Murder category: 3028 books
Square Mile of Murder
Horrific Glasgow Killings
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
Four of Britain's most notorious murders took place within a square mile of Glasgow's city centre around the turn of the last century. Madeleine Smith was accused and found 'Not Proven' of lacing her doomed lover's late night cocoa with arsenic; an 83-year-old woman was brutally battered to death;...
Bad Companions
Six London Murderesses Who Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book features the cases of six London women, each very different in temperament, age, and status, who resorted to murder. Their reasons were varied: in the case of the surly maid Kate Webster, sheer temper seems the likely cause; avarice seemed to spur Catherine Wilson to murder an estimated...
Open Secrets
A True Story of Love, Jealousy, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2002
On a fall afternoon in 1983, in an upscale Dallas suburb, Rozanne Gailiunas was found stripped, bound to her bed, and shot through the skull. Her four-year-old son has been napping peacefully in the next room when she was killed. Rozanne's husband, Dr. Peter Gailiunas--and her lover, Larry Aylor--immediately...
An Early Grave
Love, Deceit, and Suspicious Death in the American Desert
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
On September 17, 1998, police found Las Vegas gambling magnate Ted Binion lying dead on the floor of his palatial home, an empty bos of Xanax beside him. The police had been called by Binion's live-in lover, Sandra Murphy, 23, a California girl who had been working in a Vegas strip club when Binion...
City of Evil
The shocking real story of Adelaide's strange and violent underbelly - As seen on TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES
They call Adelaide the city of churches. What they forget is that every church has a graveyard - and every graveyard is full of skeletons.
Adelaide, an elegantly designed, civilised city, where the inhabitants are known for their love of the arts, good food...
The Night Stalker
The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
*“I couldn’t put the book down…very scary indeed.” —Los Angeles Times
* The Classic Account Of One Of The World’s Most Feared Serial Killers
Decades after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead and paralyzed the city of Los Angeles, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture, and sadistic...
by McCay Vernon, Marie Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Sex Slayings
Throughout its long and colorful history, St. Augustine, Florida has been home to pirates and villains, marauders and despots. But it wasn't until the late 1980s that the city's red-light district, known locally as Crack Head Corner, became the hunting ground for a serial killer...
by Gregg Olsen, Kevin M. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and true crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan travel down a bizarre trail of murder into notorious Pennsylvania. A seemingly normal husband father of two decides to kill young girls after storming an Amish schoolhouse, and sex many have been the prime...
by Patricia M. Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
New York City’s own Lizzie Borden, and eleven other true crimes “as ghastly as anything in American Horror Story” (SILive.com).
Today, Polly Bodine’s name is lost to history. But on Christmas night of 1843, she was accused of murdering her sister-in-law and infant niece in ways so heinous...
by Joseph Wambaugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line." Her two children had vanished. The Main Line Murder Case burst upon the headlines--and wasn't resolved for seven years. Now,...
by Cheri L. Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The author of Wicked Northern New York delivers the most chilling historic true crime stories from the state’s northern tier.
Jefferson County, located in New York’s beautiful North Country, has a dark and violent past. During the long winter months, it was not the cold that was feared,...
Murder & Mayhem in Mendon and Honeoye Falls
"Murderville" in Victorian New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The notorious history of two nineteenth-century hamlets in western New York, famous for an era of bustling commerce—and criminality.
The Town of Mendon and the Village of Honeoye Falls are today quiet western New York suburbs, but they weren't always so idyllic. In years past, the village was...
Murder Most Foul
Massacre in Warren County
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
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by Marilyn J. Bardsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The #1 Wall Street Journal ebook bestseller about the murder that shocked Savannah society and inspired the blockbuster film.
As a premier antiques dealer in Savannah, Jim Williams had it all: style, culture, charisma, and sophistication. But three decades of hard work came crashing down the...