Murder category: 3028 books
Shallow Graves
The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community’s diverse fabric. In Shallow...
His Name Is Ron
Our Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A memoir by the family of murder victim Ron Goldman.
His Name Is Ron is not about O. J. Simpson or his “Dream Team,” or another rehash of the “Trial of the Century.” It is about Ron Goldman—and a quiet, close-knit family that overnight became enmeshed in one of the ugliest and most...
by Patricia Springer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The chilling secret life of Faryion Wardrip, the Texas Sunday school teacher who was sent to death row for his brutal crimes.
To the people of Olney, Texas, thirty-nine-year-old Faryion Wardrip was an upright citizen—a happily married man, a valued employee, and a respected Sunday school...
Cross-Country Evil
The Shocking True Story of an Eighteen-Year Manhunt for a Killer on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
From the author of No Good Deed comes a true-crime shocker.
On June 11, 1988, 27-year-old Janet Moore was stabbed to death in her San Diego apartment. After clues and leads went nowhere, her sad and tragic murder became a cold case. But detectives never gave up on her.
Eighteen years...
The Carlton Smith True Crime Collection
Fatal Charm, Dying for Daddy, Cold-Blooded, and Killing Season
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Four chilling, true stories of murder from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and coauthor of New York Times bestseller, The Search for the Green River Killer.
As an investigative journalist for the Seattle Times, Carlton Smith covered the Green River Killer case for over a decade. Smith, along with...
The Girl on the Gallows
Edith Thompson and the Tragic Love Affair that Outraged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A gripping legal thriller by the Edgar Award–winning author who wrote the Peter Duluth Mysteries as Patrick Quentin.
Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including...
Sniper
The True Story of Anti-Abortion Killer James Kopp
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Award-winning journalist Jon Wells reveals the life story and charts the three-year international manhunt for one of the FBI's most wanted killers, James Charles Kopp
Part detective story, part noir psychological thriller, Sniper tells the disturbing and compelling story of how anti-abortion...
The Color of Night
A Young Mother, a Missing Child, and a Cold-Blooded Killer
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Color of Night is a skillfully woven true crime account of a horrendous crime, a family's quest for answers, and the landmark case that tested the Federal Death Penalty Act. Nineteen-year-old Rachel Timmerman, who was about to testify against the man who had raped her, disappeared with her toddler...
A Death in Wichita
Abortion Doctor George Tiller and the New American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
With A Death in Wichita (originally published as The Wichita Divide) New York Times** bestselling author Stephen Singular offers an in-depth account of the life and death of a controversial doctor, the debate that sparked his assassination, and the place where two Americas collide
On May 31,...
by Robin Bowles
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2011
When British tourist Peter Falconio vanished at night in the heart of the outback in 2001, it made front page news around the world.
Having been pulled over by a passing stranger in the Northern Territory on the major arterial highway linking the north and south of Australia , Falconio climbed out...
Escape from Broadmoor
The Trials and Strangulations of John Thomas Straffen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
John Thomas Straffen – England’s longest-serving prisoner – was the first patient to escape from Broadmoor Hospital. He killed within hours. Prior to this, at his home in Bath, he was dismissed as an imbecile, a loner, a ‘child trapped in an adult's body’. On the afternoon of Sunday July...
"R.F.K. Must Die!"
Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The definitive text on the mystery of R.F.K.’s assassination by a reporter who “got inside this story . . . with his impressive grasp of all the loose ends” (Kirkus Reviews).
On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los...
by Peter Seymour, Jason Foster
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Seven Bones is the story of one of the more bizarre murder investigations in Australia's criminal history. Two wives die in suspicious circumstances: co-incidence or, as husband Thomas Keir describes it, 'bad luck'? Three years after Thomas Keir alleged his first wife Jean deserted him and her young...
by Phillip Duke
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Jack The Ripper is England's most infamous serial killer and butcher of women, he was never identified. Sherlock Holmes is the world's most famous and successful detective character, he never failed. Both lived in the Victorian age and in the same city, London. It was inevitable that their paths would...