Crime category: 24427 books
But I Trusted You
Ann Rule's Crime Files #14
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
In this volume of Ann Rule’s Crime Files, discover unforgettable cases of the spouse, lover, family member or a helpful stranger who is totally trusted—until it’s too late.
Trust. It’s the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and families. But when...
by Vikki Petraitis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Forensic evidence is known as the 'silent witness'. Crime scene examiners make the silent witness speak.
Sergeant Trevor Evans has been a crime scene examiner for 17 years, and worked the notorious case of murdered baby Jaidyn Leskie in Moe. He also examined the scene of the intriguing, still-unsolved...
True Crime: New York City
The City's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
• Introduction to crime in the city
• Headline cases
In New York City, crime is big--big in newspaper headlines, big to politicians who win and lose jobs because of a flux in crime, and big in the lore of the city itself. This book begins with a survey of crime in the Big Apple and then focuses...
by Jeffrey Toobin, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Edited by Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s senior legal analyst and New York Times bestselling author of The Nine, The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 is a must-have for the true crime reader, complete with the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant stories of the year by the masters of crime reporting....
The Last Stone
A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
In the vein of classics like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and modern hits like Richard Lloyd Parry's People Who Eat Darkness and Beverly Lowry's Who Killed These Girls? (Knopf 2016), The Last Stone is a riveting work of true crime that provides insights into the nature of American violence and the...
MADE: Bestselling Las Vegas Organized Crime Thriller Series
(Trilogy eBox set / 3 books for price of 1)
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
MADE: Sex, Drugs and Murder; The Recipe for Success. MADE is Book 1 of an Epic, Crime Thriller trilogy. It's about Andy Cooper; a military vet, turned hustler, turned Gangster, turned Crime Boss. His marriage is on the rocks; fresh out of the military, AC finds himself broke and lost with a Wife...
Sisters In Crime
Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The companion volume to The Darker Sex and The Dreaming Sex, this absorbing anthology of early women's crime fiction belongs on the bookshelf of any serious crime fan
Many of the leading writers of crime fiction are women—Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell et al—but it still comes as a surprise...
Serial Killers True Crime: Ruthless Serial Killers On The Loose: True Crime Stories Of Deadly Murderers From Around The Globe
Serial Killers True Crime, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
A lot of things contribute to the investigation of a crime - the intelligence of the killer (does he leave clues?), the perseverance of the police, presence of witnesses, technology available, and cooperation of the victims. If one of these works against the search for justice, the investigation can...
You Could Call It Murder
The Classic Crime Library, #12
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
“A missing person case brings private eye Roy Markham to the remote winter-bound college town of Cliff's End, New Hampshire. But what began as a routine investigation quickly becomes dark and dangerous. Six pornographic photos and a tidy little blackmail scheme result in a brutal and baffling murder,...
The Crime Fighter
Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple was a man in a bow tie and homburg--he was also on a mission to revolutionize the way crime is fought: how cops go after crooks, and how they prevent crime in the first place. And he succeeded.
But Maple is not satisfied. In The Crime Fighter, he shows...
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and international bestselling author of the true crime classic, The Sex Slave Murders, comes a gripping new true crime short, The Sex Slave Murders 3: The Horrific Tale of Serial Killers Leonard Lake & Charles Ng.
Leonard Lake and Charles...
Crime Scenes
Revealing the Science Behind the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
In the fight against crime, science and technology now play the leading role in many of the big police investigations making news headlines. All criminals leave a little of themselves behind at the scene of their crimes and that is their undoing once CSIs start uncovering trails of clues hidden in blood...
Terrorism, an Unconventional Crime
Do We Have the Wisdom and Capability to Defeat Terrorism?
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
The terrorist attacks of 9 /11 opened a window on a host of questions and assumptions about terrorism. Terrorism, An Unconventional Crime, uses those questions and assumptions as a starting point to explore the history, ideology, movements, leaders, and modern methodology of what is in fact an ancient...
DNA Crime Investigations
Solving Murder and Serious Crime Through DNA and Modern Forensics
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
A crime historian explores groundbreaking cold-case investigations, the advent of DNA evidence, and its role in long-delayed convictions and exonerations.
When geneticist, Professor Alec Jeffreys worked with Leicestershire police on the 1986 case against Colin Pitchfork—the first person convicted...