Murder category: 3028 books
A Good Month for Murder
The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives—does its almost impossible job
Twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good month...
Murder on Shades Mountain
The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the woods. That...
Four Shocking True Crime Tales
Body Dump, Flesh Collectors, Lobster Boy, and Deacon of Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Four bizarre true crime stories about serial killers, murder sprees, sideshows, and church pulpits in one sensational volume.
These grisly true crime books by a former New York Times columnist chronicle four shocking and disturbing cases.
Body Dump: Few people in Poughkeepsie, New York,...
by Gary C. King
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Strange but true stories of murder and mayhem. In all there are 18 chilling stories about crimes that could only be perpetrated by the twisted minds and gruesome obsessions of coldblooded killers. It's the stuff that horror movies and novels are made of, brought to you from the vault of bestselling...
Black Dahlia Avenger II
Presenting the Follow-Up Investigation and Further Evidence Linking Dr. George Hill Hodel to Los Angeles' Black Dahlia and Other 1940s Lone Woman Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
SEQUEL TO NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER
Five New Investigative Chapters added to this 2014 edition: Chapter 23-LAPD Historical Society—The New Evidence Chapter 24-Odor Mortis—The Smell of Death Chapter 25-The KMEX-Univision Interviews Chapter 26-Murder as a Fine...
Murder by Poison
A Casebook of Historic British Murders
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Murder by poison is often thought of as a crime mainly committed by women, usually to despatch an unwanted spouse or children. While there are indeed many infamous female poisoners, such as Mary Ann Cotton, who is believed to have claimed at least 20 victims between 1852 and 1872, and Mary Wilson,...
The Mother's Day Murder
The Startling True Story of a Seductive, Murdering Wife and her Three Teenage Pawns
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The Black Widow
They met while working together at a Taco Bell in Augusta, Georgia: seventeen-year-old Larry Kelley and thirty-one-year-old wife and mother Gina Spann. Their unusual friendship soon blossomed into something much more when Gina invited Larry to live with her, her husband Kevin, and...
by Carol Pogash
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
She was fifteen when she visited the therapist; still a teen when they had sex. She was twenty-five when she married him and forty-four when she killed him.
In October 2002, the quiet northern California town of Orinda was rocked by murder when Susan Polk, the mother of three teenage boys,...
Final Analysis
The Untold Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In October 2002, Susan Polk, a housewife and mother of three, was arrested for the murder of her husband, Felix. The arrest in her sleepy northern California town kicked off what would become one of the most captivating murder trials in recent memory, as police, local attorneys, and the national media...
Reasonable Doubt
The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In January 2002, forty-six-year-old Christa Worthington was found stabbed to death in the kitchen of her Truro, Cape Cod, cottage, her curly-haired toddler clutching her body. A former Vassar girl and scion of a prominent local family, Christa had abandoned a glamorous career as a fashion writer for...
by Cheri L. Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
“Contains twelve intriguing stories, true murder cases from New York’s North Country . . . Illuminates the dark side of northern New York’s early days (Murder By Gaslight).
St. Lawrence County is known for its picturesque waters and pristine seasons. But underneath this fair facade lies...
True Crime Stories
A Prequel: 4 Shocking True Crime Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
There are killers who stalk their prey, learning all they can about an intended target before striking. Some commit the act of murder out of hatred or revenge for someone in their lives. Killers like Detlev Guenzel searched for like-minded souls who would allow them to indulge in their deepest darkest...
by Linda Rosencrance
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
A Brutal Murder
The upscale suburb of Wellesley, Massachusetts hadn't seen a murder in 30 years. Then came Halloween, 1999. That brisk morning, Dr. Dirk Greineder, 60, and his wife of 32 years, Mabel, took one of their dogs for a walk in Morses Pond park. A short time later, Dr. Greineder led...
by Shannon Adamcik
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
The United States is the only country in the world that will charge a juvenile as an adult and sentence them to life without parole. As the mother of one such child, I know exactly what happens when a juvenile is placed in adult court where they cannot defend themselves. They are immediately cut off...