True crime Books

This is the true story of two young men of the Georgia frontier who met by chance for the first time on the night of April 26th, 1909. One was black, one was white. Fate brought their paths together at a railroad depot in the new town of Lenox, Georgia...

The notorious Judge Joseph Slagle was feared, reclusive, and wealthy. And he was implicated in the first recorded murder in Livingston County, Missouri-his own brother-in-law. Slagle was also known for creating a private burying ground, surrounded by a...

SINCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, EVEN AS EARLY AS MY YOUNGER GRAMMAR SCHOOL YEARS, I ALWAYS HAD THIS FEELING SOMETHING WAS GOING ON. THIS SOMETHING WAS CLEAR TO ME. BUT I JUST COULDN'T QUITE PUT MY FINGER ON IT. LIKE A STRICT HUNCH. NOW I HAVE GOTTEN IT ALL...

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For decades, Trooper Steve Raabe patrolled some of the most desolate and dangerous highways in America. Alone in the remote Nevada desert, miles from any backup, Raabe was forced to contend with murderers, thieves, perverts, dope peddlers, and the...

On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Doree station in the Paris Metro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left...

On April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. He was bound, gagged, blindfolded, stabbed more than fifty times, and robbed of over $5,000. Ten months later, after one of the most extensive...

In this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George C. Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their "place" after...

Catherine is a dream come true for her parents. Their first born child is their most precious gift. The love and joy they feel for her is obvious to everyone who knows them. When tragedy unexpectedly hits, Catherine's world is turned upside down and...

La Vie De Monsieur De Paris, Diacre (1721) de Pierre Boyer est un livre qui raconte l'histoire de la vie de Monsieur de Paris, un diacre c�����l�����bre du XVIIe si�����cle. Le livre commence par une introduction sur la vie de Monsieur de Paris avant de...

In Hood Legends, Michael Jourdain recounts how two men's ideology changed the world, and greatly influenced his life. He would come to know Stanley "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips, through his friendship with his sister, Francine, while he was a...

A gripping account of the brutal impact of spiritual and violent extremism.Carli McConkey was 21 years old when she happened upon New Age guru, Natasha Lakaev, and her personal development company, Life Integration Programmes, at the Mind Body Spirit...

Detective Jerome Caminada was a Victorian super-sleuth and a real-life Sherlock Holmes. A master of disguise and an expert in deduction, he pursued ruthless criminals through the dangerous streets of nineteenth century Manchester’s underworld...

At dawn on the outskirts of Paris in 1869, Hortense Kinck lies buried alive and surrounded by five of her children. Violently attacked, tormented and trapped, she sifts through the truths and deceits of her marriage to self-made industrialist, Jean Kinck...

Lyndon Smith shares his story of survival to deliver a heartfelt memoir of his life in the fast lane. In Dead Man Tell No Lies, Smith chronicles his experience in the mean streets of LA, to his love affair with VH1 reality star Karen King, to his days as...

Martha returned home from taking her fourteen-year-old son, Luke, to evening Bible study at church. She stopped by the store and picked up a few groceries and needed to get the perishables into the refrigerator. Martha entered her home and put the...

Written in the vein of 'Gone Girl' and 'Girl on a Train', this contemporary, psychological thriller, is sadly, an engrossing TRUE story. Stranger than fiction, therefore all the more fascinating and cruel. It immediately immerses you in...

Ramon Sosa’s memoir I Walked on My Own Grave recounts in vivid detail the unbelievable events that led to his wife plotting to have him killed. The boxer turned businessman and motivational speaker faked his own death (complete with pictures from...

In September 1997, a visually impaired woman named Patty was raped by an intruder in her home in Madison, Wisconsin. The rookie detective assigned to her case came to doubt Patty's account and focused the investigation on her. Using pressure and lies, he...

The Terrible Truth About the Truth is an all-in-one dramatic, romantic, horrific true story, not without some humour. As a Tutsi who experienced a number of close calls during the Tutsi genocide conducted by extremists Hutus, Emma identifies herself as a...

The Trial and Acquittal of Ezra Haskell for the Charge of Forgery is a book written by Thomas Towndrow and published in 1833. The book provides a detailed account of the trial of Ezra Haskell, who was accused of forgery, and the subsequent acquittal. The...

The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury, written by Richard Savage and first published in 1724, is a play that tells the story of the downfall of Sir Thomas Overbury, a courtier who was imprisoned and eventually died in the Tower of London. The play is set in...

The Great Forgeries of William Roupell is a book that provides a detailed account of the trial at Guildford in the case of Roupell vs. Waite, which took place in 1862. The book is written by G. Blagrave Snell, who was an official reporter of the trial...

In the summer of 1976, former minor-league baseball player Jimmy Bailey leaves prison after serving four years for a crime he didn't commit. He's expecting to start his life over and possibly even get back to playing baseball again. His sister, Debbie,...

With an extensive increase in the rate of crime all over the world and especially in America, the need to address the underlying causes responsible for this alarming rise has never been more urgent. Since murder stands at the apex of the crime hierarchy,...

"Dark Whisper" is a story for adults that long to be taken on a mental ride of murder and mystery. This book is a reminder that not everyone, nor everything, is as it seems. "Dark Whisper" takes you inside the mind of someone you will never see...

Kerri shares an inspirational journey from a lonely child, to an abandoned teenager, abused wife, to an independent woman. She was belittled and victimized by people whom she loved and a man who used her in his own vindictive games and rise to power.By...

Understand History's Most Enigmatic Serial KillerIn December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not satisfied with the simple act of murder, he taunted law enforcement and the public by...

An unbelievable true-life story about one man's rise from poverty to extreme wealth. How much money do you want to make a year? Whatever your answer is, it's not enough. Lorenzo "Larry" Formato began this wild ride in the early 70's and stayed on top for...

Where is the missing fortune that James Dingle and his convict crew stole in a huge bank heist in 1828 that equates to about 20 million dollars by today's standards? How did a small group of convicts manage to steal a leaky ship and sail halfway...

"Catherine was destined to become several important things to me. But most prominently, she would become my problem-solver. Before I met her, I had a bunch of problems. Then, all of sudden, with her in my life I had only one."Written as a true crime...

You never think it will happen to you, that it will land on your doorstep- until it does. Now you can't believe it.Columnist, Dorothy Legler, has drawn the eyes of a deadly kidnapper. A terrifying world unfolds as people she know turn out missing and...

Benedict Giamo has published widely on the condition of historical and contemporary homelessness in America. In Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and Murder in Topeka, Kansas, Giamo offers a deeply sympathetic yet critical look at the life...

Demetrios (Jim) Angelis does not make for a typical criminal: a religious Greek Orthodox Christian born in Montreal, a law-abiding man, a doting father of two with two master's degrees in administration, who speaks four languages, and who lived in New...

The various books and articles on 9/11 issues that I researched were mainly repeats of a variety of theories. It is an indication of a lack of understanding of a plain basic technical logical analysis of the observed facts. There was mainly an out...

See No Evil. Hear No Evil. Speak No Evil. delves into the dark recesses of a truth far more dangerous and self-empowering than the elite wish to reveal.Shana Watson's life seems perfect. Surrounded by a caring best friend, a protective father, and a...

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity... but they've always worked for me. Living on the Edge. The thrill of speed overcomes fear of death, Leaning hard into aggressive -wind,  Screaming engine pulsates; throbbing below...

A New Yorker writer investigates the life and career of his hit-man great-uncle and the impact on his family.Growing up in a household as generic as Midwestern Jews get, author Eric Konigsberg always wished there was something different about his family,...

The Chronicles of Bow Street Police Office is a historical book written by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald and published in 1888. The book provides a detailed account of the Bow Street Police Office, which was the first professional police force in London,...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...