Crime category: 24427 books

When will the colors bleed into one? Dexter and John investigate a racially motivated group called American Renaissance that threatens to rip apart their Missouri town. While Dexter O'Kane, an antique dealer and owner of Antique Adventures is looking for a website designer, he encounters...

The true crimes of one of nineteenth century England’s most notorious thieves and killers, whose exploits still capture the public’s imagination. Once immortalized in Madame Tussauds’s Chamber of Horrors, and brought to life in two silent films, his gnarled and prematurely aged features...

Tyler falls for a beautiful woman, Victoria Adagio just happens to be the daughter of the most powerful gangster in Chicago. Tyler is a part of a rival crime family and the forbidden lovers find themselves getting deeper and deeper into a twisted world of trouble and treachery where Trust is as rare...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF ALL THE HIDDEN TRUTHS, WHICH HAS BEEN LONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY DEBUT PRIZE '(a) meticulous and compelling novel about the aftermath of a major crime and its effect on the affected families and investigating...

A PATTERN OF MURDER And other Crime Scene Stories Meet Ben Drummond. Or perhaps you’d prefer not to.  He’s obnoxious, cantankerous, and uncouth.  Disrespectful to superiors, patronising to colleagues, and rude to everyone, he’s not a person you’d want in your home. Unless...

In a post-WWII United States, the nation's infrastructure is collapsing as individual states wage war against each other for the last remaining resources. Amidst this massive conflict known as the States' War, one safe-haven exists where politicians and fortunate citizens live in peace...the Demilitarized...

A young loner called Lewis Atkins is ruthlessly killed. He drops dead on a public street. And the circumstances of his death are bizarre, bloody and deeply disturbing. Dressed in a white gown, with black make up daubed across his eyes, Atkins was killed by knife with devilish precision -  and there...

If Lesley Dexter had not been a snob her husband might have lived out his three-score-and-ten years. Five years have passed without any major crime disturbing the provincial peace of the city of Burnham, and then, on an October night, a scream rends the midnight air in the residential suburb...

New York Times**–bestselling author: “In the art of true-crime reportage, Jerry Bledsoe is the best in the country . . . Before He Wakes has the suspense of a novel” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).** Barbara Stager was known as a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader...

Crime, bloodshed, death, rape and homicides. The state of Maryland is at stake but who will save it? In the state of Maryland crime is at its utmost, there is a lot of kidnapping and homicides are the norm, with the officials of the law being corrupt, the great state is at the verge of destruction....

In this book, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identity and its related ideology across a range of contemporary crime narratives, including detective fiction, the true crime genre and media journalism. How exactly is the serial killer consciousness portrayed, how is the killing...

"Bullet-ridden, bold, brilliant." Neil Broadfoot When Coleman Lang finds his girlfriend Gina dead in his New York City apartment, he thinks nothing could be worse... until he becomes the prime suspect. Desperate to uncover the truth and clear his name, Coleman hits the streets....

How are serial killers made? Perhaps, if someone could answer this question, then the police and the community would be able to prevent people from killing in the first place. As it is, this question remains unanswered though many different hypothesis are put forward by the experts. Until a...

The first impulse of anger is revenge which leads to crime. However cleverly crimes are committed, they eventually get detected and punished, even after the person relinquished crime. Arohga was an unassuming teacher who looked like a simpleton. He was lured by Raknas who was a black-listed...