True Crime category: 7770 books
From Midnight to Guntown
True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic.
In addition to...
by Don Lasseter
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Gunned Down
After years of hard work, Brian and Jeannie Legg had earned a well deserved life of leisure in their picture-perfect Phoenix mansion. Until their troubled son showed up with a need for cash--and a thirst for murder. . .
Two Bodies
David Legg was an obsessive control...
Cold Storage
A Killer with a Heart of Ice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
A riveting tale of true crime, chronicling the murder of a young California woman by a disturbed killer who couldn’t resist his passion for “souvenirs.”
On a June night in 1991, twenty-three-year-old Denise Huber was driving home from a concert when her car blew a tire. She pulled over...
by Michael Litchfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
When Heather Barnett happily opened her front door to a caller one morning in November 2002, little did she know that she was about to come face to face with her killer. Tragically, her mutilated body was discovered by her son and daughter on their return home from school that day. The police quickly...
by Joe McGinniss
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fatal Vision comes a shocking true account of murder, family secrets, and final justice now available for the first time as an e-book...
One hot summer night in 1988, Bonnie Von Stein's second husband was murdered in their bed, Bonnie herself stabbed,...
by Robert Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
From the New York Times–bestselling author: The true story of a rage-fueled serial killer and justice served after he left his girlfriend for dead.
Frankie Cochran knew her boyfriend, David Gerard, was possessive, controlling, and prone to violent rages. When she tried to break up with him,...
Such Good Boys
The True Story of a Mother, Two Sons and a Horrifying Murder
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
AN ABUSIVE MOTHER
Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother's verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him...
Rogue Mobster
The Untold Story of Mark Silverman The New England Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
When the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a war zone between the Mafia and the renegades, with the Winter Hill Gang looking on. Co-written by Mark Silverman with Scott Deitche, Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the New England Mafia...
Summary and Analysis of Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal
Based on the Book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Black Masstells you what you need to know—before or after you read Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill**’s book.**
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
Murders of the Black Museum
The Dark Secrets Behind a Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses the notorious Black Museum, a unique collection of exhibits, photographs, and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes of the last century. Fifty of those crimes were murders and they are explored in detail...
The Law Killers
New Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
True crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and shocking cases from the last century. Having reported on many of them first-hand, journalist Alexander McGregor has unique insight into the cases and his stories are as chilling as they are compelling. In The Law Killers Alexander examines...
by Erica Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Ever wondered what really goes on in the mind of a serial killer? What drove Ian Brady to his crimes? Have we discovered Bradys hidden code? Our extensive research into these murders may have given us something others may have overlooked. Was Myra Hindley a genuine victim of Brady's ideas as she has...
by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs...
From “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (The Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered...
by Jeff Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOKThe Tate-LaBianca murders perpetrated by Charles Manson and his followers (called the Family) truly deserves to be called a Crime of the Century. I was about ten-years-old when the murders took place in 1969, and being so young I was only vaguely aware of the events when they...