True Crime

The bestselling account of a band of kids from New York who fought an electronic turf war that ranged across some of the nation's most powerful computer systems. "An immensely fun and -- one cannot emphasize this enough -- accessible history of the first...

Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case--and the disquieting true story behind Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success....

"True crime devotees won't want to miss this one!"---Publishers Weekly"Very engrossing . . . in the finest you can't put it down tradition." ---Hartford Courant "This factual account of each murder, through the conviction of the killer, has all the excitement of a first-rate...

Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins Award A New York Times BestsellerOne of Book Riot Best Book of the YearIn nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any...

The story of a man who risked it all to live employment-free, broke every rule, and still won.At 18, Peter Young committed to never work again. And so began the rise, fall, and eventual triumph of The Militant Unemployment Experiment.Phase One: The Outlaw YearsThe...

A stolen car worth $7 million. A broke private investigator. Best friends turned worst enemies. And the global manhunt neither saw coming.In 2001, thieves parked a box truck in front of an aging tycoon's factory, cut the phone lines, and used an overhead crane...

In this thrilling true story, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous...

Criminal profiling--the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological "fingerprints" of the monsters among us--holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American public so entranced by it? What do we...

There are two worlds out there - an "in the open" world where people go about their daily lives. Locked in by borders and governed by laws. In this world, people live with a false sense of security in "the system". Now juxtapose this...

A "devilishly fun" (New York Times Book Review) account of a deadly serious business: the undercover spies and the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow, from legendary former-CIA operatives. Antonio and Jonna Mendez were CIA technical operations officers supporting espionage...

"Harrowing." --Wall Street Journal - "Riveting." --Seattle Times A groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that investigates Munchausen by Proxy from the host and creator of the award-winning true crime podcast Nobody Should Believe Me.No bond is more sacred than that between a mother and...

In the dead of night, Tennyson and Kyle Jacobson's world is shattered when a violent home intruder forces them into a fight for their lives. The traumatic ordeal leaves the headlines buzzing with the gripping story of survival, but the true journey-the one most...

In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again,...

For the first time in his life, attorney Alex Murdaugh--the scion of a long line of lawyers and prosecutors--stands before a jury at the Colleton Courthouse, not as a practitioner of law, but rather as a defendant. He is accused of having murdered both...

On November 5, 1976, twenty-seven-year-old Dorothy Milliken left her rural home in Sabattus, Maine, to go to an all-night laundromat. The following morning, her body was found slumped against the outside wall. Despite various leads, there were no arrests for her murder. Dorothy Milliken...

Leo Frank raped and murdered Mary Phagan.In 1913, Leo M. Frank was an Atlanta sweatshop boss who routinely took sexual advantage of young girls in his employ. He raped and strangled 13-year-old little Mary Phagan to death. He was duly convicted and sentenced to...

The "enormously entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that "artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off" (The New York Times) AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME - "Fascinating . . ....

On August 13, 2018 Christopher Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two toddler daughters. Cheryln Cadle contacted him and started visiting him in prison. Christopher started writing her letters from his prison cell in Wisconsin. These letters had his confessions of things he had...

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...

"Riveting...Will inevitably be compared with Patrick Radden Keefe's nonfiction blockbuster...But its themes are arguably even more resonant in the current political moment."―The Washington Post From New York Times reporter and Pulitzer finalist Ali Watkins, the long-buried story of how a group of Philadelphia gunrunners...