Crimes category: 7162 books
The Ghosts of Eden Park
The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik Larson
In the early...
Silent Witness
The Karla Brown Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
New York Times Bestseller!
Pretty Karla Brown was a former high school cheerleader, savagely murdered in broad daylight in St. Louis. The case seemed impossibly complicated, but years of work by police and investigators, led by Prosecutor Don W. Weber, resulted in a plan to lure the murderer into revealing himself.
Evidence of Love
A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Edgar Award Finalist: The “sensational” true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best...
The Unicorn's Secret
Murder in the Age of Aquarius
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The true story of Ira Einhorn, the Philadelphia antiwar crusader, environmental activist, and New Age guru with a murderous dark side.
During the cultural shockwaves of the 1960s and ’70s, Ira Einhorn—nicknamed the “Unicorn”—was the leading radical voice for the antiwar movement at...
Veronica's Bird
Thirty-five years inside as a female prison officer
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Veronica Bird was one of nine children living in a tiny house in Barnsley with a brutal coal miner for a father. Life was a despairing time in the 1950s, as Veronica sought desperately to keep away from his cruelty. Astonishingly, to her and her mother, she won a scholarship to Ackworth Boarding School...
Love Gone Wrong
True Crime Collection
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Box set from Notorious USA: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine state with a darker side than most. The mecca for wealthy retirees to enjoy their younger girlfriends, yachts and marble-floored mansions, where recreational drugs, sex and booze flow like...
Kitty Genovese
A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A New York Times bestseller!
Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens,...
The CBS Murders
A True Account of Greed and Violence in New York's Diamond District
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Winner of the Edgar Award: The gripping account of a gruesome mass murder in gritty 1980s New York and the relentless hunt for a coldblooded killer.
On a warm spring evening in 1982, thirty-seven-year-old accountant Margaret Barbera left work in New York City and walked to the West Side parking...
Smuggler's Blues
A True Story of the Hippie Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This gripping and trippy true account of international drug smuggling, the hippie underground, and the war on marijuana is a “wild, entertaining ride” (Kirkus Reviews).
Richard Stratton was not what most people would think as a drug kingpin. He was a clean-cut young man from Wellesley who came...
Framed
Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The New York Times bestseller – now in paperback, with a new afterword
“A must-read for those who care about justice and integrity in our public institutions.” —Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq.
The Definitive Story of One of the Most Infamous Murders of the Twentieth Century and the Heartbreaking...
by Gregg Olsen, Ron Franscell, Rebecca Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
New York Times Bestselling Series!
Evil lurks from the scorched earth of West Texas to the suffocating bayous of Mississippi … where darkness is deadly and screams go unheard. “Southern Fried Crime” comprises harrowing crime tales from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, all from the files...
Above Suspicion
An Undercover FBI Agent, an Illicit Affair, and a Murder of Passion
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The “expertly told” true story of an FBI agent’s affair that leads to murder in Kentucky coal country—soon to be a major motion picture starring Emilia Clarke (Publishers Weekly).
When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong...
A Dark and Bloody Ground
A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old...
Murder, I Write
True tales of jealousy, betrayal, and revenge
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
With Photos!
A small town, East Texas love triangle ends in a brutal execution. A teenage girl guns down her loving mother. A drag queen falls in love with a beautiful young woman, resulting in a horrific murder. A woman left for dead by a serial killer refuses to be a victim. These are just...