Murder category: 3028 books
by Thomas De Quincey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him'.
by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris take a new look at Colorado’s most notorious crimes, including three of the country’s most infamous crimes which all occurred in the same area of Colorado: the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the Columbine school shooting, and the Aurora...
The Injustice System
A Murder in Miami and a Trial Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
The maverick public defender who inspired John Grisham tells the story of his most frustrating case
A man accused of a murder he didn’t commit languishes on death row. A crusading lawyer is determined to free him. This powerful book reads like a page-turning legal thriller with one crucial...
My Brother Jason
The untold story of Jason Corbett’s life and brutal murder by Tom and Molly Martens
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
In August 2014 Limerick man Jason Corbett was murdered by his wife, Molly Martens, and her father, ex-FBI agent Tom Martens, in the bedroom of their luxury North Carolina home. He had been savagely beaten to death with a baseball bat and brick while his children slept nearby. For his sister, Tracey...
The Millionaire's Wife
The True Story of a Real Estate Tycoon, his Beautiful Young Mistress, and a Marriage that Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The Millionaire's Wife
Cathy Scott
The beloved son of Holocaust survivors, forty-nine-year-old George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before making his way to New York City, where he enjoyed great success as an antiques and art dealer. Until one morning in 1990, when George was approached...
Lobster Boy
The Bizarre Life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The shocking exposé of a carny’s murder arranged by his wife—and the daughter who threatened the author to keep the truth from getting out.
In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grady Stiles Jr., also known as the legendary carnival “freak” Lobster Boy, author Fred Rosen...
by Paul Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
“Well-researched and beautifully written.… Collins knows how to build suspense.”—San Francisco Chronicle
On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen...
Stolen in the Night
The True Story of a Family's Murder, a Kidnapping and the Child Who Survived
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
Joseph Duncan had been convicted of raping and torturing a 14-year-old boy in Tacoma, Washington. On the Internet he proudly boasted of his perversions. But the system turned Duncan loose, and no one...
by Corey Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In Sugar Land, Texas, a happy family occasion turns into a mysterious massacre, in this chilling true crime story by the bestselling author of Pure Murder.
It was a night of celebration for the Whitaker family. Their son Bart was graduating from Sam Houston State University. But when Bart’s...
by Trevor Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Through the eyes of a top murder squad detective, true stories of serial killers from around the world
Since the dawn of time, men and women alike have been killing. Many of these murders have been committed in the most brutal and horrific ways imaginable, showing no respect for human life....
Decades of Doubt
The John McCabe Murder Saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
A handsome, high-profile and tenacious defense attorney. Three elusive suspects. An investigation that stretches across four decades. And two frenetic murder trials. “Decades of Doubt: the John McCabe Murder Saga” is a gripping true-life mystery that follows the case of a 15-year-old boy bound...
A Poisoned Passion
A Young Mother, her War Hero Husband, and the Marriage that Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
By the age of twenty-four, Air Force Staff Sergeant Mike Severance had already survived a series of missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But his life back at home, in Texas, would prove a lot more dangerous…
In the winter of 2005, Mike's wife, a veterinarian named Wendi Mae Davidson, reported...
A Twisted Faith
A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen investigates the sensational story of a minister who seduced four of his female congregants, and hatched a cold-blooded plot to murder his wife.
On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a house...
Sleepwalking Murder
True Crime, #2
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Homicidal sleepwalking, also known as homicidal somnambulism or sleepwalking murder, is the act of killing someone during an episode of sleepwalking. There have been some cases in which an alleged act of homicide has occurred and the prime suspect may have committed the act while sleepwalking.
This book looks at these cases.