Murder category: 3028 books
The Killer Across the Table
Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling...
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
"Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." —Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review
SHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017
Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe,...
by Ty Treadwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Robert Vickers killed his prison cellmate because the other man drank his Kool-Aid. Varnall Weeks believed that after his execution he would be reincarnated as a giant turtle who would rule the universe. Hit man and former Elvis impersonator James Paster tried to escape from his cell by slathering...
Bitter Remains
A Custody Battle, A Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The bestselling true crime author of Under Cover of the Night recounts Laura Ackerson’s disappearance and murder in North Carolina, the discovery of her remains in Texas, and the aftermath…
On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler...
Three Sisters in Black
The Bizarre True Case of the Bathtub Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history.
On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of twenty-four-year-old Oceana “Ocey” Snead facedown in...
A Rip in Heaven
A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.
A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991,...
My Stolen Son
The Nick Markowitz Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
The true story of the shocking crime behind the hit movie Alpha Dog
One week after fifteen-year-old Nick Markowitz vanished, his mother received the news: Nick's body had been found in a shallow grave. Now she tells her own gripping story-the unbelievable motive for the murder, the shocking identity of the accused, and her own nine-year battle to bring her son's killers to justice.
Death's Acre
Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention when he built a forensic lab like no other: The Body Farm. Now, this master scientist unlocks the gates of his lab to reveal his most intriguing cases-and to revisit the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, fifty years after the fact.
Dark Dreams
A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Evil That Men Do introduced readers to the lifework and the techniques of FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood.
Now, in Dark Dreams, Hazelwood-- writing with bestselling author Stephen G. Michaud-- will take then deep into the minds of his prey, the world's most dangerous sexual criminals, and reveal...
by Thomas Maeder
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The chilling true story of a serial killer who preyed on men, women, and children desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Paris.
On March 11, 1944, police were called to investigate foul-smelling smoke pouring from the chimney of an elegant private house near the Arc de Triomphe. In the basement...
by Truman Capote
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001
**National Bestseller **
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
As...
Runaway Devil
How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise....
The Road to Jonestown
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime
“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in...
Empire of Sin
A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City
Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years...