True Crime category: 7770 books
Tinseltown
Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of...
by Brian J. Karem
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A seasoned investigative reporter takes us behind the scenes of one of the most shocking cases in California history when a greedy and seductive wife brutally murders her devoted husband.
Tavia Williams thought her new stepmother was sweet and charming. Tavia, just a few years younger than...
by RJ Parker
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
At any given time in the United States alone, there are thirty to fifty unidentified active serial killers at work constantly changing their targets and methods; however, some authorities think that number is even much higher.
"Unsolved Serial Killings by RJ Parker is a fascinating glimpse...
The Feather Thief
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
**As heard on NPR's This American Life
“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science...
by W. Cleon Skousen, Paul B. Skousen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America’s most notorious mobsters.
True Stories from the Files of the FBI...
by Gregg Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
New York Times bestselling USA series
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine state with a darker side than most. The mecca for wealthy retirees to enjoy their younger girlfriends, yachts and marble-floored mansions, where recreational drugs, sex...
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Features new material on the Golden State Killer's case and an updated afterword by Patton Oswalt.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:
Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel...
Popular Crime
Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.
Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life and has...
by Carlton Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Engrossed by the short lives of innocent victims, Stowers uses The Girl in the Grave … and Other True Crime Stories to tell the tales of devastated parents dealing with evil forces and unanswered questions that invaded their once normal lives, and the effect on the law enforcement officers duty-bound...
by Robin Bowles
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Is there one law for those at the top and a different one for those at the front line? This story describes how a young, dedicated and straight cop was driven from his career because he crossed the line. But with a degree of poetic justice in the end, those who persecuted him eventually faced their...
Sexy Beasts
The True Story of the "Diamond Geezers" and the Record-Breaking $100 Million Hatton Garden Heist
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In what has been described as a true-life blend of "Grumpy Old Men" and "Ocean's Eleven, SEXY BEASTS is an insider account of the 2015 Hatton Garden Heist, in which a group of retirement-age career criminals--the so-called "Diamond Geezers"--robbed a London jewelry vault, in what would be the biggest...
by Michael Benson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In The Hands Of A Sadist… First, he bound and beat his girlfriend, a 43-year-old librarian. Then he went after her teenaged daughter-warning her, "Scream and I will kill you both"-before knocking her unconscious. When the teenager awoke, he proceded to rape her. And in a final horrifying...
Carmine the Snake
Carmine Persico and His Murderous Mafia Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
The shocking true story of the most ruthless and deadly mob boss in the annals of the American Mafia.
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In the golden age of organized crime, Carmine “The Snake” Persico was the King of the Streets. The defacto boss of the Colombo Mafia family since the 1970s, he oversaw gang wars, murders,...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
On November 14, 1912, house detectives at the Saratoga Hotel in Chicago discovered the body of a woman in room 409 on a blood-soaked mattress. The labels in her clothing led police to Cincinnati, where friends and relatives identified the belongings of Mrs. Emma Kraft, a highly-respected widow who...