Crimes category: 7162 books
Down Inside
Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.
In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada’s most dangerous and notorious...
by Steven Carley
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This book acts as a long drawn out project which over time reveals pertinent information among certain perpetrators. Serial killers and mass murderers alike tend to be white males. They are usually young but not all, just some are so young the average age drops substantially. Serial killing is often...
Murder City
The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real.
In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just...
To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back
Memories of an East LA Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbearable, he took to petty stealing to make up the difference. As his thefts succeeded, Ernie's sense of...
by James Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, in this unique true crime guide, the Tudor Murder Files reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was.
From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of Shakespeare, James Moore’s new book...
The Daughters of Juarez
A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and...
In Love and Murder
Crimes of Passion That Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is…deadly? For the people in this book, that’s certainly the case. They acted out of love and performed some of the most hideous acts of passion in the history of romance.
This short book follows several cases of deadly passion, from the celebrated French...
Murder in Linn County, Oregon
The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This true crime account of a Prohibition liquor raid gone wrong illuminates “a dark and violent stretch in Linn County history” (Corvallis Gazette-Times).
On June 21, 1922, Linn County sheriff Charles Kendall and Reverend Roy Healy drove out to the town of Plainview to arrest a moonshining...
by Nicholas Connell, Ruth Stratton
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
In spite of its small size and rural character Hertfordshire has been the location for some of the most infamous and fiendish murders in the history of England. Spanning four centuries, Hertfordshire Murders contains accounts of many of these crimes. Famous cases are re-examined with the help of previously...
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From infamous serial killers to unusual murder weapons to crime scene investigations, a must for everyone interested in true crimeFilled with every conceivable grim fact or fancy about this most despicable of crimes, this is a chilling compendium of intriguing, obscure, and strange facts and trivia...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Extraordinary accounts of forensic crime detection—from poisoners in ancient Rome to modern day serial killers—by the bestselling author of The Outsider.
In 44 BC, a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history—on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar....
Greater London Murders
33 True Stories of Revenge, Greed, Jealousy & Lust
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This compendium brings together 33 murderous tales — one from each of the capital’s boroughs—that not only shocked the city but made headline news across the country. Throughout its history the great urban sprawl of Greater London has been home to some of the most shocking murders in England,...
by Rudolf Schlossberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A man detonates a bomb in central Oslo, and then makes his way to a youth camp where he massacres many more innocent victims...
What sounds like the plot of a B-grade horror flick actually happened: Anders Behring Breivik is the man, obsessed by his fear and hatred of Islam and multiculturalism.
His...
Murder by Numbers
Fascinating Figures behind the World’s Worst Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
What is the connection between the number 13 and Jack the Ripper? Why was the number 18 crucial in catching Acid Bath murderer John George Haigh? And what is so puzzling about the number 340 in the chilling case of the Zodiac killer? The answers to all these questions and many more are revealed in...