True Crime category: 7770 books
Ted and Ann
The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR REBECCA MORRIS. WITH A BONUS CHAPTER FROM "IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU - SUSAN POWELL, HER MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, AND THE MURDER OF HER CHILDREN," by New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris. "Ted and Ann" is the gripping story of one of the...
Summary and Analysis of The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
Summary and Analysis of The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
Based on the Book by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Stranger Beside Me tells you what you need to know—before or after you read **Ann Rule’**s book.
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In the Dark
The True Story of the Blackout Ripper
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
In February, 1942, a woman was found strangled in a London air raid shelter. Chief Superintendent Frederick Cherrill, head of Scotland Yard’s revolutionary fingerprint division, knew just how well the wartime blackout concealed crime. But this was a brutal, senseless killing with few clues, no apparent...
Kids for Cash
Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The shocking true story of corrupt judges who made millions by sending children to a private juvenile detention facility: “A harrowing tale, lucidly told” (The New York Times Book Review).
In this sensational work of true crime that reads like a thriller, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter...
by David J. Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Set in North London in 1856, Parliament, Buckingham Palace, the press and Victorian middle-class society get caught up in Sommer's brutal murder of her own daughter. Now this forgotten, TRUE event in the annals of British crime has been rediscovered and re-told, exposing cracks in the C19th façade...
A Poisoned Passion
A Young Mother, her War Hero Husband, and the Marriage that Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
By the age of twenty-four, Air Force Staff Sergeant Mike Severance had already survived a series of missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But his life back at home, in Texas, would prove a lot more dangerous…
In the winter of 2005, Mike's wife, a veterinarian named Wendi Mae Davidson, reported...
A Wife's Revenge
The True Story of Susan Wright and the Marriage That Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Susan Wright was a victim...who admitted to killing her husband Jeffrey in their Harris County home in 2003, by stabbing him to death in self-defense. She recounted a harrowing tale of domestic abuse--one that the raging mother of two finally brought to an end--her way.
But prosecutors had...
by Caitlin Rother
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
**The story of a young beauty with an ugly secret she would kill to keep—“a true-crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat” (Aphrodite Jones, New York Times–bestselling author)
On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find twenty-four-year-old Kristin Rossum sobbing,...
Her Deadly Web
The True Story of a Former Nurse and the Strange and Suspicious Deaths of Her Two Husbands
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Raynella Dossett Leath said she came home one morning in 2003 and found her husband's body in bed—covered in blood, a Colt .38 by his side. But authorities were suspicious of Raynella's story. Why would her husband of ten years suddenly commit suicide? And if he had taken his own life, why did it...
Desire Turned Deadly
The True Story of a Beautiful Girl, Her Teenage Sweetheart, and the Love that Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Early one November morning, Kara Borden, a pretty fourteen year old, was caught by her parents as she snuck into their Lancaster County, Pennsylvania home. She confessed to spending the night with eighteen-year-old David Ludwig, and her parents—evangelicals who had home-schooled their daughter—were...
Darker than Night
The True Story of a Brutal Double Homicide and an 18-Year Long Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
ON A COLD, SNOWY NIGHT IN 1985, TWO MEN BEGGED FOR THEIR LIVES.
In 1985, two 27-year-old friends left their suburban Detroit homes for a hunting trip in rural Michigan. When they did not return, their families and police suspected foul play. For 18 years, no one could prove a thing. Then, a relentless...
Beauty Sleep
A Glamorous Mother, a Woman from Her Past, and Her Mysterious Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
On April 10, 2001, Sandra Baker, a recently separated, forty-five-year-old mother of two, went for a facelift—and a new lease on life. But the nurse anesthetist was a woman from her past. And Sandra's future was in jeopardy…
Decades before, in a world of high school cliques and competition,...
Under the Knife
A Beautiful Woman, a Phony Doctor, and a Shocking Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Handsome, charming, and a fixture on the New York City club scene, Dean Faiello had built a thriving beauty business. But money was never enough for Faiello, whose hard-partying ways constantly left him on the edge of ruin. So he did the unthinkable and worked as a cosmetic surgeon—even though he...
The Rabbi and the Hit Man
A True Tale of Murder, Passion, and Shattered Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A fascinating true-crime narrative about the first rabbi ever accused of murder and what the case says about the role of clergy in America.
On the evening of November 1, 1994, Rabbi Fred Neulander returned home to find his wife, Carol, facedown on the living room floor, blood everywhere. He...