Crimes category: 7162 books
by Chuck Hustmyre
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
New Orleans in the 1990s—dirty, corrupt, and violent, the murder capital of the United States, with a scandal-plagued police department that was collapsing under the weight of its own corruption. No one could imagine that things could get much worse for this once-great American city. Then Antoinette...
Dissecting Death
Secrets of a Medical Examiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
From TV’s CSI to bestsellers by Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, interest in forensics is at an all-time high. Now one of our most respected forensic pathologists gives a behind-the-scenes look at eleven of his most notorious cases, cracked by scientific analysis and Sherlock Holmesian deduction.
As...
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
A handwriting expert reveals the secrets hidden in your penmanship—now featuring a new afterword analyzing the handwriting of President Donald Trump.
Handwriting expert Michelle Dresbold—the only civilian to be invited to the United States Secret Service's Advanced Document Examination...
Devil's Knot
The True Story of the West Memphis Three
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH *
The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted…and set free. Do you know their story?
In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin,...
by Chuck Hustmyre
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Genore Guillory was one of the nicest people anyone in the small town of Clinton, Louisiana, had ever known. Then she was found dead—shot, stabbed, and beaten. Investigators had few clues. A policeman was the primary suspect. But there were rumors...whispers of a burgeoning group of white supremacists...
Reading behind Bars
A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master’s degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however, Jill...
Evil Next Door
The Untold Stories of a Killer Undone by DNA
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A brutal murder.
An abundance of DNA evidence.
A three-and-a-half year search for a killer who was always so close-yet untouchable.
After the rape and murder of Raleigh, North Carolina, resident Stephanie Bennett, police had ample DNA evidence. They also had a suspect: the man next door. But...
Innocent Victims
The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The riveting true account of a grisly crime and the unprecedented three murder trials faced by Fort Bragg soldier Tim Hennis.
On Mother’s Day, 1985, the bodies of Kathryn Eastburn and her two young daughters were found in their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. Katie, an air force captain’s...
A Slaying in the Suburbs
The Tara Grant Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
The true story of the Tara Grant murder.
To their suburban Detroit neighbors, Stephen and Tara Grant were happy as could be. But their marriage, plagued by resentment and extramarital affairs, was held together only by their children. Until the night Stephen snapped, strangled and dismembered his wife, then disposed of her body piece by piece in the very park his children played in.
Restless Souls
The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Restless Souls is the true, bone-chilling chronicle of the Manson Family murders and its aftermath, from the point of view of the victims’ families.
When actress Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, the world was shocked. More than forty...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition
Discover How the Pros Uncover the Facts and Get to the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business. At the same time, individuals want to learn investigative techniques to solve their own personal and legal problems. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Private Investigating, Third...
Lord High Executioner
An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A grisly tour of hangings, electrocutions, beheadings—and other state-sanctioned deaths that are part of the long history of the death penalty.
In Lord High Executioner, award-winning writer Howard Engel traces the traditions of capital punishment from medieval England and early Canada to...
Eye of the Beholder
The Almost Perfect Murder of Anchorwoman Diane Newton King
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“A fascinating psychological study of an unrepentant murderer” from a New York Times–bestselling author (Library Journal).
Battle Creek, Michigan, is famous as the birthplace of breakfast cereal, and the nearby suburb of Marshall is as wholesome as shredded wheat. Well-known for its colorful...
Witsec
Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with the creation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalist Pete Earley to tell the inside story of...