Crimes category: 7162 books
by Kate Kray
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2003
When Kate married gangster Ronnie Kray he introduced her to some of the most feared criminals Britain has ever known. She persuaded them to open their hearts to her and talk about their crimes, fears and dreams.Featured in this book are such killers as John Straffen, Britain's longest-serving lifer....
Crime and the Rise of Modern America
A History from 1865–1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
In Crime and the Rise of Modern America, Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes, criminals, and law enforcement that contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation,...
by David Pietras
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Daryl Holton, Garrett Wilson, John Battaglia, Brian Stewart and John List.
Five fathers who will be remembered for the unspeakable crimes that they committed against the very people that they were supposed to protect: Their own children.
Ripped from the headlines and police files, we take a look at...
Law & Disorder:
Inside the Dark Heart of Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
"Fascinating." --Douglas Preston
John Douglas is. . .
"The FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling." –Patricia Cornwell
"At his best describing terrible crimes." –Houston Chronicle
"A real genius." –Entertainment...
American Honor Killings
Desire and Rage Among Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
“Not only is this book the best sort of true-crime writing, but it is also a stunning exploration of the concept of manhood in America” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times–bestselling author of War).
Through six detailed accounts of murders involving gay men, American Honor Killings examines...
by M. William Phelps, Melissa Schickel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Fighting for her life . . .
A few days before her 26th birthday, Melissa Schickel returned to her Indianapolis home and went to bed. An hour later, she was yanked from her dreams into terror. An intruder held her down, brutally beating and stabbing her.
Melissa fought fiercely. The assailant...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Phelps shows how the ugliest crimes can take place in the quietest of suburbs. --Library Journal
When librarian Martha Gail Fulton was gunned down in a Michigan parking lot on a quiet evening, there were two obvious suspects--Gail's husband George, a former military officer . . . and George's...
by Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Final Exams features four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., one of America’s most respected forensic pathologists. Coauthored by crime writer Dawna Kaufmann, Final Exams explores both the technical and the human side of murder.
From the...
Dead and Gone
Classic Crimes of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
An absorbing collection of ten famous murder stories of North Carolina, spanning the years 1808 to 1914.
“An interesting job of reporting....A book that rates a place on the bedside table.”-Charlotte Observer
by Greg King
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The first comprehensive biography of Sharon Tate: Hollywood star, wife of Roman Polanski, victim of Charles Manson, and symbol of the death of the 1960s.
It began as a home invasion by the “Manson family” in the early hours of August 9, 1969. It ended in a killing spree that left seven...
God of the Rodeo
The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life without parole,...
Dead Man Running: An insider's story on one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs ... The Bandidos
An insider's story on one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs ... The Bandidos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A first hand account of perhaps the most powerful and influential crime group currently operating in Australia and North America. It is the first time ever that an insider has told the true and chilling story of the bike gangs that dominate the drug and illegal weapons trade. They'll come after me....
The Darkest Night
Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Casper, Wyoming: 1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky's car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but Good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable...
Portrait of a Monster
Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
From a pair of New York Times bestselling authors with unparalleled access comes an in-depth account of the manhunt for Joran van der Sloot, one of the most reviled accused criminals in the world
In May 2005, Natalee Holloway disappeared from a high school trip to Aruba. Five years to the day...