Murder category: 3028 books
Hunting Season
Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration
In November of 2008, Marcelo Lucero, a thirty-seven-year-old undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was brutally attacked and murdered by a group of teenagers as...
The Jolly Roger Social Club
A True Story of a Killer in Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American ex-pat community in Panama--a tale of greed, political history, and murder
In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka "Wild Bill," is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow...
Evil Angels
The Case of Lindy Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother’s worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia.
On a camping trip at Ayer’s Rock, the Chamberlain family’s infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother,...
Ghosts & Gallows
True Stories of Crime and the Paranormal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
A unique compilation of true crime cases with paranormal connections from the mid-18th century to the presentMurder and ghosts go hand-in-hand, and vengeful specters seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This...
by Robert Keller
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The lives and dreadful deeds of 20 horrific medical serial killers, including:
Genene Jones: a truly monstrous paediatric nurse who murdered as many as 47 babies and children entrusted to her care.
Glennon Engleman:a rather unconventional dentist who moonlighted as a hitman and murder-for-profit...
Speed Kills
Who killed the Cigarette Boat King, the fastest man on the seas?
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
A feature film, Speed Kills, starring John Travolta, based on the book, premieres in fall 2018.
"Ocean racing superstar Don Aronow loved it when writers called him a living legend. His life of adventure is well known. It is his death that baffles police.
He was afraid of nothing,...
Dead End
The Crime Story of the Decade--Murder, Incest and High-Tech Thievery
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
The focus of this book is the trial and conviction of Sante and Kenneth Kimes for the bizarre murder of Irene Silverman, whose New York mansion they were attempting to steal.
American Murder
Criminals, Crimes, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Investigating the way Hollywood scoops up notorious criminals and turns them into legends, this entertaining who's-who guide provides thumbnail sketches of such killers as Ma Barker, Black Beard, Al Capone, John Wesley Hardin, and Charles Starkweather. Noting that some figures are glamorized in popular...
Mr. Big
The Investigation into the Deaths of Karen and Krista Hart
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Mr. Big is the shocking true story of a murder investigation in Newfoundland and Labrador that forever changed the face of the Canadian justice system. On August 4, 2002, three-year-old twin girls Karen and Krista Hart drowned in Gander Lake. They had gone there with their father. He said it was an...
by Corey Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
More victims than Bundy . . .
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In Houston, Texas, on a Sunday morning in spring, Coral Eugene Watts trapped two young women in their apartment. Only hours before, he’d killed another woman by drowning her in her bathtub. As Watts attempted to do the same to 20-year-old Lori Lister, her roommate...
by David M. Kiely
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
From the author of Bloody Women and Deadlier than the Male, seventeen more cases of death, violence and intrigue at the hands of some of Ireland’s most notorious women . . .
There has been a huge increase in violent deaths in Ireland in recent years. While men are more often the...
Almost Midnight
An American Story of Murder and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
The haunting true story of a triple murder in the Ozarks, two lovers on the lam, and a death-row inmate saved by the pope.
On a spring day more than ten years ago, sixty-nine-year-old Lloyd Lawrence was gunned down in rural Missouri. The shooter also turned his twelve-gauge shotgun on Lawrence’s...
Psycho USA
Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED!
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity...
by Morrison Bonpasse
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Chad Emery Evans was wrongfully convicted in December, 2001 in New Hampshire of the murder of Kassidy Bortner, the 21-month old daughter of his girlfriend, Amanda Bortner. The causes of her death and her injuries are mysterious and disputed, but Chad was convicted of second degree murder.
On June...