True Crime category: 7770 books
Brooklyn Noir 3
Nothing But the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The first nonfiction volume in the “superb series” —true crime stories from Bushwick to Borough Park to Brooklyn Heights (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
The people who brought you the Brooklyn Noir crime-fiction collections return with another talented literary lineup—this time contributing...
Murderers, Robbers, & Highwaymen
True Tales of Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A compendium of horrific crimes and bloody punishments in Georgian England from the editor of the New York Times bestseller, Outlaws and Peace Officers.
Despite the frequency with which criminals were sentenced to death, crime was still on the rise in England in the mid-1700s. Men were thrown...
Midnight in Peking
How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils
Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela...
by Gregory A. Fournier
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, before the term serial killer was coined, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking prey until he made the arrogant mistake of killing his last victim in the basement of his uncle's...
Wiseguy
The 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best...
Confessions of an Undercover Agent
Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers, burglars,...
A Need to Kill
Confessions of a Teen Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
Alec Krieder knew his best friend's family never locked their doors—making Kevin Haines and his family the perfect targets for a crime. One night, he waited until they were asleep…then entered...
by Rick Porrello
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Be sure to see Kill the Irishman—the major motion picture based on Rick Porrello’s true-crime masterpiece!
A modern warrior known as Greene
Was very quick and smart, and mean.
He scrambled hard and fought like hell,
And led a charmed existence.
They shot him down and blew him up
With most...
by Tamworth Grice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Jodi Arias is accused of the premeditated murder of her lover, Travis Alexander, by stabbing him, slitting his throat, and shooting him in the head. But could such a lovely and vivacious young woman really be a monster? And was the crime committed during a re-enactment of the shower-scene knife murder...
The North Country Murder of Irene Izak
Stained by Her Blood
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
A road trip becomes a dead end for a schoolteacher in this haunting cold case of murder that became a fifty-year fight for justice.
In June of 1968, Irene Izak, a young French teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was pulling an all-nighter on the road toward the promise of a new life in Quebec....
Successful Con Artists
Who made millions
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Within criminal law, fraud is considered an intentional deception made for a personal gain or to damage in some way another individual. Fraud is a crime and a civil law violation, but the specific criminal law definition varies in legal jurisdiction. Defrauding people or companies out of money or...
Storming Las Vegas
How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and $3 Million
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
“In my world, you are either the hunter or the prey, and I am the hunter. Vegas was my prey. I tell my crew: Vegas makes it, Vigoa takes it.”
–Jose Vigoa[pg. 37]
When it comes to violent crime, the Las Vegas cops and casino owners thought they had seen it all. But they had never witnessed...
Business or Blood
Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES, BAD BLOOD!
Bestselling crime writers Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso reveal the final years of Canada's top mafia boss, Vito Rizzuto, and his bloody war to avenge his family and control the North American drug trade.
Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison...
Nutcracker
Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
New York Times Bestseller: The “compelling” story of Frances Schreuder, who persuaded her son to kill her multimillionaire father, Franklin Bradshaw (The Washington Post Book World).
In August of 1983 Shana Alexander, acclaimed journalist and chronicler of the lives and criminal trials...