Crime category: 24427 books
Gomorrah
A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal....
A Death in White Bear Lake
The True Chronicle of an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A mother’s search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying secrets in a Minnesota town in this “masterfully depicted true-crime tale” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him—only to discover...
Empire of Sin
A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City
Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years...
Anyone You Want Me to Be
A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
JOHN DOUGLAS -- THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MINDHUNTER AND THE UNDISPUTED MASTER PROFILER OF SERIAL CRIMINALS -- TELLS THE CHILLING TRUE STORY OF JOHN ROBINSON, THE INTERNET'S FIRST SERIAL MURDERER.
In Olathe, Kansas, a balding, pudgy father of four sits in prison convicted on three counts of homicide...
Making Jack Falcone
An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
"Petey Chops wasn't kicking up. And if he didn't start soon, he was going to get whacked." So begins Making Jack Falcone, the extraordinary true story of an undercover FBI agent's years-long investigation of the Gambinos, which resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized crime family.
But...
Innocent Victims
The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The riveting true account of a grisly crime and the unprecedented three murder trials faced by Fort Bragg soldier Tim Hennis.
On Mother’s Day, 1985, the bodies of Kathryn Eastburn and her two young daughters were found in their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. Katie, an air force captain’s...
At the Devil's Table
The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo, an ordinary man facing an extraordinary dilemma—a man forced to risk everything to escape the powerful and treacherous...
Bringing Adam Home
The Abduction That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“Les Standiford’s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read. A triumph in every way.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
“The most significant missing...
Brooklyn Noir 3
Nothing But the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The first nonfiction volume in the “superb series” —true crime stories from Bushwick to Borough Park to Brooklyn Heights (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
The people who brought you the Brooklyn Noir crime-fiction collections return with another talented literary lineup—this time contributing...
Murderers, Robbers, & Highwaymen
True Tales of Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A compendium of horrific crimes and bloody punishments in Georgian England from the editor of the New York Times bestseller, Outlaws and Peace Officers.
Despite the frequency with which criminals were sentenced to death, crime was still on the rise in England in the mid-1700s. Men were thrown...
Mindhunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1998
Now a Netflix original series
Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.
In...
Lethal Guardian:
A Twisted True Story Of Sexual Obsession, Family Betrayal And Murder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
"A dark, true account of obsession." --Gregg Olsen
"Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." --TV Rage
Smart, gorgeous redhead Beth Carpenter was a successful attorney in Connecticut's upscale coastal towns. Her brother-in-law, Anson...
by Timothy Egan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
“No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection.”
—TONY HILLERMAN
On the night of September 14, 1935, George Conniff, a town marshal in Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington, was shot to death. A lawman had been killed, yet there seemed...
Lies Told Under Oath
The Puzzling Story of the Pfanschmidt Murders and of the Surviving Son—Victim or Villain?
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In 1912, a prosperous Illinois farm familyCharles; his wife, Mathilda; their fifteen-year-old daughter, Blanche; and boarding schoolteacher Emma Kaempenwere brutally murdered, the crime concealed by arson, and the familys surviving son, handsome Ray Pfanschmidt, arrested. He was convicted by the press...