Crime category: 24427 books
by Qiu Xiaolong
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.
A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau...
Song of the Dead
An eerie Scottish murder mystery (DI Westphall 1)
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
DI WESTPHALL.
No ordinary detective.
No ordinary investigations.
A twisting new crime series set in the Scottish Highlands. For fans of Stephen King, James Oswald and John Connolly.
Detective Ben Westphall has been given his latest case because of his background in MI6. But it's his...
Cherringham - Episode 19 - 21
A Cosy Crime Series Compilation
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries.
This compilation contains episodes 19 - 21:
GHOST...
Cherringham - Murder by Moonlight
A Cosy Crime Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Just two weeks to go before the Cherringham Charity Christmas Concert. Choir rehearsals are in full swing. Then the worst thing happens: Kirsty Kimball, one of the singers, is found dead from a severe allergic reaction to one of the home-made rehearsal cakes. Jack is pulled in to help bolster the...
by Jeffrey H. Beerworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
As Burlington grew into a city out of wilderness, more citizens meant more opportunities for crime. Horse thefts, murders and drunken brawls swamped the young and prosperous city. Those misdeeds inspired the first officers of what would become the Burlington Police Department to serve and protect....
The Fisher King
A Jack McBride Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
When the dust settles in this Texas town, who will be left standing?
It’s been six weeks since Jack McBride’s life went to hell: the resolution of his first case as chief sparked a county-wide drug war, his brother Eddie rode into town with a pocket full of cocaine and trouble on his mind,...
Killer Families: True Crime
Murder In The Family, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
MURDER IN THE FAMILY. MURDER BY DADS, MOMS, KIDS & SPOUSES.
The family home is supposed to be a place where family members find a safe haven from the stress of outside life. A place where they feel protected and loved. Yet for many this is simply not the case.
The true...
A Rip in Heaven
A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.
A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991,...
Whipping Boy
The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best Fact Crime
The true account of one boy’s lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.
Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil’s search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a...
Dark Dreams
A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Evil That Men Do introduced readers to the lifework and the techniques of FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood.
Now, in Dark Dreams, Hazelwood-- writing with bestselling author Stephen G. Michaud-- will take then deep into the minds of his prey, the world's most dangerous sexual criminals, and reveal...
by James Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes, NSW. They escaped with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. It remains the largest gold robbery...
Blood Brotherhoods
A History of Italy's Three Mafias
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA.
The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples; and, from the poor and isolated region of Calabria, the mysterious 'ndrangheta, which has now...
Public Enemies
America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals...
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with...