True Crime category: 7770 books
Unsolved Murders
True Crime Cases Uncovered
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Explore the mysteries of 20 compelling unsolved murder cases, from the Zodiac Killer to the death of JonBenét Ramsey, with this true crime book.
Featuring both well-known and more obscure cases spanning across the 20th and 21st century, Unsolved Murders combines page-turning text with images...
The History and Romance of Crime
Oriental Prisons from the Earliest Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Oriental Prisons: Prisons and crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah, China, Japan, Egypt and Turkey. It is as true of crime in the Orient as of other habits, customs and beliefs of the East, that what has descended from generation to generation and become not only a tradition but an established...
by Barry Stone
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Mutinies is an exhaustive investigation of twenty-three of the world's most infamous uprisings at sea, from the earliest days of ocean exploration to the present. Investigating the circumstances and motivations that drive seamen to overthrow authority and commit extreme and lethal crimes, Barry Stone...
by Sarah Quail
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
More than five hundred years of British true crime stories—from mutinies and murders to duels and executions.
This collection of historical true crime tales includes more than twenty notorious episodes that range from medieval times to the modern era, and offers a fascinating insight into criminal...
Deadly Goals
The True Story of an All-American Football Hero Who Stalked and Murdered
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The gripping true story of a small town football hero and the murder he almost got away with.
A star athlete with a winning smile, Pernell Jefferson had no trouble attracting women.
But beneath his immaculate exterior lurked a beast that left nothing but battered women and broken dreams...
True Colours
Lauren Huxley and her family from tragedy to triumph
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Now in paperback, TRUE COLOURS is destined to capture a new audience. The violent attack that left Lauren Huxley clinging to life made headlines around the country. This is the inspiring story of how she turned tragedy into triumph. 'If there's one thing I've learned it's that the pleasure in life...
by Malcolm Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Killing a Kiwi in Thailand is the true story of three Western expats who decided to swap living in Bali for residing in the resort city of Pattaya, Thailand. Tragedy then struck when one of the expats became involved in an argument with a murderous couple in a roadside bar.
The true story originates...
Charlie Peace
Murder, Mayhem and the Master of Disguise
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The true crimes of one of nineteenth century England’s most notorious thieves and killers, whose exploits still capture the public’s imagination.
Once immortalized in Madame Tussauds’s Chamber of Horrors, and brought to life in two silent films, his gnarled and prematurely aged features...
by Christiana Gregoriou
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In this book, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identity and its related ideology across a range of contemporary crime narratives, including detective fiction, the true crime genre and media journalism. How exactly is the serial killer consciousness portrayed, how is the killing...
by David K. Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
He knocked on her door and she let him in. He asked for a favor but she refused. He struck her and she crumpled. Within minutes it was over, a murder that catapulted Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, into the national spotlight. The small town was unaccustomed to violent crime, or the media circus that followed....
The Biker Who Shot Me
Recollections of a Crime Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
On September 13, 2000, Michel Auger was walking away from his car in a parking lot across the street from the offices of Le Journal de Montréal when he was shot in the back six times. Miraculously, although at least one bullet lodged in his spine, no vital organs were damaged. Auger was on his feet...
Lillian Armfield
How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face of the force
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman - Australia's first female detective - LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney's organised crime underbelly.
'Special Constable' Lillian Armfield was policing Sydney's mean streets during some...
Tunnel Vision
A True Story of Multiple Murder and Justice in Chaos at America's Biggest Marine Base
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
“Vivid prose plunges the reader into the politically fraught, self-contained world of a military base” and a chilling true case of triple murder (Linda Landrigan, editor of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine).
Carlton “Butch” Smith was a troubled teenager who’d been kicked out of school...
The Road Out of Hell
Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
The New York Times–bestselling author’s “haunting, compassionate, and terrifyingly true” story of a man breaking free from his notorious past (Gregg Olson, New York Times–bestselling author of Starvation Heights).
From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least twenty...