True Crime

6859 books

$70.20

by Boetie2 (Author)"Government" - The Biggest Scams in History... Exposed! - How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the "Government," Media, and Academia. This 5th edition includes a redesign, new "one-pagers" and updated content. Using historical photographs, visualizations, media ownership charts, infographics, and memes, the book is designed to accelerate and deepen the understanding of the 65% of the population that are "visual learners," including revealing historical patterns, orga...

Behind The Red Line: Horrors of an OR You'd Rather Never Know - Paperback

$22.66

by V. V. Liles (Author)In Behind the Red Line, VV Liles delivers a shocking fictionalized account of one woman's journey through the shadows of medical corruption at one of the most prestigious Heart Institutes in the nation. A thrilling tale that explores the operating room with themes of soul driven advocacy, integrity, perseverance, divine timing, and above all things - Final Justice. Victoria Villa is the Director of Operations for an impressive state-of-the-art Cardiology Institute. Her ...

The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP - Paperback

$18.99

by Alex Tresniowski (Author)From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a "compelling" (The Guardian) and "riveting" (The New York Times Book Review) true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection, and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young...

Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World - Paperback

$19.99

by Dan Davies (Author)An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written "with verve and wit" (The Sunday Times, London) by an industry insider who's an expert in the field.The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, when it all unwinds. Financial crime seems horribly complicated, but there a...

Incomplete Pass: The Murder of Steve McNair Revisited - Paperback

$13.50

by Vincent Hill Sr (Author)This highly anticipated follow up to Playbook to a Murder probes even deeper into the murders of Steve McNair and Sahel Kazemi on July 4th, 2009. If you ever questioned what truly took place inside that small condominium on 2nd Ave in Nashville, TN, then Incomplete Pass is a must read. Find out who knew who and who had the most to gain from the death of Steve McNair. Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.39 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: June 05, 2014

Strange Japan: Hauntings, cults, unsolved mysteries, UFOs, true crime and bizarre accounts of unexplained - Paperback

$26.98

by Ace Wall (Author)Hauntings, cults, unsolved mysteries, UFOs, true crime and bizarre accounts of unexplainedWarning This book will give you the creeps Welcome to the dark side of Japan. Real accounts of strange events, horrifying crimes, dangerous cults, disappearances and more After a strange phone call to her boyfriend and some strange unexplained behavior a schoolgirl goes missing on her way to her part-time job. A group kidnaps the president of a Candy corporation demanding millions o...

Bombshell in the Barrio: How educators exploded a

$17.53

by El Paso Parrhesia Press (Author)Telling the true story of five educators who found themselves wrongly accused by the FBI, the Texas Education Agency and local government, Bombshell in the Barrio shares their navigation through a world of plots, schemes, and lies, all concocted by those in power who are supposed to protect and represent the interests of the people. The educators, who all worked in low socioeconomic schools, found themselves boxed in by the media and the government, and thei...

The Defense Lawyer: The Barry Slotnick Story - Paperback

$32.00

by James Patterson (Author), Benjamin Wallace (Author)From a master of true crime comes the story of the criminal lawyer who represented everybody from Manuel Noriega to John Gotti to Bernie Goetz--and won every single case. Known for his sharp mind, sharp suits, and bold courtroom strategies, Bronx-native Barry Slotnick is known as the best criminal lawyer in the US. He calls himself "Liberty's Last Champion." Slotnick mediates Bette Midler's bathhouse contract and represents John Gotti, ...

Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant - Paperback

$31.61

by Lisa Peebles (Author), John O'Brien (Author)"Scrapped captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County, Kansas in In Cold Blood." -Tom Barbash, New York Times bestselling author of The Dakota WintersCriminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover-up. She recruited an investigative reporter to ...

$20.00

by Peter Vronsky (Author)Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000). With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories...

Chasing Evil: Pursuing Dangerous Criminals with the U.S. Marshals - Paperback

$32.11

by William J. Sorukas Jr. (Author)Chasing Evil tells the story of the evolution of modern fugitive investigations within the United States Marshals Service and the pursuit of notorious criminals Andrew Phillip Cunanan, Rafael Resendez-Ramirez (The Railway Killer), the Texas Seven, and John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, better known as the Beltway Snipers. It describes outstanding investigative effort, new technologies, camaraderie, partnerships, tragic and brutal murders, and the enthus...

Chasing Evil: Pursuing Dangerous Criminals with the U.S. Marshals - Hardcover

$53.53

Homicide Case Studies: Real World Assessment and Decision-making - Paperback

$85.84

by Kyle A. Burgason (Author), Mark Ruelas (Author), Thomas T. Zawisza (Author)Homicide Case Studies is a first-of-its-kind text, offering readers more than 30 case studies drawn from real-world homicide cases that include the often-overlooked context and complexities faced by victims, offenders, law enforcement, attorneys, jurors, and correctional personnel. From investigating different forms of homicides to deciding what charges should be filed, weighty decisions about homicide cases must b...

The Zodiac Revisited: The Facts of the Case - Hardcover

$42.66

by Michael Cole (Author)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 writing letters to local newspapers. Through often cryptic and bizarre content-including four ciphers, three (now two) of which have never been solved-the psychopath played a twisted game. Reporters dubbed the man the "Cipher...

Summary Judgment: A Lawyer's Memoir - Paperback

$16.15

by Donald Cameron Clark (Author)Everyone leaves death row. Few leave it alive. During the summer of 1984 twenty-year-old Tommy Hamilton, the product of a deprived childhood in rural Alabama, shoots and kills his boss. Convicted of murder, Tommy is sentenced to death. Before facing the electric chair, one final appeal offers the chance to save Tommy's life, if only his two Chicago-based lawyers and a nun from Alabama can prove he is not legally guilty...even if he is not truly innocent. Tomm...

In Disguise - History's Famous Female Spies - Paperback

$24.46

by Various (Author)When it comes to espionage and spying, what often springs to one's mind is a well-groomed English Oxford graduate with a penchant for overly-specific alcoholic beverages and womanising. However, what's most important in these matters is the unlikely, and this is perhaps one of the reasons why some of history's greatest and most successful spies have been women. This volume contains a collection of six biographical sketches of incredible female spies, each including descript...

Spies and Secret Service - The Story of Espionage, Its Main Systems and Chief Exponents - Paperback

$33.10

by Hamil Grant (Author)"Spies and Secret Service" is a 1915 work by Hamil Grant that explores the world of spying and espionage, examining its history and inner workings with a particular focus on nineteenth century Europe. Offering a fascinating insight into the secretive organisations of various countries, this volume is not to be missed by those with a keen interest in the exciting field of espionage and its most notable historical figures. Contents include: "The Ethos of the Spy", "The Sp...

The Fall River Tragedy - A History of the Borden Murders: With the Essay 'Spontaneous and Imitative Crime' by Euphemia Vale Blake - Paperback

$38.86

by Edwin H. Porter (Author), Euphemia Vale Blake (Contribution by)Originally published in 1893, "The Fall River Tragedy" is a detailed account of the case of Lizzie Andrew Borden (1860-1927), an American woman who was tried but found not guilty for the brutal murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. There were no other suspects in the case and after her acquittal no one was ever charged for the murders. She remained in Fall River until her death aged 66. The murders ...

$33.10

by Alexander Leighton (Author)"The Story of Burke and Hare" is an 1861 work by Alexander Leighton that examines the Burke and Hare case, a series of 16 brutal murders perpetrated by William Burke and William Hare in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1828. After the murders, the duo sold the cadavers to Robert Knox who then used them in his lectures for dissection. Leighton describes in detail the murders and evidence, as well as the trial and other elements of one of Scotland's most notorious crimes. Co...

UK SERIAL KILLERS 1930s - 2021 - Paperback

$14.96

by Barry Faulkner (Author)UK Serial Killers from 1930s to 2021, their lives, crimes, and punishments. Contents in chronological order;John Christie; John Bodkin Adams; John Straffen; Peter Manuel; Graham Young; Ian Brady; Fred & Rose West; Malcolm Green; Peter Dinsdale; Patrick Mackay; Robert Maudsley; John Childs; Trevor Hardy; Peter Sutcliffe; Harold Shipman; Donald Neilsen; Archibald Hall; Dennis Nilsen; Glyn Dix; Mark Robinson; Robert Black; Arthur Hutchinson; Jeremy Bamber; John Duff...

Behind the Blue Lamp: Scotland Yard's Police Stations 1829-2020 - Paperback

$35.00

by Alan Moss (Author), David Swinden (Author), Peter Kennison (Author)Ever since its inception in 1829 the Metropolitan Police Service has seen change on a daily basis, not least in recent years with budget cuts and the closure of police stations. Recording the stories of these buildings, BEHIND THE BLUE LAMP reveals the histories of more than 400 police stations operated by the Metropolitan Police over the course of its existence, from pre-Peel Parish watch houses to the New Scotland Yard he...

The Zodiac Revisited: Analysis and Fact-Based Speculation - Hardcover

$42.66

by Michael Cole (Author)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 writing letters to local newspapers. Through often cryptic and bizarre content-including four ciphers, three of which have never been solved-the psychopath played a twisted game. Reporters dubbed the man the "Cipher Killer," ...

Secret Origin of the Golden State Killer: Visalia Ransacker - Paperback

$22.93

by Keith Komos (Author), Kat Winters (Author)Before he was the Golden State Killer, he was the Visalia Ransacker: an unholy mix of man and child, a risk-averse tactician with an animalistic impulsiveness, and a violent, sexually motivated monster with an affinity for shiny objects and pocket change. Eventually responsible for over fifty rapes and at least thirteen murders, the Visalia Ransacker went on to become one of the most notorious serial killers in history.This book examines the fledgl...

$28.28

by Dean A. Haycock (Author)How many times have you seen a murder on the news or on a TV show like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and said to yourself, "How could someone do something like that?"Today, neuroscientists are imaging, mapping, testing and dissecting the source of the worst behavior imaginable in the brains of the people who lack a conscience: psychopaths. Neuroscientist Dean Haycock examines the behavior of real life psychopaths and discusses how their actions can be explained in...

Trafficking Hadassah: Collective Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and in the African Diaspora - Hardcover

$111.76

by Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar (Author)The representation of sexual trafficking in the book of Esther has parallels with the cultural memories, histories, and materialized pain of African(a) girls and women across time and space, from the Persian Empire, to subsequent slave trade routes and beyond. Trafficking Hadassah illuminates that Africana female bodies have been and continue to be colonized and sexualized, exploited for profit and pleasure, causing adverse physical, mental, sexual, socio-...

Zodiac Killer: Just the Facts - Paperback

$25.63

by Guy Leonard Edwards (Illustrator), Tom Voigt (Author)Zodiac Killer: Just The Facts is a chronological collection of police reports related to the Zodiac Killings that haunted Northern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s. To this day the case has not been unsolved. Now you can know everything the police knew. For the first time over 200 pages of police reports are in a single collection with a searchable index. Reports and handwritten notes retyped for increased legibility, cla...

The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie - Paperback

$16.99

by Carla Valentine (Author)Discover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novels in the ultimate true crime investigationAgatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and nearly every story she ever wrote involves one--or, more commonly, several--dead bodies. And the cause of death, the motives behind violent crimes, the clues that inevitably are left behind, and the people who put the pieces together to solve the mystery invite the reader to analyze the evidence and r...

$15.07

by Helen P. Batson (Author)Helen Batson married a wonderful man, Barry Batson. Before they married, her husband asked her if she could move into his family's building on the West Side of Chicago because his mother was wheelchair bound, and his father needed help with her until he retired. Helen had always lived on the South Side, but she happily agreed, and they spent the first five-plus years of the marriage living on West Adams Street in Chicago.After Barry's father retired, they moved into...

$42.61

by Alice Kaminsky (Author)The unremitting horror of the consequences of violent crime has never been depicted with such relentless honesty and anger as in The Victim's Song. Eric Kaminsky, a twenty-two-year-old music student was robbed, stabbed in the back, and then thrown on the tracks of a New York City subway, where he died. In this book, Professor Alice R. Kaminsky, Eric's mother, gives a powerful account of this senseless tragedy. She describes the continuing pain she suffers from the lo...

$13.48

by Ty Aucupis (Author)Is it possible to get away with murder? Absolutely! Approximately one-third of all murders in the United States go unsolved. There are many reasons why this number is so high, especially given the fact that forensic science has advanced to a point where a single hair can solve the case. But what about those high-profile murders where it doesn't take a forensic scientist to solve the crime? How is it that those criminals get off the hook? There is an answer to these quest...

The Ottawa Way: Guilty by Gender in Canada's Capital - Hardcover

$45.36

by Demetrios Angelis (Author)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 York City and Montreal before moving to Ottawa to study in local universities and work for the federal government. A jury convicted him in 2010 of murdering his unfaithful wife in 2008, and obliged the judge to sente...

$21.55

by Joe Broadmeadow (Author), Pat Cortellessa (Author)The Dark Underbelly of the Providence RenaissanceThe 1970's saw the rise of a powerful new force in Providence (RI), replacing the once inviolate stranglehold of the Mob.Buddy Cianci's rise to national prominence overshadowed a darker truth.Driven from office by one scandal, returned to office on a wave of nostalgia, Cianci and Providence are forever linked. One man was there for it all. Pat Cortellessa, who went from a small time club owne...