True stories Books

In 1980, between Vietnam and Desert Storm, America was experiencing a seventeen-year period of relative peace. One of the few places a young army officer could find adventure was on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Korea, Freedom's Frontier. Day two...

In the nineteenth century, Brunswick was a satellite suburb of Melbourne, a place of ‘bricks and pottery, mud and poverty’ with the unruliness of a frontier town. This collection of contemporary newspaper stories includes the trial and...

Inspired by true events, this is a story about eighteen-year-old Bluey Guthrie who, in 1948 leaves his family to take the job of a lifetime on a remote island in the Central Pacific. Bill and Isobel, seasoned ex-pats help Bluey fit in to a privileged...

The Midnight Express Letters is a compelling collection of letters that Billy Hayes wrote to his family, girlfriend, and friends during his years in a Turkish prison. Here is the raw source material from which Midnight Express-the worldwide best-selling...

In Colonial Sydney 1895, forensic evidence clearly showed that twenty-one year old Mary Dean had suffered non-fatal arsenical poisoning. Husband George was arrested on the very day of their first wedding anniversary. Yet no one who knew ferry captain...

In this Marine combat memoir, Steve Johnson recounts his service in Vietnam from April 1967 to May 1968. Only 17 when he enlisted in 1964, Johnson deployed to Vietnam with the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, and his tour included...

Orchestrated to the sounds of getaway cars and machine guns, the abduction of Oklahoma City businessman Charles Urschel in 1933 was a highly publicized crime in an era when gangsters were folk heroes and kidnapping had become a scourge. The criminals'...

America’s most notorious Jewish hit man was Charlie “The Bug” Workman.  His media legacy was that he killed the infamous Jewish Mob Boss, Dutch Schultz in 1935.  However, his true legacy was much different than the...

Irreverent dramedy about a nuclear submarine on a 1980s Mediterranean Run. Follow the exploits of John and Garret and the rest of the crew as they endure the isolation, challenges, and lost loves navigating the USS Lapon deep beneath the ocean’s...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

In The Deflowered Garden, Natasha reflects back to the time when she was a child and experienced the pain of sexual abuse. Will her garden be restored? Or will she be lost in the wilderness forever?

As Kon Georgiou sits in his Supermax (HRMU) cell one night, he recalls the last two years prior to the shooting. He goes from a life of drugs, girls, partying, loyalty and brotherhood to a life behind bars in one of Australia's hardest prisons. This book...

"There was a time when I thought that if I let the world go by, it would have no call upon me, but now I realize differently. And the fact that I shall soon be a father makes me more conscious than ever of the future."   - Robert...

I invite you to spend one day with my father and I as we travel through the wilds of southern Pennsylvania and explore the countryside and ourselves. I ask you to consider a forty-seven-year old man as he struggles to correct, perhaps too late, the sins...

In "Unraveling Wrongful Conviction and Miscarriage of Justice," Matthew Harrison bares his soul in a riveting narrative that transcends the boundaries of a mere true story. This compelling journey unfolds with raw and heart-wrenching honesty as Matthew...

The book is about the choices that had to be made as a result of the Viet Name conflict. Some were drafted by the lottery into the regular Army, some went to Canada, the author joined the National Guard. The book is the story of the author's...

Holly Ann Grigsby will go down in the annals of history not just for her murderous crimes but for her radical beliefs that she claims are "misunderstood." Grigsby and her ex-boyfriend David "Joey" Pederson went on a ten-day killing spree that spanned...

When Girly Chew met Diazien Hossencofft while on vacation in the United States, she was instantly swept off her feet. It was the early 1990s, and the Malaysian-born Chew was exploring SeaWorld when she bumped into Hossencofft, a thoracic surgeon with...

David Carpenter, also known as the Trailside Killer, stalked, sexually assaulted, and murdered mostly women on hiking trails near San Francisco, California, with a few victims in Santa Cruz, California. Most of his victims were shot in the head,...

On January 23, 1990, a college student driving around in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, noticed a body lying in an embankment off the highway. The young woman was half-naked, and investigators discovered that she had been strangled, the rope still...

In the early 1990s, former Veterans Affairs (VA) nurse Kristen Gilbert was found guilty of murdering four of her patients - and convicted of attempting to murder two more. Gilbert is suspected to be responsible for the deaths of dozens more veterans who...

Accounts of an abusive Catholic priest, a nun questioning her vows, a missing girl reported to the Church rather than the police. A body chewed to nothing by wildlife. A second murder, with links to the first. Nearly forty years after her death, police...

Four of the most notorious female serial killers are profiled in these biographical essays. Christa Pike would be the youngest woman sentenced to the death penalty for a torture/murder she committed at the age of eighteen. Myra Hindley would be the right...

Of the many, many criminals who end up on death row, Michael Ross's situation is one of the most complex. Some reluctant guests of the row are vicious and wicked; men and women filled with pure evil. Others are innocent. These are victims of a system...

One of France's most bizarre tales of true crime...Police receive an ominous phone call stating that in only a few short hours, a woman will be kidnapped. The anonymous caller claims that the couple will be sitting at a café and that a young woman with...

They looked like the All-American couple. Michael Severance was a decorated Air Force officer while Wendi Mae Davidson was a veterinarian with a growing practice. All seemed well with the couple until Wendi reported her husband missing. She stated that...

A series of Military Hero stories...The United States Marine Corps was founded in 1775 and have a very long and turbulent history. They are in charge of special missions that require outstanding tactics and were a part of every major conflict which...

Dawn Magyar led a seemingly idyllic life with her high school sweetheart Don. The two married young, had a young son and seemed destined for a happy life....until one Saturday afternoon when Dawn went grocery shopping, never to be seen again. Her body...

On February 19, 2005, a 25-year-old woman left her home in Osaka, Japan, to meet up with a man she had been messaging online for the past few months on an online suicide club. Michiko Nagamoto had been suffering for depression for a while, and had...

AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE HEROICS OF SOLDIERS WHO SERVED DURING THE VIETNAM WAR The Medal of Honor is awarded to an individual serving or in the Armed Services of the United States who has shown valor in the face of danger against hostile forces. Only those...

The sad and troubling fact is that when a child does go missing for nefarious reasons, the person who takes them is most often somebody they know. Given all of the above, something that is a complete rarity occurs when a teenager does go missing, but...

Doug,"Limitations, there really are none. Only the ones we put on ourselves."Danny_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The headlines read, "The Last Good Deed Cost...

Thirty years after the initial discovery of Roscoe White's naval footlocker, Ricky White - with the help of J. Gary Shaw and Brian K. Edwards - has made documented connection between items in the footlocker and munitions cannister and the events and...

Denise Frei seemed to have a good life, on the surface at least. She ran the popular and successful Bailey's Lincoln Café in Belle Plaine, near her home in Marengo, Iowa. Her son worked in the family business, and she had a strong and loving...

 Teresa Lewis used a combination of sex and money to manipulate two men into killing both her husband and stepson in order to gain gain $250,000 in a life insurance scheme...After her husband and stepson were hit with multiple shotgun blasts in...

What are serial killers and how many of them are there? Why do serial killers seem to be into necrophilia? How many serial killers are cannibals? What are the most gruesome and strange signatures of serial killers? How do serial killers get rid of dead...

The unsolved body in the tree mystery from Worcestershire in 1943 - detailed research into all the people involved in the mystery or living in the vicinity at the time.

This is a true story from Major Harold Ferguson's personal diary and letters describing his experiences during World War I and his life as a citizen of Los Angeles during the formative years of the 1920s.Major Harold Ferguson was a Stanford graduate...

There is no more challenging a crime scene than that found in the custodial setting. Unlike on the streets where a first responder, or pair of responders, can take command of an incident quickly to preserve the integrity of the scene and the evidence it...

Humble Hero reveals my father’s unusual life of survival. The story of Charles R. (Dinky) Joyner reveals his time as an orphan, street ruffian, lover, and unlikely war survivor and hero. He was the youngest of five children born to Lemuel Joyner...

LARGE PRINT EDITION36 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and DeceptionThree Book Collection: Volumes 13, 14, and 15 of the True Crime Case Histories SeriesReaders Love This Series - Over 8,000 Five-Star ReviewsCertain infamous cases have become...

36 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and DeceptionThree Book Collection: Volumes 13, 14, and 15 of the True Crime Case Histories SeriesReaders Love This Series - Over 8,000 Five-Star ReviewsCertain infamous cases have become household names for...