True Crime category: 7770 books
The Coffey Files
One Cop's War Against the Mob
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A true crime account of the old-school New York Police Department from the detective who helped catch the Son of Sam and waged a one-man war against the Mafia.
In 1978, a gang war erupted in New York City, and the five boroughs ran red with blood. Men with names like “Matty the Horse” and...
Mafia Cop
The Two Families of Michael Palermo; Saints Only Live in Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Detective Michael Palermo built his career on his unique ability to inhabit two worlds at once: the world of law enforcement and the underworld of New York’s crime family organizations. Palermo participated in over two thousand arrests while maintaining close relationships with the kingpins of organized...
Killer Charm
And Other True Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The complete collection of true crime stories and articles by the New York Times–bestselling author and former prosecutor.
In this collection of horrifyingly true stories, Linda Fairstein provides an in-depth look inside the minds of such psychopaths as Ted Bundy and the Craigslist Killer....
Letters from a Serial Killer
The true story of a mother and a journalist's fight to save a little girl's life
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
"Heartbreaking and horrifying, Letters From a Serial Killer delves into the thinking of a monstrous murderer - but it also reveals the brave struggles of the women who faced him in order to find justice for his victims. It's a powerfully emotional true account that simply must be read."...
Framed!
Murder, Corruption and a Death Sentence in Florida
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
In this real-life courtroom drama, handwriting analysis expert Dr. Marc Seifer shares the true account of a man falsely accused, the coercion and police corruption that threatened to send him to the electric chair, and the series of events that would eventually exonerate him.
Stephen Rosati...
by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2001
MORE THAN 20 MILLION COPIES OFANN RULE'S BOOKS IN PRINT!
In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence.
Expertly analyzing a shocking,...
Murder
Twelve True Stories of Homicide in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Who committed Toronto's Silk Stocking Murder? Why did a quiet accountant in Guelph, Ontario, murder his wife and two daughters? When did police in Alberta hire a self-styled mind reader to solve a mass murder? How did an American confidence man from Arizona find himself facing a murder charge in Cape...
Rotherham Murders
A Half-Century of Serious Crime 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Set in a social backdrop of recovery from two world wars, Margaret Drinkall's Rotherham Murders concentrates on killings that took place in and around the town during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Most of her cases have not been written about in recent years, but are now investigated...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
The passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (the Act) in 2009 expanded the bias motivation definitions for hate crimes. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, which collects and publishes information about crimes motivated by bias, has modified its data...
by Ngaire E. Genge
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
**THE ULTIMATE READERS’ GUIDE TO THE ART OF FORENSICS!
An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect’s wool jacket . . . A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer’s...
Wasted
Inside the Robert Chambers–Jennifer Levin Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book: Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe delivers a riveting, comprehensive account of the Preppie Murder, a crime that shocked a city and a nation.
It was called the Preppie Murder—a killer and a victim who were attractive, smart, privileged teenagers. On...
by Don Lasseter
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
As the author of many true crime books, Don Lasseter has sometimes been asked to identify and rank the "worst of the worst" murderers. Considering the stunning variety of bloodthirsty methods used by these perps, and the horrific toll of victims, it would be difficult. Instead, in this book, he has...
Criminal Children
Researching Juvenile Offenders, 1820–1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens.
How were juvenile delinquents dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What dire circumstances led to their behavior? Were the efforts to curb...
Faces of Evil
Kidnappers, Murderers, Rapists and the Forensic Artist Who Puts Them Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Every day, Lois Gibson is able to put power, control and a sense of justice back into the hands of violent crime victims of heinous rapes, kidnappings and murders. Gibson, herself the subject of a violent rape, uses her skills to coax from the memories of victims the most intimate details possible and,...