Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Lord High Executioner
An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A grisly tour of hangings, electrocutions, beheadings—and other state-sanctioned deaths that are part of the long history of the death penalty.
In Lord High Executioner, award-winning writer Howard Engel traces the traditions of capital punishment from medieval England and early Canada to...
Witsec
Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with the creation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalist Pete Earley to tell the inside story of...
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...
by Edward Humes
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: “The story of L.A.’s dirtiest cop . . . A riveting glimpse of the dark side of human behavior” (Flint Journal).
Bill Leasure was among the least ambitious officers ever to wear the badge for the Los Angeles Police Department. He was content to...
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars,...
by Tamworth Grice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Jodi Arias is accused of the premeditated murder of her lover, Travis Alexander, by stabbing him, slitting his throat, and shooting him in the head. But could such a lovely and vivacious young woman really be a monster? And was the crime committed during a re-enactment of the shower-scene knife murder...
by Keven McQueen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
The author of Horror in the Heartland delves deep into the dark and sordid annals of the region where Hoosier history began.
Prepare to take a tour of some dark, strange moments of southern Indiana’s history. From the scheming wife who wanted her dull husband out of the way to make room for...
The Wicked Boy
An Infamous Murder in Victorian London
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
**Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Book!
From the internationally bestselling author, a deeply researched and atmospheric murder mystery of late Victorian-era London**
In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending...
Queen of Thieves
The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka Marm” Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country’s top receiver of stolen goods, she...
Blood Secrets
Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Blood Secrets reveals how forensic experts read the story of a murder told in the traces of blood left behind, providing crucial evidence that has helped convict criminals who might have otherwise walked free.
When Rod Englert began his career in law enforcement, virtually no police force in...
Crossing the Line
Losing Your Mind as an Undercover Cop
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
As he rose through the ranks of various departments of the Metropolitan Police, Christian Plowman dreamt of being an undercover cop. When he finally achieved his ambition, becoming one an elite group of officers, the reality of covert work turned his life into a nightmare.
To catch criminals,...
Fugitives
Dramatic Accounts of Life on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Heather Tallchief escaped from the USA with the man she loved and $2.5 million that didn't belong to her. She must have been on an incredible high. However, the buzz didn't last long. Soon after she and Roberto Solanis landed in Amsterdam to start their new life together, her lover vanished with the...
Crime and the Craft
Masonic Involvement in Murder, Treason and Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Crime and the Craft: Masonic Involvement in Murder, Treason and Scandal reveals the Freemasons who have been involved in murder, treason, skulduggery and scandal from the time of the English Civil War to the 1980s. Nearly every infamous case investigated by Scotland Yard, including Jack the Ripper,...
by Peter Bleksley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
TV's top fugitive hunter investigates the UK's worst unsolved murders.
Roughly ten per cent of all murders in the UK go unsolved. Here, Britain's top ex-undercover cop shines new light on cases up and down the country in search of answers.
Peter Bleksley's life has been devoted to investigating....