Murder category: 3028 books
The Big Eddy Club
The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Over eight bloody months in the mid-1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven affluent, elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African American, Carlton Gary, was convicted for these crimes and sentenced...
Murder in Visalia
The Coin Dealer Killer
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
“Recounts all the twists and turns of the case . . . two jury trials, a surprising appellate court ruling . . . and, decades later, a shocking development” (Visalia Times Delta).
One October morning in 1979, a stamp and coin dealer was gunned down in his Visalia shop. There were no witnesses....
The Linda Wolfe Collection
Five True Crime Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Five torn-from-the-headlines true crime books from an Edgar Award–nominated author and “one of our best reporters” (John Leonard).
Linda Wolfe delves deep into the crimes that defy explanation—and the twisted minds of those who commit them. In these five books, she combines masterful...
by Kevin Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
"Vividly transforms Ms. Genovese from an iconic urban martyr to a three-dimensional protagonist in a case that transformed the criminal justice system." —Sam Roberts, New York Times
In 1964 Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was brutally stabbed to death on her front stoop in...
by Donna Fielder
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The true story of a Texas cop and wife-killer—and the unbelievable perversions of justice that almost set him free.
On July 6th, 2002, schoolteacher Virginia “Viki” Lozano, mother of an eleven-month-old and wife of a Denton, Texas, police officer, died from a gunshot wound the day after...
Acid Bath Murders
The Trials and Liquidations of John George Haigh
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
John George Haigh found the way to commit the perfect murder—five of them in fact—by dissolving his wealthy victims in sulfuric acid to avoid detection on a "no body, no murder" principle, before taking their property to fund his luxury lifestyle. But victim number six presented a problem....
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
The True St ory of Murder in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This true story of murder in a small town became one of the strangest criminal cases in Michigan history. The disappearance of a 17-year-old girl after she ended a stormy relationship with her boyfriend went unsolved for nearly eight years. The paranormal dimensions of the story -- tales of witchcraft,...
Signed in Blood
The True Story of Two Women, a Sinister Plot, and Cold Blooded Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
They came from different backgrounds, but when Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt met in the 1980s, they became fast friends. For decades, they made a game of engaging in petty crime—bad deals, insurance fraud, robbing wallets. But after years of dabbling in theft, they came up with a way of making...
Avery
The Case Against Steven Avery and What "Making a Murderer" Gets Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
It’s time to set the record straight about Steven Avery.
The Netflix series Making a Murderer was a runaway hit, with over 19 million US viewers in the first 35 days. The series left many with the opinion that Steven Avery, a man falsely imprisoned for almost 20 years on a previous, unrelated...
by Rod Kackley
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Not every woman is meant to be a good mother.
Martha Ann was a simple woman. She only wanted to love and be loved. But when she found true love, it was too late, and too many had died.
Every time Earl and Martha Ann fight, he runs off to his lover, Stanley, and something terrible happens...
Blind Love
The True Story Of The Texas Cadet Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A handsome overachiever...
A beautiful honors student...
Together they would commit savage murder...
A Teenage Love Pact Sealed In Blood
Outside a small Texas town by the side of the road, high school sophomore beauty Adrianne Jones lay with her skull bashed in and two bullets in her...
In the Name of Satan
A True Story of Human Sacrifice, Devil Worship, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A lovely teenage girl's final goodbye...
"I love you and I'm going to bed," were the last words Elyse Pahler ever said to her parents. But she would never dream again, for the pretty blond 15-year-old was about to begin a walking nightmare that would end in her grisly stabbing murder.
Three...
True Crime Confidential Volume 2
True Crime Confidential, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including;
In Plain Sight: A young woman is brutally murdered in front of 38 witnesses. So why didn’t anyone call the police?
Bad Chemistry: John Balaban had a problem with women, one that he resolved at the end of a sharp blade.
Fox on the Run: A...
Gangsters & Grifters
Classic Crime Photos from the Chicago Tribune
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Created from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives, Gangsters and Grifters is a collection of photographs featuring infamous criminals, small-time bandits, hoodlums, and more at shocking crime scenes. These vintage glass-plate and acetate negatives were taken from the early 1900s through the 1950s, and...