Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
City of Evil
The shocking real story of Adelaide's strange and violent underbelly - As seen on TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES
They call Adelaide the city of churches. What they forget is that every church has a graveyard - and every graveyard is full of skeletons.
Adelaide, an elegantly designed, civilised city, where the inhabitants are known for their love of the arts, good food...
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 The Sex Slave Murders 1 & 2, Serial Killer Couples, and Murder of the Banker’s Daughter comes Murder Chronicles, a gripping collection of true crime tales.
The collection includes ten compelling stories of...
by Patricia M. Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
New York City’s own Lizzie Borden, and eleven other true crimes “as ghastly as anything in American Horror Story” (SILive.com).
Today, Polly Bodine’s name is lost to history. But on Christmas night of 1843, she was accused of murdering her sister-in-law and infant niece in ways so heinous...
Prisoners at the Bar: An Account of the Trials of the William Haywood Case,
the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, the Loeb-Leopold Case, the Bruno Hauptmann Case
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Originally published in 1952, here a distinguished trial lawyer makes you a participant in the high drama of four notable twentieth-century American criminal cases.
You are on the scenes of the crimes; you accompany the detectives investigating them, and in your most important role you sit...
by Marilyn J. Bardsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The #1 Wall Street Journal ebook bestseller about the murder that shocked Savannah society and inspired the blockbuster film.
As a premier antiques dealer in Savannah, Jim Williams had it all: style, culture, charisma, and sophistication. But three decades of hard work came crashing down the...
The Laughing Gorilla
The True Story of the Hunt for One of America's First Serial Killers
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
During the 1920s, in more than a dozen cities, over four years, and across two continents, women were being butchered. Eyewitneses claim the perpetrator was a hulking Bible-carrying brute who lumbered on all fours, and laughed maniacally with each new slaughter.
The crimes haunted San Francisco...
True Life Crime
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Murder, crime, weapons….Simply thinking about such things is enough to send shivers of terror into our hearts. Even the words are dark and scary.We all like to imagine that we are safe, that the world is a rational and reasonable place. But who knows what the person standing next to you is really capable...
World Serial Killers
They kill for the thrill
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
World Serial Killers investigates the fiendish crimes of butchers like Fritz Haarman selling human meat on the streets of Hanover, Germany, Edinburgh body-snatchers Burke and Hare and Alberto De Salvo, the notorious Boston Strangler. Read the accounts of deranged real-life monsters such as Charles...
The Killer Strain
Anthrax and a Government Exposed
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A lethal germ is unleashed in the U.S. mail. A chain of letters spreads terror from Florida to Washington, D.C., from New York to Connecticut, from the halls of Congress to the assembly lines of the U.S. Postal Service. Five people die, and ten thousand more line up for antibiotics to protect against...
by David Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
The search for Caylee made front-page headlines when news broke of two-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Orlando Florida in mid-July 2008.
Caylee’s own mother, Casey Anthony stepped into the national spotlight after the suspicious disappearance of her daughter. As her...
Deadly Little Secrets
The Minister, His Mistress, and a Heartless Texas Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Ann Rule says, "Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today"—high praise indeed from the author of a host of nonfiction New York Times bestsellers including Green River and The Stranger Beside Me, the story of serial killer Ted Bundy. With Deadly Little Secrets, Casey once...
Deliver Us
Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields—a chilling true story that has already helped police uncover evidence that may link suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece to some of the heinous crimes
Over...
Suddenly Gone
The Kansas Murders of Serial Killer Richard Grissom
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
First, legal secretary Teri Maness is found murdered in her Witchita town house in the summer of 1989. Two weeks later, Joan Butler disappears from her Overland Park apartment. Days later, roommates Christine Rusch and Theresa Brown of Lenexa are reported missing. Without a trace, they were suddenly...
To Hatred Turned
Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including the Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
“Englade (Beyond Reason) here treats a complex Dallas murder case with a master’s touch . . . [A] web of blackmail and hired killers” (Publishers Weekly).
Reporter Ken Englade explores the complex case of Rozanne Gailiunas, a woman in Texas who, in 1983, was the victim of a grisly, unsolved...