True Crime

On August 7, 1967, Floyd "Fuzzy" Hoard, the Solicitor General in rural Jackson County Ga., got into his car, turned the ignition switch and was assassinated with 10 sticks of dynamite that had been planted under the car's hood the night before. For over...

No espionage case in recent decades has been anything like the Wen Ho Lee affair. As Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman describe in A Convenient Spy, an astonishingly inept investigation of a crime that may never have occurred ended in a national disgrace. A...

Patrick J. Ouellette's gripping, psychological thriller, A Cop Story, takes the reader on a riveting and twisted ride as seasoned FBI Agent Henry Donovan frantically tries to track down a savage serial killer. Set in 1994 and 1995, A Cop Story shines with respect...

. The author served with three Federal Agencies pursuing criminals and bad actors. Those agencies were the FBI, the US Agency for International Development and the Department of Justice. His service to those agencies brought him into conflict with Jihadists, the Cartels and international...

This mesmerizing true crime memoir takes the reader behind fortress-like doors into a secret world of terrorists, financial predators and sicarios. What sets this book apart from any other in the genre is not only the variety of federal criminal and intelligence cases or...

Riding the housing boom of the 2000s, Diana Martin combed Austin for tired, rundown bungalows, bought them, and, with artistic flair, recast them into little gems for people looking for custom homes. Then Wall Street crashed. Trapped with three houses in a market where...

Sweet Harmony Montgomery should still be alive. But now she is the face of a brutal homicide and her murder has left her half-brother, Jamison, adopted by two loving dads, grieving the loss of the sister he loved so much. And while Jamison often...

The word Cryptography originated from the Greek Word "Secret writing. Cryp-tography is basically the science of securing data using algebraic relationships so that ordinary data can be altered into unintelligible text. Cryptography helps in storing confidential or sensitive information or transmitting it over the...

Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost too good to be true. Because it was? At the start of her relationship with the intelligent and worldly John Perry, Barbara Bentley couldn't believe her luck?so when things didn't add up, she struggled...

James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man was allowed to record extensive interviews with the shooter. This is what he found. On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor...

This true crime saga--with an eccentric Southern backdrop--introduces the reader to the story of a murder in a crumbling Louisville mansion and the decades of secrets and corruption that live within the old house's walls. On June 18, 2010, police discover a body buried...

This true crime saga--with an eccentric Southern backdrop--introduces the reader to the story of a murder in a crumbling Louisville mansion and the decades of secrets and corruption that live within the old house's walls. On June 18, 2010, police discover a body buried...

2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book -- WinnerA sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets. From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child,...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Catherine Crier, a former judge and one of television's most popular legal analysts, offers a riveting and authoritative account of one of the most memorable crime dramas of our time: the murder of Laci Peterson at the...

The subject of the HBO documentary The Jinx, convicted murderer Robert Durst's story is as outrageous as it is horrifying. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst's NYPD files, is the authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey--the very book found in Durst's...

Young and insecure, Detective Daniela "Dan" Neely fights daily to earn respect in a Boston Police Department steeped in traditions as old as time. She works obsessively, determined to crack the big case-a recent string of deaths that plague the city-to prove that her...

"Riveting. . . reads like a novel. . . . A worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm." --New York Times Book ReviewIn the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood, New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger examines the fatal collision...

Named one of Mother Jones' BOOKS WE NEEDED IN 2022 Named one of CrimeReads' BEST NEW TRUE CRIME BOOKS OUT NOW A true-crime story for the post-truth era In the early hours of July 10, 2016, gunshots rang out and a young man lay...

Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school...

A riveting narrative that pieces together the life and murder of Black socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan--and the journey to bring her true killer to justice. The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few...