True Crime category: 7770 books
by Larry Writer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Read the true story of Kate Leigh, Tilly Devine and Sydney's razor gang wars from the 1920's and 30's in this gripping book by acclaimed author Larry Writer. Using exhaustive research, Larry Writer offers fascinating new insights into this case and the people involved, villains and victims. Perfect...
The Most Dangerous Animal of All
Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
New York Times Bestseller
Soon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about...
The Good Rat
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia—characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and Jimmy "the Clam" Eppolito—interwoven...
Hanging the Peachtree Bandit
The True Tale of Atlanta's Infamous Frank DuPre
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
On December 15, 1921, gunshots echoed across Atlanta's famous Peachtree Street moments before a handsome young man darted away from Kaiser's Jewelers. Frank DuPre left in his wake a dead Pinkerton guard and a missing ring. As Christmas shoppers looked on in panic, he raced through the Kimball House Hotel...
The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable
A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Quaker John Tawell's trial became a sensation, involving poison and sexual scandal. It helped to secure the telegraph's fame - and usher in the modern communication age. A true tale of murder and scientific revolution, The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable is historical crime writing at its best.
Family Blood
The True Story of the Yom Kippur Murders
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Gerald Woodman, an Englishman and an Orthodox Jew, came to American penniless and hungry for the good life. By 1980 he had gained and lost two fortunes, had built his plastics company into a cash cow that supported his large extended family in great luxury. Killed in 1985 along with his wife Vera,...
by Matt Birkbeck
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime.
A student at Forest Park High School near...
Conspiracy of Brothers
A True Story of Bikers, Murder and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
To coincide with Random House Canada's publication of the groundbreaking book Unrepentant by Peter Edwards and biker Lorne Campbell, Vintage Canada updates and reissues the award-winning true crime classic that tells the complete and scandalous story in the most gut-wrenching chapter of Campbell's...
Baby Be Mine
The Shocking True Story of a Woman Who Murdered a Pregnant Mother to Steal Her Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
THE MIRACLE OF LIFE
When Lisa Montgomery presented her husband Kevin with their new-born baby girl, he was ecstatic. Naming the child Abigail, the couple brought her to their local pastor. Miles away, police were investigating the brutal murder of a pregnant woman...
THE HORROR OF MURDER
Twenty-three...
If I Die...
A True Story of Obsessive Love, Uncontrollable Greed, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
He'd been shot in the head, decapitated, and set on fire. Who could have turned on the real-estate ace with such bloodthirsty fury? Even before the remains were found, circumstantial evidence was building against Rudin's 52-year-old wife, Margaret, who stood to inherit a handsome share of her husband's...
One Dark Night
A True Story of Deceit, Desire, and Murder in a Peaceful Town
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Their neighbors were Bill and Hillary Clinton. Their home was Chappaqua, the upscale New York suburb famous for its tranquility—until one dark night, when a brutal murder shattered the community. Driving home with his wife Peggy, Carlos Perez-Olivo claimed he was forced off the road by another vehicle....
Evil Angels
The Case of Lindy Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother’s worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia.
On a camping trip at Ayer’s Rock, the Chamberlain family’s infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother,...
Surviving Execution
A Miscarriage of Justice and the Fight to End the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
A tense mix of Dead Man Walking and Making a Murderer, Surviving Execution combines the very best in true-crime writing with a searching exploration of our most barbaric punishment.Imagine being condemned to death for murder, when even the prosecutors admit that you didn't actually kill anyone. This...
by Amber Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Yeardley Love was a star athlete and student with her whole life ahead of her. Born into a
world of privilege, Yeardley was exceptionally modest and generous. She was adored by many, especially the members of her lacrosse team at the University of Virginia, where she won the heart of another lacrosse...