Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Danielle Allen
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.
In a shattering work that shifts between a woman’s private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar’s fierce critique of the American prison...
Murder at the Brown Palace
A True Story of Seduction and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
On May 24, 1911, one of the most notorious murders in Denver's history occurred. The riveting tale involves high society, adultery, drugs, multiple murder, and more, all set in Denver's grand old hotel, the Brown Palace.
Very Much a Lady
The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2006
A classic tale of true crime, now an HBO film titled Mrs. Harris starring Annette Bening as Jean Harris and Sir Ben Kingsley as the Scarsdale Diet doctor!
Jean Harris belonged to the last generation of Americans brought up to believe that nice girls get married. But her love affair with Dr....
Five Days at Memorial
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs...
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors
Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
#1 New York Times bestselling author and queen of true crime Ann Rule’s sixteenth volume in her True Crime Files series, Deadly Neighbors delves into the unsolved case of a billionaire’s son mysteriously falling off a balcony to his death and more.
In July 2011, billionaire Jonah Shacknai’s...
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.
Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet...
Bitter Harvest
A Womans Fury A Mothers Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2000
GIFTED WITH A BRILLIANT MIND, BLESSED WITH A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY -- AND CURSED WITH A DESTRUCTIVE MADNESS
In this harrowing New York Times bestseller, Ann Rule is at her masterful best as she winnows horrific truths from the ashes of what seemed like paradise in Prairie Village, Kansas. Rule probes the...
by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
"[A] social document of rare importance."—The New Republic
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson...
By Their Father's Hand
The Wesson Clan
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Neighbors were unaware of what went on behind the tightly closed doors of a house in Fresno, California—the home of an imposing, 300-pound Marcus Wesson, his wife, children, nieces, and grandchildren. But on March 12, 2004, gunshots were heard inside the Wesson home, and police officers responding...
Starvation Heights
A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the...
Hush Little Babies
The True Story Of A Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A killing so brutal it shocked the police and left the nation grieving, Hush Little Babies is the appalling true story of Darlie Routier, the neighborhood's most wonderful mom, who one night, coldly, calculatingly and brutally stabbed her two sons and watched them die in a pool of their own blood...
Darlie...
In the Middle of the Night
The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely daughters… Until July 23, 2007, when,...
I'll Fly Away
Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
For several years, Wally Lamb, the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, has run a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only maximum-security prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to face their fears and failures and begin...
by Kathryn Jewel
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
On August 30, 1993, Roberta Moore drove to work; it was a cold, rainy morning. She had left her two sons and little daughter at home with her husband. He was supposed to make sure they got dressed in time to catch the school bus.
She had been on the job for only thirty minutes when she received...