Murder category: 3028 books
by Douglas Preston
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller, The Lost City of The Monkey King, presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In...
Anyone You Want Me to Be
A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
JOHN DOUGLAS -- THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MINDHUNTER AND THE UNDISPUTED MASTER PROFILER OF SERIAL CRIMINALS -- TELLS THE CHILLING TRUE STORY OF JOHN ROBINSON, THE INTERNET'S FIRST SERIAL MURDERER.
In Olathe, Kansas, a balding, pudgy father of four sits in prison convicted on three counts of homicide...
by Tim Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The gruesome murder of a young woman named Brenda Salazar was only the first chapter in one of the most riveting crime stories in the history of Fort Worth, Texas. When it was all over, three young women were dead and a number of law officers were angry about the missed opportunities. The story came to a close in the killer's bedroom, where the detectives found a shop of horrors.
A Criminal Injustice
A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
When he went to bed on the night of September 6, 1988, seventeen-year-old Marty Tankleff was a typical kid in the upscale Long Island community of Belle Terre. He was looking forward to starting his senior year at Earl L. Vandermeulen High School the next day. But instead, Marty woke in the morning...
by Chuck Hustmyre
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
New Orleans in the 1990s—dirty, corrupt, and violent, the murder capital of the United States, with a scandal-plagued police department that was collapsing under the weight of its own corruption. No one could imagine that things could get much worse for this once-great American city. Then Antoinette...
by Janet Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
A seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example -- the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision, a book about the crime -- she delves into the...
Dissecting Death
Secrets of a Medical Examiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
From TV’s CSI to bestsellers by Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, interest in forensics is at an all-time high. Now one of our most respected forensic pathologists gives a behind-the-scenes look at eleven of his most notorious cases, cracked by scientific analysis and Sherlock Holmesian deduction.
As...
Innocent Victims
The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The riveting true account of a grisly crime and the unprecedented three murder trials faced by Fort Bragg soldier Tim Hennis.
On Mother’s Day, 1985, the bodies of Kathryn Eastburn and her two young daughters were found in their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. Katie, an air force captain’s...
Eye of the Beholder
The Almost Perfect Murder of Anchorwoman Diane Newton King
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“A fascinating psychological study of an unrepentant murderer” from a New York Times–bestselling author (Library Journal).
Battle Creek, Michigan, is famous as the birthplace of breakfast cereal, and the nearby suburb of Marshall is as wholesome as shredded wheat. Well-known for its colorful...
Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man...
Deadly Greed
The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
From the author of Above Suspicion: The “riveting” true story of Charles Stuart, who murdered his pregnant wife and pinned the crime on a black man in 1980s Boston (Kirkus Reviews).
On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that...
Last Day on Earth
A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
On Valentine’s Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself. But he was an A student, a Deans’ Award winner. How could this happen?
CNN could not get the story. The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and all others came...
The Shadow Catcher
A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico's Deadly Crime Cartels
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Living under an assumed identity and risking his life were all in a day’s work for U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta. He worked regularly in high-stakes undercover operations infiltrating Mexico’s murderous immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels.
Acosta’s investigations are legendary,...
by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
In this unputdownable true crime collection from New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, discover fascinating cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can and will kill.
The author of The Stranger Beside...