Dirt poor, divorced, the mother of two young children, Susan Daniels Smith, 27, prayed for a hand-some Prince Charming who would take her away from the squalor of her rural Kentucky community to live in romance and luxury. When a good...
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder...
Kate SummerscaleIn June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the c...
The Shark Arm Murders: The Thrilling ...
Alex CastlesThis true story of one of the world's great unsolved murder cases begins one quiet day in Australia in 1935 when a giant Tiger shark, on display in the Coogee public baths, coughs up a tattooed arm. What follows is a spellbinding tal...
This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shoc...
Kate SummerscaleThe national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. T he crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ...
Deadly Secrets: Two Women, One Man, A...
M. William PhelpsThis gripping book has extortion, prostitution, government corruption, group sex and murder at its core. IIt's set in New York State—Pleasant Valley is near Poughkeepsie.Amazingly, the killer, Dawn Silvernail, who refused to speak ...
Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story...
Ann RuleAmerica's foremost true-crime writer offers her most riveting real-life drama ever: a heartbreaking story of treachery, jealousy and murder.Jenn Corbin appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a posh home in one of the upscale s...
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded...
Paul Collins"No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins."—DAVE EGGERS On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with bl...
Murder Beyond the Grave (James Patter...
James PattersonA wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series. Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small ha...
Monsters of Death Row: America's Dead...
Christopher Berry-DeeFrom the cells of Death Row come the true-life accounts of the most heinous, cruel and depraved killers of modern times. At the time of writing, there are 3,702 inmates on Death Row across the US. They have carried out serial murder, ...
Homicide Special: On the streets with...
Miles CorwinThe critically acclaimed author of And Still We Rise furnishes a behind-the-scenes view of the elite LAPD Homicide Special unit in action as they undertake investigations into the murder of a Russian call girl, the shooting of a gangs...
Two Innocent Teens The crime was unspeakable. On a summer night in Houston, two bright, beautiful, success-bound teenage girls crossed paths with a group of young men fueled with alcohol and rage. Four days later, when searchers fina...
Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops...
Michael ConnellyThe best-selling author of crime novels such as The Closers and Trunk Music demonstrates how his years as a crime reporter in Florida and Los Angeles contributed to the creation of vivid details in his novels, of not only the villains...
In the Still of the Night: The Strang...
Ann RuleIn this new true crime book, New York Times bestselling author Rule investigates the case of a woman whose supposed suicide may not be what it seems.
On December 16th, 2004, a Nodaway County, Missouri, 911 operator received a frantic call from the mother of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, an eight-months-pregnant mother-to-be found bleeding and barely breathing on her family room f...
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murd...
Charles BowdenLionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico ...
Last Dance, Last Chance: And Other Tr...
Ann Rule"America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents her 8th collection of crime stories drawn from her private files—and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had d...
The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and...
J. Reuben AppelmanIn this cold case murder investigation from "a powerful, confident voice in the new true crime memoir genre" (James Renner, author of True Crime Addict), one of America's most notorious sprees is cracked open. With a forewor...
Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of ...
Ethan BrownA charismatic young soldier meets a tragic end in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net AmericaZackery Bowen was thrust into two of America's largest recent debacles. He was one o...
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunti...
Max Allan CollinsIn the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case-his years-long hunt for The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, a serial killer who terror...
In with the Devil: The Fallen Hero, t...
James KeeneSet to be a major motion picture, this intriguing book tells the true story of a convicted drug dealer who must go undercover in the nation's toughest maximum security prison for the criminally insane to obtain the confession of a not...
Murder in Grosse Pointe Park: Privile...
Steve MillerInvestigative reporter, and author of Nobody's Women, Steve Miller makes a thoroughly researched inquiry into a murder that rocked the privileged world of Grosse Pointe, Michigan.Bob Bashara: husband, father, Rotary Club president and...
BAn affluent community of high-achievers, the Houston suburb of Clear Lake, Texas, is home to oil company execs and NASA employees. But in the summer of 2003, a life of good fortune came to a violent end for some of its most promising...
On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's 'Main Line.' Her two children had vanished. The Main Line Murder Case burst upo...
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Accou...
Helen PrejeanIn 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's dea...
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bysta...
Kevin CookA new perspective on the murder that has captured America's imagination for over a half-century—"gripping" (New York Times Book Review). New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop—a murder ...
Triumph of Justice: Closing the Book ...
Daniel PetrocelliAfter the white Bronco, after the bloody glove, after the media frenzy and the verdict that set O.J. Simpson free, Daniel Petrocelli came to pick up the pieces. Outraged by the disastrous miscarriage of justice, the family of murder v...
The Old Man and the Gun: And Other Ta...
David GrannNow a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Killers of the Flower Moon, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true crime tales."T...
Indefensible: The Missing Truth about...
Michael GriesbachShocking facts missing from the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer.In 1985, Steven Avery went to prison for the brutal sexual assault of a female jogger on the shores of Lake Michigan. Eighteen years later, DNA evidence proved hi...
A Peculiar Tribe of People: Murder an...
Richard Jay HuttoNOW IN PAPERBACK!"A Peculiar Tribe of People is the sort of true crime that has wings This is one of those stories that, in many ways, truly is stranger than fiction. I simply could not put it down." -January magazine, nam...