Murder category: 3028 books
And Never Let Her Go
Thomas Capano The Deadly Seducer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2000
From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation, and emotional deception by her charming and successful -- but ultimately deadly -- lover.
The author of fifteen New...
by John Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Chambers of Horror is a study of the warped thinking that went into some of the world's most macabre crimes, as well as a clinical examination of the purpose-built rooms, hidden spaces and soundproof dungeons increasingly prepared for victims. From the massive 'Murder Castle' once used by Dr. H. H. Holmes...
Midnight in Peking
How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils
Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela...
by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
From “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule comes the New York Times bestselling mystery novel of drama, greed, sex, scandal, and murder on an eerie island in the Pacific Northwest.
Nestled in Puget Sound and accessible only by ferry, Whidbey Island is a gem off...
"Please … Don't Kill Me"
The True Story of the Milo Murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
I don't care who you hire, or what the company has to pay him … so long as he's the best there is.
This anguished cry from the wife of murder victim Dean Milo would draw private investigator Bill Dear into one of the most frustrating and ultimately triumphant cases of his career.
Dean...
Fatal Jealousy
The True Story of a Doomed Romance, a Singular Obsession, and a Quadruple Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
OUT OF CONTROL
June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania State Trooper, heading home from work, witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive—and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers: "I just killed...
by H. B. Irving
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This classic study profiles serial killers, gentleman murderers, and every stripe of madman in between
Benjamin Pitezel should never have trusted H. H. Holmes. In 1894, the two men conspired to fake Pitezel’s death for the sake of a $10,000 insurance settlement. But Holmes decided murder...
The Good Son
A True Story of Greed, Manipulation, and Cold-Blooded Murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Rick and Suzanna Wamsley were well-loved in their Mansfield, Texas, community. Former high-school sweethearts, they provided their two children with every comfort. But their twenty-year-old son, Andrew, had a bitter, rebellious streak...and resented his parents for making him go to college, for not...
Vanished
A Story of betrayal, Murder, and a father's Dying Wish
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Jana Carpenter Koklich and Bruce Koklich seemed like the ideal couple. She was an attractive 41-year-old blonde, the doted-on only child of a once-powerful California state senator. He was the dedicated and loving husband. Together they owned a lucrative Norwalk, California, real estate business,...
Without Mercy
The Shocking True Story of a Doctor Who Murdered
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Dr. John Kappler was a well-respected physician in dozens of California hospitals, yet none of his patients ever imagined that his real profession was murder…
The horror began the day he secretly attempted to kill three patients—including a pregnant woman who suffered permanent brain damage...
by Tamworth Grice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Jodi Arias is accused of the premeditated murder of her lover, Travis Alexander, by stabbing him, slitting his throat, and shooting him in the head. But could such a lovely and vivacious young woman really be a monster? And was the crime committed during a re-enactment of the shower-scene knife murder...
by Joe McGinniss
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The shocking true story of greed, murder, and a family torn apart.
At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, gusto, garishly flaunted wealth, and the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife. Not to mention three young children and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the...
One Deadly Night
A State Trooper, Triple Homicide and a Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
On September 28, 2000, former Indiana State Trooper David Camm made a frantic call to his former colleagues in the state troopers office: He'd just walked into his garage, and found lying on the floor the bodies of his 35-year-old wife, Kim, and their two children, Brad and Jill, ages 7 and 5.
This...
Foxcatcher
The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The riveting true story of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont dynasty
On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling golden boy, was shot three...