True Crime

Netflix released a documentary in its true-crime series in 2020. The series received worldwide attention. YouTuber Alan Vinnicombe with the channel 'Armchair Detective, No Hiding Place' is an independent investigator that has studied the Chris Watts case since day one. This book is the...

The Shadow of Evil: Where is God in a Violent World is a "must read" for every person who is struggling to cope with adversity and loss: Do you battle everyday with the realization that a senseless tragedy has altered the course of your...

Before Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields on Netflix, there as The Sheriff's Son - a potential suspect for the League City murders. This true story begins on Valentine's Day, 1961. 14 years old, Claudette Carolyn Covey went missing from Hondo, Texas. On Halloween...

The harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and the campaign to bring justice to a suffering Midwestern town On a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillicothe, Missouri. After law enforcement conduct a haphazard investigation, the sheriff's...

This is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Italian gangland experience. Since 2006 Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots in Sicily: where the murders happened, where the godfathers lived, where their victims were buried. From the sun-baked fishing villages...

Author: Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian LevyPublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 08/26/2014Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.90dISBN: 9780143126089Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorCathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are the authors of four nonfiction books, most recently The Meadow Kashmir 1995 - Where the Terror...

"This groundbreaking work reads like a murder mystery, only in this case what has been killed is our American integrity and the right of an individual to a fair trial. Evans has finally addressed the pervasive silence that distorts, fragments, and threatens to bury...

The 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan would have far-reaching consequences for Georgia and the nation; in the years that followed a Jewish man named Leo Frank was convicted on dubious evidence, a governor's career toppled while an anti-Semite became Georgia's senator, and the...

The Silent Don exposes the life and ruthless times of one of America's most powerful and feared mob bosses. With a criminal empire that stretched from the Gulf Coast throughout the Caribbean, Trafficante was linked to drug trafficking, plots to kill Fidel Castro, and...

Uncover the truth behind the haunting 1841 murder of Mary Rogers - without the guesswork.Do you love diving into real-life puzzles steeped in historical intrigue? Are you captivated by the social complexities of the 19th century, eager to unravel mysteries that have shaped our...

What happens when toxicity invades a life at every turn? A 1963 murder leads to a decade-long journey for a son to uncover truths about his family, an American town, and ultimately himself. In the "Crossroads of America," three active-duty US Army paratroopers commit...

An "exhilarating trip through Italian-American Mafia history" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) this is Sal Polisi's riveting and darkly hilarious chronicle of the inner workings and larger-than-life characters inside the New York Mob. The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America . . ....

An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of two decades navigating a broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men. In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC's Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that would change his life....

*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of The East Hampton Star's 10 Best Books of the Year* From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world...

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America. On a cold winter day in 1832,...

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America. On a cold winter day in 1832,...

Minutes before 1pm on March 21st, 1893 the body of respected businessman Louis Schilling was found mutilated in the office of his Kalamazoo meat market. Although there were no shortage of suspects, and experienced Kalamazoo officers like William S. Downey eager to pursue them,...

Mary Roach meets C.S.I. in this "lively study that's part whodunit, part sociological study...The result is eminently entertaining and will be devoured by armchair detectives" (Publishers Weekly).Currently, upwards of forty thousand people in America are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident...

The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets...

As the city of Windsor, Ontario, celebrated the end of World War II and the return of its troops with parades and public revelry, the industrial city in the south of Canada was shaken by a series of brutal stabbings. The failure of the...