True Crime

"Grandmotherly Dorthea Puente is becoming as renowned for her cooking as for being a notorious mass murder, serial killer and all around psycho"... THE SUN DORTHEA PUENTE has been accused of a lot of things... being a bad cook isn't one of them. You...

While working as a Violent Crimes detective for twenty-seven years, my investigations were the result of rapes, robberies, or suspicious deaths. I'm also an instrument-rated pilot and flew prisoner transports, narcotics surveillance, or traveled throughout the western half of the United States on Boise's...

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COP AND KEVIN MAHER? KEVIN DOESN'T HAVE A BADGE. AND HE DOESN'T PLAY BY THE RULES. Cop Without a Badge tracks confidential informant Kevin Maher as he helps the NYPD, the FBI, and many other law enforcement agencies solve...

Gene Fields spent 35 years of his adult life in law enforcement in the Metro New Orleans area. For 19 years, he served on the New Orleans Police Department beginning in 1961. In 1980, he retired, accepting a Deputy Chief with the Jefferson Parish...

Armed-encounters expert and police trainer Brian McKenna shares his expertise in a series of gripping stories involving real-life police shootouts. Step into the shoes of police officers who have run toward the sound of gunfire, who have faced attacks by deadly assailants, and who...

'How did a kid from the country who dreamed of joining the Victoria Police, end up on the wrong side of the bars? There are a lot of reasons, and I hope this story will help clarify some of them, not only for you,...

In the Great Smoky Mountains, moonshine making was a world unto itself. On the one hand, moonshining was about dynamite-totting lookouts, fast cars, snitching, quick cash, hidden stills, revenuers, and deadly gunplay. On the other, it was a story of earnest farm families living...

Cornbread Mafia, The Outlaws of Central Kentucky is author Joe Keith Bickett's sequel to his first book, The Origins of The Cornbread Mafia, A Memoir of Sorts. As the 1980s come onto the scene, the Cornbread Mafia is faced with new obstacles from the...

From the author of "The Origins Of The Cornbread Mafia" and "Cornbread Mafia, The Outlaws of Central Kentucky", comes Joe Keith Bickett's third book, "Cornbread Mafia, The Quest For Freedom, A Prisoner's Memoir". After becoming the largest domestic marijuana cartel in U.S. History, the...

A world in turmoil ... The year is 2020 and mankind is in the throes of a global pandemic. 15 million people are infected with COVID-19, the respiratory and immunological disease caused by a novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China. While doctors flounder...

"Bellamy writes with razor-edged wit and his own particular brand of charm." -- Medina County GazetteThe third book in this popular series delivers 25 more incredible but true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster, including: Crotchety old vigilante Jarvis Meach, who shot down robbers...

For some states in Latin America, corruption is not simply an industry, but rather it is part of the political system. This collection studies the nature of corruption and its recent trends through expert contributions from scholars from the region who have diverse scholarly...

In this shocking memoir from a former corrections officer, Gary Heyward shares an eye-opening, gritty, and devastating account of his descent into criminal life, smuggling contraband inside the infamous Rikers Island jails. Gary Heyward's life changed forever when he received a letter from the...

Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in the contemporary...

Life (and death) inside the Mafia... Dominick Cicale was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. From a young age he was closely associated with the Genovese crime family, considered the most powerful Mafia group in America. Fate intervened. In 1999 Cicale forged...

Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that reads like fiction and takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this secret society where few have...

John F. Kennedy's fascination with death--particularly his own--and Lee Harvey Oswald's love of violence and desire for fame made November 22, 1963 practically inevitable. With new details from the very latest documents declassified by the CIA and FBI! The so-called "crime of the century"--the...

The so-called "crime of the century"--the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--was almost preordained to happen. Like all presidents from decades before him, JFK played it loose with security--open cars, Secret Service agents at a distance, and a desire to be seen. Yet conspiracy...

The South has always been steeped in mystery. Gunshots from duels fought for family honor still echo from the distant past. The same gray Spanish moss that swayed on moonlit nights throughout plantation grounds still move eerily on coastal breezes. It is in this...

The brutal murder of Betsy Faria on December 27, 2011 set off a maelstrom of events that resulted in an innocent man's imprisonment and another man's death. It would take a decade to unravel all the misdirection in the Faria murder case, the misconduct...