True Crime

One candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects. The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian Ruth Quinn was murdered, execution-style, in her cottage. Her death...

Capturing Montana's Most Elusive Fugitive During an intense spring blizzard in 1951, affable Clarence Pellett picked up a teenaged hitchhiker along Montana's Hi-Line. Soon, blood from seven bullet holes in Pellett's back stained the snow-covered prairie. Following a brief manhunt and confession, a heated...

Murder, mob rule, and the making of Abraham Lincoln--the story of three racially motivated murders in Mississippi River towns from 1835 to 1838 that inspired the speech that put Lincoln on the national map--the Lyceum Address. Lynched: Five white gamblers suspected of aid-ing a...

Discover the fascinating true crime stories that lay within the majestic landscapes of the United States' national parks, including the National Forest Serial Killer Gary Michael Hilton, the vanlife tragedy of Gabby Petito, murders in Yosemite, and more. From the depths of the Grand...

A National Bestseller "Scorching, seductive . . . A superb and disturbing vivisection of our darkest urges." --Los Angeles Times"This is about as highbrow as true crime gets." --Vulture"Fraser has outdone herself, and just about everyone else in the true-crime genre, with Murderland." --Esquire...

A national bestseller, Derf Backderf's Alex Award winner My Friend Dahmer is the bone-chilling graphic novel that inspired the major motion picture. You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer--the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper--seared himself into the...

If you're a true crime fan, this book, and the entire Dark Places series, will leave you amazed and satisfied, and glad that you went along for the ride. Welcome to Book 4, the fourth and final book in the Dark Places series. In...

The True Accounts of Relentless Pursuit of JusticeIn the third installment of the Dark Places series, FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas unravels some of the most chilling and complex cases of his career. From an inside look at the idiosyncrasies of the infamous fraudster...

Join me as I share my background and how I became an FBI Special Agent. I take the reader through what the almost five months of training at the FBI Academy were like, the challenges, the stress, and, of course, some of the humorous...

This book is about one of the most heinous and troubling serial murder cases that I have ever worked. The fear, anxiety, and concern that gripped most of eastern and southeastern Ohio from 1989 to 1993 cannot be overstated. Never had a serial murder...

A small girl asked to do the unthinkable and a God who sees her in the midst of it all.My Mother's Soldier will take you on a horrific and chilling journey of a young girl and the terror that she faced when her mother...

New York Times Bestseller A victim of her mother's Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard's unique and controversial case made headlines across the world. Now, she's finally free to start living her life on her terms--and to tell her own story...

Few places could hope to rival the rich history of Washington's San Juan Island. From the famed Pig War to the secretive "kingdom" at Roche Harbor, the island has played host to countless remarkable stories. Like any other historical place, however, there are some...

The shocking but true story behind the film and bestselling novel, The Weight of Water The cold-blooded ax murder of two innocent Norwegian women at their island home off the Maine and New Hampshire coast has gripped the region since 1873, beguiling tourists, inspiring...

A fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the previously unknown extent of these families' power in the 14th century. 1343: there is famine in Naples. After nightfall, a Genoese ship loaded with wheat...

After the shocking murder of Ed Netherland at a secluded location in the Virgin Islands, architect Kem Hinton is stunned and confused by a mysterious occurrence at the funeral of his former classmate. Given a haunting challenge, he embarks on a decade-long investigation into...

Named Amazon Editor's Pick and one of the Best Books of the Month for August 2024. A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions--who eventually loses everything that...

Revisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow violence and serious psychopathology expert, here provide even more detail, using dozens of...

Author: Artis HendersonPublisher: HarperPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.51w x 1.18dISBN: 9780358650270Review Citation(s): Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 62Publishers Weekly 07/14/2025Shelf Awareness 09/05/2025Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2025About the AuthorHenderson, Artis: - Artis Henderson's work has appeared in the New York Times, The Daily Beast,...

Three untold, true stories. Three different stages of survival. Three women share their experiences of intimate partner violence, vowing to no longer remain silent. But the countdown is on for them to speak up and say, no more. In an unspoken story of survival,...