Browsing the "True Crime" category: 220 books
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and ...more »
ISBN: 1588361659 / Random House / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 355K
America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his uniquely gripping analysis of eight of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime--including JonBenet Ramsey--often contradicting conventional wisdom and the courts' decisions. ...more »
ISBN: 0743212398 / Scribner Book Co. / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 490K
Be prepared. This book weighs in at 1.5MB in size. You'llneed to make sure that you've got plenty of room on your PDA before you try to sync up this one. This is the perfect book for all of you m500 & m505 owners. Store it on an SD card ...more »
ISBN: 1588361314 / Random House / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 1024K
It seemed to be the perfect marriage: a beautiful young wife, a rising star in America's top-ranked computer corporation, and a prosperous husband, the soon of a family building business. With an adorable son and a gorgeous home, this couple seemed t ...more »
ISBN: 0743424050 / Pocket Books / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 470K
From the "New York Times" #1 bestselling author of "Bitter Harvest" comes the heartbreaking story of Anne Marie Fahey, a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of politics, sex, and murder by a charming, successful--yet murderous--lover. ...more »
ISBN: 0743202791 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Oct 1999 / File Size: 500K
In the spring of 2000, Harper's Magazine sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker--in particular, the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purp ...more »
ISBN: 0374704708 / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Pub Date: Apr 2003 / File Size: 1816K
They met in college twenty years ago. One became a decorated NYPD officer and a journalist. The other became New York's most notorious serial killer. This is the riveting true story of Joel Rifkin -- the Long Islander convicted of savagely murde ...more »
ISBN: 0743424441 / Pocket Books / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 325K
If anything ever happens to me, promise me that you will see that there is an investigation....And find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story," Sheila Blackthorne Bellush told her sister after she divorced multimillionaire Allen Blackthorne. Now, in ...more »
ISBN: 0743229274 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 537K
DEAR MR. MANSON . . . It started with a college course assignment, then escalated into a dangerous obsession. Eighteen-year-old honor student Jason Moss wrote to men whose body counts had made criminal history: men named Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and ...more »
ISBN: 0446923273 / Warner Books / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 315K
The world-famous former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me if You Can now reveals the mind-boggling tricks of the scam trade—with advice that has made him one of America's most sought-after fraud-prevention experts. ...more »
ISBN: 0767910915 / Broadway Books / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 1810K
"Ethically and morally, kids are works in progress. Throw in psychopathy and you've got a soul that will never be complete."
In this powerful, disturbing book, bestselling author and noted child psychologist Jonathan Kellerman shines ...more »
ISBN: 0345463668 / Random House / Pub Date: Apr 2003 / File Size: 169K
Dead By Sunset is the extraordinary true story of a charismatic man adored by beautiful and brilliant women who always gave him what he wanted. But he wanted everything--sex, money, and their lives. How long would it take before he finally got what h ...more »
ISBN: 0743202775 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Dec 2000 / File Size: 524K
The #1 bestselling crime book of all time has been revised with a new afterword by Vincent Bugliosi. In August of 1969, the nation was shocked to learn of the brutal murders of actress Sharon Tate and six other innocent victims -- all shot, stabbed, ...more »
ISBN: 1401400183 / Barnes & Noble Digital / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 1197K
ISBN: 1892941279 / Algora Publishing / Pub Date: Dec 2000 / File Size: 455K
"""America's best true-crime writer"" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files -- and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences. ...more »
ISBN: 0743424069 / Pocket Books / Pub Date: Jan 2003 / File Size: 441K
Joseph Edward Cassidy was a sergeant in the Air Force, but when the Soviets approached him for information, he went to the FBI, and an elaborate scam was set up, governed by the highest levels of the United States government -- its top secret code na ...more »
ISBN: 0375505369 / Random House / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 553K
A searching literary reckoning with the forces that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers ...more »
ISBN: 0374702683 / FSG / Pub Date: Mar 2002 / File Size: 334K
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works an ...more »
ISBN: 1400049342 / Crown / Pub Date: Feb 2003 / File Size: 939K
Did David Berkowitz, perpetrator of the infamous “Son of Sam Murders” act alone? Or rather was he a hit man for a dangerous satanic cult, the Process Church of the Final Judgment? When Berkowitz confessed to the murders in 1977, investigative reporte ...more »
ISBN: 140140068X / Barnes & Noble Digital / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 1521K
On January 30, 1974, the pilot of a Pan American World Airlines Boeing 707 jet carrying 101 passengers and crew flew his plane into the jungle instead of the airport at Pago Pago, Samoa. Although everyone on board survived the impact, 97 people peris ...more »
ISBN: 0744302943 / SynergEbooks / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 740K
In a fascinating new case that explores the homicidal urge and its devastating effect on an entire city, Ann Rule re-creates a 1998 Seattle bus crash that killed the driver and injured many passengers and proved not to be an accident, but murder. Wit ...more »
ISBN: 0743424042 / Pocket Books / Pub Date: Aug 1999 / File Size: 298K
A literary investigation by "one of the most powerful American writers at work today" [Annie Proulx] of a story that riveted the nation: how an accomplished, world-traveled fashion writer who had retreated to a simpler life as a single m ...more »
ISBN: 0767916468 / Broadway Books / Pub Date: Jun 2003 / File Size: 553K
Faced with depression and then delusion, Robert Rowe killed his three children and his wife with a baseball bat. The author not only tells the Rowes' tragic story, but explores the lives of others drawn into it, addressing the questions of how human ...more »
ISBN: 0375507019 / Random House / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 292K
Which grave is the true resting place of Andrew Weatherby Beachamp-Proctor, celebrated South African pilot and war hero? How can a body be buried in two places 6,000 miles a part, and why is an old man in the village of Upavon so upset by the appeara ...more »
ISBN: 0744302986 / SynergEbooks / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 205K
Andrew Richard Barnes was the man who flew the very first shipment of cocaine for the Medellin Cartel into the United States, and continued the dangerous trade for almost a full decade. He survived crashes and gunfire, treachery and betrayal. He al ...more »
ISBN: 0744302900 / SynergEbooks / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 204K
