Murder category: 3028 books
Mind Games
The True Story of a Psychologist, His Wife, and a Brutal Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR.
Dr. Felix Polk was a married psychologist living in Berkeley, California. At forty years old, he had a successful practice and a towering reputation—until he began a scandalous affair with one of his patients: Susan Bolling. She was fifteen years old.
A TROUBLED TEENAGE...
Nightmare in Wichita
The Hunt For The BTK Strangler
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2005
Lawyer Robert Beattie assisted the police during the thirty-year search for the BTK Strangler—and was instrumental in the long-awaited arrest of a suspect. Here he shares his inside knowledge of the case, from its terrifying beginnings to its most up-to-date developments.
In 1974 a killer...
Dial M
The Murder of Carol Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
At 9:00 on the morning of March 6, 1963, in the quiet St. Paul neighborhood of Highland Park, Mrs. Fritz Pearson glanced out her window and saw something almost unimaginable: slumped on the front steps of the home across the street was a woman, partially clothed in a blue bathrobe and bloodied beyond...
A True Crime Collection
Abandoned Prayers, A Twisted Faith, and Cruel Deception
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
**Master true crime writer Gregg Olsen's has been hailed by Ann Rule as "**searing and brilliant," and this collection, featuring three of his most shocking cases, shows why.
Abandoned Prayers
Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, was by all appearances a dedicated farmer and...
Murder in Boston
A Woman Murdered. A City Torn Apart. A Crime That Gripped a Nation. And That's Just the Beginning . . .
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
A shocking true story of crime, punishment, and injustice in a major American city.
Charles Stuart claimed it was a black man who carjacked him, shooting both himself and his wife, ending both her life and the life of their unborn child. The accusation and subsequent manhunt enflamed the long-simmering...
Unsolved
One Murder, Three Trials: Did Robert Badgerow Kill Diane?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Stories walk into the Toronto Star newsroom every day and that is the endlessly interesting river that feeds our ideas at Star Dispatches. This week's eRead of a cold-case murder awaiting a rare fourth trial is a story not generated in our own newsroom, but one that we feel is compelling and important....
Written in Blood
A True Story of Murder and a Deadly 16-Year-Old Secret that Tore a Family Apart
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater, the first female student accepted at Duke University's...
Seduced by Evil
The True Story of a Gorgeous Stripper-Turned-Suburban-Mom, Her Secret Past, and a Ruthless Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
As an exotic dancer at The Great Alaskan Bush Company in Anchorage, Mechele Hughes Linehan knew how to captivate men. Three of them were convinced she was engaged to them. Then one spring morning in 1996, one man, Kent Leppink, was found in the snow, shot in the head…
Days before his death,...
by Carol Lee Kosis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The spellbinding true crime story of the century! A fascinating tale of Lies! Deceit! Raw Dark Passions! And mind boggling mysteries embroidered throughout with family secrets full of lewd moral conduct of the basest kind! This brand new version of this tragic tale contains never before printed information...
by Joseph Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In the spring of 1992, Robert Alton Harris' execution, the first in twenty-five years, was scheduled to take place at San Quentin State Prison in California. There was no question of Harris' guilt. In 1978, he murdered two sixteen-year-old boys for their vehicle, which he and his brother...
Driven to Murder
The Blood Crimes at the Sam Donaldson Ranch
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
From the New York Times–bestselling author: The shocking true story of the murders at ABC News journalist Sam Donaldson’s New Mexico ranch.
ABC News journalist Sam Donaldson needed a new manager for his sprawling New Mexico ranch. He found the perfect hire in Paul Posey, who quickly settled...
Dancing with Death
The True Story of a Glamorous Showgirl, her Wealthy Husband, and a Horrifying Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Phoenix, Arizona, 2004. Former stripper turned suburban housewife Marjorie Orbin filed a missing person's report on her husband. She claimed that Jay, a successful art dealer, had left town on business after celebrating their son's birthday more than a month before. Jay loved his family more than...
by Robert Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Clean Sweep
On the morning of December 30, 1978, in Littleton, Colorado, Robert Spangler lured his wife Nancy into the basement with the promise of a "surprise." He then shot her in the head with a .38 handgun. Going upstairs, he shot his teenage children, Susan and David. David was...
Carolina Crimes
Case Files of a Forensic Photographer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
A former forensic photographer leads readers through the twists and turns of twelve homicide cases that gripped South Carolina during her career.
Rita Y. Shuler’s fascination with the criminal mind began with her exposure as a young girl to a 1953 double-homicide that shocked South Carolina....