Crimes category: 7162 books
Newgate
London's Prototype of Hell
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2007
There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious, and worst. Built during the 12th century, it became a legendary place—the inspiration of more poems, plays, and novels than any other building in London. It was a place of cruelty...
by John Berendt
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply...
Pilgrim's Wilderness
A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the...
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with...
The Last Goodnight
A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General “Wild Bill" Donovan as “the greatest unsung...
Summary and Analysis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
Based on the Book by John Berendt
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil tells you what you need to know—before or after you read John Berendt’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
A Death in White Bear Lake
The True Chronicle of an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A mother’s search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying secrets in a Minnesota town in this “masterfully depicted true-crime tale” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him—only to discover...
Runaway Devil
How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise....
The Road to Jonestown
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime
“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in...
by Michelle Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama...
Murder in Italy
Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher, and the Murder Trial that Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The true story behind the notorious international murder--updated to cover Amanda Knox's acquittal.
In Perugia, Italy, on November 2, 2007, police discovered the body of a British college student stabbed to death in her bedroom. The prosecutor alleged that the brutal murder had occurred during...
by Tim Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The gruesome murder of a young woman named Brenda Salazar was only the first chapter in one of the most riveting crime stories in the history of Fort Worth, Texas. When it was all over, three young women were dead and a number of law officers were angry about the missed opportunities. The story came to a close in the killer's bedroom, where the detectives found a shop of horrors.
by Robert Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
For fans of Serial and Making a Murderer, the true, bewildering story of a young woman’s disappearance, the nightmare of a small town obsessed with delivering justice, and the bizarre dream of a poor, uneducated man accused of murder.**
On April 28, 1984, Denice Haraway disappeared from her...
One of Us
The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back together
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the...