Murder category: 3028 books
L.A. Despair
A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Legendary noir author John Gilmore takes the reader on a mad, tumultuous all-night drive without remorse or pity, through the high and low life of Hollywood and the City of Angels. This is the true-crime capstone to a celebrated collection of works, a blood-and-semen-soaked noir trail of all-night diners,...
A Tragedy Waiting to Happen – The Chaotic Life of Brendan O’Donnell
The true story of an abandoned orphan who became a psychotic killer
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
For years, Tony Muggivan urged the Irish social system to offer appropriate treatment to the desperately sick Brendan O’Donnell. A Tragedy Waiting to Happen is the harrowing story of his doomed attempts and the awful consequences of that failure: a triple murder.
Tony Muggivan is a farmer....
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Before the dust settled on the 1917 case, there would be accusations of murder, an exhumation of the body, three trials, one hung jury, a prison break and a scandal that rocked Southwestern Ohio.
With Malice Aforethought
The Execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
On April 15, 1920, five bandits robbed and killed a paymaster and his guard in a Boston suburb. The police charged Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti with the crime. They were local immigrant workers associated with a detested anarchist group. A year later, a jury convicted Sacco and Vanzetti of...
"No One Helped"
Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America’s most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-eight indifferent witnesses...
Serial Killer Case Files Volume 1
Serial Killer Case Files
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
18 Shocking True Crime Stories of the World’s Worst Serial Killers. Included in this volume;
John Eric Armstrong: A psychopathic sailor who traveled the world with the US Navy, racking up kills in every port he visited, from Hawaii to Hong Kong.
George Joseph Smith: This truly heartless...
Dancing on Her Grave
The Murder of a Las Vegas Showgirl
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the co-author of I Would Find a Girl Walking and an award-winning true-crime television reporter comes the shocking story of Debbie Flores, a Las Vegas showgirl whose dreams of a dazzling career ended in a nightmare…
Vivacious Debbie Flores was a college educated Washington Redskins...
by Nicola Sly
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Wiltshire Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Wiltshire. They include the murder...
by John J Eddleston
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
This century has seen the execution of 33 men and one woman at Winson Green prison in Birmingham. In addition, others who had a strong connection with Englands second city were executed elsewhere and by the time we include those who perished on the gallows at Warwick, Stafford and Worcester, our totals...
In A Summer Swelter
The Charles Manson Murders
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Simon Davis is the first truly independent trial lawyer to write about the notorious Manson Family murder spree of 1969. The murders were some of the wildest and most vicious in the annals of crime set against the backdrop of a hazy hippie summer in which flowers and music would fill the air at...
Fiend
The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Seria
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF.
When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend"...
Crime, Violence, and the Crisis in Guatemala
A Case Study in the Erosion of the State
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In numerous Latin American countries, organized crime and violence are corroding governance and imperiling democratic legitimacy. This phenomenon is most severe in Guatemala, which is currently experiencing a full-blown crisis of the democratic state.
An unholy trinity of criminal elements—international...
Kicking Rocks
Russian Watch Chapter seven
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Howdy; I'm Nellie Cake and these are "Memoirs From My Outhouse." I write adult only true stories of violence, murders, beatings, crimes, 36 rapes, drugs, incest, alcoholism, inmates, stolen children, homelessness, narcissistic abuse, and nasty words. I have fifty three years of experience...
Goodbye, My Little Ones
The True Story of a Murderous Mother and Five Innocent Victims
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
The true story of a murderous mother and five innocent victims. With eight pages of photos Charles Hickey, Todd Lighty, and John O’Brien bring the story of a mother not fit for the title.
Waneta Hoyt’s first baby died. Then her second. Then her third. Nobody, including her husband, suspected...