True Crime category: 7770 books
by Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2005
The extraordinarily captivating memoir of the remarkable jewel thief who robbed the rich and the famous while maintaining an outwardly conventional life—an astonishing and completely true story, the like of which has never before been told . . . or lived.
Bill Mason is arguably the greatest...
Almost Midnight
An American Story of Murder and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
The haunting true story of a triple murder in the Ozarks, two lovers on the lam, and a death-row inmate saved by the pope.
On a spring day more than ten years ago, sixty-nine-year-old Lloyd Lawrence was gunned down in rural Missouri. The shooter also turned his twelve-gauge shotgun on Lawrence’s...
Skyjack
The Hunt for D. B. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The true story of the unsolved 1971 Northwest Orient airplane hijacking, Skyjack reopens one of the greatest cold cases of the 20th century.
“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.”
That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest...
Death in the Air
The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.
London was still recovering from the devastation...
The Man Who Killed Boys
The John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A true story of mass murder in a Chicago suburb.
Successful businessman, community benefactor, good friend and neighbor-- and perverted mass murderer.
Over a period of three years, John Wayne Gacy, Jr. sexually tortured and murdered 33 boys. His friends and neighbors in his unassuming...
Murders that Made Headlines
Crimes of Indiana
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This fascinating chronicle of murder in the Hoosier State paints a chilling portrait of the American Midwest from mid-19th century to the Jazz Age.
In Murders that Made Headlines, Jane Simon Ammeson uncovers a grizzly history of crime in Indiana, offering a stark contrast to the nostalgic...
The Anatomy Murders
Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Up the close and down the stair,
Up and down with Burke and Hare.
Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief,
Knox the man who buys the beef.
—anonymous children's song
On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last...
by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritative...
To Have and To Kill
Nurse Melanie McGuire, an Illicit Affair, and the Gruesome Murder of Her Husband
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
One by one, three waterlogged suitcases were pulled from the Chesapeake Bay. In each were body parts of a man. In a forensics room, the truth was discovered: William McGuire had been horribly murdered and dismembered.
William and his loving wife, a registered nurse named Melanie, had just closed...
For I Have Sinned
True Stories of Clergy Who Kill
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
They went from praying to preying...
Priests, pasters, ministers, and nuns: they are the men and women of God. We trust them unconditionally, tell them our darkest deeds, turn to them in our most desperate hour. We would never, in our wildest dreams, expect them to be...cold-blooded murderers....
by Helen Garner
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2007
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at...
Deliver Us
Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields—a chilling true story that has already helped police uncover evidence that may link suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece to some of the heinous crimes
Over...
Hunting Evil
The Startling True Story of a Man-Woman Team Alleged to be Brutal Serial Rapists
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
What did a high-priced hooker and a low-class sex-offender have in common? It was-according to police-their lust for stalking, raping, and terrorizing young women and girls, in once case as young as thirteen-years-old.
Michelle Michaud and her husky-voiced boyfriend James A. "Froggy"...
If You Really Loved Me
Two Teenage Girls and a Shocking Double Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Carl and Sarah Collier feared their cold and wild granddaughter, Holly. But when they forbade Holly from spending time with her 16-year-old female lover, Sandy, they set in motion a horrifying plot...
Holly and Sandy asked around for a gun. They made a to-do list, and they told their friends...