THE STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE MASS MURDERS EVER RECORDED. AND THE GIRL WHO ESCAPED WITH HER LIFE. In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley, Ohio, four people disappeared without a trace: Stephanie Sprang; h...

Why is What's My Line? TV star and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen one of the most feared journalists in history? Why has her threatened exposure of the truth about the JFK assassination triggered a c...

Presents the true story of two-year-old Renee Goode, whose tiny coffin was exhumed from its resting place eight months after her unexplained death, only to reveal the dark secret that her mother and grandmother had long suspected--tha...

AMERICA'S #1 TRUE-CRIME WRITER FULFILLS A MURDER VICTIM'S DESPERATE PLEA -- WITH THIS SHATTERING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'If anything ever happens to me... find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story.' In perhaps the first true-c...

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’ s “ great hush” In 'Thunderstruck,' Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men— Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, ...

A riveting account of Silas Cool, a gunman who shot the driver of a Seattle bus in transit, causing it to plunge off a bridge into an apartment building, is accompanied by nine other sensational true crime cases that explore the alarm...

With this gripping true crime anthology, the first in a 5-book series, former Seattle policewoman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule turns her unflinching eye on compelling true crime accounts from her personal case fil...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   -  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable BookA Best Book of the Year: Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, GQ, Newsday, Seattle Times, St. Louis Pos...

A chilling compilation of all-new cases exposes the dark violence and lethal obsessions behind passionate love affairs, documenting the crimes of a murderous faithless wife, a seductive former Marine and martial arts master, a killer ...

On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of evidence suggested a connection betwe...

This A-list selection looks in depth at 25 headline murder cases involving those who live their lives in the full beam of the media spotlight, including film starlets, TV actors, music legends, comedians, fashion moguls, movie directo...

The 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...

In 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...

During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas becamea legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers ofour time: the man who hu...

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...

Ethically and morally, kids are works in progress. Throw in psychopathy and you've got a soul that will never be complete.' In this powerful, disturbing book, bestselling author and noted child psychologist Jonathan Kellerman shines a...

“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

Veteran 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 ...

A 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...

The 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...

It 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...

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....

Drawing 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...

Combining 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...

#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...

In 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...

A 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...

A 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 ...

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...