Murder category: 3028 books
Doctors Who Kill
Profiles of Lethal Medics
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Trust me, I'm a doctor
What would drive a child prodigy turned brilliant doctor to murder his wife? Why would a Scottish nurse resort to murdering the elderly patients under his care? What motive could a promising Harvard medical student have for attacking her friend and roommate?
At...
Murderous Minds on Trial
Terrible Tales from a Forensic Psychiatrist's Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Each murder trial brings its own tangle of evidence, legal parameters, medical factors, social circumstances, and personalities. The tangle gets trickier when we must keep in mind that: "A person shall not be criminally responsible for an act or omission if they suffer from a mental disorder...
by John H. Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
For thirty years, he terrorized a Wichita, Kansas, and made a name for himself: BTK. This nickname, which the killer chose himself, stands for 'Bind, Torture, Kill', and described his modus operandi well.
He murdered 10 people in the 70's, 80's, and 90's, and would have gotten away with it-...
Life After Life
The Story of Wayne Ford, Rehabilitated Teenage Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
He was the perpetrator of the most ghastly murder in Toronto during the 1960s. At 16, Wayne Ford killed his mother with a baseball bat and then hid her body in Lake Couchiching. It remained there for more than three years while police tried to solve the mystery of Minnie Ford's disappearance and a teenaged...
Blood in the Snow
The True Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad, his High-Powered Wife, and the Jealousy that Drove him to Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
***Please note that the photos that appear in the print edition of the title do not appear in the e-book.***
Washington Township, Michigan: Valentine's Day, 2007. Stephen Grant filed a missing person's report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two was beside himself with...
by Michael Benson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Difficult to put down. . .. This is one that I highly recommend. --True Crime Book Reviews on Watch Mommy Die
Die For Love
Sarah Ludemann was new to love. The Pinellas, Florida, 17-year old was a late bloomer. When she fell for a boy she was blind to the world of sex, drugs and drama...
Rampage
Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Rampage: a state of anger or agitation resulting in violent, reckless, and destructive behaviour. In 1989, Marc Lépine mercilessly executed 14 female students at Montreal's École Polytechnique to become Canada's most notorious mass murderer. The following year spree killer Peter John Peters roamed...
by Fred Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1980 in Toledo, Ohio—on one of the holiest days of the church calendar—the body of a nun was discovered in the sacristy of a hospital chapel. Seventy-one-year-old Sister Margaret Ann had been strangled and stabbed, her corpse arranged in a shameful and stomach-churning pose. But the police's...
by Diane Fanning
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Evil Stalks the Sanctuary
Sex, voodoo and vicious assault: three stories of murder linked to the church by Edgar Award Finalist Diane Fanning.
Buried Scandal: In the basement of a Michigan church, a sexton uncovers the rotting skeleton of a nun who had been missing for...
by Amy Dale
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
How Simon Gittany murdered Lisa Harnum.
A terrified woman runs for the door, her final effort to escape a cruel and controlling fianc�. She is too late. A secret camera captures him covering her mouth to suppress her screams as he drags her back inside.
69 seconds later Lisa Harnum...
Tia Sharp
A Family Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This is the shocking true story of how a step-grandfather murdered the young girl who trusted him. On August 3, 2012, Tia Sharp, a 12-year-old school girl, was reported missing from her grandmother’s house in New Addington, South London. A call by her mother alerted the police to Tia’s disappearance,...
Desire Turned Deadly
The True Story of a Beautiful Girl, Her Teenage Sweetheart, and the Love that Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Early one November morning, Kara Borden, a pretty fourteen year old, was caught by her parents as she snuck into their Lancaster County, Pennsylvania home. She confessed to spending the night with eighteen-year-old David Ludwig, and her parents—evangelicals who had home-schooled their daughter—were...
Darker than Night
The True Story of a Brutal Double Homicide and an 18-Year Long Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
ON A COLD, SNOWY NIGHT IN 1985, TWO MEN BEGGED FOR THEIR LIVES.
In 1985, two 27-year-old friends left their suburban Detroit homes for a hunting trip in rural Michigan. When they did not return, their families and police suspected foul play. For 18 years, no one could prove a thing. Then, a relentless...
Beauty Sleep
A Glamorous Mother, a Woman from Her Past, and Her Mysterious Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
On April 10, 2001, Sandra Baker, a recently separated, forty-five-year-old mother of two, went for a facelift—and a new lease on life. But the nurse anesthetist was a woman from her past. And Sandra's future was in jeopardy…
Decades before, in a world of high school cliques and competition,...