Murder category: 3028 books
Did They Really Do It?
From Lizzie Borden to the 20th Hijacker
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America’s history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime
Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth’s broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden...
The Search for Anne Perry
The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A New York Times Best Seller!
In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the movie Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. The movie launched Jackson’s international career. It also forever changed...
The Boy on the Bicycle
A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
On the night of September 15, 1956, seven-year-old Wayne Mallette, was brutally murdered on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. The chief suspect was a “boy on a bicycle” seen pedalling away from the CNE.
Investigators zeroed on 14-year-old Ronald Moffatt, a former...
Our Man in Orlando
Murder, Mayhem and Madness in the Sunshine State
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Florida: a land of dazzling white sands, sizzling sun... and utterly incompetent British criminals.
Like the British woman who hijacked a helicopter to bust her husband out of Death Row, the Scottish gap year student who robbed a bank and tried to escape on a kid's bike and the unlucky Londoner...
The Yorkshire Witch
The Life & Trial of Mary Bateman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“A fascinating tale of witchcraft and skulduggery in darkest Yorkshire in the early 19th century. . . . An extraordinary story, brilliantly told.” —Books Monthly
On the morning of March 20, 1809, the woman who had earned herself the title of “The Yorkshire Witch” was hanged at York’s...
by Fredrick Hamley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The Krays were notorious underworld organized gangsters from the 1960s, who are now legendary.
This illustrated book is filled with facts and research about the brothers, Ronnie, Reggie and Charlie, who terrorized London, England.
Discover what made the twins legends, and read about other gangsters who were associated with them, from murder to being lovers.
Mass Killers
Compelled to Destroy
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Mass Killers investigates those addicted to death. Many killers have become dangerously hooked on the thrill of the kill, driving them to commit even more extreme acts of violence in pursuit of their drug of choice - the suffering of others. This fascinating book is not for the faint hearted. It contains...
Bandido Massacre
A True Story of Bikers, Brotherhood and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
On the morning of April 8, 2006, residents of the hamlet of Shedden, Ontario, woke up to the news that the bloodied bodies of eight bikers from the Bandidos gang had been found dead on a local farm. The massacre made headlines around the world, and the shocking news brought a grim light to an otherwise...
by Raymond E. Blake
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Blood's Thicker Than Water is a story of Sex, Money, Murder and family ties in the heart of the city of Wilmington, Delaware. Two crews collide and leave a blood-bath in the streets; News reporters and local on-lookers are left speechless as Police and Medical personnel scrape up the pieces that the M.O.B and Yayo Boyz violently left behind.
Girl, Wanted
The Chase for Sarah Pender
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Sarah Pender was an attractive, outgoing, intelligent woman with great potential. But the straight and narrow had no appeal for this depraved young woman dubbed "the female Charles Manson", who knew how to get what she wanted from men-even if it meant murder.
Nobody's Women
The Crimes and Victims of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
**On a Thursday evening in late October 2009, Cleveland Police detectives arrived at the home of Anthony Sowell—an ex-Marine and a registered sex offender—to arrest him on week-old rape charges. **
But this was no ordinary house, nor would it be a routine arrest.
For even though...
by Fredric Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Vice and murder prowl the back alleys of North Side Chicago…
Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn’t happy. He doesn’t want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepdaughter. Ed wants out, he wants to live, he wants...
Presumed Guilty
Casey Anthony: The Inside Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
New York Times bestseller Presumed Guilty exposes shocking, never-before revealed, exclusive information from the trial of the century and the verdict that shocked the nation.
When Caylee Anthony was reported missing in Orlando, Florida, in July 2008, the public spent the next three years following...
Bath Massacre
America's First School Bombing
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."
---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights
"A chilling and...