True Crime category: 7770 books
Little Demon in the City of Light
A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A delicious true crime account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon—whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world.
In 1889, the gruesome murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of a ruthless...
by Kevin Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
I did not set out to change the way the world manages crime and corruption but that is the potential outcome of the successful prevention solution I founded 25 years ago in commerce. Be careful what you look for... I have been obstructed within and outside the security industry from further employing...
While the City Slept
A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
**“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly
Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
The National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) prepared the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment (NGTA) to examine emerging gang trends and threats posed by criminal gangs to communities throughout the United States. The 2011 NGTA enhances and builds on the gang-related trends and criminal threats identified...
Murder at Green Springs
The True Story of the Hall Case, Firestorm of Prejudices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The cautionary true crime shocker of Virginia’s Elizabeth Hall, and one of the most sensational trials of an accused murderess since Lizzie Borden.
On an April morning in 1914, Victor Hall was murdered in his store at Green Springs Depot. It was only hours after his competitor’s business...
by Corey Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
From a bestselling author, a true account of a paroled sex offender’s vicious crimes: “No one faces evil head-on like Corey Mitchell” (Gregg Olsen).
On a November night in 1998, in San Luis Obispo, California, college student Rachel Newhouse was walking alone when a stranger appeared....
by Vincent Bugliosi
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
"Bugliosi, the quintessential prosecutor, has written a crime book that should be read by every lawyer and judge in America."—F. Lee Bailey
On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year...
Murder At Yosemite
The Stunning True Story of a Horrific Handyman and the Brutal Murders of Four Nature-Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Amidst the breathtaking natural beauty of Yosemite National Park, four terrifying killings took place. For months, law enforcement officials were stumped by the deaths of three tourists: Carole Sund, her teenaged daughter Juli, and a family friend, Silvina Pelosso. But when they found the decapitated...
Blood in the Sand
A Shocking True Story of Murder, Revenge, and Greed in Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Seductress
Sexy siren Amy DeChant had a lifelong habit of finding men-- rich men-- who would take care of her. And when the money ran out, so did Amy. When she met wealthy bookie Bruce Weinstein at a poker room in Las Vegas, she had found the perfect prey...
The Bookie
300-pound Bruce Weinstein...
Bones in the Desert
The True Story of a Mother's Murder and a Daughter's Search
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Loretta Bowersock and her daughter, Terri, ran a multimillion-dollar furniture store based in Tempe, Arizona, where they were well-known and admired by many. Together, these two women seemed to be living the American Dream…until one man decided to take it all away.
Over the course of two...
Fatal Embrace
The Inside Story Of The Thomas Capano/Anne Marie Fahey Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
When Anne Marie Fahey, beautiful, ambitious secretary to the Governor of Delaware, disappeared in June of 1996, all eyes immediately turned to Thomas Capano, the high-powered attorney with whom Anne Marie had been having a clandestine love affair.
Well-respected, politically connected, married,...
Norfolk Villains
Rogues, Rascals & Reprobates
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Discover the darker side of Norfolk with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the county. Featuring tales of some of the most notorious, nefarious, and murderous characters from the county’s past, including pirates, smugglers, highwaymen, poachers, thieves, murderers, and...
by Gideon Haigh
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - until one night in 1930 she wasbrutally slain by an unknown...
Gotti's Boys
The Mafia Crew That Killed for John Gotti
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Meet the men who murdered for the mob—and made John Gotti the most powerful and deadly crime boss in America . . .
They called him the “Teflon Don.” But in his short reign as the head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti wracked up a lifetime of charges from gambling, extortion, and...