True Crime category: 7770 books
In the Still of the Night
The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother's Unceasing Quest for the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
FROM TRUE-CRIME LEGEND ANN RULE comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.
It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from...
True Crime: Maryland
The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
From its settlement in 1634 to its important proximity to the nation's capital in the present, Maryland has served as a crossroads of America, influencing critical events, not the least of which have been numerous crimes.
The Sicilian Mafia
A True Crime Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Cosa Nostra experience. Since 2006, author Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots on the Italian island of Sicily: where the murders happened, where the godfathers lived, where their victims...
by Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Real Story Of John Wayne Gacy-- By The Man Who Helped Catch Him
He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in...
Whitey's Payback
And Other True Stories: Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Sixteen stories of true crime from America’s foremost authority on the underworld
James “Whitey” Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopath—who also happened to be a secret FBI informant—his reign of power in Boston lasted for more than...
Cold as Ice
A True Story of Murder, Disappearance, and the Multiple Lives of Drew Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
Kathleen Savio was married to Drew Peterson for eleven years before filing for divorce in 2003. The next year, she was found dead in her bathtub. Her drowning appeared to be an accident—and for years,...
by Stefanina Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
A look at the most prolific serial killers in world history.H.H Holmes : Tortured, raped and killed victims in his purpose built hotel which became known as the “Murder Castle”.Amelia Dyer : Murdered hundreds of defenceless babies and infants over forty years.Harold Shipman...
Murder in Minnesota
A Collection of True Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
"My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . I hope you will find these murders interesting. I regret that I could not report the most ingenious and remarkable ones. They looked like accidents...
by Ian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Ian Brown spent almost thirty years in the police force, rising through the ranks to work on some of the best-known crimes of the twentieth century.
From witnessing the brutality of the Kray twins to chasing the spoils from the Brink’s-Mat gold bullion robbery, Brown was never too far away...
Delivered from Evil
True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch . . . an 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost four days after a mass murderer kills her vacationing...
by Nigel Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The body snatcher who inspired Psycho, the noblewoman known as Countess Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and other killers for whom murder was just the beginning.
From Gilles de Rais’ castle in fifteenth-century France to “the Bloody Benders’” eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer’s...
Serial Killers
The Method and Madness of Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
**A comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide—including information on America’s most prolific serial killers such as:
Ted Bundy • “Co-ed Killer” Ed Kemper • The BTK Killer • “Highway Stalker” Henry Lee Lucas • Monte Ralph Rissell...
One Last Kiss
The True Story of a Minister's Bodyguard, His Beautiful Mistress, and a Brutal Triple Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
FROM ADULTERY…
Ex-Marine and bodyguard Chris Coleman was a family man with a secret: He wanted to leave his wife for another woman, Tara Lintz. But as head of security for the world-famous Joyce Meyer Ministries—an evangelical organization that frowns on divorce—Coleman had to make other plans.
TO...
The Mother's Day Murder
The Startling True Story of a Seductive, Murdering Wife and her Three Teenage Pawns
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The Black Widow
They met while working together at a Taco Bell in Augusta, Georgia: seventeen-year-old Larry Kelley and thirty-one-year-old wife and mother Gina Spann. Their unusual friendship soon blossomed into something much more when Gina invited Larry to live with her, her husband Kevin, and...