Murder category: 3028 books
True Love, Too Late
A Shocking True Crime Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Businesswoman. Lover. Serial Killer
Goidsargi Estibaliz Carranza Zabala looked for love in all the wrong places. When she was disappointed, Carranza committed murder.
Her ex-husband wouldn't leave her apartment, even after their divorce. Her second love cheated on her. So, Carranza killed...
Love Me to Death
A Journalist's Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friend's Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe recounts a powerful true-life crime story of her own—her search for the serial killer who murdered her friend
In 1983 Jacqui Bernard was found dead. She was a philanthropist, a writer, an activist, and a friend of Linda Wolfe’s. Two years after...
Young, Queer, and Dead
A Biography of San Francisco's Most Overlooked Serial Killer, the Doodler
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
The Zodiac Killer may have been San Francisco's most notorious serial killer, but another equally cruel killer was also stalking the streets at the same time, and, just like the Zodiac Killer, has never been arrested for his crimes. The difference is, while the Zodiac Killer's murder spree was heavily...
Mob Killer:
The Bloody Rampage of Charles Carneglia, Mafia Hit Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A Crazed Killer
He dissolved the bodies of some of his victims in acid and poured them down the sewer. He hung grisly souvenirs on nails in his junkyard.
La Costra Nostra
Charles Carneglia was a stone-cold killer who fell in with the bloodthirsty John Gotti crew. As the infamous...
While They Slept
An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, “We’re free.” But is one ever free...
Masquerade
A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A psychologist’s secret life on the seedy side of Detroit gets him entangled with a prostitute—and her murderous pimp—in a “compelling work of true crime” (Detroit Free Press).
In the exclusive suburb of Grosse Pointe, Alan Canty was a respected psychologist, with clients drawn from...
Historic Columbus Crimes
Mama's in the Furnace, the Thing & More
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
A collection of true crime stories from the Ohio city, with photos included.
In Historic Columbus Crimes, a father-daughter research team looks back at sixteen tales of murder, mystery, and mayhem culled from city history, both the distant and the more recent past.
There’s the rock star slain...
Destination Gacy
A Cross-Country Journey to Shake the Devil's Hand
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In 1994, journalist Nancy Rommelmann accompanied Rick Gaez, a 26-year-old pen pal of John Wayne Gacy, on a road trip from Los Angeles to Illinois, to visit the serial killer before his execution. Along the way, she took the moral temperature of people on college campuses, in bars, in churches, asking...
by W. Cleon Skousen, Paul B. Skousen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America’s most notorious mobsters.
True Stories from the Files of the FBI...
H. H. Holmes
The True History of the White City Devil
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Shares with readers America’s first and most infamous serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago
The first comprehensive book following the life and career of H. H. Holmes
A fascinating true story about a dark moment in Chicago’s history
H. H. Holmes:...
Alice + Freda Forever
A Murder in Memphis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation—it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered,...
Poisoned Blood
A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
New York Times Bestseller: The “astonishing” true story of the notorious “black widow” who preyed on her husband and daughter and faked her own death (The Washington Post Book World).
Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie Hilley grew up in a small Alabama town believing she was...
The Manson Women and Me
Monsters, Morality, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The Manson Women and Me
In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. But to anyone who knew them growing up, they were bright, promising girls, seemingly incapable of such...
The Big Heist
The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
“A comprehensive account of the legendary 1978 heist . . . impressive.”
—Kirkus Reviews
The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas.
The rest of the story that couldn’t be told—until now.
One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become...