True Crime category: 7770 books
Fortune's Spear
A Forgotten Story of Genius, Fraud, and Finance in the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Gerard Lee Bevan had it all—and lost it all: An epic true account of greed, deception, and one scoundrel’s rise and fall.
Gerard Lee Bevan was the epitome of an old-school, well-moneyed character of the 1920s—arrogant, smooth, and highly cultured. Using a seemingly bottomless well of personal...
by Susan Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
**An infamous murder spree. A monstrous hoax. “**This book is, quite simply, remarkable journalism, and remarkable writing” (Robert B. Parker).
“DeSalvo Is the Strangler!” declared the headlines after handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed to eleven brutal rape-murders that terrorized Boston...
The Big Bankroll
The Life And Times Of Arnold Rothstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928) was described in the newspapers of the 1920s as “a sportsman.” “a gambler.” “the man who fixed the 1919 World Series.” But he was much more than that. A bootlegger and labor racketeer, he corrupted politicians, promoted crooked stock sales, and imported narcotics....
The Curse of Brink's-Mat
Twenty-Five Years of Murder and Mayhem - The Inside Story of the 20th Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
'It wasn't only Britain's biggest heist, it became the bloodiest' Mail on Sunday
The inside story of the 20th century's most lucrative armed robbery.
On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with £28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink's-Mat warehouse at London's Heathrow...
Life Means Life
Jailed Forever: True Stories of Britain's Most Evil Killers
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
From sex-crazed fiends to cold-eyed professional assassins, only those convicted of the most terrible murders are told they will die behind bars.This book tells the stories of those most depraved killers whose crimes outraged society and demanded the harshest penalty available to a British court....
by Stephen Breen, Owen Conlon
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
'It's incisive, it's intriguing, it's fascinating' - Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ
'Fascinating!' Keith Ward, FM104
The definitive account of the rise of the Kinahan gang and the deadly feud that has shocked the nation.
He is one of Ireland's most successful CEOs, running a global multinational...
by Don Lasseter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
"You Get To A Point Where You Can Take Just So Much."
EDMOND, OK-Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill fatally shoots 14 co-workers before turning the gun on himself.
ESCONDIDO, CA-Postal employee John Merlin Taylor murders his wife in her sleep before executing 2 colleagues at work.
RIDGEWOOD,...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The Gambino family is one of five that control organized crime in New York City, Most people think of John Gotti when they think of the Gambinos. My book looks at an earlier era, beginning with the family's move to take over the garbage industry in Mount Vernon, New York. This began in 1964 when...
by James Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series.
Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys....
Mommy's Little Girl
Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
***Please note: This ebook does not contain the photos found in the print edition of this title.***
When news broke of three-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the nation. The search for Caylee made front-page...
Don't Look Behind You
Ann Rule's Crime Files #15
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
I’LL BE WATCHING YOU
Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent—a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don’t look...
by Linda Rosencrance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Killer Debutante
Kelley Cannon was living the American Dream. The former prom queen had three beautiful children with her successful, handsome husband, Jim, and an elegant home in well-to-do Nashville. But when their housekeeper found Jim murdered, strangled to death as their children slept,...
Somebody's Daughter
Inside an International Prostitution Ring
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A stunning exposé of prostitution in Canada, where a criminal syndicate traffics young women across the country, selling their bodies and murdering them at will.
Annie Mae Wilson was nineteen years old on the night she died. After five years working the streets of Nova Scotia, she had found...
Cold North Killers
Canadian Serial Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
There are more than 60 serial murderers in Canadian history. For too long awareness of serial murder in Canada has been confined toWest Coastbutcher Clifford Olson and the "Schoolgirl Murderers" Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, along with the horrific acts of pig farmer Robert Pickton. Unlike...