Crimes category: 7162 books
Flesh and Blood
Murder-Suicides that Haunt Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In Flesh and Blood, Sunday World Investigations Editor, Nicola Tallant looks at the rising phenomenon of murder-suicide in Ireland, at events which, while shocking in the extreme, happen in tight-knit communities, behind the closed doors of apparently loving homes.
She takes us inside these...
by Wensley Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Investigative reporter Wensley Clarkson has spent years researching the most extreme and intriguing cases of women who commit murder. His books on the subject have sold across the world in their tens of thousands. Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned is a gripping collection of twenty of Clarkson's...
by Wensley Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Today's gangsters are streets apart from the old-style gang lords of the Fifties and Sixties. The godfathers of old were seen by many as a stabilising influence. Their power inspired respect and they well and truly kept the underworld in check. The twenty-first century gangs of Britain are far more...
True Crime Serial Killers: True Stories Of Flesh-Eating Cannibals: Killers Of The Hungry Kind
True Crime Serial Killers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Have you ever had to ask yourself what the meat that you were eating really was? What if it was human flesh? What if instead of serving you that side of pork your friend promised, you were instead served a side of human arm?
It sounds pretty disgusting, however, this is the most basic description...
by Mary N Stamper
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Howdy; I'm Nellie Cake and these are "Memoirs From My Outhouse." I write adult only true stories of violence, murders, beatings, crimes, 36 rapes, drugs, incest, alcoholism, inmates, stolen children, homelessness, narcissistic abuse, and nasty words. I have forty years of experience in these...
by Travis W. Linnemann, Professor Yvonne Jewkes
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The rise of mobile and social media means that everyday crime news is now more immediate, more visual, and more democratically produced than ever. Offering new and innovative ways of understanding the relationship between media and crime, Media and Crime in the U.S*.* critically examines the influence...
by Margaret Drinkall
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Discover the darker history of this South Yorkshire town with these true crime stories and photos.
This book takes you on a journey into England’s past, and into the gritty industrial town of Barnsley. With a variety of true-crime tales, it reveals not only the poverty and squalor in which...
John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer
A Portrait of a Serial Killer and His Victims
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulphuric acid? How did this intelligent, well-educated man from a loving, strongly religious family of Plymouth Brethren become a fraudster, a thief, then a serial killer? In the latest of...
Murder in Battle Creek
The Mysterious Death of Daisy Zick
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In 1963, Daisy Zick was stabbed twenty-seven times at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan—and locals are still talking about the unsolved case today.
On a bitterly cold morning in January 1963, Daisy Zick was brutally murdered in her Battle Creek, Michigan, home. No fewer than three witnesses...
Murders in Monmouth
Capital Crimes from the Jersey Shore's Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Why do people kill? In the case of the young and mentally unstable Frank Zastera, the rationale was as simple as the act was brutal: he wanted William Sheppard's money. In other homicides, such as the still-unsolved 1913 murder of George Harris, the motive for committing the ultimate crime remains obscured...
by Kate March, Howard Makin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
The summer of 1969 was full of national news: Man Walks on Moon, the "Manson Family" Murders, Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll at Woodstock, dominated the headlines. In suburban Cincinnati, four women innocently going about their daily lives were herded into a vault and executed for less than...
Son of Sam
Based on the Authorized Transcription of the Tapes, Official Documents, and Diaries of David Berkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
40th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CASE THAT ROCKED THE NATION
Discover the harrowing true story of the notorious serial killer who terrorized New York City forty years ago during the summer of 1977—David Berkowitz, otherwise known as Son of Sam—for true crime fans and viewers of The Lost Tapes: Son of Sam...
Mad Frank's Diary
The Confessions of Britain’s Most Notorious Villain
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
‘They say I’ve killed 40 people and who am I to disagree? I’ve always liked even numbers.’
Branded the dentist for using pliers to extract the teeth of those who owed money to his boss Charlie Richardson, Frankie Fraser was labelled the most dangerous man in Britain by two Home Secretaries....
Harold Shipman
Mind Set on Murder
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1998 the graveyards in the market town of Hyde had some unusual early-morning visitors. Greater Manchester Police were exhuming the bodies of the elderly patients o a local doctor. The doctor concerned had been their GP for 21 years and had a reputation as the best in the area. But Dr Harold Frederick...