Murder category: 3028 books
Ontario Murders
Mysteries, Scandals, and Dangerous Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
"From an early age, lying came easily to her. Everything she did was a performance, a role she played to create an illusion." - From the story of Evelyn Dick. Six chilling stories of notorious Ontario murders are recounted in this spine-tingling collection. From the pretty but dangerous...
by Kenneth Iserson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Abandoning the Hippocratic Oath, a few physicians over the past few centuries intentionally killed patients, experimental subjects, family members, and hapless strangers. Some had hundreds of victims; others destroyed or hid their victims’ bodies well enough so the body count is uncertain.
This...
by Lee Creek
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The story of Leroy Fryrear, who has spent 44 years in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit. Leroy gives an inside look at the brutality that is a part of everyday prison life.
The Meaning of Matthew
My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
“The Meaning of Matthew is Judy Shepard’s passionate and courageous attempt to understand what no mother should have to understand, which is why her son was murdered in Laramie, Wyoming, in the fall of 1998. It is a vivid testimony to a life cut short, and testimony too, to the bravery and compassion...
by Alex McBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the Guilty
Thomas Cream, erstwhile Sunday school teacher and serial poisoner,...
Did She Kill Him?
A Torrid True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and Murder in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“An intriguing story told in the style of Thomas Hardy or George Eliot, if they traded in true crime” (Kirkus Reviews).
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James...
by Joseph DiMona, Thomas T. Noguchi, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
To Thomas T. Noguchi, America’s most famous medical examiner, every death is a mystery—until the cause is found
In his first book, the runaway bestseller Coroner, Dr. Noguchi wrote of his controversial investigations as medical examiner of Los Angeles County. In Coroner at Large, the man...
50 SERIAL KILLERS
Bloody protagonists of history's worst murder sprees
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Serial killers are nothing like the ones we know through films or literary texts. They are not crime geniuses, but tormented beings with mental disorders and an exacerbated narcissism. Discover the behavior patterns and the stories of the most terrible criminals.
by Steven Carley
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This book acts as a long drawn out project which over time reveals pertinent information among certain perpetrators. Serial killers and mass murderers alike tend to be white males. They are usually young but not all, just some are so young the average age drops substantially. Serial killing is often...
The Human Predator
A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
When we think of serial killing, we tend to think of it as a perversion of contemporary society. The Human Predator makes an eye-opening case for the existence of serial killers throughout time—the motives and methods, the societies that spawned them, and the historical periods in which they lived...
The Devil's Dozen
12 Notorious Serial Killers Caught by Cutting-Edge Forensics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
What led authorities to the murder castle of H. H. Holmes? What cast a cloud of suspicion over cannibal Albert Fish? What drove Russia’s Killer X to confess?
How many victims were actually buried on that Vancouver pig farm?
In The Devil’s Dozen, Katherine Ramsland explores the true stories...
by Nicholas Connell, Ruth Stratton
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
In spite of its small size and rural character Hertfordshire has been the location for some of the most infamous and fiendish murders in the history of England. Spanning four centuries, Hertfordshire Murders contains accounts of many of these crimes. Famous cases are re-examined with the help of previously...
Assassination of the Prime Minister
John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The story of the only assassination of a British prime ministerIn a story of suspense, revenge, and personal tragedy, this history tells the interwoven stories of Perceval and Bellingham, detailing not just the events of May 1812, but also the two men's histories, and what led one to take the other's...
by Ivor Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
For more than a century, the horrific story of Jack the Ripper has endured. The ghastly crimes of the world’s most notorious serial killer have become legend, and since they were committed, contemporary sleuths have spent many lifetimes attempting to identify their perpetrator. Jack the Ripper’s...