True crime stories
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The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy
$16.99 Add to cartA crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking cold case and the radicalization of a terrorist.
In September 2011, Erik Weissman and two friends were mu
- Author: Zalkind, Susan Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1503903702
- Language: English
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Causa de Muerte: Cuestionar Al Poder. Acoso Y Asesinato de Periodistas En México / Cause of Death: Questioning Power.
$17.95 Read moreM?xico es uno de los lugares m?s peligrosos en el mundo para ejercer el periodismo.
En nuestro pa?s, a muchos periodistas ocupados en la cobertura de temas locales se les hostiga, amedrenta y asesina- Author: Ibarra Chaoul, Alejandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 6073832877
- Language: Spanish
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A Murder on the Hill: The Secret Life and Mysterious Death of Ruth Munson
$24.95 Add to cartThe mysterious murder of a woman in a historic neighborhood is shrouded in scandal, innuendo, police neglect, and media sensationalism in Depression-era Minnesota. Join author Roger Barr as he searche… [more below]
- Author: Barr, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1681342898
- Language: English
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Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
$32.00 Add to cartFour Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant.
The search for justice for this one man’s death–his body found in broad daylight,- Author: Hemming, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703189
- Language: English
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The Foggy Bottom Gang: The Story of the Warring Brothers of Washington, DC
$17.95 Add to cartIn the town of lawmaking, three brothers thrived in lawbreaking
Before Prohibition, Leo, Emmitt, and Charles “Rags” Warring worked as laborers in their father’s barrel shop. When the (illegal) booze st
- Author: Warring, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1950843327
- Language: English
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The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided
$19.00 Add to cartThe 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 Chillico- Author: Cooper, Sean Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0143135449
- Language: English
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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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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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We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder
$16.95 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author, television personality, and podcast host M. William Phelps takes readers deep into the murder of Mary Yoder, a popular wife, mother, and healer in Upstate New York –
- Author: Phelps, M. William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0806543566
- Language: English
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The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesu
$12.99 Add to cartThey were held in brutal captivity–and managed to make it out alive.
The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus–three innocent young women who were kid
This is their story.- Author: Glatt, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1250092116
- Language: English
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A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California’s Most Notorious Killers
$29.95 Add to cartThe incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California–a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy.
Deborah Larkin was only ten years old- Author: Larkin, Deborah Holt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362444
- Language: English
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Bringing Adam Home
$19.99 Add to cart“Les Standiford’s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read. A triumph in ev
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0061983918
- Language: English
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Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
$18.99 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of the Year
A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book
A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated
- Author: Weinman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062839888
- Language: English
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Deep in the Woods: The 1935 Kidnapping of Nine-Year-Old George Weyerhaeuser, Heir to America’s Mightiest Timber Dynasty
$18.99 Add to cartIt is a crime even the FBI must have considered fantastic and absurd.
In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blo- Author: Johnston, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 164293903X
- Language: English
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The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy
$28.99 Read moreA crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking cold case and the radicalization of a terrorist.
In September 2011, Erik Weissman and two friends were mu
- Author: Zalkind, Susan Clare
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1503903710
- Language: English
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Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin
$30.00 Add to cartJack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. B… [more below]
- Author: Fingeroth, Danny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1641609125
- Language: English
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True Crime Redux
$25.95 Read more“More than a witness but less than an active participant, I was a bit actor whose role in the crime shaped my life.” So writes Stephanie Kane, who here recounts the dramatic events that forever fractu
- Author: Kane, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1610886119
- Language: English
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Los Asesinos de la Luna de Las Flores / Killers of the Flower Moon: Los CrÃmenes En La Nación Osage Y El Nacimiento del FBI
$18.95 Add to cartEL LIBRO QUE HA INSPIRADO LA ADAPTACI?N DIRIGIDA POR MARTIN SCORCESE
BEST-SELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMES FINALISTA DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “Desconcertante y cautivadora […] una historia que abrasar? tu- Author: Grann, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0525566937
- Language: Spanish
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To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana’s Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer
$21.99 Add to cartThe twelve-year rampage of “Missoula Mauler” Wayne Nance–and the shocking end to his murder spree
To his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable,- Author: Coston, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049403
- Language: English
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When Evil Came to Good Hart, 10th Anniversary Edition
$22.95 Read moreIn this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968, detailing and review
- Author: Link, Mardi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0472037226
- Language: English
