Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sic...
Patricia CornwellFrom New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murder―and the police force that ...
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death...
Sheri FinkPulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice In the tradition of the best inve...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Ev...
John BerendtIn charming, beautiful, and wealthy old-South Savannah, Georgia, a local bad boy is found shot to death inside of the opulent mansion of a gay antiques dealer, and a gripping trial follows, in a gripping account of a landmark murder c...
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper...
Patricia CornwellThe best-selling novelist turns her attention to the real-life, century-old series of crimes that terrorized London in the 1880s, drawing on meticulous research, state-of-the art forensic science, and insights into the criminal mind t...
If Looks Could Kill is the shocking real-life story of money, marriage, mayhem, and murder in a peaceful Midwestern town. In a busy gas station near one of Akron, Ohio's most popular shopping malls, 44-year-old Jeff Zack was shot in t...
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustic...
John GrishamJohn Grisham tackles nonfiction for the first time with The Innocent Man, a true tale about murder and injustice in a small town (that reads like one of his own bestselling novels). The Innocent Man chronicles the story of Ron William...
Final Analysis: The Untold Story of t...
Catherine CrierThe Court TV analyst and author of A Deadly Game offers an inside look at the bizarre case of Susan Polk, the mother of three and wife of her former therapist, a man twenty-five years her senior, who after years of alleged abuse, stab...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Fever in the Heart: And Other True ...
Ann RuleA Fever in the Heart dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the northwest of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bi...
"A great true crime story…Readers will feel the effects of Phelps' skill from beginning to end." - Stephen Singular Big and brash, Jeff Zack didn't hide his rough lifestyle. And when he died, it was in plain sight: exec...
With more than 50 million copies of her thirty-four books in print, from The Stranger Beside Me, her chilling personal account of knowing Ted Bundy, to fourteen hardcover books— including Small Sacrifices; Green River, Running Red; ...
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the...
Vincent BugliosiHELTER SKELTER is an exhaustive account of Charles Manson's crimes, as well as the investigation and trial that led to his conviction. The story is told in the affable voice of Vincent Bugliosi, Manson's prosecutor. Bugliosi provides ...
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bon...
Bill BassThe Dead Do Tell Tales... A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition. Bill Bass's research at 'the Body Farm' has revolutionized forensic sci...
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded...
Paul CollinsIn Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly sev...
A LIFE TAKENJeanne Dominico's fiance found her body on her kitchen floor. More than forty stab wounds and blows to her head with a blunt instrument had cut her life short. What monster had struck in the heart of a peaceful New England...
Green River, Running Red: The Real St...
Ann RuleVeteran crime writer Ann Rule is uniquely qualified to chronicle the grisly career of Gary Ridgeway, the man convicted of being the 'Green River Killer,' the most prolific serial killer in American history. Not only is she one of the ...
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia C...
Philip CarloDrawing on hundreds of hours of face-to-face interviews, Carlo reveals the story of Richard 'The Ice Man' Kuklinski, who became one of the most notorious and sadistic professional assassins in American history, working for such crimin...
Empty Promises: And Other True Cases
Ann RuleIn this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly ana...
Murder Beyond the Grave (James Patter...
James PattersonTwo true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series - premiering February 2018MURDER BEYOND THE GRAVE. Stephen Small has it all-a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs r...
The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind ...
David M. BussAs acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we ...
"A great true crime story…Readers will feel the effects of Phelps' skill from beginning to end." - Stephen SingularBig and brash, Jeff Zack didn't hide his rough lifestyle. And when he died, it was in plain sight: executed...