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  • Hell's Half-Acre

    The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier

    by Susan Jonusas ...
    **One of NPR's "Books We Love"New York Times Book Review's "The Best True Crime of 2022""Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last.”—Wall Street JournalA suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Murder Machine

    by Gene Mustain, Jerry Capeci ...
    "The inside story of a single Brooklyn gang that killed more Americans than the Iraqi army."—Mike McAlary, columnist, New York PostThey were the DeMeo gang—the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

    by David Grann ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE“A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Kidnapped by a Client

    The Incredible True Story of an Attorney's Fight for Justice

    by Sharon R. Muse, JD ...
    “He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted justice, I had to fight both him and the courts...maybe kill him first. If I didn’t do something, I was going to die.”This is not a manufactured dialogue from a thriller but the words of attorney Sharon Muse. They came after she survived an attempted kidnapping, rape, and murder at the hands of Larry Morrison, a former client. On ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Wager

    A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

    by David Grann ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.A Best Book of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • American Predator

    The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

    by Maureen Callahan ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn Amazon “Best Book of 2019”A Washington Post “10 Books To Read in July”A Los Angeles Times “Seven Highly Anticipated Books for Summer Reading”A USA Today “20 of the Season’s Hottest New Books”A New York Post “25 Best Beach Reads of 2019 You Need to Pre-Order Now”**A Bustle “The Best New True Crime Books You Can Read Right Now”<strong... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • H. H. Holmes

    The True History of the White City Devil

    by Adam Selzer ...
    Shares with readers America’s first and most infamous serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World’s Fair in ChicagoThe first comprehensive book following the life and career of H. H. HolmesA fascinating true story about a dark moment in Chicago’s historyH. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil uncovers not only the true story of Holmes but also how the legend ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Best Minds

    A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

    by Jonathan Rosen ...
    **Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The AtlanticA Washington Post Notable Book“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” *—*The New York Times“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” *—*Wall Street JournalAcclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mothers & Murderers

    A True Story of Love, Lies, Obsession . . . And Second Chances

    by Katherine Ellison ...
    “[Weaves] together her own story and a stranger-than-fiction true-crime tale…gripping prose that by turns is tragic and hilarious.”—Stephen Hinshaw, author of Another Kind of MadnessThis remarkable memoir by a Pulitzer Prize- and Polk Award-winning journalist takes readers on a wild, tragicomic ride from the criminal courtrooms of California’s Silicon Valley to the Himalayan mountains of Pakistan ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incident at Howard Beach

    by Bob Drury, Charles J. Hynes ...
    INCIDENT AT HOWARD BEACHA CASE FOR MURDERBYCHARLES J. HYNES andBob DruryTHE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONThe murder that shocked a city and nation and how our justice system works at its best.Late on the night of December 19, 1986, four black men were driving through the all-white community of Howard Beach, in the New York City borough of Queens, when their car broke down. By the early hours of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Trigger Points

    Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America

    by Mark Follman ...
    “An urgent read that illuminates real possibility for change.” —John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad BloodFor the first time, a story about the specialized teams of forensic psychologists, FBI agents, and other experts who are successfully stopping mass shootings—a hopeful, myth-busting narrative built on new details of infamous attacks, never-before-told accounts from ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Sex. Murder. Mystery.

    True Crime Box Set

    by Gregg Olsen ...
    Three book box set (two full length book and a short story) by #1 New York Times bestselling author of Starvation Heights.BITCH ON WHEELSThe unbelievable true story of Sharon Nelson, a Colorado woman, who had her mountainman man lover Gary Adams murder two of her three husbands."... more interesting than the crime itself is Olsen's portrait of Nelson as a brash, trashy, manipulative sexpot who ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Murder at McDonald's

    The Killers Next Door

    by Phonse Jessome ...
    The true story of the Sydney River McDonald’s massacre, a botched robbery that would become the most sensational murder case in Canadian history.It started with a broken conveyor belt. When the mechanical malfunction brought eighteen-year-old McDonald’s employee Derek Wood into the restaurant’s back room, he saw the safe and got a dangerous idea. It would be so easy to prop the back door open, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue

    by Piu Eatwell ...
    A Book Riot Best Book of the YearGoodreads Choice Award Finalist (History/Biography)“It’s Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in [this] delightfully offbeat history.” —Library JournalAt the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his carriage and building tunnels between buildings to avoid being seen. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • All That Is Wicked

    A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

    by Kate Winkler Dawson ...
    Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed”—and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind.Edward Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer—some have ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Where the Bodies Were Buried

    Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him

    by T. J. English ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime—and law enforcement—that made him the defining Irish American gangster.For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger—the brother of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Murder & Mayhem in Seattle

    by Teresa Nordheim ...
    Series series Murder & Mayhem
    Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state's deadliest mass homicide. Some of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Son of a Gun

    A Memoir

    by Justin St. Germain ...
    **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYIn the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath**Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. “A real-life old ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Wind Cries Mary

    Murders That Shook A Power Town

    by Erika Grey ...
    On May 27, 1969 in the sleepy power town of New Canaan, Connecticut, ten-year-old Mary Mount, the daughter of an IBM research scientist was abducted and murdered. Several persons including serial killers became suspects. A year and a half after Mary's abduction and murder, John Rice, a 17-year-old honor student and Boy Scout in New Canaan, brutally murdered four members of his family. Rice became ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ted Bundy

    The Yearly Journal

    by Kevin Sullivan ...
    The renowned Ted Bundy expert reveals never-before-published information on little known aspects of the serial killer’s crimes and victims.Due to Kevin Sullivan’s extensive writing about Ted Bundy (which has produced six books), he’s become a sort of magnet over the years, drawing out many people who were part of the Bundy story, but have otherwise kept a low profile over the decades; and these ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dying Place

    An utterly unputdownable, heart-racing crime thriller

    by Charly Cox ...
    Series Book 5 - Detective Alyssa Wyatt
    When the trunk slammed closed, sealing her fate, a deep cold slithered into the center of Kennedy’s bones. All she could do was pray that her attacker would leave enough of her for her family to identify…Kennedy Farmer, an experienced athlete, never returns after leaving for her usual running route through the dusty mountain trails of New Mexico.While the search for Kennedy begins, Detective ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Burned

    Pyromania, Murder, and a Daughter's Nightmare

    by Frank C. Girardot Jr., Lori Orr Kovach ...
    A daughter’s account of the “Pillowcase Pyro,” hero firefighter turned killer arsonist John Orr. “A red-hot true crime masterpiece.” —Burl Barer, Edgar Award–winning author of Betrayal in Blue and Murder in the FamilyFor years, Lori Orr believed her Los Angeles firefighter dad was a selfless hero. When Lori’s dad was arrested and charged with four murders and countless arson fires, it was her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Cold Blood

    by Truman Capote ...
    Series series Vintage International
    National BestsellerOn November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Murder in California: Rage and Revenge Murders

    by Marques Vickers ...
    Murder in California: Rage and Revenge Murders profiles some of California’s most infamous murder cases. The edition photographically transports you to actual murder sites along with images related to the case and perpetrator(s). The images and accompanying profiles offer a descriptive account and follow-up aftermath providing an important understanding into the far-reaching effects of each crime ... Read more

    $5.98 USD or Free with Kobo Plus