Murder category: 3028 books
Above Suspicion
An Undercover FBI Agent, an Illicit Affair, and a Murder of Passion
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The “expertly told” true story of an FBI agent’s affair that leads to murder in Kentucky coal country—soon to be a major motion picture starring Emilia Clarke (Publishers Weekly).
When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong...
Till Death Do Us Part
A True Story of Misguided Love, Marriage, Death and Deception
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Young, handsome Colin Whelan was a magnet for women, who always fell for his seductive charms. Little did they know that underneath his cool exterior lay a twisted desire to kill.
Behind the facade of normality lay a psychopathic mind struggling to control its homicidal urges. Having seduced...
Give a Boy a Gun
A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The war between society and the antisocial personality has long been a subject of fascination, and few have explored it as thoroughly as award-winning author Jack Olsen. In his national best seller Son: A Psychopath and His Victims, Olsen studied a psychopathic rapist who found the perfect protective...
The Stranger She Loved
A Mormon Doctor, His Beautiful Wife, and an Almost Perfect Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill—a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop—discovered his wife of 30 years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he persuaded her to undergo just a week prior.
At first the death of 50-year-old Michele MacNeill, a...
Love Lies
A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A suburban housewife’s picture-perfect life is shattered in this riveting true crime book from the author of Evil Next Door.
When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina, with her new husband Brad, their future was bright. Living in one of the most picturesque towns in the...
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...
Honor Bound
My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
They were accused of one of the most infamous murders of our time. Targeted by the media, sentenced by the courts, and wrongfully imprisoned for four excruciating years for a crime neither could fathom let alone perpetrate, Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a trial so bizarre...
Where Monsters Hide
Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
An unexplained disappearance spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery.
In October 2014, local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo faced a perplexing missing-person case. It was not like Chris Regan, a devoted father and dependable employee, to take off without explanation. When Frizzo learned...
Popular Crime
Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.
Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life and has...
Can You Help Me Solve This Crime?
A Widow's Scrapbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Please read the first chapter of the book Life Is Not Fair to get a better understanding of my biography.
Before I grew up and met my husband, I had a typical childhood, with six brothers and four sisters, me being the middle child of eleven children. We lived on a forty acre farm in a small suburb...
by Kristen Laurence
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This book is definitely a must read if you like a real mystery crime book. The book has many stories that you haven't heard about and it is very detailed about the things that went on during these killings, and about the process of trying to find out who the killer was.You can read about serial killers,...
by Bob Drury, Charles J. Hynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
INCIDENT AT HOWARD BEACH
A CASE FOR MURDER
BY
CHARLES J. HYNES and
Bob Drury
THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The murder that shocked a city and nation and how our justice system works at its best.
Late on the night of December 19, 1986, four black men were driving through the all-white...
by Edward Jay Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
One of America’s most acclaimed investigative journalists re-investigates some of the most notorious and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years
The beloved head of the UN dies in a tragic plane crash . . . witnesses unearthed years later suggest it wasn’t an accident. Theories behind the...
by Peter Graham
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme—better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry—and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline’s mother, Honora. Half an hour later, the girls returned alone, claiming that Pauline’s mother had had an accident. But...