True Crime category: 7770 books

Nurses and neighbours, partners and parents - all murderers who shocked Australia with the severity of their crimes. But what makes them tick? Society couple Michael O'Neill and Stuart Rattle had it all - their lavish country property, their interior design business - until Michael bludgeoned...

Uma reportagem de alta temperatura, que comprova a falência da segurança pública no Brasil. Os autores entrevistaram diversos integrantes do PCC e revelam as entranhas das organizações criminosas. Este livro é uma reportagem capaz de fixar a fisionomia do crime no Brasil. Os autores obtiveram...

These excellent reports have been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The first report deals with the transnational threat from two predominantly Latino gangs, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang (M-18), which have raised concern among policy...

Crime is the transgression by individuals of rules made by the community. Wrong-doing may be either intentional or accidental—a wilful revolt against law, or a lapse through ignorance of it. Both are punishable by all codes alike, but the latter is not necessarily a crime. To constitute a really...

This is the complete 580-page FBI file on the kidnapping of the baby son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Although the crime occurred in New Jersey, the FBI maintained its own records of the case. It was the first "Crime of the Century" in the U.S. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was eventually arrested for...

Almost two decades after her husband was killed when he opened a parcel bomb, Jane Bowen-Sutton is still learning about the circumstances of the horrific act. Geoffrey Bowen died when he opened the parcel at the Adelaide office of the National Crime Authority (NCA) in March 1994. "Just coping with Geoff's...

Les trains du crime - 13 affaires criminelles ferroviaires Voici une surprenante et passionnante épopée du chemin de fer racontée à travers les passions humaines et les crimes. Pas de rails chez moi ! La bouillante demoiselle Dumarest les arrachait la nuit. Première malle sanglante....

2011 IPPY Award WinnerImplosion At Los Alamos is a frightening exposé that reveals failed security, crime, mismanagement, cover-ups, and corruption at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Ground Zero for America’s strongest defense against rogue nations and terroristic entities -- at least...

La criminologie est la science qui étudie les caractéristiques et les causes du phénomène criminel. Elle construit un savoir rigoureux sur le crime et sur tout ce qui s’y rapporte. Cet ouvrage d’initiation expose les notions principales et fait le bilan des connaissances les plus actuelles...

A heart-breaking true story of child abuse, and one little girl's terrible secret. The second of Kate Skylark's co-written true child abuse stories. Steve Gilbert is a charming, clever man. Lucy is his ten-year-old daughter. Lucy loves him to bits, just as all little girls love their...

A gripping true story of child abuse, betrayal and a mother's neglect. The fifth of Kate Skylark's co-written true child abuse stories.  Like many little girls the world over, Amy didn’t have the best start in life, living on a rough council estate, with no dad and an alcoholic mother.  But...

The shocking true crime story of a beloved Hollywood star gone too soon—told by the captain of the boat on which Natalie Wood spent her last night. Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the long‑awaited, detailed account of events that led to the mysterious death of Hollywood legend Natalie...

Part biography, part true-crime narrative, this painstakingly researched book chronicles the improbable rise and stunning fall of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle from his early big screen success to his involvement in actress Virginia Rappe’s death, and the resulting irreparable damage to his career....

The “fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful” account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and the desperate manhunt to find him (The New York Times Book Review). On July 1, 1874, four-year-old Charley Ross and his older brother, Walter, were playing in front of their stately Philadelphia...