True Crime category: 7770 books
by Morgan St. James, Bella Capo, Dernnis Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
THIS TRUE STORY WILL SHOCK AND INSPIRE YOU.
Bella Capo is not her given name, but who she has become. Bella grew up as the abused child of a well-to-do power broker with organized crime ties, a drug-addicted mother and a physically and sexually abusive brother.
She had to divorce herself from any...
by Peter R. de Vries
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
It was the perfect crime ... until they got away with it. Now available for the first time in English, the prize-winning bestseller that inspired the film starring Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Kwanten and Sam Worthington.
The year is 1983. Ronald Reagan is president, Michael Jackson is doing the Moon...
Ministry of Crime
An Underworld Explored
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
A frightening journey into the realm of the gangster state immaculately researched and beautifully crafted. Amongst the finest non-fiction crime writing you will ever read. – JACQUES PAUW
Ministry of Crime is the definitive proof that South Africa is steered not by statesmen or big business,...
by Mark Nesbitt, Katherine Ramsland
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The second book in the "Haunted Crime Scenes" series. The series is based on the premise that by working together, Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) and Paranormal Forensic Investigators (PFIs) may someday solve crimes and resolve cold cases hitherto thought unsolvable.
This book focuses on...
Fatal Fictions
Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equipped with...
by Calvin Trillin
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism
“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first...
The Murder Room
The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Ca ses
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq Society, a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders
Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to...
Tong Wars
The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium in a "wild ramble around Chinatown in its darkest days." (The New Yorker)
Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches...
A New Kind of Monster
The Secret Life and Shocking True Crimes of an Officer . . . and a Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
The horrific and astonishing true story of the double life of Russell Williams, who was at once a respected figure in the Canadian military and a ruthless sado-sexual serial criminal and murderer.
A model officer and elite pilot, Colonel Russell Williams was trusted with flying international...
Deadly Greed
The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
From the author of Above Suspicion: The “riveting” true story of Charles Stuart, who murdered his pregnant wife and pinned the crime on a black man in 1980s Boston (Kirkus Reviews).
On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that...
The Gardner Heist
The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Boser cracks the cold case of the art world’s greatest unsolved mystery.”
—Vanity Fair
“The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft,” The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser is a fascinating account of a brazen and amazing criminal act—a book that could help...
Fatal Jealousy
The True Story of a Doomed Romance, a Singular Obsession, and a Quadruple Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
OUT OF CONTROL
June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania State Trooper, heading home from work, witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive—and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers: "I just killed...
Every Breath You Take
A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2002
If anything ever happens to me, promise me that you will see that there is an investigation....And find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story," Sheila Blackthorne Bellush told her sister after she divorced multimillionaire Allen Blackthorne. Now, in perhaps the first book ever written at a victim's...
Abandoned Prayers
An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, And Amish Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.
Eli...