Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Blood Games
A True Account of Family Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling author of Bitter Blood weaves “a powerful account” of greed that led to an unspeakable crime (The New York Times Book Review).
As they slept in their North Carolina home, wealthy Lieth Von Stein and his wife Bonnie suffered a vicious assault with a knife...
by Caitlin Rother
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
“I couldn't stop reading Caitlin Rother's Then No One Can Have Her. It's riveting, revealing, and insightful."--Suzy Spencer, New York Times bestselling author of Wasted
She thought she had married her soulmate. But when Carol Kennedy could no longer tolerate her husband's reckless womanizing...
Under Cover of the Night
A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
It was planned to look like a suicide.
But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind…
Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note—typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint on it....
Possessed
The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A WALKING NIGHTMARE—IN SIZE-NINE STILETTOS . . .
The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston’s hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could’ve prepared him for what he found: a beautiful woman drenched...
by Gregg Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
New York Times bestselling USA series
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...
A Daughter's Deadly Deception
The Jennifer Pan Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book — Winner
A sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets.
From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw,...
Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in...
Behave
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Why do we do the things we do?
Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful...
Chasing the Scream
The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The New York Times Bestseller
The Book Behind the Viral TED Talk
For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs--propelled by moving human stories, revolutionary insight into addiction, and fearless international reporting.
What if everything you think you...
No, Daddy, Don't
A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The true story of John Battaglia—the coldhearted father who executed his two young daughters to spite his ex-wife.
Dallas antiques dealer Mary Jean Pearle had a bitter history with her ex-husband, John David Battaglia, a former Marine and successful accountant—but even after the abuse she...
by Caitlin Rother
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Praise for Caitlin Rother and her true-life thrillers
"Will keep you on the edge of your seat."--Aphrodite Jones
"An exciting page-turner."--M. William Phelps
Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference....
Honor Bound
My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
They were accused of one of the most infamous murders of our time. Targeted by the media, sentenced by the courts, and wrongfully imprisoned for four excruciating years for a crime neither could fathom let alone perpetrate, Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a trial so bizarre...
Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in Histroy
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet—moon rocks—from an "impregnable" high-tech vault.
But breaking...
Convict Cowboys
The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Convict Cowboys is the first book on the nation’s first prison rodeo, which ran from 1931 to 1986. At its apogee the Texas Prison Rodeo drew 30,000 spectators on October Sundays. Mitchel P. Roth portrays the Texas Prison Rodeo against a backdrop of Texas history, covering the history of rodeo, the...