True Crime category: 7770 books
The Terminal Spy
A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.
On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former...
The Lost Girls
The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and long-overdue rescue of three women found in a Cleveland basement.
The Lost Girls tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who were kidnapped, imprisoned,...
The Death of Innocents
A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stakes Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Unraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel. More than just a true-crime story, it is the stunning expose of spurious science that sent medical researchers...
Blood Cold
Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The riveting true account of the 2001 murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, starring Robert Blake—the Hollywood icon accused of killing his wife in cold blood
In May 2001 Bonny Lee Bakley was shot to death in a car parked on a dark Hollywood side street. Eleven months later Robert Blake—her husband,...
by Paul Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charrière who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil's Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud Day, said to be the only US...
Savage Grace
The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland -- beautiful, rich, worldly -- and their handsome, gentle son, Tony. Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a violent...
Diary of an On-Call Girl
True Stories from the Front Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
"The tapes are on, the interview begins, and I ask my standard opening question: ‘Do you understand why you have been arrested?’
Believe it or not, sometimes these words alone can prompt a confused confession. ‘I ain't been arrested,’ says Shimona. Not exactly a confession. ‘Well,...
by Danny Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
With 24 hour news channels and easy access we are bombarded with reports of crime from every corner of the globe. It seems that no sooner has one tragedy hit than stories of another are being flashed across our screens and printed in our papers. But it is undeniable that there are for every generation...
The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime
From Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
You may never again think of Canadians as law-abiding
Respected crime reporters Peter Edwards and Michel Auger have pooled their research and expertise to create The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime. Sometimes grim, sometimes amusing, and always entertaining, this book is filled with...
In the Arms of Evil
A True Story of Obsession, Greed, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Nancy Jean Siegel of Maryland became addicted to gambling during her first marriage. Sneaking off to Atlantic City—and sinking deeper and deeper into debt—she began stealing identities, conning family members, and leaving two ex-husbands buried in bills. Then she sold cemetery plots door-to-door...
Burned Alive
A Shocking True Story of Betrayal, Kidnapping, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Ash Wednesday
Beautiful, bubbly, 20-year-old Kim Antonakos was returning to her New York City apartment after a night of clubbing with a friend. A business major with wild black hair, long polished fingernails, and a new Honda her loving father had bought her, Kim took good care of herself and looked...
A Date with Death
The Secret Life of the Accused "Craigslist Killer"
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In a luxury Boston hotel on April 14, 2009, police discovered the body of a beautiful young woman—her head battered, a bullet through her heart. Within hours, the story exploded, making headlines across the nation. The victim, a masseuse named Julissa Brisman, had advertised her erotic services...
by Seth Ferranti
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Ice-T spit, “Gangsters don’t die, they multiply: and to keep it all the way official read about the street’s real legends. The Original Gangsters that inspired BET’s American Gangster series, all those Hollywood gangsta flicks, the litany of true crime street documentaries and gangsta rappers...
Hell Hath No Fury
A True Story of Wealth and Passion, Love and Envy, and a Woman Driven to the Ultimate Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1992
Dan Broderick was one of California's most successful attorneys; his wife, Betty, a beautiful socialite. But when Betty discovered Dan's hidden life, the façade of LaJolla's golden couple was shattered. What followed was a vicious five-year battle that finally ended in a shocking double-murder.
A...