True Crime category: 7770 books
Alphaville
1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
A raw, gritty memoir—part true-life cop thriller, part unputdownable history of a storied time and place—that will grip you by the throat until the explosive end
Alphabet City in 1988 burned with heroin, radicalism, and anti-police sentiment. Working as a plainclothes narcotics cop in the...
Undercover Cop
How I Brought Down the Real-Life Sopranos
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
One moment, New Jersey state trooper Mike Russell was working undercover, playing the role of an up-and-coming mobster hoping to infiltrate a Mafia family crew. The next, he was lying facedown in an alley after being ambushed and shot in the back of the head by a mobster over a dispute.
Russell...
Without a Trace
Inside the Robert Durst Case
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
In September 2001, the headless body of an elderly man washing ashore in Galveston, Texas. also recovered were garbage bags containing the severed limbs of the victim--and a newspaper with a home delivery address that left arresting officers to the downscale apartment of Robert Durst, an unkempt transient...
Dark Ambition
The Shocking Crime of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Shortlisted for the 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Nonfiction Category
Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors
Tim Bosma was a happy young father with a promising future when he listed his pickup truck for sale online, went for a test drive with two strangers, and...
The Surgeon's Wife
A True Story of Obsession, Rage, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane....
Dirty Deeds
Justice Prevails
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
An inside account of some of Australias most gruesome and recent crime cases. Go inside a maximum security jail unit to learn why feared prisoner Matthew Charles Johnson murdered drug boss Carl Williams in the most brutal way possible. Question how a two-time killer was allowed the freedom to murder...
by Paul B Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
More true crime cases that are the most evil of the evil, where the perpetrators have been sent to prison without the possibility of parole – ‘never to be released’.
Sex Slaves
Human Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
SEX SLAVES HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Contents Introduction AFRICA : Introduction, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo and Benin – ‘Wife of Gods’, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. AMERICA : Introduction, Las Vegas – Sin City, Chicago, San Francisco...
The Suspect
A true story of love, betrayal, marriage and murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
On a clear autumn morning in 2004 Rachel O’Reilly, a 30 year-old mother-of-two, was brutally battered to death in her home. It was a merciless killing that stunned the small, trusting community where she lived, and devastated her close-knit family. In the days that followed the discovery of her...
Hotels of Death
The Famous Checked In But Never Checked Out
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Hotels of Death The Famous Checked In But Never Checked Out — Oscar Wilde, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, John Belushi, Nancy Spungen, Whitney Houston, Martin Luther King, R Kennedy, HH Holmes, Reles
Contents Introduction Hotel Murders and Assassinations : H.H. Holmes: The World’s...
A Warriors Road
The Life of an Independent Criminal
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
MEET LUTHER WISE. A SMALL TOWN NATIVE AMERICAN BOY GROWING UP IN THE BACK WOODS OF THE UNITED STATES. A ROUGH, RAW STORY THAT IS NOT ONLY TRUE, BUT SCARY AND HEARTBREAKING AT THE SAME TIME. FROM WITNESSING A MURDER AT THE AGE 13, TO THE DARK ROAD OF CRIME HE CHOSE TO WALK, HIS STORY WILL PULL YOU...
by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous...
by Roger Wilkes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The biggest and best collection of unsolved murder and mystery cases - updated and expanded. This compelling volume presents thirty-five of the most intriguing crime cases that still defy solution, as reported by leading authors and journalists in the field of crime writing. Expanded and updated,...
Gangsters of Harlem
The Gritty Underworld of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
For the first time in paperback, author Ron Chepesiuk chronicles the little known history of organized crime in Harlem. African American organized crime has had as significant an impact on its constituent community as Italian, Jewish, and Irish organized crime has had on theirs. Gangsters are every bit...