True Crime category: 7770 books
The Family Next Door
The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Turpins: a seemingly normal family whose dark secrets would shock and captivate the world.
On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home...
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist.
Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side...
Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America. Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt; and...
Little Shoes
The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California triple murder stunned an already grim nation. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast. Justice was swift, and the condemned...
by Donald Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
IntroductionJust read it. Every word in this document is true, and it is the most important document to ever reach the internet. This document is written to empower good people of the world against the tyranny which exists all around us in our world today. Effectively, the document presented here...
Chasing Diana
Perception vs. Reality
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
TAGLINE: While vacationing in Paris 20 years ago, the lives of an American family collide with the fatal automobile crash of the world’s most beloved Princess. INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY.
Princess Diana was killed on August 31, 1997 in an automobile collision in Paris. Where were you when you...
Ponzi's Scheme
The True Story of a Financial Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2005
You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance.
It was a time when anything...
The Wizard of Lies
Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking new details from Madoff himself.
Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?
These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about...
House of Versace
The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Versace. The very name conjures up images of outrageous glamour and bold sexuality, opulence and daring. All of course true, but only half the story. Versace is also the legacy of a great creative genius from a poor, backward part of southern Italy who transformed the fashion world through his intuitive...
Dangerous Doses
A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
An investigation into crime and corruption that offers “a journey into the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry” (Buzz Bissinger).
Stolen, tainted, and compromised counterfeit medicine has increasingly made its way into a poorly regulated distribution system—reaching vulnerable and...
Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented...
by David Grann
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Features “Trial by Fire,” the basis for the true crime major motion picture starring Jack O’Connell, Laura Dern, Emily Meade and Jeff Perry
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes this “gripping” (The Miami Herald) and “hilarious” (EW)...
Next Wave
America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Next Wave collects the work of today’s finest young writers—nineteen creative reporters whose work builds upon foundations laid by previous generations. Although naysayers predicted the decline of quality long-form journalism with the rise of the Internet, Next Wave is evidence that the genre...
Devil in the Grove
Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is a gripping true story of racism, murder, rape, and the law. It brings to light one of the most dramatic court cases in American history, and offers a rare and revealing portrait of Thurgood Marshall that the world has never...