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...

This 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 ...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

AN UNIMAGINABLE CRIME. AN UNLIKELY PLACE. AN UNRELENTING KILLER. On December 16, 2004, a Nodaway County, Missouri, 9-1-1 operator received a frantic call from the mother of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The eight-months-pregnant mo...

Heather Catterton was a beautiful, beloved seventeen-year-old when her body was found in the brush by a country road in South Carolina. Sweet-natured Randi Saldana's remains were then discovered, charred and unrecognizable, in a wo...

"Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience." — Suspense Magazine Sheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she m...

Cold Storage In May 2003, an Arizona man who'd bought dozens of sealed boxes at a self-storage facility's auction of unclaimed property made a horrifying discovery: the bodies of three plastic-wrapped infants, one of which had become...

Few Americans know much about Nathan Hale other than his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."But who was the real Nathan Hale?M. William Phelps charts the life of this famed pat...

"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...

Serial Killer on Ward CIn Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse – so why were her patients dying? So many emergencies and sudden deaths occurr...

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...

National bestselling and award-winning author M. William Phelps—star of Investigation Discovery's smash-hit TV series Dark Minds—updates his classic work of true crime in which psychological drama, passion, and murder collide in a...

CON MAN In December 1989, in upstate New York, Gary C. Evans, 35, a master of disguise and career criminal who had befriended David 'Son of Sam' Berkowitz, began weaving a web of deadly lies. Evans told a female friend that Damien Cu...

After her mother's untimely death, Clara Schwartz became distant, withdrawn. Her father, a renowned DNA researcher, lived in a farmhouse outside Leesburg, Virginia, where in December 2001, he was fatally stabbed by what seemed to be a...

"A dark, true account of obsession." --Gregg Olsen"Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." --TV RageSmart, gorgeous redhead Beth Carpenter was a successful attorney in Connecticut's...

Few Americans know much about Nathan Hale other than his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."But who was the real Nathan Hale?M. William Phelps charts the life of this famed pat...

"Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience." —Suspense MagazineSheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she met...

She was seventeen years old, a beautiful girl with a Hollywood smile and luminous brown eyes. Sprawled in a culvert just off the gravel road like an abandoned doll, she wore only toe socks, a sweatshirt, and a necklace. She was not th...

A tragic missing person case spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. Intrigue, deception, and serial homicide erupt in the latest real-life thriller by New York Times bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps.  In ...

Serial Killer on Ward CIn Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse - so why were her patients dying? So many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred...

In the lovely town of Pleasant Valley in upstate New York, the maple trees were ablaze with fall's blood-red colour. The air was crisp. And a woman named Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice at a church - when a killer emerged...

Bestselling true-crime author M. William Phelps, star of the new investigative television series "Dark Minds," takes readers to his own backyard in these eight bloodcurdling murder cases. Think New England is all bucolic l...

A life gone murderously wrong…Erika Sifrit was once a high school basketball star and an honors student. Then she married Navy SEAL Benjamin Sifrit. Some say Erika was abused by "B.J." Some say she pulled his strings. But ...

"Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." —Allison Brennan  Iowa housewife Tracey Pittman Roberts seemed to have it all: natural beauty, three loving children, and a fairy tale second marriage to a wealthy, h...

 "Anyone can become a killer under the right circumstances—even you."  It was a bold, life-changing decision when award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps asked one of America's most disturbing convicted ...

“Phelps is a true-crime veteran.” —New York PostCherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor’s little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abu...

After her mother's untimely death, Clara Schwartz became distant, withdrawn. Her father, a renowned DNA researcher, lived in a farmhouse outside Leesburg, Virginia, where in December 2001 he was fatally stabbed by what seemed to be a ...