Murder category: 3028 books
by Edward Fox
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Please note that this edition does not include illustrations. Part travelogue, part true-thriller, Edward Fox’s brilliantly original book investigates the murder of a US archaeologist on the West Bank in 1992 and opens up the Palestinian world he served – a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...
by Jerome Gold
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
In the Spider's Web is set in Ash Meadow, a prison for children in Washington State. The story centers on Caitlin Weber, a girl who, in collusion with her mother and four other children, murdered her mother's employer. While the murder is briefly depicted, it is with what happens afterward to two...
Tinseltown
Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of...
The Girls of Murder City
Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago
Chicago, 1924.
There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders...
Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America. Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt; and...
Duel with the Devil
The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The remarkable true story of a turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued—a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was served—from bestselling author of the Edgar finalist, Murder of the Century.
In the...
A Very English Scandal
Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Now a major TV drama series starring Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw, a behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets
While Jeremy Thorpe served as a Member of Parliament and Leader...
Star Spangled Scandal
Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
"There may be no two more addicting topics to people right now than politics and true crime. Star Spangled Scandal delves into both of these—with a heavy dose of sex added in."
— NPR book review
“… and sir I do assure you he has as much the use of your wife as you have.”
—...
by Ted Botha
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
In The Girl with the Crooked Nose, Ted Botha tells the absorbing story of Frank Bender, a gifted, self-taught artist who can bring back the dead and the vanished through a unique, macabre sculpting talent. Bender has been the key to solving at least nine murders and tracking down numerous criminals....
by Victoria Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
Lizzie Andrew Borden (b.1860 – d.1927) was tried and acquitted in the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. Media coverage of the...
Son of a Gun
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath**
Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001....
by Thomas Robisheaux
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
A young mother dies in agony. Was it a natural death, murder—or witchcraft?
On the night of the festive holiday of Shrove Tuesday in 1672 Anna Fessler died after eating one of her neighbor's buttery cakes. Could it have been poisoned? Drawing on vivid court documents, eyewitness accounts,...
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with...
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...