Crime category: 24427 books
by Wensley Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Half-a-million Brits reside full-time in the Costa Del Sol, drawn by the good weather and easy lifestyle. Among them are the drug barons, hookers, gigolos, pimps, con-men, fraudsters, killers, gangsters, drag queens and swingers who underpin the economy of the continent's most outrageous hotspot.'You...
Love Her to Death
The True Story of a Millionaire Businessman, His Gorgeous Wife, and the Divorce That Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Love Her to Death: The True Story of a Millionaire Businessman, His Gorgeous Wife, and the Divorce That Ended in Murder by veteran true crime writer and New York Times bestselling author John Glatt
A MARRIAGE: DESTROYED
They were a picture-perfect family-until a bitter divorce drove...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Phelps shows how the ugliest crimes can take place in the quietest of suburbs. --Library Journal
When librarian Martha Gail Fulton was gunned down in a Michigan parking lot on a quiet evening, there were two obvious suspects--Gail's husband George, a former military officer . . . and George's...
by Gordon Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A read-it-in-one-sitting, action-packed, gritty, and atmospheric crime novel set on the tough streets of 1946 Glasgow
The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over, but victory's wine has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland...
by John Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Decades in the making, On the Run with Bonnie & Clyde is a fast moving, gut-wrenching, highly original exploration by author Gilmore into the lives and death of the “star-crossed lovers,” Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, undying icons of American crime. Breaking away from the usual police-blotter...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Although it wasn't yet summer, the temperature climbed into triple digits on June 3, 1925, and Lloyd Russell could not sleep that night. He lived with his mother and his brother's family in a modest three room bungalow on Progress Avenue in a neighborhood call Prospect Hill. Despite the bountiful...
Little Girls Sleeping
An absolutely gripping crime thriller
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
‘THERE WAS NO WAY I WAS PUTTING THIS BOOK DOWN!!!!!... I was literally holding my breath… I HAD TO KNOW!!!!! As for the explosive ending WOW definitely not what or who I was expecting.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
She looked at the smiling, eager face of the little girl in the photograph,...
Hitman
The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Martin Scorsese's The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of gangster Johnny Martorano in Hitman.
For two decades Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected...
The Mafia Chronicles
Autobiographies of a Mafia Hit Man
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
**A New York Times bestseller, the “chilling and compelling . . . must-read” confessions of a mob hit man—and the riveting sequel of his most harrowing contract (**former FBI agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco).
Killer: The Bronx-born son of a Jewish bootlegger, “Joey the Hit Man”...
Man in the Shadows
Cliff Hardy 11
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'
Gareth Greenway wasn't all he seemed, but Cliff Hardy was used to that. What he wasn't used to was the shadowy world Greenway leads him into: neurosurgeons, mental patients, AIDS sufferers, all negotiating a landscape of dreams and delusions. An...
The Devil's Gentleman
Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers,” comes the riveting exploration of a notorious, sensational New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an...
Vinny Gorgeous
The Ugly Rise and Fall of a New York Mobster
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
A vain man of good looks but no family ties to the Mob, Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to prison in 2003. When the Mafia was crawling with secret operatives and informants...
Manson, Sinatra and Me
A Hollywood Party Girl's Memoir and How She Helped Vincent Bugliosi with the Helter Skelter Case
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Manson, Sinatra and Me is a Hollywood party girl's memoir that details her encounters with former Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, foreign dignitaries, celebrities, sports stars, businessmen - you name it - including the likes of Frank Sinatra and other members of the Rat Pack. The average man or...
Scarface and the Untouchable
Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago–a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller
A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“An extraordinary achievement. The writing is riveting, the research impeccable.” *—*Sara Paretsky
“Gripping. ... Reads...