True Crime category: 7770 books
City of Evil
The shocking real story of Adelaide's strange and violent underbelly - As seen on TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES
They call Adelaide the city of churches. What they forget is that every church has a graveyard - and every graveyard is full of skeletons.
Adelaide, an elegantly designed, civilised city, where the inhabitants are known for their love of the arts, good food...
The Night Stalker
The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
*“I couldn’t put the book down…very scary indeed.” —Los Angeles Times
* The Classic Account Of One Of The World’s Most Feared Serial Killers
Decades after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead and paralyzed the city of Los Angeles, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture, and sadistic...
by Gregg Olsen, Kevin M. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and true crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan travel down a bizarre trail of murder into notorious Pennsylvania. A seemingly normal husband father of two decides to kill young girls after storming an Amish schoolhouse, and sex many have been the prime...
The Untold Story of Frankie Silver
Was She Unjustly Hanged?
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Three days before Christmas in 1831, Frankie Silver killed her husband, Charles Silver, with an axe and burned his body in the fireplace. Author Perry Deane Young, whose ancestors were involved in the case, began collecting material about it as a teenager. As a college student, he was astounded to...
Prisoners at the Bar: An Account of the Trials of the William Haywood Case,
the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, the Loeb-Leopold Case, the Bruno Hauptmann Case
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Originally published in 1952, here a distinguished trial lawyer makes you a participant in the high drama of four notable twentieth-century American criminal cases.
You are on the scenes of the crimes; you accompany the detectives investigating them, and in your most important role you sit...
Captured by Pirates
22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder and Mayhem on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their victims tend to be forgotten. These are the innocent and not-so-innocent voyagers who find themselves suddenly snatched up, brutalized, and franticly...
Twisted
The Secret Desires and Bizarre Double Life of Dr. Richard Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2003
He Had A Successful Career, A Selfless Wife, And Three Loving Children.
When high school sweethearts Karen and Richard Sharpe married, they shared an interest in medicine, a desire for family, and a dream for the future. For Karen, that dream became a nightmare. After years of abuse at the...
The Doctor's Wife
A True Story of Marriage, Deception and Two Gruesome Murders
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
For months, the young son of Bart and Jennifer Corbin had told people that he was afraid of violence in their posh, suburban Georgia home. Then, on the morning of December 4, 2004, neighbors found seven-year-old Dalton Corbin at their front door sobbing. Until then no one could have seen what was...
by Don Lasseter, Ronald E. Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
MURDER IN THE FAST LANEDavid Mahler, a 43-year-old east coast lawyer, came to Hollywood for the celebrity lifestyle, the movie industry, and the women. At his seven-level home in the Hollywood Hills, Mahler rubbed elbows with the seedy elements of the entertainment world: wannabe rock stars, drug...
Pure Evil
Inside the Minds and Crimes of Britain’s Worst Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
As featured in Geoffrey Wansell's UPCOMING TRUE CRIME TV series, Murder By The Sea on CBS Reality . . .
A fascinating exposé of the country's most violent murderers and their horrifying crimes, based on years of original research and intimate interviews.
Pure Evil takes a close look...
by Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The book that inspired Channel Nine's Underbelly: Chopper
From streetfighter to standover man, gunman to underworld executioner, Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read was earmarked for death a dozen times but somehow lived to tell the tale. This is it. Chopper: From The Inside became a best-seller on...
by Robert K. Tanenbaum, Philip Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A blood-chilling true-crime account from former district attorney and New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum
BADGE OF THE ASSASSIN
They were just doing their jobs -- serving and protecting -- when the unimaginable happened: Officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini...
Death at Every Stop
The True Story of Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan - The Man Who Murdered Designed Gianni Versace
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
THE SPREE KILLINGS THAT TERRORIZED THE NATION
**April 29, 1997--**The body of 28-year-old Jeffrey Trail found wrapped in a rug in a Minneapolis apartment. **May 3--**Fishermen find the body of 33-year-old architect David Madson in Minnesota's East Rush lake. **May 4--**The tortured body of...
From Midnight to Guntown
True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic. In addition to bank...