True crime Books

A memoir that reads like a novel, this is a story of E. D. Paull’s mind-blowing life journey, and it’s nothing short of amazing.Paull lived as a federal fugitive for thirty-eight years, “beating the system” for half his life. He...

Warden Force Season 2Warden Force is a collection of award-winning short stories currently spanning seven volumes. Each story reveals the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories...

Jack the Ripper Suspect Dr. Francis Tumblety highlights the most recent groundbreaking discoveries concerning one of Scotland Yard's top Jack the Ripper suspects in the 1888 Whitechapel Murders Investigation, Dr. Francis Tumblety. Among the...

My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall. All manner of crimes against property. Arrests, trials, acquittals, convictions, escapes. Penitentiaries! I see in the background four of them. County jails,...

The history books say that Napoleon died of natural causes. Napoleon himself, expiring at 51 after a lifetime of robust health, suspected otherwise and ordered a thorough autopsy. His suspicions were well-founded. So clever was the crime, however, that...

"The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck" is a 1909 work by Thomas Longueville. Within it, Longueville examines a famous legal scandal from the sixteenth century involving one Lady Purbeck. Dealing in detail with a fascinating and mysterious case, this volume...

The Book of Were-Wolves By Sabine Baring-Gould was originally published in 1865 and remains the most important and most often cited book on Lycanthropy. It is as compelling today as it was more than one hundred years ago when it was first published.

The story that follows this introduction is literally true. There died lately, in a Western State prison, a man of the class known as habitual criminals. He was, at the time of his death, serving out a sentence for burglary. For thirty years he had been...

The Oxford Murder that gripped the country in 1931 would grace any episode of Inspector Morse. Yet it was horrifically real. Annie Kempson was a defenceless widow bludgeoned and stabbed to death in her own home for the sake of a few pounds-a despicable...

The “fascinating” true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They...

A Michigan couple’s affair leads to two grisly murders by heroin injection in this true crime account from the acclaimed author of Lobster Boy.When Carol Giles’s friend Nancy Billiter was found dead—she had been bound, sexually...

The author of the true crime “masterpiece” Lobster Boy traces a brutal killer’s history across two decades of slipping past the legal system (The Guardian).When police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Larry Singleton in 1997 for brutally...

The acclaimed true crime author of Lobster Boy chronicles the brutal acts and eventual capture of two cannibalistic killers on Florida’s Gulf Coast.Jeremiah Rodgers and Jonathan Lawrence met in a Florida hospital for the criminally insane, where...

The shocking true story of Mary Thompson, a Eugene, Oregon, anti-gang activist who secretly ran her own murderous mob of teenagers—including her own son.Aaron Iturra was just eighteen years old when he was found dead in the bedroom of the Eugene,...

Baptist deacon, family man, pillar of his Florida community . . . and serial killer of prostitutes: chilling true crime from the author of Lobster Boy.   By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptist church in Plant City, Florida, a...

The inside story of an upstate New York serial killer who abducted, raped, and murdered women and hid their bodies in his home. In the late 1990s in Poughkeepsie, New York, prostitutes began to go missing off the streets of the old Hudson River town. Due...

Two brothers turn from Jehovah’s Witnesses in Allentown, PA, to neo-Nazi murderers in this true crime investigation from the author of Lobster Boy.Raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses and frustrated with their parents’ repressive rules, Bryan...

The shocking exposé of a carny’s murder arranged by his wife—and the daughter who threatened the author to keep the truth from getting out.In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grady Stiles Jr., also known as the...

This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals,...

Violet Hinton started out as a factory worker and put herself through college and law school with the help and support of her husband and four children. She has been an attorney for 23 years and has primarily practiced in the areas of family and criminal...

This volume is a collection of true stories of the missing persons bureau of the New York Police Department. The stories have been dramatized, but it remains a fascinating look into a little-known area of police operations.

It was the '50s and life was simple, until September 25, 1954. That was the night that would be etched in the memory of the citizens of Stanfield, Massachusetts. The Chief of Police described the brutal savagery of the double homicide as "the most...

Whitemare is the compelling story of the international FBI investigation that resulted in what was the largest seizure of heroin in U.S. history. It takes the reader behind the scenes in the making of this unparalleled spellbinding case and exposes for...

The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great...

This popular biography of the notorious French bandit Ludovicus Dominicus Cartouche is a thrilling account of crime and punishment in 18th-century Paris. From his humble origins as a printer's apprentice, Cartouche rises to become a legendary figure,...

This harrowing account of a murder in 18th-century Sweden by Queen Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta is a fascinating look at crime and punishment in a bygone era. With vivid descriptions of the investigation and trial, this book is sure to captivate readers...

Este libro presenta una colección de los crímenes más infames en la historia de España. Al leer este libro, los lectores experimentarán una montaña rusa emocional conforme se sumergen en casos notorios y aprenden sobre la investigación criminal.This work...

Delve into one of the darkest moments in American history with this shocking and revealing account of the assassination of President James A. Garfield. Written by a contemporary journalist and published shortly after the killing, this book offers a...

Gustave Macé relate des histoires de femmes criminelles célèbres, dont l'auteur a généralement recueilli les témoignages contemporains des événements. Ce livre est un compte-rendu concret d'affaires judiciaires françaises, et fournit un aperçu des...