Murder category: 3028 books
Mystery on the Isles of Shoals
Closing the Case on the Smuttynose Ax Murders of 1873
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
For the first time, the full story of a crime that has haunted New England since 1873.
The cold-blooded ax murder of two innocent Norwegian women at their island home off the coast of New Hampshire has gripped the region since 1873, beguiling tourists, inspiring artists, and fueling conspiracy...
The Surgeon's Wife
A True Story of Obsession, Rage, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane....
Hell Hath No Fury
A True Story of Wealth and Passion, Love and Envy, and a Woman Driven to the Ultimate Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1992
Dan Broderick was one of California's most successful attorneys; his wife, Betty, a beautiful socialite. But when Betty discovered Dan's hidden life, the façade of LaJolla's golden couple was shattered. What followed was a vicious five-year battle that finally ended in a shocking double-murder.
A...
by Wanda Moran
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
At 1:45am on New Year's Day, Rachel Moran left her mother's house to make the 20 minute walk back to her own flat. She never arrived. Rachel was just like many women of her age, loved by her family, adored by her boyfriend, and with a bright future ahead of her. Her fatal mistake was to walk the mile...
The Suspect
A true story of love, betrayal, marriage and murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
On a clear autumn morning in 2004 Rachel O’Reilly, a 30 year-old mother-of-two, was brutally battered to death in her home. It was a merciless killing that stunned the small, trusting community where she lived, and devastated her close-knit family. In the days that followed the discovery of her...
In Heaven Everything Is Fine
The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
On March 3, 1983, Peter Ivers was found bludgeoned to death in his loft in downtown Los Angeles, ending a short-lived but essential pop cultural moment that has been all but lost to history. For the two years leading up to his murder, Ivers had hosted the underground but increasingly popular LA-based...
Whatever Mother Says...
A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
To neighbors, she was the brave single mother...
Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe.
But accused...
by Derek Parker
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Should a man be free to kill his adulterous wife? This is the most notorious trial for the most notorious crime of the eighteenth century. Count Guido Franceschini is accused of murdering his beautiful young wife Pompilia, said to have eloped with a handsome young priest. But did they actually commit...
Who Killed George?
The Ordeal of Olive Sternaman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1994
When Ezra Chipman brought fellow Canadian George Sternaman to board at his Buffalo home, he set in motion a nightmarish chain of events. Within months, Ezra was dead of a mysterious ailment. Then, shortly after marrying Ezra's widow Olive, George developed similar symptoms.
Impoverished by...
Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story
A Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The New York Times Bestseller by Shanna Hogan, Picture Perfect is the true crime chronicle of Jodi Arias.
A DEVOTED BACHELOR
Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone,...
Love Her to Death
The True Story of a Millionaire Businessman, His Gorgeous Wife, and the Divorce That Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Love Her to Death: The True Story of a Millionaire Businessman, His Gorgeous Wife, and the Divorce That Ended in Murder by veteran true crime writer and New York Times bestselling author John Glatt
A MARRIAGE: DESTROYED
They were a picture-perfect family-until a bitter divorce drove...
A Cold-Blooded Business
Adultery, Murder, and a Killer's Path from the Bible Belt to the Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A true story of two families in New York and Ohio linked by betrayal, sordid secrets, and the decades-old murder of an Olathe, Kansas banker.
It was 1982 when David Harmon, a gentle and well-liked member of the Evangelical Christian community in Olathe, Kansas, was bludgeoned to death while...
by John Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Decades in the making, On the Run with Bonnie & Clyde is a fast moving, gut-wrenching, highly original exploration by author Gilmore into the lives and death of the “star-crossed lovers,” Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, undying icons of American crime. Breaking away from the usual police-blotter...
by Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Final Exams features four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., one of America’s most respected forensic pathologists. Coauthored by crime writer Dawna Kaufmann, Final Exams explores both the technical and the human side of murder.
From the...