True Crime category: 7770 books
Did They Really Do It?
From Lizzie Borden to the 20th Hijacker
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America’s history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime
Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth’s broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden...
The Boy on the Bicycle
A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
On the night of September 15, 1956, seven-year-old Wayne Mallette, was brutally murdered on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. The chief suspect was a “boy on a bicycle” seen pedalling away from the CNE.
Investigators zeroed on 14-year-old Ronald Moffatt, a former...
Big Shots
Carl Williams & The Gangland Murders - The Inside Story, Comp
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
In 2003, Adam Shand, until then a finance journalist, naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. A few months' research, a guaranteed cover story. But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that. He became embroiled in a complex world where feuds raged between rival families,...
by Wensley Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Angel Matrino Resendez is one of history's most notorious serial killers. Found guilty of nine horrific murders, his seemingly random methods shocked the world, striking fear into the hearts of thousands who lived along the railroad that the twisted killer travelled in search of blood. For the first...
Crime and the Craft
Masonic Involvement in Murder, Treason and Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Crime and the Craft: Masonic Involvement in Murder, Treason and Scandal reveals the Freemasons who have been involved in murder, treason, skulduggery and scandal from the time of the English Civil War to the 1980s. Nearly every infamous case investigated by Scotland Yard, including Jack the Ripper,...
by RJ Parker
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
When a Serial Killer is active in a community it is extremely scary for everyone. This book focuses on Serial Killers who have been captured and some of the most notorious and ruthless killers in history.
Serial killers stay close to home and their victims are random. Dennis Rader found all...
by Paul T. Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
How would you feel if you woke up one morning to learn that your wife, the woman you were in love with and had hoped to spend the rest of your life with, had completely duped you from the beginning, and was not only in love with another man, but this man was her PIMP, and she was his MADAM and PROSTITUTE?
How...
Bitter Almonds
The True Story of Mothers, Daughters and the Seattle Cyanide Murders
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
New York Times bestseller!
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Stella Nickell's small-time world was one of big-time dreams. In 1986, her biggest one came true when her husband died during a seizure, making her the beneficiary of a $175,000-plus insurance payoff—until authorities...
by Caitlin Rother
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Reprinted Edition
"Page-turning excitement. . .riveting, fast-paced true crime." —M. William Phelps
On a chilly November afternoon in 1998, a tearful 36-year-old man walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department in Eureka, CA, and confessed to something horrible. "I...
by Damien Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
We live in a society obsessed with monsters. You don’t believe me? Think of all the television shows and movies in the past two years or so which have featured vampires, werewolves, and assorted creatures of the night. I’m betting you can come up with at least twenty titles. We like being scared....
by Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 is yet another must read for the true crime aficionado—an eye-opening compendium of the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant crime stories of the year by the masters of the genre. Guest editor Stephen J. Dubner (Freakonomics)joins series editors Otto Penzler...
by Gideon Haigh
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - until one night in 1930 she was brutally slain by an unknown...
by Mark Horner
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
"Horner skillfully compiles facts and recites dialogue from thousands of pages of police supplemental files, court transcripts, and personal interviews." -- Weekly Alibi (Albuquerque
"Horner tells this incredible story of the life and death of Girly Chew with the vivaciousness...
Manson, Sinatra and Me
A Hollywood Party Girl's Memoir and How She Helped Vincent Bugliosi with the Helter Skelter Case
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Manson, Sinatra and Me is a Hollywood party girl's memoir that details her encounters with former Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, foreign dignitaries, celebrities, sports stars, businessmen - you name it - including the likes of Frank Sinatra and other members of the Rat Pack. The average man or...