True Crime category: 7770 books
The Savage City
Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
“T.J. English has the mastered the hybrid narrative art form of social history and underworld thriller. The Savage City is a truly gripping read filled with unexpected twists and turns.”
—Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge
In The Savage City, T.J. English, author of the New...
The Skies Belong to Us
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history.
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets...
If I Can't Have You
Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one of the 21st Century's most puzzling disappearances and how it resulted in the murder of two children by their father.
Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the eyes...
by RJ Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
Are women really the weaker sex?
When we hear about a Serial Killer, we never consider the sex, we would immediately assume a man...right? But that's not always the case! Females are for the most part, the loving and caring protectors of our species and the ones that are more susceptible to...
Tacoma Confidential
A True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief's Secret Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Gig Harbor, WA, a quiet Tacoma suburb, knew little of tragedy and scandal—until April 26, 2003. On that day David Brame, distraught over his impending divorce, shot his wife to death in a busy public parking lot. Then, with the couple’s two children only feet away, he turned the gun on himself.
It...
Caught in the Act
A Courageous Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
We walked in on a surreal scene. There are few words, if any, to accurately describe the abject horror...
What Jeannie and Kevin McDonough saw was a wanted, multi-state serial killer about to take his next victim-their own daughter. What happened next was a thrilling true-crime story of a fight...
The Hour of Peril
The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." **—**Harlan Coben
Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham...
The Wrong Man
The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This Edgar Award finalist—one of Ann Rule’s top five true-crime picks—is a “gripping” definitive account of the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case (The New York Times Book Review).
“My God . . . I think they’ve killed Marilyn!”
At 5:40 a.m. on July 4, 1954, the mayor of Bay...
American Mafia: Chicago
True Stories of Families Who Made Windy City History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the past—telling the stories of the men, women, and families...
Early Organized Crime in Detroit
Vice, Corruption and the Rise of the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Though detectives denied it, the Italian mafia was operating in Detroit as early as 1900, and the city was forever changed. Bootleggers controlled the Detroit River and created a national distribution network for illegal booze during Prohibition. Gangsters, cops and even celebrities fell victim to...
Historic Columbus Crimes
Mama's in the Furnace, the Thing & More
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
A collection of true crime stories from the Ohio city, with photos included.
In Historic Columbus Crimes, a father-daughter research team looks back at sixteen tales of murder, mystery, and mayhem culled from city history, both the distant and the more recent past.
There’s the rock star slain...
Generation Oxy
From High School Wrestlers to Pain Pill Kingpins
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Generation Oxy is the story of a group of friends—clean cut, all-American high school kids—who stumbled into the Sunshine State’s murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors. This teenage criminal enterprise ultimately shipped hundreds of thousands of OxyContins and other prescription...
Gotti's Rules
The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster—“one of the most respected crime reporters in the country” (60 Minutes)—comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the unique viewpoint of notorious mob hit-man...
The Last Godfather
The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
As head of the Bonanno clan, Joey Massino was the last don, and ran his world with an iron hand--until he got hit with a murder rap, and turned on his own people. Here, for the first time, is his shocking true story--a glimpse inside the world of organized crime that we may never see again.