True Crime - Murder
Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
A riveting investigation of the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors -- a book that, like 'In Cold Blood,' reveals the chilling reality behind a murder that captivated the nation. On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of...
Published: Sep 2004
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 418
Savage Son
By: Corey Mitchell
It was a night of celebration for the Whitaker family. Their son Bart was graduating from college. But when Bart's brother Kevin opened the door to their house, a masked intruder shot him point blank. His mother took the next bullet, followed by Mr....
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 320
Broken Summers
By: Henry Rollins
In 1993, three young boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. In what was widely considered a witch hunt, three older boys were convicted of the killings. Ten years later, Henry Rollins used his considerable cultural chops to raise money for...
Published: Nov 2003
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 192
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho
By: Harold Schechter
Harold Schechter is a historian: he takes old files and yellowed newspaper clippings, and brings their stories to life. Deviant is about everyone's favorite ghoul, Ed Gein--whose crimes inspired the writers of Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The...
Published: Oct 1998
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 256
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives
By: Marilee Strong
Based on five years of investigative reporting and research into forensic psychology and criminology, Erased presents an original profile of a widespread and previously unrecognized type of murder: not a "hot-blooded," spur-of-the-moment...
Published: Apr 2009
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 352
Hot Blood (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
By: Ken Englade
HELEN BRANCH LEFT BEHIND A HUGE FORTUNE—AND A MYSTERY THAT WOULD HAUNT THE NATION FOR YEARS TO COME.A coal-miner's daughter, she was a beautiful hat-check girl who snagged a millionaire . . . only to become an eccentric, pet-loving widow who,...
Published: Dec 2006
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 368
The Millionaire's Wife: The True Story of a Real Estate Tycoon, His Beautiful Young Mistress, and a Marriage That Ended in Murder
By: Cathy Scott
The beloved son of Holocaust survivors, forty-nine-year-old George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before making his way to New York City, where he enjoyed great success as an antiques and art dealer. Until one morning in 1990, when George was...
Published: Mar 2012
Genre: True Crime - Murder
To Die For: The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Dana Sue Gray
By: Kathy Braidhill
I HAD THIS OVERWHELMING NEED TO SHOP.'Impeccably dressed, meticulously neat, Dana Sue Gray spared no expense on herself.Dropping thousands of dollars on a shopping binge or a luxurious day spa were nothing out of the ordinary for Dana-nor for many...
Published: Sep 2000
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 272
Untitled True Crime # 2
By: Michael Benson
Denise Amber Lee was a 21-year-old happily married mother of two little boys. She had her whole life ahead of her...until an intruder broke into her Florida home. Within a few short hours, she was savagely terrorised and murdered. Michael King, a...
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Wolves Among Sheep
By: James Kostelniuk
There are tragedies in life. The young child killed by a drunk driver. The family devastated by an early morning house fire. These events sadden us and make us reflect. "There but for the grace of God..." But if tragedy has a degree,...
Published: Oct 2009
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 230
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
By: Mara Leveritt
'Free the West Memphis Three.'Maybe you've heard the phrase.But do you know why their story is so alarming?Do you know the facts?The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case...
Published: Oct 2003
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 432
Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
By: James St James
Murder Was Never So Much Fun!When Disco Bloodbath was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageously funny depiction of the hedonistic world of the New York City...
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 288
Please Don't Kill Mommy!: The True Story of a man who killed his wife, got away with it, then killed again (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
By: Fannie Weinstein
On November 4, 1990 Tim Boczkowski phoned 911 in Greensboro, North Carolina to report his wife Elaine lying motionless in the bathtub. In the days that followed the paramedics' failed efforts to revive Elaine, detectives began to suspect that Tim had...
Published: Feb 2009
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 304
Taken From Home: A Father, a Dark Secret, and a Brutal Murder
By: Eric Francis
Grand Junction, Colorado, 2001: When Michael Blagg's adoring wife, Jennifer, and his six year-old-daughter, Abby, disappeared from their home, Michael led the charge to find them, even going so far as to make a nationwide appeal on Good Morning...
Published: Jul 2008
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 288
Torture at the Back Forty: The Gang Rape and Slaying of Margaret Anderson
By: Mike Dauplaise
The true story of the pool table rape and murder of Margaret Anderson. Left for dead, practically beheaded in a manure pile, Margaret fights for life. But in the end the single mother leaves behind a son. Author Dauplaise practically makes Margaret...
Published: Aug 2009
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Bully: A True Story Of High School Revenge
By: Jim Schutze
Booby Kent was a bully--a steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the...
Published: Feb 1998
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 320
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
By: Erik Larson
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly...
Published: Feb 2004
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 464
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
By: Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer's true-crime investigation, which explores the sick reality behind the murder of an innocent woman and her baby in 1984, goes further and looks at the history and the present-day practices of the Mormon Church. The two self-confessed...
Published: Jun 2004
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 399
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By: John Berendt
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of...
Published: Jun 1999
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 400
In Cold Blood
By: Truman Capote
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no...
Published: Feb 1994
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 368
Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder
By: Ann Rule
In the bestselling tradition of In Cold Blood, The Stranger Beside Me, and Fatal Vision, comes Small Sacrifices, the harrowing, headline-breaking story of Diane Downs, a woman so desperate for love and attention that she would attempt to murder her...
Published: Jun 2003
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 494
Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal
By: Ann Rule
Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a posh home in one of the upscale suburbs of Atlanta, expensive cars, a plush houseboat, and a husband -- Dr. Bart Corbin, a successful dentist -- who was...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 426
Bitter Harvest
By: Ann Rule
GIFTED WITH A BRILLIANT MIND, BLESSED WITH A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY -- AND CURSED WITH A DESTRUCTIVE MADNESS In this harrowing New York Times bestseller, Ann Rule is at her masterful best as she winnows horrific truths from the ashes of what seemed...
Published: Feb 1999
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 496
The I-5 Killer: Revised Edition (Signet True Crime)
By: Ann Rule
As a young man, Randall Woodfield had it all -- a star athlete, good looks, and an award-winning student. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had more than his share of women. But he wanted more than just sex. An appetite for unspeakable...
Published: Mar 1984
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 296
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
By: Ann Rule
In this shocking investigation, centered in a world of successful politicians, best-selling true crime author Anne Rule details the adulterous love affair between a governor's beautiful secretary and the acclaimed attorney who was convicted of...
Published: Sep 2000
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 688
A Rage To Kill and Other True Cases: Anne Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 6 (Ann Rule's Crime Files, 6)
By: Ann Rule
A riveting account of Silas Cool, a gunman who shot the driver of a Seattle bus in transit, causing it to plunge off a bridge into an apartment building, is accompanied by nine other sensational true crime cases that explore the alarming nature of...
Published: Mar 2000
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 400
The Want-Ad Killer (True Crime)
By: Ann Rule
After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death -- using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose...
Published: Jan 1983
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 286
Dead by Sunset
By: Ann Rule
Another chilling and creepy book from the reigning queen of true-crime, Ann Rule, who also penned the riveting bestseller Small Sacrifices. Here, we encounter a charismatic con-artist accused of brutally bludgeoning his wife and follow his case...
Published: Apr 1996
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 544
Everything She Ever Wanted
By: Ann Rule
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, a true story of obsessive love, murder, and betrayal. A series of brilliantly manipulated crimes brings two families to ruin, and at the center of it all is a sociopath whose evil hides behind her...
Published: Dec 1993
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 560
Worth More Dead: And Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 10)
By: Ann Rule
This tenth entry in a series by master true-crime writer Ann Rule collects real-life tales of murderous sociopaths, ostensibly charming but secretly narcissistic, selfish individuals who commit their crimes without the slightest hint of remorse. The...
Published: Nov 2005
Genre: True Crime - Murder
Pages: 418