Crime category: 24427 books
by Michael D'Antonio
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013
An Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Nominee
An explosive, sweeping account of the scandal that has sent the Catholic Church into a tailspin -- and the brave few who fought for justice
In...
Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket
Organized Crime on American Midways
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Chances are you have been ripped off at a friendly traveling carnival, set up at your local fair or festival, because you had been left unprotected by police.
The intention of this book is not just to tell readers about the games which keep ripping them off, but most importantly to explain...
The Good Mothers
The True Story of the Women Who Took On the World's Most Powerful Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Nominated for a 2019 Edgar® Award for Best Fact Crime
Named a CrimeReads best Nonfiction Crime Book of 2018
The electrifying, untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias – and how they risked everything to bring it down.
The...
by Alan Moss
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
A briefcase and syringe belonging to the Kray twins. The noose used to hang Ruth Ellis. Masks used by the first serial killers convicted by the use of fingerprint analysis. The pot serial killer Dennis Nilsen used to boil the flesh of his victims. All these objects and more have long been hidden away...
The Who's Who of British Crime
In the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The Who’s Who of British Crime spans the whole twentieth century, and covers an enormous range of crimes and misdemeanours – by turns appalling, brilliant, gruesome and audacious. All the nation’s most famous wrongdoers are here, from the mystery of Lord Lucan to the Great Train Robbery, the...
The Casebook of Forensic Detection
How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
“Brilliant and persistent scientific work that brought murderers like John List, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey MacDonald to justice.”—Publishers Weekly
“Landmarks of forensic science [that] are representative of the evolution of the discipline and its increasingly prominent role in crime solving.”—Library...
German Stories of Crime and Evil from the 18th Century to the Present / Deutsche Geschichten von Verbrechen und Bösem vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
A Dual-Language Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Ideal for students of German as well as crime story enthusiasts, this dual-language edition contains ten short stories. Selections range from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classics by Friedrich Schiller ("Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre"/"The Criminal of Lost Honor") and...
by Janet Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
"[N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book Review
The Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a disbarred...
by Carlton Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
An acclaimed true-crime author takes on his toughest project of all-- writing about a murderer who happens to be his son.
When a hideous murder makes the headlines, a barrage of questions usually appears in its wake: Why did this happen? Could it have been prevented? What kind of family was...
by Roger Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
In Southeast Texas a murder is big news. A double homicide is a crime wave. When five family members are abducted and killed it’s time to buy all the ammunition you can find for every gun you have in the house. That was the fear and attitude that swept the area between Houston, Texas, and Lake Charles,...
by Trev Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
In 'A Victimless Crime', an elderly Englishman tells a young French girl about Ibiza in its early tourist days, a massive betrayal, and an axe murder, whilst in 'The San Rafael Kidnap' an unfaithful Englishwoman is told that her wealthy husband has been kidnapped - or has he?These two stories come from...
by Val McDermid
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A must-read collection of stories by Scottish crime writer Val McDermid, “one of the bright lights of the mystery field” (The Washington Post**).**
Val McDermid’s novels have won the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award and the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger and Cartier...
The Suitcase Baby
The heartbreaking true story of a shocking crime in 1920s Sydney
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIB
True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of a great crime novel.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, 17 November 1923, a suitcase was found washed up...
The Dark Side
The explosive story of corruption, greed and murder in the Australian drug trade
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
'Each year at least 10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.'
Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organised crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia's national security. Clive Small and...