True Crime category: 7770 books
Beauty Killers
The True Story of a Successful Businessman, His Young Lover, and Their Murderous Rampage
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Janeen Snyder was only fourteen when she moved in with Michael Thornton, his wife, and teenage daughter. Michael was a successful entrepreneur and family man with eight beauty salons and a six-figure income-but two years later, he gave it all up to run away with Janeen. At last, on the road with his...
The Good Doctor
The Shocking True Story of a Prolific Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2002
Fifty-five-year-old Dr. Harold "Fred" Shipman has a noble dedication to his profession, winning the trust of his patients with ingratiating charm and an old-school bedside manner. In fact, he even made house calls--but his unsuspecting patients has no idea of the evil that lurked behind...
by Alan James Garbers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
These are the true stories of cases involving Indiana's Conservation Officers, told from their point of view. From poaching and rescues to stopping syndicated crime and body recovery, ICOs are the green line that stands tirelessly against those that would destroy historical sites or eradicate wild game....
Jay Robert Nash's Crime Chronology
A Worldwide Record 1900-1983
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1984
Jay Robert Nash, best-selling author and one of the world's foremost crime historians, has compiled in one volume thousands of the most significant and fascinating crimes of the twentieth century.
This extensive worldwide chronology is a year-by-year, crime-by crime historical record, Organized...
The Dating Game Killer
The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
In 1978, Rodney Alcala was a contestant on the "The Dating Game," one of America's most popular television shows at the time. Handsome, successful, and romantic, he was embraced by the audience—and chosen as the winner by the beautiful bachelorette. To viewers across the country, Rodney...
Mind Games
The True Story of a Psychologist, His Wife, and a Brutal Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR.
Dr. Felix Polk was a married psychologist living in Berkeley, California. At forty years old, he had a successful practice and a towering reputation—until he began a scandalous affair with one of his patients: Susan Bolling. She was fifteen years old.
A TROUBLED TEENAGE...
Seduced by Evil
The True Story of a Gorgeous Stripper-Turned-Suburban-Mom, Her Secret Past, and a Ruthless Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
As an exotic dancer at The Great Alaskan Bush Company in Anchorage, Mechele Hughes Linehan knew how to captivate men. Three of them were convinced she was engaged to them. Then one spring morning in 1996, one man, Kent Leppink, was found in the snow, shot in the head…
Days before his death,...
Goodbye, My Little Ones
The True Story of a Murderous Mother and Five Innocent Victims
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
The true story of a murderous mother and five innocent victims. With eight pages of photos Charles Hickey, Todd Lighty, and John O’Brien bring the story of a mother not fit for the title.
Waneta Hoyt’s first baby died. Then her second. Then her third. Nobody, including her husband, suspected...
Afraid of the Dark
The True Story of a Reckless Husband, his Stunning Wife, and the Murder that Shattered a Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Detroit mortgage broker Mark Unger adored his wife Florence and their two young sons. But after a decade of marriage and increasing financial trouble, Mark's life began to slowly unravel. He became addicted to pain killers and gambling, and ended up spending five months in rehab.
Forced to...
Like Mother, Like Son
The Shocking True Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
William Flanagan's Like Mother, Like Son recounts the sensational true case of handsome young playboy Jed Ardito, who strangled his beautiful Brooklyn girlfriend to death in an erotic frenzy. But this true crime story gets even stranger: seventeen years earlier, Ardito's mother Frances Victoria Ardito had her own illicit lover murdered.
Blind Love
The True Story Of The Texas Cadet Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A handsome overachiever...
A beautiful honors student...
Together they would commit savage murder...
A Teenage Love Pact Sealed In Blood
Outside a small Texas town by the side of the road, high school sophomore beauty Adrianne Jones lay with her skull bashed in and two bullets in her...
by Joseph Wambaugh
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
The true story only Joseph Wambaugh could tell. A band of California cops set loose in no-man’s-land to come home heroes. Or come home dead.
Not since Joseph Wambaugh’s bestselling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as Lines and Shadows....
by Polly Ann Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
On a rainy night in a little town in Sanford, Florida, a shot rang out that would soon be heard all over the world, and a young, black, teenage boy lay dead on the wet grass. His name was Trayvon Martin. He was only 17 years old. Trayvon Martin is dead. Never again will we hear his sweet laughter...
Blood Will Tell
A Shocking True Story of Marriage, Murder, and Fatal Family Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2003
They Were The Perfect Family. . .
For twenty years, Ken and Kristine Fitzhugh and their two sons had lived lives of comfortable middle-class normality in the university town of Palo Alto, California. Then came the shocking news that Kristine Fitzhugh was dead, the victim of a terrible accident......