Murder category: 3028 books
The Killer Book of Infamous Murders
Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the World's Most Notorious Murders
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Spine-chilling tales of the ultimate evil deeds!
Murders have long made headlines, but only those with the most heartless betrayals, twisted lies, and gruesome crime scenes have earned a place in infamy. The Killer Book of Infamous Murders takes you behind the crime scene tape and into the...
by John Berendt
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply...
Summary and Analysis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
Based on the Book by John Berendt
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil tells you what you need to know—before or after you read John Berendt’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
The Killer Book of True Crime
Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Murder and Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The perfect read for any true crime junkie!
You've read all the stories...but can you match the mobster with the way he met his end? Do you know how they caught the Boston Strangler? Can you define chickens, a Shotaro complex or Colombian neckties?
The Killer Book of True Crime is the...
The Killer Book of Cold Cases
Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Most Baffling True Crime Cases of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Shocking stories of the most infamous cold crimes!
The perfect gift for any true crime fan! Every criminal dreams of committing the perfect crime. A crime that is so well executed, with clues and evidence so scarce, that even the experts are left baffled. The Killer Book of Cold Cases takes...
Evil Next Door
The Untold Stories of a Killer Undone by DNA
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A brutal murder.
An abundance of DNA evidence.
A three-and-a-half year search for a killer who was always so close-yet untouchable.
After the rape and murder of Raleigh, North Carolina, resident Stephanie Bennett, police had ample DNA evidence. They also had a suspect: the man next door. But...
A Slaying in the Suburbs
The Tara Grant Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
The true story of the Tara Grant murder.
To their suburban Detroit neighbors, Stephen and Tara Grant were happy as could be. But their marriage, plagued by resentment and extramarital affairs, was held together only by their children. Until the night Stephen snapped, strangled and dismembered his wife, then disposed of her body piece by piece in the very park his children played in.
Bringing Adam Home
The Abduction That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“Les Standiford’s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read. A triumph in every way.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
“The most significant missing...
Murderers, Robbers, & Highwaymen
True Tales of Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A compendium of horrific crimes and bloody punishments in Georgian England from the editor of the New York Times bestseller, Outlaws and Peace Officers.
Despite the frequency with which criminals were sentenced to death, crime was still on the rise in England in the mid-1700s. Men were thrown...
Lethal Guardian:
A Twisted True Story Of Sexual Obsession, Family Betrayal And Murder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
"A dark, true account of obsession." --Gregg Olsen
"Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." --TV Rage
Smart, gorgeous redhead Beth Carpenter was a successful attorney in Connecticut's upscale coastal towns. Her brother-in-law, Anson...
by Timothy Egan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
“No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection.”
—TONY HILLERMAN
On the night of September 14, 1935, George Conniff, a town marshal in Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington, was shot to death. A lawman had been killed, yet there seemed...
The Serial Killer Whisperer
How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley—the strange but true story of how a young man’s devastating brain injury gave him the unique ability to connect with the world’s most terrifying criminals.
Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager could want until he suffered...
Closing Time
The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: “A first-rate achievement” (Truman Capote).
In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man...
The Adderall Diaries
A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was described by The Washington Post as "a serious literary work designed to make you see the world as you've never quite seen it before."