True Crime category: 7770 books
The Enforcer
A Life Fighting Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2008
Graeme Pearson is one of the UK's most outspoken and respected senior police officers. In a career spanning forty years he crossed swords with some of the UK's most fearsome and brutal gangsters as he rose from the ranks to lead the fight against serious organised crime as head of the Scottish Crime...
by Yoni Bashan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
A gritty and compelling account of an elite police group, the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOCS).
Middle Eastern organised crime in Australia is a dark, dirty and dangerous world of drug empires, murders and turf wars. Crime families dominate the suburbs and the streets are a labyrinth...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Transnational crime is a recognized threat to national security, mostly due to their relation to terrorist organizations. The President has called for a Whole of Government approach...
Psychology of Fear, Crime and the Media
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The media continue to have a significant persuasive influence on the public perception of crime, even when the information presented is not reflective of the crime rate or actual crime itself. There have been numerous theoretical studies on fear of crime in the media, but few have considered this...
The Real Lolita
A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness.” —David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
Vladimir Nabokov’s...
God'll Cut You Down
The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson, for fans of "Serial."
A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee....
by Don Lasseter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The Hanging Judge of California (formerly titled Perfect Justice) probes outrageous decisions by the US Federal 9th Circuit Court in overturning death penalties. California Judge Donald A. McCartin, who sent nine men to death row, speaks out in fury when convicted child-killer Rodney Alcala’s verdict...
All that Remains
A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**Book of the Year, 2018 Saltire Literary Awards
A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month
For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality.**
Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human...
Terror by Night
The True Story of the Brutal Texas Murder That Destroyed a Family, Restored One Man’s Faith, and Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
At 3:00 a.m. on March 1, 2008, Terry Caffey awoke to find his daughter’s boyfriend standing in his bedroom with a gun. An instant later the teen opened fire, killing Terry’s wife, his two sons, and wounding him 12 times, before setting the house ablaze. Terry fell into deep depression and planned...
The Art of the Steal
How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
The world--famous former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me if You Cannow reveals the mind--boggling tricks of the scam trade--with advice that has made him one of America's most sought--after fraud--prevention experts.
"I had as much knowledge as any man alive concerning the...
Shakedown: Johnny Liddell Mystery Crime Series
Mystery Crime Series, #4
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Shakedown - Another Johnny Liddell Mystery Crime ThrillerFollow private investigator, Johnny Liddell, as he picks up the pieces of deceit, extortion and murder in mid-20th century New York City. See how he uses evidence, logic and intuition to break a major crime ring bubbling beneath the surface...
A Rip in Heaven
A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.
A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991,...
Whipping Boy
The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best Fact Crime
The true account of one boy’s lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.
Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil’s search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a...
Making Jack Falcone
An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
"Petey Chops wasn't kicking up. And if he didn't start soon, he was going to get whacked." So begins Making Jack Falcone, the extraordinary true story of an undercover FBI agent's years-long investigation of the Gambinos, which resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized crime family.
But...