Murder category: 3028 books
Death in the Air
The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.
London was still recovering from the devastation...
Zero at the Bone
The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
In 1953, six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, the son of a wealthy Kansas City automobile dealer and his wife, was kidnapped from his Roman Catholic elementary school by a woman named Bonnie Heady, a well-scrubbed prostitute who was posing as one of his distant aunts. Her accomplice, Carl Austin Hall, a...
by Troy Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
In the company of author Troy Taylor, pull off the trick of coming back alive from some of Chicago's most infamous "one-way rides." Meet the deadly womanizer Johann Hoch, who would propose to a woman within twenty minutes of meeting her and then poison her within a week. Follow "Terrible" Tommy O'Conner...
by Colin Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Doctors have at their disposal a number of devious ways to extinguish life—and just as many motives—should they desire. Some do. In Killer Doctors, the dark side of the men in white is revealed. So are the appalling crimes of those trusted healers.
• Michael Swango, a.k.a. “Dr. Death,”...
MADE: Bestselling Las Vegas Organized Crime Thriller Series
(Trilogy eBox set / 3 books for price of 1)
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
MADE: Sex, Drugs and Murder; The Recipe for Success. MADE is Book 1 of an Epic, Crime Thriller trilogy. It's about Andy Cooper; a military vet, turned hustler, turned Gangster, turned Crime Boss. His marriage is on the rocks; fresh out of the military, AC finds himself broke and lost with a Wife...
by John Edward Fletcher PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
At the conclusion of the Civil War, Wilkes County, North Carolina, was the site of the nation's first nationally publicized crime of passion. In the wake of a tumultuous love affair and a mysterious chain of events, Tom Dooley was tried, convicted and hanged for the murder of Laura Foster. This notorious...
Dying for Love
The True Story of a Millionaire Dentist, his Unfaithful Wife, and the Affair that Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Dr. John Yelenic was a successful dentist in a small Pennsylvania town. When he met Michele Kamler, he thought he'd finally found the woman of his dreams. She was beautiful, intelligent, and seemed to want all the same things out of life as he did.
Michele married Yelenic in 1997. But by 2002, the...
The Officer's Wife
A True Story of Unspeakable Betrayal and Cold-Blooded Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
A MAN IN UNIFORM
He was a captain in the U.S. Air Force. She was a psychologist in Fayetteville, North Carolina. On the surface, Marty and Michelle Theer appeared to be the perfect married couple. But no one knew of the double life Michelle was leading. Tired of spending one too many nights apart...
Notes on a Killing
Love, Lies, and Murder in a Small New Hampshire Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Their friendship would kill her…
Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to Sandy on February 23, 2005,...
by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
A girl uses her wits to survive a maniacal killer who wipes out her family. A woman is condemned for the “final betrayal of motherhood” – killing her children. A grieving mother becomes convinced that the murderer of her beautiful teenage daughter is innocent.
New York Times bestselling...
by Ann Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This landmark study offers a rogues’ gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: “A classic” (Gloria Steinem).
Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers,...
Murders that Made Headlines
Crimes of Indiana
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This fascinating chronicle of murder in the Hoosier State paints a chilling portrait of the American Midwest from mid-19th century to the Jazz Age.
In Murders that Made Headlines, Jane Simon Ammeson uncovers a grizzly history of crime in Indiana, offering a stark contrast to the nostalgic...
by Mary Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
An operatic story of jealousy, obsession, vast fortunes, and moral crusaders set against the glittering backdrop of Gilded Age New York City.
When Stanford White, one of the most famous architects of the era—whose mark on New York City is second to none—was murdered by Harry K. Thaw in...
by Sheila Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Dead Wrong
On January 23, 2000, already battered by an ice storm, the rural Alabama resort town of Mentone was about to be struck by an even more terrifying freak catastrophe. Hurtling down the highway in a Lincoln Town Car was Hayward Bissell, a 400-pound madman on a murder rampage. Ramming...