True Crime category: 7770 books
Deadly Encounters
True Crime Stories of Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
Quiet pleasant communties, sparkling under the clear blue skies of Alberta, have witnessed bloody murders and violent mayhem.
From a wide variety of accounts, Babara Smith has selected eight intriguing stories that will astound and amaze you.
Mystery still surrounds the fate of pro golfer...
Jackpot
High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard’s marshes. Then came their...
Bloody Falls of the Coppermine
Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as...
The Agra Double Murder
A Crime of Passion from the Raj
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2017
In 1909, Augusta Fullam, an English memsahib in Meerut, shocked polite English society by falling in love with Dr Clark, an Anglo-Indian of dubious reputation. Clark had long been unhappy in his marriage and upon meeting her, he instigated the double murder of their respective spouses. They conspired...
King of the Mountains
The Remarkable Story of Giuseppe Musolino, Italy's Most Famous Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
In 1897 the young Italian peasant Giuseppe Musolino was falsely convicted of a crime and sentenced to 21 years at hard labor. He soon escaped, and began hunting those who had played a role in his false conviction, extracting an ominous and lethal revenge, killing as many as 25 people. For three years...
by Aaron Elliott, Harold Schechter, Michael Newton
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Another triple feature! Serial Killer Quarterly, “Unsolved in North America”, focuses on 6 American and 2 Canadian cases of multiple murderer in which the slayer has eluded justice.
Three years before Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, a bold and barefoot killer was slipping...
Desire Street
A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
A searing anatomy of a New Orleans murder trial and a system of justice gone wrong.
In a New Orleans supermarket parking lot in the fall of 1984 ,two disparate lives become inextricably bound for the next fourteen years. The first, the life of Delores Dye, a white housewife and grandmother....
Vanished
Cold-Blooded Murder in Steeltown
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Veteran true crime writer Jon Wells leads us into a real-life crime investigation and the twisted mind of a murderous man
A man rages in his home on April 4, 1999, breaking furniture and dishes. A woman wants to leave him. “You’re not going anywhere,” he tells her. Later that day, a police...
The Art of Making Money
The Story of a Master Counterfeiter
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Read Jason Kersten's posts on the Penguin Blog.
The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who "made" millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn't buy him: family.
Art Williams spent his boyhood in a...
The Mafia at War
The Shocking True Story of America's Wartime Pact with Organised Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
The Mafia at War is a dramatic provocative account of how a criminal organisation exploited the grim realities of World War II to revive its fortunes and dominate global crime.
The Mafia is the most powerful criminal organisation the world has ever known. This book tells the epic story of how...
Vigilantes
It’s Payback Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Contents
Introduction
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance
Montana Vigilantes
Jackson County Vigilance Committee aka Scarlet Mask Society
The Nokmim aka The Jewish Avengers
The Lavender Panthers
Jonathan ‘Jack’ Idema
Bernhard Goetz aka...
Re-Runners Third Life Part 2
Re-Runners, #4
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
It’s been 20 years since Stefano has seen his fellow Re-Runners Kate and Dylan and he prepares for their next lifetime with trepidation.
Has he done enough to protect them from the killer le Segador? Will the monster of their last life return to hunt them or shall they be the hunters?
Therein...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
A revealing criminal history of the old industrial town in North Lincolnshire, England, that has been home to centuries of dark secrets and twisted crimes.
As the iron and steel industries grew in the Victorian period, several villages merged into the town of Scunthorpe, an area with more than...
Beyond Cold Blood
The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Ma Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd once shot their way across the state, and Bonnie and Clyde were known to travel within its borders. Between 1933 and 1938, thirty bank robberies occurred in Kansas, while livestock thefts also grew at an alarming rate. Little wonder, then, that pressure was brought to...