True crime Books

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

To escape a life of poverty, and to avoid getting trapped in a seasonal agricultural lifestyle where just gettin’ by was all you could ask for, I chose the only way out available to me: enlisting in the United States Air Force. That was the start...

A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot behind a suburban strip mall. But the investigation that led law enforcement to their suspect, William Devin...

When Sly Harrell sets out to find a cabin cruiser to entertain his new girlfriend, he finds them expensive and buying one full of possible regrets. The boat broker suggests renting or borrowing a vessel for a trial trip so Sly can be sure of what he...

A cross between "Medium" and "Unsolved Mysteries," this award-winning book is now available in paperback for the first time... In WITNESSES TO THE UNSOLVED, author Edward Olshaker turns to some of the world's most accomplished psychic detectives and...

The advancement of information and communication technology has led to a multi-dimensional impact in the areas of law, regulation, and governance. Many countries have declared data protection a fundamental right and established reforms of data protection...

During the last few decades, corrupt financial practices were increasingly being monitored in many countries around the globe. The past few decades have been eventful for these issues. Today, tackling money laundering and terrorism financing are...

America's first African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, has a chance encounter with a mysterious Irishman, named Altamont, when they meet at the boxer's restaurant, Café de Champion, in August 1912. Johnson's new relationship with the...

What happens when you put a normal person into an abnormal situation? Do they break, or do they harden up? This memoir exposes the underbelly of a part of the hospitality industry in Australia, covering the five years the author spent as the unpaid night...

The Fierce Country holds no malice, but neither pity. It just sits, and bakes, and waits. We do the rest. We provoke it when we mine above its aquifers. Weaken it, and ourselves, when we leave mountains of asbestos to blow away in the wind...

Michael Chapel is the tragic, infuriating, and explosive true story of a decorated veteran and former Gwinnett County (Georgia) police officer, with over thirty (30) letters of commendation from his police department, for meritorious service. In 1995...

Description: <p>Drifter Henry Lee Lucas broke into the national headlines in the summer of 1983 when he claimed to have murdered more than 100 women across the country.</p><p>Languishing in a Texas county jail, he continued confessing...

The Forgotten Soldier is a true life story of a young male adolescent who struggles through life and overcomes many challenges and difficulties to become a successful military officer. The story is an epic adventure of a Black male who grew up in the...

Grasp This Salt is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore what it means to be a mother and the complexities of trying to understand our own mother’s experience of mothering us, while following the life and trial of Susan Smith, convicted in...

Some of these tales are about genuine heroes. Some are about dastardly villains. Others you’ll have to decide for yourself: hero or villain? You’ll recognize these people, even if you don’t remember their names. They are Spanish...

Eadweard Muybridge pioneered the field of the movie picture--it's because of him that we have movies today. He also got away with murder ‒ literally. In 1874, he shot and killed his wife's lover and got away with it for essentially saying the guy...

During the depths of the Great Depression in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a seven-year-old boy is found frozen to death under the Frog Island footbridge in Depot Town after being reported missing the night before by his parents. Upon examination, the Washtenaw...

From Farming to Federal Prison is the personal memoir of author L V Eduardo and her husband. Though they were both drug users before they met, together they descended into heavy addiction, using marijuana, cocaine, and opioids. Their addiction grew...

A true-crime masterpiece which crosses James Ellroy with The Wire

New York Times Bestseller: The “astonishing” true story of the notorious “black widow” who preyed on her husband and daughter and faked her own death (The Washington Post Book World).Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie...

True stories - real life drama! - of Foxtrot, the San Antonio, Texas, Police Department aviation unit formed in the 1970s, today called Blue Eagle... Between 1975 and 1981, the author, a police officer and commercial pilot, helped pioneer the use of...

This book delves into four interconnected murders, each of them unsolved, in which the common denominator is the underground world of sex trafficking. Using police and FBI records never before made public, underworld links are made between numerous...