Murder category: 3028 books
Little Demon in the City of Light
A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A delicious true crime account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon—whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world.
In 1889, the gruesome murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless...
Indecent Secrets
The Infamous Murri Murder Affair
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2006
On a hot summer day in Italy in 1902, the brutally stabbed body of Count Francesco Bonmartini was discovered, by means of its decomposing stench, inside his locked apartment. He was a typical Italian provincial aristocrat in all but one way: he had married into a prominent but deeply troubled family....
Blood Will Tell
A Shocking True Story of Marriage, Murder, and Fatal Family Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2003
They Were The Perfect Family. . .
For twenty years, Ken and Kristine Fitzhugh and their two sons had lived lives of comfortable middle-class normality in the university town of Palo Alto, California. Then came the shocking news that Kristine Fitzhugh was dead, the victim of a terrible accident......
Desire Street
A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
A searing anatomy of a New Orleans murder trial and a system of justice gone wrong.
In a New Orleans supermarket parking lot in the fall of 1984 ,two disparate lives become inextricably bound for the next fourteen years. The first, the life of Delores Dye, a white housewife and grandmother....
by Suzy Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
A New York Times–bestselling author’s true account of a “mysterious and unspeakable murder . . . broken families and squandered dreams” (The Austin Chronicle).
Stephanie Lynn Martin, despite her devout Southern Baptist upbringing, was reborn as a sultry stripper and calendar girl. William...
by Dr. Gerald Langford
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Evelyn Nesbit was a popular American chorus girl, an artists’ model, and an actress. In the early part of the Twentieth century, the figure and face of Evelyn Nesbit were everywhere, appearing in mass circulation newspaper and magazine advertisements, on souvenir items and calendars, making her...
The Bus Stop Killer
Milly Dowler, Her Murder and the Full Story of the Sadistic Serial Killer Levi Bellfield
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
You've seen Manhunt**, now read Geoffrey Wansell's chilling portrait of notorious serial killer Levi Bellfield- the only man in modern British legal history to be given two whole-life sentences.**
On 23 Jun 2011 the convicted double-murderer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of...
The Infamous Harry Hayward
A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster”
On a winter night in 1894, a young woman’s body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. She had been shot through the head. The murder of...
Black Widow in a Pure White Dress
Mississippi, Notorious USA
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
WITH PHOTOS
Another in the New York Times bestselling series, Notorious USA. True crime author Stephanie Cook takes a fresh look at some of Mississippi’s most infamous crimes. In the title case, an affluent Southern heart surgeon strikes up a doomed affair with his much younger...
Trout
A True Story of Murder, Teens, and the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
On a cool Pensacola night in January 1991, just a few minutes before midnight, three teenagers pulled up to the Trout Auto Parts store. Patrick Bonifay, his body coursing with adrenaline, entered the store clad in a ski mask carrying a loaded gun, intent on carrying out a poorly laid plan. Little...
Her Best Friend's Killer
A Shocking True Crime Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Friends. Kill. Friends.
Two eighteen-year-old women went out for a night of cruising and partying in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Only one would return.
Now, police have to find a killer who was willing and able to beat and strangle one of the women to death with bare hands and a...
by Tom Gruchy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
The Murder of Minnie Callan is the dramatic memoir of retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer Thomas Gruchy. It tells the story of a criminal investigation that changed the lives of many, including the author, forever.Sixty-year-old Minnie Callan, wife, mother, and grandmother, was an innocent...
Wasted
Inside the Robert Chambers–Jennifer Levin Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book: Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe delivers a riveting, comprehensive account of the Preppie Murder, a crime that shocked a city and a nation.
It was called the Preppie Murder—a killer and a victim who were attractive, smart, privileged teenagers. On...
by Clive Kristen
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Popular TV ghosthunter, Clive Kristen, takes the reader in search of the most notorious murderers in Northumberland's history and tries to unravel the circumstances and mysteries that still surround their crimes. The stories are woven into their historical context within the area. Although the trails...