Murder category: 3028 books
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and the bestselling author of Murderess on the Loose, Murder of the Doctor’s Wife, Murder at the Pencil Factory, and The Sex Slave Murders, comes the gripping historical true crime short, Murdered by the King of Western Swing: The Beating Death...
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of Murder at the Pencil Factory and The Sex Slave Murders, comes a powerful new historical true crime short, Murder of the Banker’s Daughter: The Killing of Marion Parker.On December 15, 1927, 12-year-old Marion...
by John Barber
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
At 10.45pm on Monday 13th March 1699 Sarah Stout the daughter of a prominent Quaker left the White Lion coffee house in Hertford in the company of Spencer Cowper, the son of the local MP. At six o’clock the next morning her lifeless body was found floating in the River Lea.
As the last person...
by J. Dwight Dobkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
The original 1973 edition of this book was published by Grosset & Dunlap, and enjoyed an 18-month run in Doubleday’s Bargain Book Club. It was nominated for Crime Book of the Year, and over the years has been optioned six times as a possible film.
Of major note, that 1973 edition was...
Blood Lust
Murder of A Beauty Queen / The Gold Bar Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
The Tenth Man—Gold Bar Trials (1981): The true story of the murder of a gold merchant and his two employees reads like a fast-paced thriller. From the sinister excitement of the plotting and the merciless, savage execution of the victims, to the hiding and waiting for eventual retribution, this will...
Murder Capital
Life and Death on the Streets of Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Murder Capital of Europe: that's Glasgow. A city more lethal than London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Dublin or strife-torn Belfast. But what's the truth behind the headlines, the real story on the streets of Glasgow? And who has earned the city its shocking and brutal reputation? Murder Capital leads...
by Barbara D'Amato
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
WINNER OF THE ANTHONY AND AGATHA AWARDS FOR BEST TRUE CRIME
In 1968, Dr. John Branion was found guilty of murdering his wife in their posh Chicago home. After exhausting his appeals, he evaded authorities by fleeing to Africa. He was finally captured in 1983—but his case was far from over....
Though Murder Has No Tongue
The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat.
Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the infamous “Torso Murders” in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 1930s. Dolezal, a fifty-two-year-old...
Unsolved Murders: A Stunning Look At the Worlds Most Famous Unsolved Murder Cases, Unsolved Mysteries, Unsolved Crimes And What Really Happened
Unsolved Murders, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2017
Have you ever watched those unsolved murder shows on tv and wondered, what really happened? Who did it? Why would someone do that? Unsolved murders are one of the most intriguing things that stir our minds.The habit of analyzing things and arriving at a conclusion was inculcated in us first when...
The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash
J. Edgar Hoover and Florida's Lindbergh Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades.
In his long and storied...
For Alison
The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father's Fight for Gun Safety
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Renowned activist Andy Parker's account of the story that shocked America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his extraordinary ensuing fight for commonsense gun safety legislation and doing "Whatever It Takes" to end gun violence.
On August 26, 2015,...
Careless People
Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Kirkus (STARRED review)
"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”
The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from...
God'll Cut You Down
The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson, for fans of "Serial."
A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee....
All-American Murder
The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Discover the shocking #1 New York Times bestseller: the true story of a young NFL player's first-degree murder conviction and untimely death -- and his journey from the Patriots to prison.
Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached...