True Crime category: 7770 books
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Here's a true crime story that is too bizarre to be believed. In 1921, the Roseburg, Oregon, dentist Dr. Richard M Brumfield tried to fake his own death by putting the dead body of the local hermit, Dennis Russell, in the flaming wreckage of Doc's roadster--after he removed the man's teeth and set...
American Justice
A True Crime Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Three shocking tales of violence, intrigue, and the search for truth from a two-time Edgar Award finalist and Ann Rule’s “favorite true-crime writer.”
In this riveting collection, prize-winning investigative journalist James Neff examines the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder mystery; the terrifying...
Drug Lord: A True Story
The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
"Drug Lord is the real thing. Raw, immediate, indispensable."-Don Winslow, author of The Power of Dog and California Fire and Life
"The [drug smuggling] business goes on, the slaughtered dead pile up, the US agencies continue to ratchet up their budgets, the prisons grow larger...
Fatal Deceptions
Three True Crime Tales of Passion, Murder, and Deceit
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This collection by a New York Times journalist gathers three horrifying true accounts of crimes of passion, ambition, and fear.
Author Joe Sharkey delivers three gripping accounts of betrayal and murder in this compelling American true crime collection.
Above Suspicion: Soon to be a major...
Uncle John's True Crime
A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
You'll be on the edge of your seat reading tales of cops, robbers, criminals, and lawyers with this little tome that packs a lot of heat.
Do you like to read great stories? This book is loaded with them! We've rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done--plus a rogue's gallery...
by Marvin J. Wolf, Katherine Mader
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Rotten Apples is a thoroughly investigated treasure of true crime straight from the streets of The City that Never Sleeps. This bushel of vice, victims, and vengeance spotlights sinister citizens from Boss Tweed and Typhoid Mary to Mark David Chapman and Jack Henry Abbot, plus detailed map references...
The Supernatural Murders
Classic Stories of True Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Sure to capture the imagination of devotees of true crime and the occult
This anthology of thirteen true crime stories includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, who was found slashed and pierced to death in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the murder of Eric...
by Gregg Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
With photos!
Welcome to the newest box set (three books rolled in to one set) of the New York Times bestselling series, Notorious USA. In Shadows of Death, acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestselling author Katherine Ramsland take crime readers on a tour of New Jersey, New York and Delaware....
The Everything Mafia Book
True-life accounts of legendary figures, infamous crime families, and nefarious deeds
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
"Millions of television and movie viewers have shown that Americans continue to be fascinated by the remarkableùand often sordidùworld of the Mafia. This book takes you beyond fiction and tabloid accounts and relates the true-life accounts of all the major players in the American Mafia. From Al...
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From infamous serial killers to unusual murder weapons to crime scene investigations, a must for everyone interested in true crimeFilled with every conceivable grim fact or fancy about this most despicable of crimes, this is a chilling compendium of intriguing, obscure, and strange facts and trivia...
Thomas H. Cook's True Crime
Blood Echoes and Early Graves
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Two gripping accounts of true crime and its devastating aftermath from an Edgar Award winner hailed as “a writer of poetic gifts” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Blood Echoes: In May 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison—and went on to commit one of the most horrific murders...
The Nightingale Shore Murder
Death of a World War 1 Heroine
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This updated and expanded second edition is the true story of the unsolved murder of Florence Nightingale’s goddaughter. Florence Nightingale Shore grew up in a Victorian family that found itself mired in controversy and scandal. She became a respected Queen’s Nurse, who worked for five years...
The Good Mothers
The True Story of the Women Who Took On the World's Most Powerful Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Nominated for a 2019 Edgar® Award for Best Fact Crime
Named a CrimeReads best Nonfiction Crime Book of 2018
The electrifying, untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias – and how they risked everything to bring it down.
The...
by Emily Webb
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Think nothing ever happens where you live? Suburb an Nightmare is a collection of stories that are hard to believe, except they really happened – and all in the streets and homes of the Australia many of us know and live. The suburbs. These cases range from recent murders to some historical stories...