True Crime category: 7770 books
Prodigal Father, Pagan Son
Growing Up Inside the Dangerous World of the Pagans Motorcycle Club
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Winner of the USA Book News National Book Award for Best Nonfiction True Crime and Best Memoir/Autobiography
By the time he was thirteen, he already had attended thirteen funerals.
Abandoned by his mother, and with his father, "Mangy" Menginie—president of the Pagans Motorcycle...
TRUE CRIME: British Murder Mysteries
Real Life Murders, Mysteries & Serial Killers of the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of contents: The Bravoes of Market-Drayton The Holocaust of Manor Place The Love Affair of George Vincent Parker The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley The...
by Jonathan Goodman, Albert Borowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime
Here are ten murder cases of “the old-fashioned sort”—evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction—that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these...
Deranged
The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL
"America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the...
You All Grow Up and Leave Me
A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
"Unflinching, rich and revelatory."—MEGAN ABBOTT
“Gorgeous, moody, and evocative . . . half coming-of-age story and half exhaustively researched true crime.” —VANITY FAIR
“Bracingly honest and extremely discomfiting, this book is like a riveting episode of Law & Order: SVU...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
A chilling tale of a sociopathic wife and mother. . .compelling! --New York Times bestselling author Harry N. MacLean
"Eye-opening. . . Phelps's writing reads like a mystery novel." --Suspense Magazine
It started when Alan Bates and his new wife arrived at his ex's house to...
by Lowell Cauffiel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"Horrific, totally engrossing. . . A compelling look at insane brilliance." --Ann Rule
A psychopathic mastermind whose reign of terror had no limits--even murder. . .
For years, Eddie Lee Sexton ruled his family with perverse domination. He enforced every cruelty imaginable,...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
"Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." --Allison Brennan
"Anything by Phelps is an eye-opening experience." --Suspense Magazine
When Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near...
White Mischief
The Murder of Lord Erroll
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial Kenya
In 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of “Happy Valley” indulged...
Blood Trails Across Texas
True Crime Stories as Told by the Men Who Lived Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Every Investigator Has a Career Case
This is a true crime book documenting multiple cops’ career cases. These are short stories written withoutfiller or fluff. A career case is matter of pride or a pain in your gut when it comes to mind. You try not tointernalize what you see, but at times...
by Steve Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"One of the best books short of the famous Ann Rule works." --True Crime Book Reviews
On a snowy winter evening in 1982, twenty-one-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and...
American Honor Killings
Desire and Rage Among Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
“Not only is this book the best sort of true-crime writing, but it is also a stunning exploration of the concept of manhood in America” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times–bestselling author of War).
Through six detailed accounts of murders involving gay men, American Honor Killings examines...
by M. William Phelps, Melissa Schickel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Fighting for her life . . .
A few days before her 26th birthday, Melissa Schickel returned to her Indianapolis home and went to bed. An hour later, she was yanked from her dreams into terror. An intruder held her down, brutally beating and stabbing her.
Melissa fought fiercely. The assailant...
by Wensley Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Half-a-million Brits reside full-time in the Costa Del Sol, drawn by the good weather and easy lifestyle. Among them are the drug barons, hookers, gigolos, pimps, con-men, fraudsters, killers, gangsters, drag queens and swingers who underpin the economy of the continent's most outrageous hotspot.'You...