Starvation Heights: A True Story of M...
Gregg Olsen“A fascinating turn-of-the-century story of medical malpractice and murder. If you liked The Alienist, you’ll find Starvation Heights all the more gripping because this story is true.” —Michael Connelly
Describes the harrowing May 2001 attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against imposs...
America may have had its fill of psychos for the last forty years, but none of them has inspired so many books and films (Pyscho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as Wisconsin's cannibalistic handyman, Ed Gein. N...
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System...
Jon KrakauerIn these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent throughout the nation, Kraka...
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 ...
Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Stor...
John E. DouglasA profile of the world's first known Internet serial killer seeks to demonstrate how mainstream Americans can become victims of cybercrime, explains the psychological factors of physically devoid online relationships, and how the case...
Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of Am...
T. J. EnglishThroughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York's Chinatown. They were the lost children of the Vietnam War, severed from their families by violence and cast adrift in a s...
Profiles in Murder: An FBI Legend Dis...
Russell VorpagelThe legendary FBI profiler shares his insights into the minds of killers and their crimes as he draws on some of his real-life cases of serial murder, sex crimes, celebrity killings, and hostage takings--including that of vampire murd...
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, ...
Simon BaatzIt was a crime that shocked the nation, a brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child, by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb had first met several years ea...
For 17 years, the Soviets knew every military move we made! That is how damaging the Walker family spy ring was to our national security. For the better part of two decades, John Walker, his son Michael, brother Arthur, and friend J...
Describes the life and death of twenty-year-old Tonya Hughes, killed by a hit-and-run driver in 1990, and the discovery that she had been living with a federal fugitive who had kidnapped her as a toddler, and who allegedly killed her....
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...
The Lost Girls: The True Story of the...
John GlattThey were held in brutal captivity--and managed to make it out alive. "This is their story." The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus--three innocent young women who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and...
Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder i...
Joseph K. LoughlinCombining the drama of a true crime story with the detail of a police procedural, Finding Amy chronicles the investigation into one of the most shocking murders in recent Maine history. Twenty-five-year-old Amy St. Laurent was attract...
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's...
Michelle McNamara#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SCIBA Book Award Winner • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 • A Washington Post Notable Book of 2018 • A Philadelphia Inquirer Best Book of 2018 • A Slate Best Book of 2...
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 in Mayberry: Greed, Death and ...
Mary Kinney BransonA true-crime shocker of a Southern town shattered by a brutal murder. As seen on America's Most Wanted. Crime never happened in a town like Madisonville, Kentucky. That's why the vicious slaughter of one of its beloved female citizens...
In the mid-century Manhattan of gangsters, prizefighters, showgirls, and two-fisted detectives, a double homicide occurred: dashing restaurant owner Pete McGinn and his friend Richie Glennon were shot to death in a brutal execution-st...
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medic...
Charles GraeberAfter his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved fathe...
The White House Boys: An American Tra...
Roger Dean KiserHidden far from sight, deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than thirty unidentified bodies, some of which are thought to be children who were beaten to death at the old Florida Indust...
Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob,...
Paul LiebermanDIV/A harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels, GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen...
The World's Most Bizarre Murders
James MarrisonA blood-curdling compendium of truly odd crimes featuring murderous witches, mad scientists, and killer dwarves From the stomach-churning to the truly bizarre, the details of some of history's weirdest and most shocking murder cases ...
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...
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...
Cruel Heart: The True Story of a Beau...
William Van MeterOn the morning of May 4, 2003, a well-loved, hard-working freshman student named Katie Autry was found dead in her dormitory room at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. She had been raped, stabbed, drenched in hairspray, and...
It's Not about the Truth: The Untold ...
Don YaegerWhat began as an off-campus team party with two hired strippers accelerated into a rape investigation---one that exposed prosecutorial misconduct, shoddy police work, an administration's rush to judgment, and the media's disregard for...
AND THE SEA WILL TELL, written by renowned defense attorney and author of HELTER SKELTER Vincent Bugliosi, reconstructs the events and subsequent trial of a riveting true murder mystery, and probes into the dark heart of a serpentine ...
House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Sl...
John DeanIn the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement betwee...
Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of Amer...
Robert GraysmithAfter following the clues for 30 years, 'San Francisco Chronicle' employee Graysmith provides the final chapter on the Zodiac killings with hundreds of never-before-published photos and the only complete reproduction of the Zodiac let...