Murder category: 3028 books
People Wasn't Made to Burn
A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
A unique study of civil rights struggle in the North in the 1940s
A long-hidden story not previously written about
A sympathetic story as jobs, housing, and economic stability become scarce
Ben Shahn, an artist of the Social Realism art movement important in the U.S. during the...
by Larry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the region into the Prohibition era through the feverish criminal activity of Bonnie and Clyde, the Barkers and Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Duck into the Slicker...
Cold-Blooded
A True Story of Love, Lies, Greed, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
From a New York Times–bestselling journalist: The story of the murder of a California attorney at the hands of the lethally cunning wife he never doubted.
A wealthy and well-connected legal ace and the proud owner of a champion show horse, Larry McNabney had every reason to love his life....
To Kill and Kill Again
The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The twelve-year rampage of “Missoula Mauler” Wayne Nance—and the shocking end to his murder spree
To his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable, considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the “Missoula Mauler,”...
Blood in the Soil
A True Tale of Racism, Sex, and Murder in the South
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The first book about the investigation into the attempted murder of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt—and the serial killer who shot him.
In Gwinnett County, Georgia, in 1978, Larry Flynt and his attorney were shot and injured on their way back to court during an obscenity trial.
This...
Love Gone Wrong
True Crime Collection
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Box set from Notorious USA: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine state with a darker side than most. The mecca for wealthy retirees to enjoy their younger girlfriends, yachts and marble-floored mansions, where recreational drugs, sex and booze flow like...
Framed
Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The New York Times bestseller – now in paperback, with a new afterword
“A must-read for those who care about justice and integrity in our public institutions.” —Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq.
The Definitive Story of One of the Most Infamous Murders of the Twentieth Century and the Heartbreaking...
A Dark and Bloody Ground
A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old...
Blood and Money
The Classic True Story of Murder, Passion, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
New York Times Bestseller: The “gripping” true story of a beautiful Texas socialite, her ambitious husband, and a string of mysterious deaths (Los Angeles Times).
Joan Robinson Hill was a world-class equestrian, a glamorous member of Houston high society, and the wife of Dr. John Hill,...
Nutcracker
Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
New York Times Bestseller: The “compelling” story of Frances Schreuder, who persuaded her son to kill her multimillionaire father, Franklin Bradshaw (The Washington Post Book World).
In August of 1983 Shana Alexander, acclaimed journalist and chronicler of the lives and criminal trials...
Under Cover of the Night
A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
It was planned to look like a suicide.
But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind…
Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note—typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint on it....
by Gregg Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
New York Times bestselling USA series
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine state with a darker side than most. The mecca for wealthy retirees to enjoy their younger girlfriends, yachts and marble-floored mansions, where recreational drugs, sex...
Out of Thin Air
A True Story of Impossible Murder in Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In 1974, two men vanished without a trace under suspicious circumstances, shocking the people of Iceland, where serious crime is almost nonexistent. More than a year later, there seemed to be a breakthrough when a small-time crook named Erla Bolladottir described a dream to police that they interpreted...
Midnight Assassin
A Murder in America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In 1900, Margaret Hossack, the wife of a prominent Iowa farmer, was arrested for bludgeoning her husband to death with an ax while their children slept upstairs. The community was outraged: How could a woman commit such an act of violence? Firsthand accounts describe the victim, John Hossack, as a...