True Crime

Faster, Higher, Farther chronicles a corporate scandal that rivals those at Enron and Lehman Brothers--one that will cost Volkswagen more than $22 billion in fines and settlements. Through meticulous reporting, New York Times correspondent Jack Ewing documents why VW felt compelled to install "defeat...

In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 2017, VW had settled with American regulators...

In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all. AN ANGEL OF MERCY In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked on a profession as a...

Fatal Destiny named 2013 Police-Writers.com Book of the Year. The brutal death of Dr. Pam Basu and forcible taking of her car on September 8, 1992 is the singular incident, which defined carjacking. Her senseless killing was truly the murder reported around the world....

On Monday, December 4, 1967, a body was discovered in the Science Building of the largest university in West Texas. The next day, citizens of Lubbock gathered for the Carol of Lights, an event typically the centerpiece of the holidays for the quiet college...

The New York Times bestselling True Crime Files series continues with this haunting collection of the dangers lurking among those we trust the most--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me.Doomed relationships and deadly betrayals are at the heart...

Using contemporary accounts, Barbara Smith vividly recreates a number of murder cases from 1920s Nova Scotia to 1980s British Columbia.Author: Barbara SmithPublisher: Dundurn PressPublished: 07/26/1996Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36dISBN: 9780888821676About the AuthorBarbara Smith writes full-time and has been published...

OUT OF CONTROLJune 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania State Trooper, heading home from work, witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive--and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers: "I...

This devastating rebuttal to Fatal Vision (Boston Phoenix) demonstrates that the jury was not privy to crucial evidence in the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret Captain convicted of the murders of his wife and two young daughters.Author: Jerry Allen Potter, Fred BostPublisher:...

The beautiful coquettish daughter of the Cuban insurrection from Spain, 1890s, is engaged to two men, one an officer in the Cuban army, while courted by many others. Her father, a wealthy owner of a large cigar factory in Jacksonville, Florida, is helpless against...

The beautiful coquettish daughter of the Cuban insurrection from Spain, 1890s, is engaged to two men, one an officer in the Cuban army, while courted by many others. Her father, a wealthy owner of a large cigar factory in Jacksonville, Florida, is helpless against...

In 2004, a California computer whiz named Barrett Lyon uncovered the identity of a hacker running major assaults on business websites. Without fully grasping the repercussions, he set on an investigation that led him into the heart of the Russian mob. Cybercrime was evolving....

The electrifying true crime story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children--murders he vehemently denies committing... Bestselling author Joe McGinniss chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime and probes...

A Hard-Nosed Investigation Into Hollywood's Most Enduring Mystery For thirty-five years, it has been a riddle which has gripped the world. Part love story, part tragedy, it has all the elements of a Hollywood blockbuster: a beautiful actress, a handsome leading man, a brooding...

A unique study into both the professional gamblers aboard Titanic and their individual backgrounds and fates During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoking rooms of trans-Atlantic passenger liners that White Star Line warned its passengers about them....

Across the Mitten and through the Upper Peninsula, the Wolverine State has witnessed some thrilling and historic federal cases. In Detroit, FBI agents took point investigating the kidnapping (and safe return) of a GM executive's son and in a manhunt for an armed killer...

Across the Mitten and through the Upper Peninsula, the Wolverine State has witnessed some thrilling and historic federal cases. In Detroit, FBI agents took point investigating the kidnapping (and safe return) of a GM executive's son and in a manhunt for an armed killer...

Former FBI agent and prize-winning author, Peter Klismet, captivated readers with his books FBI DIARY: PROFILES OF EVIL and FBI ANIMAL HOUSE. Now Klismet recounts the riveting true story of the largest manhunt in the western United States to locate the cold-blooded killers of...

The Kidnapping of the first son of aviator Charles Lindbergh became the crime of the century and defined "media circus." As much as the world in the 1930's loved "Lucky Lindy" for his flight from New York to Paris, so the world despised the...

The authoritative guide to navigating crime scenes-for professionals and for anyone fascinated by the world of CSI. FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics is the official procedural guide for law enforcement agencies, attorneys, and tribunals submitting evidence to the FBI. This handbook outlines the...