Murder category: 3028 books

Cover of Written in Blood
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

Extraordinary accounts of forensic crime detection—from poisoners in ancient Rome to modern day serial killers—by the bestselling author of The Outsider. In 44 BC, a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history—on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar....
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Greater London Murders

33 True Stories of Revenge, Greed, Jealousy & Lust

by Linda Stratmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

This compendium brings together 33 murderous tales — one from each of the capital’s boroughs—that not only shocked the city but made headline news across the country. Throughout its history the great urban sprawl of Greater London has been home to some of the most shocking murders in England,...
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by Nicola Sly
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

Life in the historic county of Hampshire has not always been peaceful, for over the years it has experienced numerous murders, some of which are little known outside the county borders, others that have shocked the nation. These include the killing of "Sweet Fanny Adams" in 1867; the horrific...
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by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1983

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die—yet lived to murder again....and again.... After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate,...
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Sleep My Darlings

The true story of a mother who killed her children in cold blood

by Diane Fanning
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

SLEEP MY DARLINGS Diane Fanning On January 28, 2011, the Tampa Police Department received a phone call from a woman who was worried about her daughter, Julie Schenecker. A devoted Army wife and mother of two, Julie had sent her mother an email that could be described as "suicidal."...
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Through an Unlocked Door

In Walks Murder

by Kevin M. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018

“We never lock our doors.” This is an often-heard remark expressing a commonplace American attitude or belief that, despite whatever danger might prevail in public spaces, life inside our own homes remains (or at least should remain) safe, carefree, normal. This book covers 13 high-profile...
Cover of A Cold Case
by Philip Gourevitch
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002

A tale of crime and punishment from a prizewinning writer. A few years ago, Andy Rosenzweig, an inspector for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, was abruptly reminded of an old, unsolved double homicide. It bothered him that Frankie Koehler, the notoriously dangerous suspect, had eluded...
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Oscar Slater

The 'Immortal' Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

by Thomas Toughill
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012

In 1909, Oscar Slater, a German Jew, was convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal murder of Marion Gilchrist, an elderly Glasweigan spinster. His trial is now known to have been one of the most scandalous miscarriages of justice in the annals of legal history. This book is a masterful and highly...
Cover of The Only Living Witness
by Stephen G. Michaud & Hugh Aynesworth
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012

Of all the infamous serial killers of the past two decades, Ted Bundy stands out as unique. Before he burst into the public consciousness, most people assumed that anyone capable of homicides heinous as the ones he committed had to be easily identifiable. As Bob Dekle, one of Bundys prosecutors, put...
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Dead Ends

The Pursuit, Conviction, and Execution of Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos

by Joseph Michael Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016

The chilling true story of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, whose violent crimes shocked the nation—and inspired the Academy Award–winning film Monster. When police in Florida’s Volusia County were called to investigate the murder of Richard Mallory, whose gunshot-ridden body had...
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by Brian Forschner
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

An “impressively well-crafted” true crime account of the murder of five girls in the early days of police investigations (Midwest Book Review). Cold Serial tells the true stories of five girls who were raped and murdered in the Dayton, Ohio, area between 1900 and 1909. They were victims...
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Fatal

The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer

by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012

In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all. AN ANGEL OF MERCY In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked on a profession as a private-duty nurse. Selfless and good-natured, she beguiled...
Cover of What The Little Dog Witnessed: The True Crime Of Ed Hubbard & Willie Roberts
by Patrick Bowmaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

Career convict and con artist Ed Hubbard and his accomplice Willie Roberts, a young and attractive prostitute, set out to play a long game against the farmer Pleas Burns, who owned a spread on the Spring River in Arkansas. But Willie grows tired of waiting and pressures Hubbard to “fix the old man.”...
Cover of Mafia and Politics
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

Mafia Geheimbund Camorra ‘Ndrangheta Sacra Corona Unita La Cosa Nostra Russische Mafia Albanische Mafia Yakuza Triade (Kriminalistik) Sizilianische Sprache Sarazenen Palermo Sizilianische Vesper Joseph Bonanno Bonanno-Familie I mafiusi di la Vicaria Giuseppe Garibaldi Organisierte Kriminalität...
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