True Crime

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Brain Games - Criminal Mind Puzzles - Spiral

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by Publications International Ltd (Author), Brain Games (Author)Think like a detective to solve more than 120 challenging crime-themed puzzles! Test your memory against quizzes about true crime accounts. Decipher messages hidden in codes and unscramble anagrams to crack passwords. Brain teasers ask you to use logic to track down criminals, find witnesses, and test alibis. Test your verbal skills with crime-themed crosswords, true-crime cryptograms, and word ladders. Examine fingerpr...

Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing's Golden Age - Paperback

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by Fred M. Kray (Author)One fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. An investigation ensued, but the real story has never been told...until now. It was a cool, quiet evening at Calumet Farm, where the most valuable racehorses-including the prolific stallion Alydar-had settled into their stalls for the evening. Alton Stone, filling in for the regular night watchman, completed his rounds at the barn. Although nothing seemed out of the ordina...

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by Alexia Jones Helsley (Author)Beaufort's long history of wickedness stretches back to 1562, when Captain Jean Ribaut built the ill-fated French outpost Charlesfort on Parris Island, eventually destroyed by mutiny and starvation. Colonial Beaufortonians were no strangers to thwarting the law, from the murder of Charles Purry to the priestly misbehavior of Reverend William Peaseley. The Revolutionary War brought civil strife to the area in the form of bands of outlaws, and the early Federal y...

The Richard Streicher Jr. Murder: Ypsilanti's Depot Town Mystery - Paperback

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by Gregory Fournier (Author)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 County coroner discovers the child is the victim of foul play.After three years of investigation, the Ypsilanti and Michigan state police are no closer to making an arrest than they were when Richard Streicher Jr.'s ...

Shergar: A True Crime Story of Kidnapping, Racehorse and Politics - Paperback

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by Conrad Bauer (Author)A true crime story set in Ireland and involving kidnapping, the IRA and a phenomenal racehorse named Shergar. Who Kidnap Shergar? A mystery that has baffled authorities for years...Ask anyone in Great Britain or Ireland about famous racehorses and they'll likely have only one name to tell you. Shergar. At his peak, Shergar was one of the most elegant, powerful, and successful racehorses in the history of the sport. By the time he retired, his reputation alone was enoug...

Serial Killers: An Adult Coloring Book Full of Famous Serial Killers For True Crime Fans - Paperback

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by Fred E. Vorhees (Author)Serial Killers: An Adult Coloring Book Full of Famous Serial Killers For True Crime FansTrue crime fans, serial killer enthusiasts, and eccentrics alike discover a creative and healthy way to express yourself, relieve stress, and explore those repressed and darker human aspects of your psyche.This book contains over 30 of the most infamous and notorious serial killers (Including the likes of Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader, and Ed Gein). Experience their stories in a novel ...

Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases - Hardcover

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by Simon Read (Author)A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases. The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its establishment in 1829 through the eve of World War II, Scotland Yard--the world's first modern, professional, and centrally organized police force--set new standards for policing and inve...

Inside the Brotherhood: Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons - Paperback

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by Martin Short (Author)Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons When the House of Commons Affairs Committee recently recommended that police officers, magistrates, judges and crown officers should publicly register their masonic membership, it was vary largely thanks to the ammunition provided by Martin Short's investigative tour de force. His inside the Brotherhood carried on the pioneering work begun by Stephen Knight's explosive of the Brotherhood. Number of Pages: 720 Dimensions: 1.78 x 8 x 5...

Sisters in Death: The Black Dahlia, the Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter

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Report copyright infringementby Eli Frankel (Author)Who killed the Black Dahlia? In this eye-opening shocker, an award-winning producer, true-crime researcher, and Hollywood insider finally solves the greatest - and most gruesome - murder mystery of the twentieth century just before its 80th anniversary. In January 1947, the bisected body of Elizabeth Short, completely drained of blood, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publici...

A Fever in the Heart: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume III - Paperback

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by Ann Rule (Author)From #1 New York Times bestselling author and "undisputed master crime writer" (John Saul, New York Times bestselling author), a chilling tale of obsession, manipulation, and murder in small-town Washington. In A Fever in the Heart, lives are ended and families torn apart due to one man's burning desire to get the woman of his dreams back. Based on twenty years of in-depth research, this is a powerful true crime story that delves into a twisted and deadly love triangle tha...

Naples 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia - Hardcover

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by Amedeo Feniello (Author), Antony Shugaar (Translator)A fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the previously unknown extent of these families' power in the 14th century. 1343: there is famine in Naples. After nightfall, a Genoese ship loaded with wheat is attacked by members of two local clans who brutally kill several sailors and their captain. The attackers returned to the city, greeted by the cheers of their coun...

Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes

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Report copyright infringementby Philip E. Orbanes (Author)An amazing true story of World War II that reveals how British and American military intelligence successfully smuggled escape aids into German P.O.W. camps hidden inside Monopoly game boards, and also the game's surprising role in espionage.Monopoly X is the fascinating true story of what is arguably the most unusual and best-kept secret operation of World War II. The masterminds at England's top-secret MI-9, and later America's MIS-X...

American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives

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Report copyright infringementby Robert W. Fieseler (Author)A vital exposé for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the Florida government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century. In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of his college accounting class by three police officers. In a motel room, blinds drawn, he sat in front of a state senator and the legal counsel for the Florida Legislative Investigation ...

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Fraser (Author)"In Murderland, Fraser returns to her own native landscape, the Pacific Northwest, to explore why the region has produced such a large number of serial killers. In this brooding and often brave book, the author finds evil afoot, but the worst monsters aren't who you'd guess." -Boston Globe Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by LitHub From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of seria...

The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild

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Report copyright infringementby Bryan Burrough (Author)"One hell of a good read." --The New York Times "One of the most important books written on the American West in many years." --True West Magazine From the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Rich and Forget the Alamo comes an epic reconsideration of the time and place that spawned America's most legendary gunfighters, from Jesse James and Billy the Kid to Butch and Sundance The "Wild West" gunfighter is such a stock figure in ou...

Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story

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Report copyright infringementby Rich Cohen (Author)A nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Jennifer Dulos and the aftershocks that rattled a wealthy suburb. Rich Cohen's Murder in the Dollhouse is the chilling, unputdownable story of Jennifer Dulos, a beautiful, rich suburban mother who dropped her kids off at the New Canaan Country School one morning and vanished. Her body has never been found. Dulos was in the midst of an ugly divorce--one of the ...

50 States of Murder: An Atlas of American Crime

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Schechter (Author)From the true crime author of Murderabilia, a geographic telling of some of the most notorious but lesser-known murders for each US State. Filled with hundreds of entries organized by location, 50 States of Murder is a lively and chilling work of storytelling and an authoritative survey of the homicidal history of the United States--perfect for any true-crime obsessive. Certain crimes are impossible to imagine happening anywhere but w...

Shadow of the Bridge: The Delphi Murders and the Dark Side of the American Heartland

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Report copyright infringementby Áine Cain (Author), Kevin Greenlee (Author)The haunting account of the Delphi Murders, a double-murder case that has held an unrelenting grip on the American heartland for over six years. On February 13, 2017, two teenage friends went for a walk in the woods just outside the small city of Delphi, Indiana. They should have been safe -- but Liberty German and Abigail Williams never made it home. The next day, searchers found their bodies in a clearing. The two g...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel McCarthy James (Author)A brilliant and bloody examination of the axe's foundational role in human history, from prehistoric violence, to war and executions, to newspaper headlines and popular culture. For as long as the axe has been in our hands, we have used it to kill. Much like the wheel, the boat, and the telephone, the axe is a transformative piece of technology--one that has been with us since prehistory. And just as early humans used the axe to ch...

Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home

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Report copyright infringementby Gregg Olsen (Author)From a girl's abduction by a serial killer to the harrowing aftermath--a gripping and heart-wrenching true-crime story by Gregg Olsen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell.In May 2005, authorities discovered the Groene family murdered in their Idaho home. The family's youngest members--eight-year-old Shasta and her brother, nine-year-old Dylan--were nowhere to be found.As a community prayed for their return, Shasta and Dyl...

Blood in the Water: The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy

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Report copyright infringementby Casey Sherman (Author)"Blood in the Water is a twisty true crime narrative of greed, suspicion, and revenge, taking us from the high seas to the mansion of an enormously wealthy family. Compelling and cinematic, it keeps you guessing about the complicated family at the heart of this saga until the very last page." --Shawn Cohen, New York Times bestselling author of College Girl, MissingTroubled waters hide deadly secrets...When Nathan Carman, a young man with a...

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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal - Paperback

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by Ben MacIntyre (Author)"Ben Macintyre's rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus-spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh."--William Grimes, The New York Times (Editors' Choice) "Wildly improbable but entirely true . . . [a] compellingly cinematic spy thriller with verve."--Entertainment Weekly ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Entertainment WeeklyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Eddie...

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal - Paperback

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by Ben MacIntyre (Author), John Le Carré (Afterword by)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War's most infamous spy, from the "master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin "[A Spy Among Friends] reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John le Carré, leavened with a dollop of P. G. Wodehouse."--Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book...

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Report copyright infringementby James Patterson (Author), Vicky Ward (Author)"The clearest profile yet of the twisted quadruple killer and his motives" (New York Post). The whole story, the true story, behind the senseless murders--and the accused who's pleaded guilty on all counts. The murders of four innocent college students attending the University of Idaho left us all with so many questions. Now, after more than 300 interviews, James Patterson and prize-winning journalist Vicky Ward f...

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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

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Report copyright infringementby John Grisham (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly) to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. "Each of these stories is told with astonishing power."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon "Gripping . . . compelling . . . What makes [Framed] important reading isn't the shock value advertised in the title. I...

The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Sharpe (Author)In 1985, a white man walked into a South Georgia church and brutally murdered Harold and Thelma Swain, two pillars of the area's Black community. The killer vanished into the night. For fifteen years, the case remained unsolved. Then authorities zeroed in on Dennis Perry, a carpenter who grew up nearby. Convicted with devastatingly flawed evidence, Perry received a double life sentence.When award-winning journalist and South Georgia native...

Murder Ballads: Illustrated Lyrics & Lore

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Report copyright infringementby Katy Horan (Author)In this unique, illustrated collection, Literary Witches co-creator Katy Horan unearths the true and fictional stories behind twenty traditional murder ballads, exploring the beauty and horror of the art form through stories, lyrics, and original illustrations. Murder Ballads is a guide to the origins and cultural impact of murder ballads as a music genre, covering its roots in patriarchal violence and white supremacy, as well as its contempo...

Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves

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Report copyright infringementby Johnathan Walton (Author)These are the 14 red flags to identify the scammer in your life before they con you--from a victim-turned-vigilante and host of the hit podcast Queen of the Con. "Johnathan Walton has written a master class on how to spot scammers, con artists, grifters, and thieves. And his storytelling reads like a crime novel. . . . A must-read."--Joe Navarro, FBI special agent (ret.) and author of the international bestseller Dangerous Personalities...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph P. Laycock (Editor)A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to the Peoples Temple and Heaven's Gate A Penguin Classic The word "cult" conjures images of people in thrall to a charismatic leader who extracts obedience through lies and threats, and of apocalyptic prophecies, ritual sacrifices, sexual p...

Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

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Report copyright infringementby Leah Sottile (Author)An investigation of the New Age movement in America that aims to understand its appeal to women and the self-proclaimed prophetesses, like Love Has Won's Amy Carlson, who've created kingdoms for themselves within it. Known for deep dives into true crime, extremist ideologies and fringe subcultures, journalist Leah Sottile turns her investigative eye toward American New Age culture. Today, tarot cards, astrology and crystals are everywhere...