Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
La tropa (Premio de periodismo Javier Valdez Cárdenas 2018)
Por qué mata un soldado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Desde que el Ejército asumió el papel de la policía, una persona muere cada día a manos de militares en México. ¿Qué hay detrás de esas muertes?
En estas páginas se encuentran respuestas que revelan un rostro terrible, fracturado, sangriento y al mismo tiempo conmovedor.
Un...
by John Brassard Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The infamous criminal history of Iowa’s oldest county takes center stage in this true crime account of murder, robbery, and mayhem.
Scott County, Iowa has a rich and venerable history. It is where the Blackhawk Treaty was signed. It’s where the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi...
Women, Gender, and Crime
Core Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Women, Gender, and Crime: Core Concepts provides you with a complete and concise view into the intersection of gender and the criminal justice system. Author Stacy L. Mallicoat explores core topics on women as victims, offenders, and criminal justice professionals as they interact with various areas...
The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History
A Comprehensive History
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
Theodore Bundy was one of the more infamous, and flamboyant, American serial killers on record, and his story is a complex mix of psychopathology, criminal investigation, and the U.S. legal system. This in-depth examination of Bundy's life and his killing spree that totaled dozens of victims is drawn...
Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling
Lessons from the Inside
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling features interviews with 34 convicted drug smugglers -- most of them once major operators -- detailing exactly how drugs are smuggled into the U.S. from Latin America. These sources provide tangible evidence of the risks, rewards, and organization of international...
by Carl Cattermole
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2019
The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside.
Contains:
Blood – but not as much as you might imagine
Sweat – and the prisons no longer provide soap
Tears – because...
Lethal Guardian:
A Twisted True Story Of Sexual Obsession, Family Betrayal And Murder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
"A dark, true account of obsession." --Gregg Olsen
"Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." --TV Rage
Smart, gorgeous redhead Beth Carpenter was a successful attorney in Connecticut's upscale coastal towns. Her brother-in-law, Anson...
Drugs, Crime and Public Health
The Political Economy of Drug Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it discusses theoretical perspectives and provides...
by V. L. Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Lizzie Borden, after research, I found is a 7th cousin, 3 times removed. I have always had a fascination about Lizzie Borden and have read about her over the years. When I found we were related, I just HAD to know more and try and figure out the murders. I think I have really figured out this who-dunit...
by Timothy Egan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
“No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection.”
—TONY HILLERMAN
On the night of September 14, 1935, George Conniff, a town marshal in Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington, was shot to death. A lawman had been killed, yet there seemed...
by James Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
As seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series: In these two true crime thrillers, a reluctant hitman and a cheating husband fight for their lives . . . and a single mother exacts her revenge.
In Murder, Interrupted, rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing...
Deadly Greed
The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
From the author of Above Suspicion: The “riveting” true story of Charles Stuart, who murdered his pregnant wife and pinned the crime on a black man in 1980s Boston (Kirkus Reviews).
On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that...
Fear Came to Town
The Santa Claus, Georgia, Murders
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In the town of Santa Claus, Georgia, the holiday spirit lived all year round...until Jerry Scott Heidler came to town...
In Santa Claus, Georgia, the streets were named Candy Cane Road and December Drive. Christmas was the lifeblood of the people. One terrible night in December 1997, Heidler...
The Michigan Murders
The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper’s Reign of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Edgar Award Finalist: The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized midwestern town, and the serial killer who could have lived next door
In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her...