Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
The Innocent Man
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence.
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“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet,...
Orange Is the New Black
My Year in a Women's Prison
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
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With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen...
by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
"America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files -- and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences.
LAST DANCE LAST CHANCE
Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a...
A Spy Among Friends
Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...
Every Breath You Take
A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2002
If anything ever happens to me, promise me that you will see that there is an investigation....And find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story," Sheila Blackthorne Bellush told her sister after she divorced multimillionaire Allen Blackthorne. Now, in perhaps the first book ever written at a victim's...
Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like...
Taken From Home
A Father, a Dark Secret, and a Brutal Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Grand Junction, Colorado, 2001: When Michael Blagg's adoring wife, Jennifer, and his six year-old-daughter, Abby, disappeared from their home, Michael led the charge to find them, even going so far as to make a nationwide appeal on Good Morning America for information. But seven months later, investigators...
Gone Forever
A True Story of Marriage, Betrayal, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Susan McFarland was a vivacious, successful mother of three young sons. On November 25, 2002, she disappeared. Three days later, her car was found, keys in the ignition. Later that day, her husband reported her missing—and a desperate search began.
Her friends and family hoped against hope...
The Ice Man
Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Philip Carlo's The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman**.** Devoted Family Man. Doting Father. For thirty years, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history...
The Black Hand
The Story of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez and His Life in the Mexican Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
THE BLACK HAND is the true story of Rene Enriquez, aka "Boxer," and his rise in a secret criminal organization, a new Mafia, that already has a grip on all organized crime in California and soon all of the United States. This Mafia is using a base army of an estimated 60,000 heavily armed,...
Lying in Wait
Ann Rule's Crime Files: Vol.17
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Ann Rule presents a collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories—drawn from her real-life personal files—in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series.
In this gripping collection of investigative accounts from her private archives, “America’s...
Savage Spawn
Reflections on Violent Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
This thought-provoking and timely book from a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and noted child psychologist reveals the factors that often lead to explosive and shocking juvenile violence.
“Ethically and morally, kids are works in progress. Throw in psychopathy and you’ve got a soul...
by Joseph Wambaugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating account of a double tragedy: one physical, the other psychological.”—Truman Capote
This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in...
A Need to Kill
Confessions of a Teen Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
Alec Krieder knew his best friend's family never locked their doors—making Kevin Haines and his family the perfect targets for a crime. One night, he waited until they were asleep…then entered...