Based on Death Row interviews with Ramirez, an account of his murderous crime spree follows his criminal odyssey, from his first brush with the law, to his Los Angeles murders, to the investigation that brought him to justice. Reissue.

Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, is rocked by the brutal murder of Patricia Blakley, whose body turns up in the burned-out ruin of her own home, a death that reveals the dark side of Ted Kimble, the son of a local preacher, whose own ...

Examines the case of Peter Bergna, a wealthy Lake Tahoe art dealer accused of murdering his wife Rinette in an apparent motor vehicle accident, discussing the crime, the first trial that ended in a hung jury, and the second trial that...

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately acquitted...

"I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me." That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits i...

I'LL BE WATCHING YOUWalking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent—a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The an...

The author of ten New York Times best sellers, including three gripping Crime Files volumes, Ann Rule has proved time and again the she is our premier chronicler of true crime. Now with brilliant insight and an unrelenting eye for cri...

As 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 ...

Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the inv...

In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the Midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, inclu...

Twisted Triangle is the first complete narrative thriller about the sensational story of Margo Bennett, a married FBI agent, who had a love affair with bestselling author Patricia Cornwell and whose jealous husband, Gene Bennet, a sup...

FROM TRUE-CRIME LEGEND ANN RULE comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother's eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter's name. It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-...

Despite considerable press coverage and a lengthy trial, the full story of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints has remained largely untold. Only one man can reveal the whole, astounding truth: Sam Brower, the private invest...

Describes the brutal murder of wealthy Las Vegas bookie Bruce Weinstein and the search for, capture of, and conviction of his girlfriend Amy DeChant, who had killed her lover to get her hands on Weinstein's fortune and was captured wi...

The true story of the murder of fifteen year old Rachel Barber as told by court reporter Megan Norris and Rachel's mother, Elizabeth Southall. The account details the extraordinary planning of the murder by the teenage killer, Carolin...

In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations ...

Describes the case of millionaire James Sullivan, the murder of his estranged wife, Georgia debutante Lita McClinton, his escape from justice from nearly fifteen years, and his eventual arrest in Thailand after years on the run. Origi...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly...

"Welcome To My Mortuary!" Those were the words of William Lee 'Cody' Neal, 43, to Angela Fite on July 5, 1998, after luring the pretty 28-year-old to the Denver, Colorado townhouse he'd turned into a den of torture and slaug...

There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred.Years may pass—even centuries—but the mark of death remains.They are known as Murder Houses. From a colonial manse in New England to a ...

The unimaginable crime of filicide takes on the cast of tragic inevitability in this haunting true tale of violence, greed, revenge, and death. Fusing the narrative power of an award-winning novelist and the detailed research of an ex...

Frank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and step-daughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Aside from being dead, Frank is in perf...

In November 1974, 23-year-old Ronnie DeFeo was convicted of murdering his entire family. Decades later, he was haunted by a terrifying demon from his past. But no one wanted to listen. Except one woman. For years, as the legend of the...

Renowned forensic anthropologist Bill Bass—founder of the Body Farm—tackles one of his most baffling cases ever in this real-life spellbinder In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never see...

Brilliant linguist, charming professor, and renowned writer Tom Murray had a way with words. He used them to seduce. And he used them to get away with murder.Erudite Kansas City professor Tom Murray seduced, then married his starry-ey...

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift betw...

In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperati...

Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement, during which time he has gained a fearsome reputation as one of the world's toughest and most dangerous convicts. He has been locked in dungeons, in iron boxes...

"Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America." —Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewParkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and definitive narrative of th...

Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello–known as "The Clutch Hand"–and his lethal coterie of associates...