True Crime category: 7770 books
by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
From “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule comes the New York Times bestselling mystery novel of drama, greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an eerie island in the Pacific Northwest.
Nestled in Puget Sound and accessible only by ferry, Whidbey Island is a gem off...
by Walter Kirn
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
**A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014
"Equals Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood as a nonfiction novel of crime.”—Gerald Bartell, San Francisco Chronicle**
In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving...
Death in Texas
A True Story of Marriage, Money, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Was he his brother's keeper?
Robert and Doris Angleton seemed to have the perfect life. Until she was coldly murdered in her own home, shot thirteen times in the head, chest, and abdomen...
Suddenly the ideal husband seemed anything but perfect: he was jailed, accused of hiring his older...
The Stranger In My Bed
The True Story of Marriage, Murder, and the Body in the Box
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
He Found New Brides To Love Him-
All Diane Bertalan really knew of her new husband, John, was that he was a widower, he lavished her with gifts, and he preferred to keep his past a secret. What she didn't know was that the FBI had been watching him for years. In the Fall of 2000, she found out why-it...
Masquerade
A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A psychologist’s secret life on the seedy side of Detroit gets him entangled with a prostitute—and her murderous pimp—in a “compelling work of true crime” (Detroit Free Press).
In the exclusive suburb of Grosse Pointe, Alan Canty was a respected psychologist, with clients drawn from...
Hunted
The Zodiac Murders - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The Zodiac serial killer claimed the lives of at least five young victims between 1966 and 1974, and mocked the police with telephone calls, taunting letters, and encrypted messages. Thousands of men have been accused; nearly 2,500 have been investigated. Yet the Zodiac has never been identified.
This...
Kitty Genovese
A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A New York Times bestseller!
Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens,...
A Dark and Bloody Ground
A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
“Phelps is a true-crime veteran.” —New York Post
Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor’s little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn’t lie...
One Breath Away
The Hiccup Girl - From Media Darling to Convicted Killer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
"Phelps is a true-crime veteran."--New York Post
"Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." --Allison Brennan
When she was 15, Jennifer Mee developed an unrelenting case of the hiccups--hiccupping as many as 50 times a minute for months. Soon the Florida...
Blood Games
A True Account of Family Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling author of Bitter Blood weaves “a powerful account” of greed that led to an unspeakable crime (The New York Times Book Review).
As they slept in their North Carolina home, wealthy Lieth Von Stein and his wife Bonnie suffered a vicious assault with a knife...
The Mastermind
Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur
“A tour de force of shoe-leather reporting—undertaken,...
Court Reporter
a tough and fearless memoir of the cases that have shocked, moved and never left us.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
From true crime to petty crime - this is the memoir of one of Australia's most experienced court reporters.
Longlisted in the True Crime category for the 2019 Davitt and Ned Kelly Awards.
As a seasoned court reporter, the ABC's Jamelle Wells has filed thousands of stories on murderers,...
Guilty by Popular Demand
A True Story of Small-Town Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Murder and miscarriage of justice in a rural communityThe townsfolk of Logan, Ohio, a mined-out area of the Appalachian foothills, cheered as an innocent man was convicted and sent to death row. The occasion was the conviction of Dale N. Johnston. His trial ended nothing; the tragedies had just begun....