Crimes category: 7162 books
by John Hoskison
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This is a true story of a journey to hell and back.
In 1994 John Hoskison was a highly respected and successful professional golfer. Then, one evening, after a tournament, he broke a rule of his life by drinking and driving and on the way home he hit and killed a cyclist.
Hoskison...
White Mischief
The Murder of Lord Erroll
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial Kenya
In 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of “Happy Valley” indulged...
by Jack Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In the early hours of the morning on Thursday the 14th of February 2013, world famous athlete Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead. Pistorius claims that it was a mistake - he thought it was a burglar. The police claim that it was a premeditated murder.This book offers the reader...
A Date with Death
The Secret Life of the Accused "Craigslist Killer"
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In a luxury Boston hotel on April 14, 2009, police discovered the body of a beautiful young woman—her head battered, a bullet through her heart. Within hours, the story exploded, making headlines across the nation. The victim, a masseuse named Julissa Brisman, had advertised her erotic services...
Destination: Morgue!
L.A. Tales
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from America’s capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as state’s evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand...
by Gini Sikes
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns in their jackets for defense, they initiate drive-by shootings, carry out car...
Behind the Yellow Tape
On the Road with Some of America's Hardest Working Crime Scene Investigators
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
From the authors of Bodies We've Buried-an uncensored look at real-life CSIs. With a foreword by Patricia Cornwell.
For years, Jarrett Hallcox and Amy Welch trained CSIs at the National Forensic Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee. Now they provide a glimpse into the real world of crime scene investigation,...
A Question of Freedom
A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
A unique prison narrative that testifies to the power of books to transform a young man's life
At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts-a good student from a lower- middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend. He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of minutes he had committed...
Chasing Phil
The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World's Most Charming Con Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in ‘70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting
1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan—two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents—were about to embark on one of their agency's...
Sins of the Father
The True Story of a Family Running from the Mob
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The true story of how Sal Polisi—a member of a New York crime family and author of The Sinatra Club—turned his back on the mob and spoke out against organized crime.
As a wiseguy for some of New York’s biggest crime families, “Crazy Sal” Polisi couldn’t imagine another way of life....
Blood Trails Across Texas
True Crime Stories as Told by the Men Who Lived Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Every Investigator Has a Career Case
This is a true crime book documenting multiple cops’ career cases. These are short stories written withoutfiller or fluff. A career case is matter of pride or a pain in your gut when it comes to mind. You try not tointernalize what you see, but at times...
Without a Trace
Inside the Robert Durst Case
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2002
In September 2001, the headless body of an elderly man washing ashore in Galveston, Texas. also recovered were garbage bags containing the severed limbs of the victim--and a newspaper with a home delivery address that left arresting officers to the downscale apartment of Robert Durst, an unkempt transient...
The Last Pirate of New York
A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
**Was he New York City’s last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, dock by dock—for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire.
“History at its best . . . I highly recommend this remarkable book.”—Douglas...
Dark Ambition
The Shocking Crime of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Shortlisted for the 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Nonfiction Category
Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors
Tim Bosma was a happy young father with a promising future when he listed his pickup truck for sale online, went for a test drive with two strangers, and...