True Crime category: 7770 books
Poisoned Blood
A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
New York Times Bestseller: The “astonishing” true story of the notorious “black widow” who preyed on her husband and daughter and faked her own death (The Washington Post Book World).
Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie Hilley grew up in a small Alabama town believing she was...
Serpentine
The True Story of a Serial Killer's Reign of Terror from Europe to South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
New York Times Bestseller: The nightmare odyssey of a charismatic serial killer and a trail of terror stretching halfway around the world.
There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions and slain in...
Evidence of Love
A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Edgar Award Finalist: The “sensational” true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best...
The Black Widower
A Beautiful Doctor, Her Seemingly Perfect Husband and a Chilling Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
She was his second wife—to die. . .
Coming off a failed marriage, a beautiful woman named Toni joined an online dating site, hoping to find true and lasting love. Harold Henthorn seemed like her dream come true—a handsome man who said he had “a heart for others.” Only weeks after meeting,...
by Caitlin Rother
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Praise for Caitlin Rother and her true-life thrillers
"Will keep you on the edge of your seat."--Aphrodite Jones
"An exciting page-turner."--M. William Phelps
Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference....
by Kristen Laurence
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This book is definitely a must read if you like a real mystery crime book. The book has many stories that you haven't heard about and it is very detailed about the things that went on during these killings, and about the process of trying to find out who the killer was.You can read about serial killers,...
Gangsters of Miami: True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hit Men, Con Men and Gang Bangers from the Magic City
True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hit Men, Con Men and Gang Bangers from the Magic City
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
This book chronicles gang and gangster history using profiles to tell the rise of the gangster and history of crime in Miami. Known as the Magic City, the book traces gangsters that include the notorious smugglers of the Prohibition era, famous mobsters such as Al Capoe and Meyer Lansky, the Cuban mafia,...
Queenpins
Notorious Women Gangsters of the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The cut throat world of organized crime has long been dominated by men, and such macho godfathers and kingpins as Al Capone, John Dillinger, Pablo Escobar and John Gotti have become legendary. Yet, dig deep into the annals of crime and one can find smart, ambitious and ruthless women who have cracked...
How Sherlock Holmes Deduced “Break the Case Clues” on the Btk Killer, the Son of Sam, Unabomber and Anthrax Cases
With Analysis on the Mad Bomber and the Unsolved L.I. Gilgo Beach Murders
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
This is not fiction. This is the true story of how a former New York City Police Captain of Detectives used his extensive knowledge of the deductive methods of Sherlock Holmes to provide the FBI and other agencies with break the case clues to some of the most baffling and horrific criminal cases of...
by Mark Abernethy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
"...these are stories crying out to be turned into a gritty television drama - think a true story version of The Night Manager." Sydney Morning Herald
'I fix things. I can build you a house or remodel your bathroom. I can also make bad situations - and bad people - disappear.'
Meet...
Heartless
The True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Cold Blooded Murder of his Wife and Child
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Neil seemed like a dream come true for Rachel: a handsome, impeccably mannered, success-oriented Englishman, the fairytale husband she had dreamed of meeting. By the time Neil and Rachel Entwistle were husband and wife, living the good life in a New England town, it was too late to guess the truth:...
Summary and Analysis of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Based on the Book by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Helter Skelter tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Genry’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
A Professor's Rage
The Chilling True Story of Harvard PhD Amy Bishop, her Brother's Mysterious Death, and the Shooting Spree that Shocked the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
A devoted wife and mother and a Harvard-educated scientist working as a biology professor at the University of Alabama–Huntsville, Amy Bishop seemed to have it all. But when she was denied tenure, her whole world came crashing down…and she reacted in a way no one ever could have imagined.
On...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The tongues of Ina, Illinois, were already wagging about the friendship between the Reverend Lawrence Hight, the local circuit-riding Methodist preacher, and the pretty young housewife Elsie Sweetin when their spouses turned up dead from similar sudden illnesses just a couple of months apart in the...