Murder category: 3028 books
Murder at the Castle on the Cumberland
A Story of a True and Faithful Wife
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Early on the morning of October 3, 1923, the inmates of Eddyville penitentiary in western Kentucky were preparing to leave their cells for breakfast. That was when Chester Walters, known as Monte Tex Walters, made a mad dash for freedom along with two other inmates, killing three guards in the attempt....
A Murder Over a Girl
Justice, Gender, Junior High
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate
On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon...
The Murder of Marilyn Monroe
Case Closed
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A New York Times Best Seller!
Since Marilyn Monroe died among suspicious circumstances on the night of August 4, 1962, there have been queries and theories, allegations and investigations, but no definitive evidence about precisely what happened and who was involved . . . until now. In The...
The Truth About Aaron
My Journey to Understand My Brother
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The unvarnished true story of the tragic life and death of Aaron Hernandez, the college All-American and New England Patriots star convicted of murder, told by one of the few people who knew him best, his brother.
To football fans, Aaron Hernandez was a superstar in the making. A standout at...
The Fact of a Body
A Murder and a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
**"Complex and challenging... push[es] the boundaries of writing about trauma." —**The New York Times
“A True Crime Masterpiece” – Vogue
Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So Far
Real Simple's Best New Books
Guardian Best Book of the Year
Lambda...
Killer Families: True Crime
Murder In The Family, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
MURDER IN THE FAMILY. MURDER BY DADS, MOMS, KIDS & SPOUSES.
The family home is supposed to be a place where family members find a safe haven from the stress of outside life. A place where they feel protected and loved. Yet for many this is simply not the case.
The true...
by Mikal Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart* ***exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged.
Gary...
The Murder Room
The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Ca ses
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders
Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to...
by Brian Allison
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
From post–Civil War political feuds to Depression-era mass murder—explore the criminally fascinating secret history of Music City, USA.
Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of its malevolent past. Now, historian Brian Allison sheds light on some of Nashville’s...
Ghettoside
A True Story of Murder in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS...
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...
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...
by Eponymous Rox
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
TRUE CRIME: The police are calling them accidents. They say young men are simply drinking too much and meeting a tragic end in icy lakes and rivers. But the public thinks something else has been going on in America's northland since 1997. They're calling the sudden disappearances of hundreds of college-age...
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...