True Crime

The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city's art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and...

True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of disappearance and recoveryFrom the bestselling author of The Art of Forgery comes this dynamic narrative that tells the fascinating stories of artworks stolen, looted, or destroyed in...

Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner's jury verdict of murder--by strychnine poisoning. Stanford University...

Author: Joe BrunoPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/19/2017Pages: 318Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67dISBN: 9781973717362This title is not returnable

As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901. Bloodhounds, detectives, divers, and even a psychic were brought in to...

A TRUE CRIME LEGEND!On November 24, 1971, D.B. Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305. He made his daring escape by parachuting out of the Boeing 727 at 10,000 feet with $200,000 in cash. Cooper left very few clues behind and was never seen or...

For the first time, the life and mind of Anders Behring Breivik, the most unexpected of mass murderers, is examined and set in the context of wider criminal psychology.July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway's history since Nazi Germany's invasion. It was...

In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a fifty-one-year-old former beauty queen and mother of two, shook the small working-class town of Napa. Detectives, criminalists and forensic experts raced to identify who'd struck Anita down in her own bar, but despite their...

The Ponzi scheme that devastated Napa Valley. In 1988, a daring San Francisco drug bust led investigators straight to a massive financial fraud scheme in the Napa Valley. Hundreds of residents, many of them elderly, had entrusted their life savings to respected businessman David...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners in the Castle, a dramatic portrait of the master thief of the nineteenth century: Adam Worth "Fascinating . . . a brisk, lively, colorful biography of an amazing criminal."--The New York Times (Best Books of...

Welcome to The Adirondacks!The natural beauty of this lake draws thousands of vacationing tourist's in every year. But when these gleaming waters begin to run red with murder, the mountains and lake become a dangerous place.Years after a string of murders occur in The...

Real Crime Stories, Uncovered by NatureProfessor Patricia Wiltshire has dedicated her life solving over 300 real criminal cases across the UK. Learn of her shocking discoveries in this one-of-a-kind true crime forensic ecology book.For true crime enthusiasts. This book will captivate true crime lovers...

From the Queen of Forensic Science (The Wall Street Journal) comes a riveting blend of nature writing and true-crime narrative that explores the often shocking cases of a trailblazing scientist and investigator. From mud tracks on a quiet country road to dirt specks on...

A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF EVIL Revisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow...

A chilling follow-up to the popular true crime book The Anatomy of Evil. Revisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow...

How serialized crime shows became an American obsessionTV shows and podcasts like Making a Murderer, Serial, and Atlanta Monster have taken the cultural zeitgeist by storm, and contributed to the release of wrongly imprisoned people-such as Adnan Syed. The popularity of these long-form true...

Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red Pontiac with two men in it was stopped, four young California Highway Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wounds. The incident still stands as the worst of its kind and has changed the way police forces operate...

Early yesterday morning a horrible murder was discovered in Buck's-row, a narrow passage running out of Thames-street, Whitechapel.--The Daily Telegraph, Saturday, 1 September 1888. This text is an annotated transcription of the articles that detailed the Jack the Ripper murders as they were reported...

From New York Times reporter and Pulitzer finalist Ali Watkins, the long-buried story of how a group of Philadelphia gunrunners armed the IRA at the height of the Troubles--a true-crime saga that illuminates Irish America's central role in the conflict and its legacy. Northern...

"An astonishing portrait of a killer not seen since In Cold Blood." --New York Daily News A bestselling masterpiece of true crime on par with Helter Skelter, this definitive account of one of America's most feared and notorious serial killers takes you deep into...