True Crime category: 7770 books
by Mark Isaacs
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Discover the Welsh city’s history of crime with these true stories and photos.
This book will introduce to you villains of all sorts—casual or calculating killers, murderous husbands and lovers, gangsters, robbers, poisoners, and suicides. There is no shortage of harrowing episodes in Cardiff’s...
Angels of Death
A True Story of Murder and Innocence Lost
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
The Accused: 13-year-old Derek King and his 12-year-old brother, Alex, Sunday school students with choirboy looks.
After midnight on November 26, 2001, someone bludgeoned Terry King to death while he slept, and set his Florida home afire. By the time the firefighters extinguished the blaze,...
by Barbara D'Amato
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
WINNER OF THE ANTHONY AND AGATHA AWARDS FOR BEST TRUE CRIME
In 1968, Dr. John Branion was found guilty of murdering his wife in their posh Chicago home. After exhausting his appeals, he evaded authorities by fleeing to Africa. He was finally captured in 1983—but his case was far from over....
by Jonathan M Steele
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This is a memoir of a "Made Guy". By an American gangster who committed crimes on a huge scale.CJ Rossi (not his real name) was born and raised in Brooklyn New York. After dropping out of school he embarked upon a life of crime which eventually saw him become affiliated to the Genovese crime family.This...
Palestine Twilight
The Murder of Dr. Albert Glock and the Archaeology of the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
On 19 January 1992, Dr Albert Glock - an American archaeologist - was murdered by an unidentified gunman in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Bir Zeit. Who had killed him? And why?Part history, part true-crime, Palestine Twilight weaves the facts of Glock's murder with the brutal, febrile politics...
The Demon of the Southwest Wind
Tracking the Zodiac Killer
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The Demon of the Southwest Wind is a true story. Combining true crime and memoir, it describes one man's quest to find the truth to one of crime's most enduring mysteries: who was the Zodiac Killer, what crimes did he commit, and why did he do what he did? In the course of the investigation, the author...
Chrisp's True Crime Miscellany
Stories * Facts * Tales & Trivia
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This is arresting miscellany is jam-packed with intriguing and enlightening stories, facts, and trivia about all manner of murderers, miscreants, and malcontents.
The book reveals incredible tales about criminal gangs around the world, such as the Japanese Yakuza, the L.A. Crips and Bloods,...
by Gilles Monif, James Clemon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
THE ENIGMA is based on true life murder and its resultant court-marshal whose outcome challenges credibility.
When a soldier is found murdered in Texas, two lesbian lovers who were with her on the night of her death are arrested. The one who actually did the crime accepts a plea deal to testify...
The Mad Bomber of New York
The Extraordinary True Story of the Manhunt That Paralyzed a City
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Between 1940 and 1957, 33 bombs--strategically placed in Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall, Macy's and other populous areas of New York--paralyzed the city, sending shockwaves of fear through an unsuspecting public. George Metesky, the “Mad Bomber,” unleashed a reign of terror...
Not Just Evil
Murder, Hollywood, and California's First Insanity Plea
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
In 1927, a schoolgirl’s murder leads to a Hollywood manhunt, a bizarre confession, and a landmark trial in this historical true crime.
Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927. The killer dropped her off a few days...
Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes
The Casebook of Fred Wensley OBE KPM, Victorian Crime Buster
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Jack the Ripper and beyond—forty-one years in the investigative career of a man hailed by many as Scotland Yard’s greatest detective of all time.
Fred Wensley was a Somerset gardener when he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888.
His first case was to unmask Jack the Ripper. At least it familiarized...
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell
A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith’s wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu’s North Shore—a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger,...
Love Gone Wrong
True Crime Collection
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Box set from Notorious USA: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine state with a darker side than most. The mecca for wealthy retirees to enjoy their younger girlfriends, yachts and marble-floored mansions, where recreational drugs, sex and booze flow like...
Queen of Thieves
The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka Marm” Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country’s top receiver of stolen goods, she...