True Crime category: 7770 books
Christopher G. Moore Collected Essays
The Cultural Detective / Faking It in Bangkok / Fear and Loathing in Bangkok
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Christopher G. Moore Collected Essays
The Cultural Detective
For more than twenty years, Christopher G. Moore has been writing about the history, culture and politics of Southeast Asia, in particular Thailand. The Cultural Detective is a behind-the-scene view into Moore’s writing...
Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket
Organized Crime on American Midways
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Chances are you have been ripped off at a friendly traveling carnival, set up at your local fair or festival, because you had been left unprotected by police.
The intention of this book is not just to tell readers about the games which keep ripping them off, but most importantly to explain...
The Who's Who of British Crime
In the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The Who’s Who of British Crime spans the whole twentieth century, and covers an enormous range of crimes and misdemeanours – by turns appalling, brilliant, gruesome and audacious. All the nation’s most famous wrongdoers are here, from the mystery of Lord Lucan to the Great Train Robbery, the...
The Casebook of Forensic Detection
How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
“Brilliant and persistent scientific work that brought murderers like John List, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey MacDonald to justice.”—Publishers Weekly
“Landmarks of forensic science [that] are representative of the evolution of the discipline and its increasingly prominent role in crime solving.”—Library...
by Alice Keale
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.' This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again. Within days of spending their first evening together,...
by Janet Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
"[N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book Review
The Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a disbarred...
by Roger Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
In Southeast Texas a murder is big news. A double homicide is a crime wave. When five family members are abducted and killed it’s time to buy all the ammunition you can find for every gun you have in the house. That was the fear and attitude that swept the area between Houston, Texas, and Lake Charles,...
The Dark Side
The explosive story of corruption, greed and murder in the Australian drug trade
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
'Each year at least 10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.'
Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organised crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia's national security. Clive Small and...
Blood Money
Bikies, terrorists and Middle Eastern gangs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power?
There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business...
by Roger Wilkes
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Using the latest modern technology available to forensic science, crime scene investigators answer questions others never even thought to ask. Here are over 30 fascinating modern cases of forensic detective work. Genetic fingerprinting, blood splatter analysis, laser ablation, toxicology, ballistics...
by Alice Keale
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.' This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again. Within days of spending their first evening together,...
Original Gangster
The Real Life Story of One of America's Most Notorious Drug Lords
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
A suspenseful memoir from the real life American gangster, Frank Lucas
In his own words, Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. From being taken under the wing of old time gangster Bumpy Johnson,...
by Alice Keale
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.' This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again. Within days of spending their first evening together,...
Crime, Violence, and the Crisis in Guatemala
A Case Study in the Erosion of the State
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In numerous Latin American countries, organized crime and violence are corroding governance and imperiling democratic legitimacy. This phenomenon is most severe in Guatemala, which is currently experiencing a full-blown crisis of the democratic state.
An unholy trinity of criminal elements—international...