True Crime / Espionage
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America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster (Mind of a Serial Killer, True Crime, Violence in Society, Criminology)
$18.95 Read moreThe nurse from hell: Always cheerful, helpful, and sweet, nurse Jane Toppan was the last person you would suspect to administer a dose of death. When countless patients sought treatment for minor ailm… [more below]
- Author: McBrayer, Mary Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1642502073
- Language: English
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Blood on the Mitten: Infamous Michigan Murders, 1700s to Present
$24.95 Add to cartBefore Michigan became a state, there were witch trials, scalp collectors, dirty sports and a massacre of epic proportions. The lumber era that followed made Michigan as much of a wild, wild west as D
- Series: Great Lakes Mayhem #1
- Author: Carr, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1943995362
- Language: English
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John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster: The True Story of the Lawyer Who Defended One of the Most Evil Serial Killers in History
$17.99 Add to cart“A riveting account of what it was like to defend one of the most notorious serial killers in history”–Seattle Post Intelligencer
“Sam, could you do me a favor?” Thus begins a story that has now beco- Author: Amirante, Sam L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1632203634
- Language: English
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Murder in the Heartland: Book Two
$21.95 Add to cartIn a place where murder isn’t supposed to happen–rural Missouri and Southern Illinois–deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn’t matt… [more below]
- Series: Murder in the Heartland #2
- Author: Spiller, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1596527986
- Language: English
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The Hillside Stranglers: The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles
$21.99 Add to cart“A deeply disturbing book–cool, ironical, and ferocious.” –Thomas Flanagan, author of The Year of the French
For several weeks in the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was held hostage by fear as the body- Author: O’Brien, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1504047885
- Language: English
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Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky
$17.99 Add to cartA shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart–the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled … [more below]
- Author: Van Meter, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1416538690
- Language: English
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Scream at the Sky: Five Texas Murders and One Man’s Crusade for Justice
$23.99 Add to cartAn unsolved murder spree that left a town frozen in fear…
In rural Texas, just before Christmas in 1984, a young nurse was found raped and murdered in her Wichita Falls home. Within weeks, a second w- Author: Stowers, Carlton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1250001692
- Language: English
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Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power
$32.00 Add to cartThe stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious Lowcountry clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity–by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the … [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365672
- Language: English
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Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper
$22.95 Add to cartThe inside story of the shocking Piper kidnapping: from the abduction and recovery, through the grueling investigation and trials, and into the Pipers’ haunted final years.
- Author: Swanson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519930
- Language: English
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American Mafia: Chicago: True Stories Of Families Who Made Windy City History
$18.95 Add to cartEveryone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its… [more below]
- Author: Griffith, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 076277844X
- Language: English
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Blind Eye: The Terrifying True Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder
$19.99 Add to cartA medical thriller from Pulitzer Prize-winning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.No … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, James B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865637
- Language: English
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Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
$25.00 Add to cartA dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller
This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. histo
- Author: Douglas, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0470325151
- Language: English
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The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
$19.99 Add to cart“I promise that you’ve never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be pre
- Author: Stewart, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062313177
- Language: English
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A Death in Belmont
$18.99 Add to cart“Riveting. . . reads like a novel. . . . A worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm.” –New York Times Book Review
In the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood, New York Times bestsell
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0060742690
- Language: English
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The Man Behind the Curtain: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartJessica Renee was 11 years old when her stepfather began routinely raping and sexually assaulting her. Only when she was 15 and her boyfriend asked the right questions did the truth come to light-a te
- Author: Renee, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985940015
- Language: English
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Deputy Death: Memoirs of a Retired Law Enforcement Officer Collision Reconstructionist
$20.95 Add to cartBarty Bartlett writes as if he is talking directly to you. He recants the stories for the love of his work. He shares the gruesome events on how he became Deputy Death.
He is a truth teller, protector
- Author: Bartlett, Barty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1662468369
- Language: English
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Lost and Found
$25.00 Add to cartThen, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named Phillip Garrido appeared on the University of California, Berkeley campus alongside two young women whose unusual behavior sparked concern among c
- Author: Glatt, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1250315549
- Language: English
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Who Speaks for You?: The Inside Story of the Prosecutor Who Took Down Baltimore’s Most Crooked Cops
$27.95 Read moreThe true story of how federal law enforcement flipped the playbook and convicted a corrupt unit of Baltimore police.
In 2015 and 2016, Baltimore was reeling after the death of Freddie Gray and the prot
- Author: Wise, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1421446502
- Language: English
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Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie
$19.99 Add to cartA biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as “Crazy Eddie,” whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scam… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0306924579
- Language: English
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Mafia Prince: Inside America’s Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
$19.99 Add to cartA first-person account of the violent downfall of the traditional American Mafia in the final heyday of the 1980s.
- Author: Leonetti, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0762454318
- Language: English
