Crime category: 24427 books
Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business
Shocking Declassified Details from the FBI's Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began a six-month” operation infiltrating New York's Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen. Posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco,” Pistone spent the next six years undercover in the Family, witnessing-and sometimes participating...
Bound by Honor
A Mafioso's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
No one can tell the true story of the Mafia in America better than Bill Bonanno. He was there. He lived it.
Bill Bonanno was born into a world of respect, tradition, and honor. The son of legendary mafioso Joe Bonanno, Bill was a "made" member of the Mafia by the time he was in his...
Fatal Deceptions
Three True Crime Tales of Passion, Murder, and Deceit
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This collection by a New York Times journalist gathers three horrifying true accounts of crimes of passion, ambition, and fear.
Author Joe Sharkey delivers three gripping accounts of betrayal and murder in this compelling American true crime collection.
Above Suspicion: Soon to be a major...
The Prom Night Murders
A Devoted American Family, their Troubled Son, and a Ghastly Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In 1989, a shocking tragedy shattered an otherwise peaceful small Indiana community. Much-admired pastor Robert L. Pelley was found slain in his home. In his basement were the huddled, blood-soaked bodies of his wife and daughters, executed by shotgun at close range. The doors to the house were locked,...
by Candice Fox
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
“Compelling . . . A chilling read.” —Sydney Morning Herald
Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Novel
Twenty years ago, two children were kidnapped and left for dead . . .
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Homicide detective Frank Bennett has a new partner—dark, beautiful, coldly efficient...
by Gary C. King
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A Woman With A Passion For Power. . .
Kathy Marie Augustine was not out to make friends. In politics, she rose to the top by playing hardball--and pushing her way through the old boy's network of the Nevada legislature, rising to the rank of State Controller. When she died, only a few people...
The Life and Times of Lepke Buchalter
America's Most Ruthless Labor Racketeer
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Lepke Buchalter, the only organized crime boss to be executed in the US was one of the most important figures in the history of organized crime.He controlled NYCs Lower East Side garment, banking and flour trucking industries.
by BRUE A. BRENNAN
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Ian Dean is an investigator with Scotland Yard working on the Jack the Ripper case. When the murderous rampage ends unsolved, Ian becomes disenfanchised and moves to America. He remains in police work and secures a job as a U. S. Marshall assigned to Judge Parker in Fort Smith, Arkansas. 'The Hanging...
Folsom's 93
The Lives and Crimes of Folsom Prison's Executed Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
From 1895 to 1937, 93 men were hanged at California's Folsom State Prison, and this book is the first to tell all of their stories, recounting long-forgotten tales of murder and swift justice, or sometimes, swift injustice that hanged an innocent man. Based on a treasury of historical information that...
I Heard You Paint Houses
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
**Soon to be a NETFLIX film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel, and written by Steven Zaillian.
Updated with a 57-page Conclusion by the author that features new, independent corroboration of Frank Sheeran's revelations about the killing...
The Brothers Bulger
How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
The riveting New York Times bestseller by award-winning columnist Howie Carr--now with a stunning new afterword detailing Whitey Bulger's capture.
For years their familiar story was of two siblings who took different paths out of South Boston: William "Billy" Bulger, former president...
by Tobias Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced...
Mob Cop
My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Former Chicago police officer and mafia associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, the protagonist of Nicholas Pileggi's Casino and one of Chicago's most notorious mob figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives of the Chicago Police Department. Pascente and Spilotro grew up...
The Encyclopedia of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List
Over Fifty Years of Convicts, Robbers, Terrorists, and Other Rogues
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In 1949, a crime reporter looking for a way to fill a column published the nation’s ten worst criminals as classified by the FBI: two accused murderers, four escaped convicts, a bank robber, and three confidence men.” In addition to the stark black and white photos that accompanied the article,...