Murder category: 3028 books
by Bridget DiCosmo
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
The shocking true account of a man who learned everything there was to know about getting away with murder.
Thirty years ago, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, became the hunting ground for a predator. Women were being brutally raped and murdered in a series of savage-and seemingly unconnected-crimes.
Not...
While Innocents Slept
A Story of Revenge, Murder, and SIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2002
Death seemed to be part of Garrett Wilson's life. Both of his parents had died by the time he was in his early twenties. So friends shrugged when sadly, an infant daughter, and then a son, succumbed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Six years later, after he divorced his wife, Missy, and married another...
Murder at Yale
The True Story of a Beautiful Grad Student and a Cold-Blooded Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Annie Le seemed to have it all. A beautiful graduate student at one of the world's most prestigious universities, she was also deeply in love. But just days before she was set to get married, Annie went mysteriously missing…and her fiancé started to fear the worst.
Raymond Clark III seemed...
Practically Perfect
Killers Who Got Away with Murder ... for a While
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
A man murders the first four infants he fathers with his lover, then tries again with a fifth. Two men have three things in common: each commits what seems like a perfect murder, each marries his victim's wife far too soon, each has an overdue appointment with the gallows. A man cuts up the body of...
Media Circus
A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Imagine losing a loved one in the public eye.
A media frenzy ensues and spreads your family name through the news. Reporters ambush you, and across the country, strangers gossip about your personal loss.
Welcome to the circus.
No one understands better than Kim Goldman the complex...
Infamous Murderers
Maniacs filled with hatred and rage
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Infamous murderers, their deeds horrifying yet intriguing, have always inspired a strange fascination. Their crimes repulse us, yet the more heinous the act, the more we crave information, and ultimately we elevate the perpetrator to celebrity status. The names of the often random and completely innocent...
The Lazarus Files
A Cold Case Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks.
On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her...
by Michael Litchfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Seven young women, all murdered in the most disgusting manner imaginable. Unimaginable, in fact: a first of its kind, and never before explicitly revealed.
All the victims were prostitutes. All were dumped naked after having been stored by their killer as sex toys. Some of them were mothers....
Murder in the High Himalaya
Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering community, it offers a straightforward...
Murder on the Rails
The True Story of the Detective Who Unlocked the Shocking Secrets of the Boxcar Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
When a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran is bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his campsite close to a railroad crossing, Detective Sergeant Bill Palmini has a gut feeling that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Taking command, he swiftly embeds a trusted informant into the shadowy subculture of rail...
by Gene Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Here are the essentials for any crime genre writer, as offered by Gene Grossman, author of the popular 15-book series of Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries.
Learn the inside tips used to create the mystery and suspense that will greatly improve your book.
Discussed are various plot techniques including Proper Murder and the Ticking Clock. These tips can help any author in the genre.
Final Appeal
Anatomy of a Frame
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The Canadian politician who was convicted of murder tells his story—and argues for his innocence.
In 1984, Colin Thatcher was convicted of killing his ex-wife and sentenced to life in prison. The murder and trial provoked a national media frenzy, casting the once-prominent Saskatchewan politician...
Murder, America
Homicide in the United States from the Revolution to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1980
Here is a comprehensive collection of the most fascinating homicide cases in our nation's history. Jay Robert Nash brings the dark side of America to life in these briefs. Included are the most ingenious and the most notorious murders, perpetrated by a group of criminals of frightening and fascinating...
by Piu Eatwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
“[A] juicy page turner . . . capturing both the allure and the perils of the dream factory that promised riches and fame.”—New York Times Book Review
The gruesome 1947 murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short holds a permanent place in American lore as one of our most inscrutable true-crime...