True Crime category: 7770 books
Deadly Little Secrets
The Minister, His Mistress, and a Heartless Texas Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Ann Rule says, "Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today"—high praise indeed from the author of a host of nonfiction New York Times bestsellers including Green River and The Stranger Beside Me, the story of serial killer Ted Bundy. With Deadly Little Secrets, Casey once...
by Gary C. King, Sheila Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Beautiful, beloved college sophomore Brianna Denison was home for the holidays in Reno, Nevada. After a long night out, she crashed on a friend's couch. It would be the last time the child psychology major was seen alive. Her strangled body was found in a field nearly a month later.
But Brianna...
Love You Madly
The True Story of a Small-town Girl, the Young Men She Seduced, and the Murder of her Mother
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
She posted it online: "Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered." But those simple words written by sixteen-year-old Rachelle Waterman couldn't begin to describe the horror of the crime: Her mother's body locked in a van. Doused in gasoline. Burned beyond recognition…
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Careless Whispers
The Award-Winning True Account of the Horrific Lake Waco Murders
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
When the bodies of three teenagers were found on the shores of Lake Waco, Texas in July, 1982, even seasoned lawmen were taken aback by the savage mutilation and degradation they had been subjected to. Yet only 52 days after the gruesome triple-murder was discovered, frustrated authorities suspended...
Death in a Texas Desert
And Other True Crime Stories from The Dallas Observer
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Death in a Texas Desert is a fast-paced collection of 17 compelling true crime stories from the pages of the award-winning The Dallas Observer. From the "Phantom Killer" that haunted Texarkana in teh mid-1940s to the day of terror in 1991 when a crazed man began spraying bullets into Luby's Cafeteria...
Crime Incorporated
The Inside Story of the Mafia's First 100 Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Based on previously unavailable information and nearly two decades of research, Crime Incorporated reveals for the first time all the unsavoury facts of the Mob's bloody evolution from a gang of uncouth, bumbling killers into the highly organized, smoothly running 'corporation' it is today.William Balsamo,...
Guilt by Matrimony
A Memoir of Love, Madness, and the Murder of Nancy Pfister
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“An amazing story about a homicidal web of deceit fueled by mental illness. It is not a typical true-crime tale—it is in a class by itself.” —Diane Fanning, author of Bitter Remains
In 2014, an Aspen socialite was bludgeoned, wrapped in a sheet, and stuffed inside a locked closet. Fewer...
by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1983
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die—yet lived to murder again....and again....
After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate,...
by Brian Forschner
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
An “impressively well-crafted” true crime account of the murder of five girls in the early days of police investigations (Midwest Book Review).
Cold Serial tells the true stories of five girls who were raped and murdered in the Dayton, Ohio, area between 1900 and 1909. They were victims...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2004
Calderdale has gone down in the annals of crime in England as the birthplace of Christie of Rillington Place, and as the haunt of the Yorkshire Ripper. But there is much more in the criminal history of the Halifax area to interest the reader with a taste for true crime. As a town with a shifting population...
The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!
The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
One of art history’s most notorious crimes is solved in this true caper that reads “like a finely tuned suspense thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1961, a thief broke into London’s National Gallery and committed the most sensational art heist in British history by stealing the museum’s...
True Crime in the Civil War
Cases of Murder, Treason, Counterfeiting, Massacre, Plunder & Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Crime did not take a holiday during the Civil War, far from it. As Tobin Buhk shows in this fast-paced narrative, the war created new opportunities to gain profits from illegal activities, to settle old scores against personal enemies under the cover of fighting the nation's enemies, to pillage, plunder,...
True Crime: New Jersey
The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
The history of criminal offense in New Jersey is documented in this book, beginning with a general survey of crime in the state and then focusing on its headline cases, including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the John List killings, the mob activities that inspired The Sopranos, and the murder that led to Megan's Law.
Murder of a Journalist
The True Story of the Death of Donald Ring Mellett
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Private detectives, crooked cops, gangsters, and bootleggers
The July 1926 murder of the editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News, Don R. Mellett, was one of the most publicized crimes in the 1920s. For less than a year, Mellett was the editor of the Daily News, owned by former Ohio governor...