Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Summary and Analysis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
Based on the Book by John Berendt
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil tells you what you need to know—before or after you read John Berendt’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
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...
Runaway Devil
How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise....
The Road to Jonestown
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime
“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in...
by Michelle Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama...
Murder in Italy
Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher, and the Murder Trial that Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The true story behind the notorious international murder--updated to cover Amanda Knox's acquittal.
In Perugia, Italy, on November 2, 2007, police discovered the body of a British college student stabbed to death in her bedroom. The prosecutor alleged that the brutal murder had occurred during...
by Tim Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The gruesome murder of a young woman named Brenda Salazar was only the first chapter in one of the most riveting crime stories in the history of Fort Worth, Texas. When it was all over, three young women were dead and a number of law officers were angry about the missed opportunities. The story came to a close in the killer's bedroom, where the detectives found a shop of horrors.
by Robert Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
For fans of Serial and Making a Murderer, the true, bewildering story of a young woman’s disappearance, the nightmare of a small town obsessed with delivering justice, and the bizarre dream of a poor, uneducated man accused of murder.**
On April 28, 1984, Denice Haraway disappeared from her...
One of Us
The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back together
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the...
by Chuck Hustmyre
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
New Orleans in the 1990s—dirty, corrupt, and violent, the murder capital of the United States, with a scandal-plagued police department that was collapsing under the weight of its own corruption. No one could imagine that things could get much worse for this once-great American city. Then Antoinette...
Dissecting Death
Secrets of a Medical Examiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
From TV’s CSI to bestsellers by Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, interest in forensics is at an all-time high. Now one of our most respected forensic pathologists gives a behind-the-scenes look at eleven of his most notorious cases, cracked by scientific analysis and Sherlock Holmesian deduction.
As...
Devil's Knot
The True Story of the West Memphis Three
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH *
The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted…and set free. Do you know their story?
In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin,...
by Chuck Hustmyre
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Genore Guillory was one of the nicest people anyone in the small town of Clinton, Louisiana, had ever known. Then she was found dead—shot, stabbed, and beaten. Investigators had few clues. A policeman was the primary suspect. But there were rumors...whispers of a burgeoning group of white supremacists...
Reading behind Bars
A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master’s degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill...