Crimes category: 7162 books
If I Die...
A True Story of Obsessive Love, Uncontrollable Greed, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
He'd been shot in the head, decapitated, and set on fire. Who could have turned on the real-estate ace with such bloodthirsty fury? Even before the remains were found, circumstantial evidence was building against Rudin's 52-year-old wife, Margaret, who stood to inherit a handsome share of her husband's...
by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
With Photos!
New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris take a new look at Utah’s most notorious crimes, including Megan Huntsman, the Utah mother who hid seven dead infants in a garage; a cold case that was finally solved by a child’s Lego; the rogue Fundamentalist...
Blood Brother
33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
What happens if, after being given up for adoption in childhood, you reestablish contact with your biological family -- only to discover that your newfound brother is a killer?
Anne Bird, the sister of Scott Peterson, knows firsthand.
Soon after her birth in 1965, Anne was given up for...
by Jack Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
A classic from “the dean of true crime” (The Washington Post)—now with a new foreword—this 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Spokane, Washington serial rapist who was exposed as the handsome, privileged son of one of the city’s most elite families.
For more than two...
American Justice
A True Crime Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Three shocking tales of violence, intrigue, and the search for truth from a two-time Edgar Award finalist and Ann Rule’s “favorite true-crime writer.”
In this riveting collection, prize-winning investigative journalist James Neff examines the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder mystery; the terrifying...
American Murder
Criminals, Crimes, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Investigating the way Hollywood scoops up notorious criminals and turns them into legends, this entertaining who's-who guide provides thumbnail sketches of such killers as Ma Barker, Black Beard, Al Capone, John Wesley Hardin, and Charles Starkweather. Noting that some figures are glamorized in popular...
by Victor Kiethman
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
A history of serial killers prior to the 20th Century, with details of their grotesque and hideous crimes. This was an era before forensics when it was easier for the murderer to kill many victims before eventually being caught and executed. This book covers the time from 1404 right through to the...
The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese
The Truth Behind the Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
**New York Times Bestseller
Journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller give you the little-known details behind one of the most horrific and shocking murders of our time.**
One hot July night, three popular, pretty girls snuck out for a midnight joyride. Only two came back.
Stabbed...
Fatal Deceptions
Three True Crime Tales of Passion, Murder, and Deceit
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This collection by a New York Times journalist gathers three horrifying true accounts of crimes of passion, ambition, and fear.
Author Joe Sharkey delivers three gripping accounts of betrayal and murder in this compelling American true crime collection.
Above Suspicion: Soon to be a major...
by Christopher Baughman
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Sometimes justice takes a different path.For a hard-charging detective in the Pandering Investigative Team (PIT), deliverance comes in the manner of long prison sentences, humiliation, and bankruptcy for the animals who subjugate, beat, and torture women into selling their bodies, while reaping...
by Morrison Bonpasse
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Chad Emery Evans was wrongfully convicted in December, 2001 in New Hampshire of the murder of Kassidy Bortner, the 21-month old daughter of his girlfriend, Amanda Bortner. The causes of her death and her injuries are mysterious and disputed, but Chad was convicted of second degree murder.
On June...
The Colonial Problem
An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Indigenous peoples are vastly overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system. The Canadian government has framed this disproportionate victimization and criminalization as being an "Indian problem."
In The Colonial Problem, Lisa Monchalin challenges the myth of the "Indian...
1888
London Murders in the Year of the Ripper
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The other, forgotten, murders of that infamous year, including a mutilated corpse at Scotland Yard, deadly assault, and infanticidesIn 1888 Jack the Ripper made the headlines with a series of horrific murders that remain unsolved to this day. But most killers are not shadowy figures stalking the streets...
The Last Stone
A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
In the vein of classics like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and modern hits like Richard Lloyd Parry's People Who Eat Darkness and Beverly Lowry's Who Killed These Girls? (Knopf 2016), The Last Stone is a riveting work of true crime that provides insights into the nature of American violence and the...