scene of the crime spans over 1,000 miles. Despite the lack of a body, the detectives of the 1020...
True Crime: Missouri
The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Includes Lee Shelton's murder of Billy Lyons, the kidnapping of millionaire Robert Greenlease's son, and many more.
True Crime: Massachusetts
The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
The harsh discipline of Puritan life bred the hard-bitten and hard-working people of Massachusetts, but did it also breed a unique type of criminal? This book explores the headline crimes of the state to find an answer.
Can You Help Me Solve This Crime?
A Widow's Scrapbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Please read the first chapter of the book Life Is Not Fair to get a better understanding of my biography.
Before I grew up and met my husband, I had a typical childhood, with six brothers and four sisters, me being the middle child of eleven children. We lived on a forty acre farm in a small suburb...
The Search for Anne Perry
The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A New York Times Best Seller!
In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the movie Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. The movie launched Jackson’s international career. It also forever changed...
Nothing But Money
How the Mob Infiltrated Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Forced out of the work-hard, play-hard world of Wall Street following the Crash of ’87, financial analyst Cary Cimino was determined to maintain his lifestyle of luxury and ease. Under the guidance of dubious businessman Jeffrey Pokross, Cimino embarked on an illegitimate underground career as a...
Who Killed These Girls?
Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it.
The...
Real Hard Cases
Unsolved crimes reinvestigated
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Some serious crimes are open-and-shut cases, what the cops call no-brainers, but others- the REAL HARD CASES - remain either unsolved or with serious doubts hanging over them. Sometimes for years. Now, after a legendary crime-fighting career, former Glasgow detective Les Brown and bestselling crime...
by Chrystine Brouillet
Language: French
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Quand Maud Graham est appelée à éclaircir le meurtre d’un homme trouvé gisant dans son sang, seul dans son appartement, elle ne peut se douter des motifs de ce crime. Qui pouvait bien en vouloir à ce point à cet homme pourtant sans histoire ? Avec ses coéquipiers — McEwen, Joubert, Nguyen...
by Christopher Berry-Dee
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
It was one of the most brutal killing crusades that Britain has ever seen. Two cruel brothers and their henchmen, synonymous with robbery, torture and bribery, presided over a murderous reign so brutal that Nottingham became forth in the UK's gun crime league. This is just one of the shocking true...