True Crime category: 7770 books
The Truth About Aaron
My Journey to Understand My Brother
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The unvarnished true story of the tragic life and death of Aaron Hernandez, the college All-American and New England Patriots star convicted of murder, told by one of the few people who knew him best, his brother.
To football fans, Aaron Hernandez was a superstar in the making. A standout at...
The Hunting Accident
A True Story of Crime and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
It was a hunting accident—that much Charlie is sure of. That's how his father, Matt Rizzo—a gentle intellectual who writes epic poems in Braille—had lost his vision. It’s not until Charlie’s troubled teenage years, when he’s facing time for his petty crimes, that he learns the truth.
Matt...
The Inventor and the Tycoon
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography,...
The Killer Across the Table
Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling...
Vanessa
A Portrait of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
The compelling and disturbing true story of Vanessa George and the evil abuse she doled out upon the children of more than 300 families.
As a nursery worker, wife and mother, she was a figure to place trust in. Yet her adulterous relationship and sick love triangle with Colin Blanchard and...
by Thomas Maeder
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The chilling true story of a serial killer who preyed on men, women, and children desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Paris.
On March 11, 1944, police were called to investigate foul-smelling smoke pouring from the chimney of an elegant private house near the Arc de Triomphe. In the basement...
Unfinished Murder
The Pursuit of a Serial Rapist
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Edgar Award Finalist: The hunt for Ronnie Shelton, Cleveland’s West Side Rapist, and the victims who united for justice—“Groundbreaking” (Ann Rule).
From 1983 to 1988, serial rapist Ronnie Shelton preyed on the women of Cleveland. Dubbed the West Side Rapist, twenty-seven-year-old Shelton...
Incident at Big Sky
The Inside Story of the Search for Two Savage Killers in Montana
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Edgar Award Finalist: The “exciting” true story of the abduction of biathlete Kari Swenson and the five-month manhunt to bring her tormentors to justice (The New York Times Book Review).
Former rodeo cowboy Johnny France had been sheriff of Madison County, Montana, for three years when...
Restless Souls
The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Restless Souls is the true, bone-chilling chronicle of the Manson Family murders and its aftermath, from the point of view of the victims’ families.
When actress Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, the world was shocked. More than forty...
Fire Lover
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
**The hunt forthe most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century—in this Edgar Award–winning true crime story that’s “stranger than fiction” (The New York Times).
From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The...
In the Middle of the Night
The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely daughters… Until July 23, 2007, when,...
Love Hurts
The True Story of a Teen Romance, a Vicious Plot, and a Family Murdered
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Alba, Texas. In 2008, Terry Caffey, a home health care aide and aspiring preacher, was asleep in his bedroom when he woke up to a barrage of bullets. His wife, Penny, was killed instantly. With blood pouring from five bullet wounds, among other serious injuries, Terry tried—but failed—to save...
And Never Let Her Go
Thomas Capano The Deadly Seducer
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2000
From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation, and emotional deception by her charming and successful -- but ultimately deadly -- lover.
The author of fifteen New...
Love, Daddy
The True Story of Accused Con Man and Family Killer Christian Longo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
He Looked like the Perfect Dad...
Shortly before Christmas of 2001, the bodies of Mary Jane Longo and her three young children, Zachary, Sadie Ann, and Madison were discovered. They'd been murdered and dumped off the Oregon coast in Yaquina and Alsea Bay. The youngest victim was only two years old....