True Crime category: 7770 books
But I Trusted You
Ann Rule's Crime Files #14
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
In this volume of Ann Rule’s Crime Files, discover unforgettable cases of the spouse, lover, family member or a helpful stranger who is totally trusted—until it’s too late.
Trust. It’s the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and families. But when...
Sins of the Father
The True Story of a Family Running from the Mob
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The true story of how Sal Polisi—a member of a New York crime family and author of The Sinatra Club—turned his back on the mob and spoke out against organized crime.
As a wiseguy for some of New York’s biggest crime families, “Crazy Sal” Polisi couldn’t imagine another way of life....
True Crime: New York City
The City's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
• Introduction to crime in the city
• Headline cases
In New York City, crime is big--big in newspaper headlines, big to politicians who win and lose jobs because of a flux in crime, and big in the lore of the city itself. This book begins with a survey of crime in the Big Apple and then focuses...
by Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Final Exams features four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., one of America’s most respected forensic pathologists. Coauthored by crime writer Dawna Kaufmann, Final Exams explores both the technical and the human side of murder.
From the...
by Nicholas Booth
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era: the extraordinary true story of four American forgers who tried to steal five million dollars from the Bank of England.
In the summer of 1873, four American forgers went on trial at the Old Bailey — London’s iconic law court — for the...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Before he could bleed out, his family discovered the bloody, bloody scene, and rescued the beleaguered coal man. He said his only regret is that he didn't kill his meddling mother-in-law, too. This "novelette" length true crime story details the family quarrel that led to the gruesome crime and the delivery of turn-of-the-century justice.
45 Murderers
A Collection of True Crime Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
From Hollywood’s Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true crime profiles by “the grand dame of mystery” (Ed Gorman).
Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed...
The Suitcase Baby
The heartbreaking true story of a shocking crime in 1920s Sydney
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIB
True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of a great crime novel.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, 17 November 1923, a suitcase was found washed up...
DNA Crime Investigations
Solving Murder and Serious Crime Through DNA and Modern Forensics
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
A crime historian explores groundbreaking cold-case investigations, the advent of DNA evidence, and its role in long-delayed convictions and exonerations.
When geneticist, Professor Alec Jeffreys worked with Leicestershire police on the 1986 case against Colin Pitchfork—the first person convicted...
Musical Mysteries
From Mozart to John Lennon
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or believed to be murdered, and one of the greatest Renaissance composers slaughtered his wife and her lover. In Musical Mysteries, renowned true crime historian Albert Borowitz turns...
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of Murder of the Banker’s Daughter and Murder at the Pencil Factory comes a riveting new historical true crime short, The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family’s Nightmare.In the wee hours of the morning on November...
The Linda Wolfe Collection
Five True Crime Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Five torn-from-the-headlines true crime books from an Edgar Award–nominated author and “one of our best reporters” (John Leonard).
Linda Wolfe delves deep into the crimes that defy explanation—and the twisted minds of those who commit them. In these five books, she combines masterful...
The Adventuress
Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow
Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder—all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old.
Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and James...
by Arthur Jay Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
A 2018 documentary about the story in the book UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT aired on TRUE CONVICTION on INVESTIGATIVE DISCOVERY
The prosecutor was no longer sure both murder defendants were guilty. So he asked his dad -- the real-life Kojak.
A mother's dying, gasping call to 911: "My husband!...