Murder category: 3028 books
by Sandra Hempel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An infamous murder investigation that changed forever the way poisoners were brought to justice.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, an epidemic swept Europe: arsenic poisoning. Available at any corner shop for a few pence, arsenic was so frequently used by potential beneficiaries...
Murder at the Brown Palace
A True Story of Seduction and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
On May 24, 1911, one of the most notorious murders in Denver's history occurred. The riveting tale involves high society, adultery, drugs, multiple murder, and more, all set in Denver's grand old hotel, the Brown Palace.
Starvation Heights
A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the...
The Murder of Sonny Liston
Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A daring investigation into the mysterious death of Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, set against the dawn of the 1970s, when the mob was fighting to keep control of the Las Vegas Strip, Richard Nixon was launching America's first war on heroin, and boxing was in its glory days.
On January...
Abandoned Prayers
An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, And Amish Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.
Eli...
by Darcy O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
New York Times Bestseller: The “fascinating” true story of John Dale Cavaness, a much-admired Illinois doctor—and the cold-blooded killer of his own son (The Washington Post).
Fusing the narrative power of an award-winning novelist and the detailed research of an experienced investigator,...
The Wrong Man
The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This Edgar Award finalist—one of Ann Rule’s top five true-crime picks—is a “gripping” definitive account of the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case (The New York Times Book Review).
“My God . . . I think they’ve killed Marilyn!”
At 5:40 a.m. on July 4, 1954, the mayor of Bay...
by Keven McQueen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
The author of Horror in the Heartland delves deep into the dark and sordid annals of the region where Hoosier history began.
Prepare to take a tour of some dark, strange moments of southern Indiana’s history. From the scheming wife who wanted her dull husband out of the way to make room for...
by Rod Kackley
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Lust. Love. Murder. Repeat.
Nurses aides Gwen and Carol fell in love while working side-by-side at a nursing home near Grand Rapids, Mich. The young women sealed their lesbian love affair with a murderous love bond. Gwen and Carol killed together and then celebrated each murder with wild sex...
The North Country Murder of Irene Izak
Stained by Her Blood
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
A road trip becomes a dead end for a schoolteacher in this haunting cold case of murder that became a fifty-year fight for justice.
In June of 1968, Irene Izak, a young French teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was pulling an all-nighter on the road toward the promise of a new life in Quebec....
Murder on Long Island
A Nineteenth-Century Tale of Tragedy & Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
A meticulously researched account of one of the North Fork’s most infamous crimes: the Wickham Axe Murders of 1854.
In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a mansion and eighty acres of...
Mary Queen of Scots' Downfall
The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The story of the Scottish ruler—and the mysterious death of her ambitious and controversial husband.
In the early hours of February 10, 1567, a large explosion ripped through the lodgings at Kirk o’ Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland’s consort, Henry, Lord Darnley, was staying....
The Ghosts of Eden Park
The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik Larson
In the early...
Kitty Genovese
A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A New York Times bestseller!
Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens,...