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Make Time for True Crime January 2025 |
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The girl on the velvet swing
by Baatz, Simon
A chronicle of the events surrounding the 1906 murder trial of millionaire Harry Thaw details the victimization of teen actress Evelyn Nesbit and Thaw's vengeance-fueled, public murder of legendary architect Stanford White.
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Redhanded
by Bala, Suruthi
The co-hosts of the smash hit true crime podcast Redhanded dissect the stories of killers in a way that challenges perceptions and asks the hard questions about society, gender, poverty, culture and even our politics to find out what makes a killer tick.
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The devil at his elbow
by Bauerlein, Valerie
"Power, privilege, and blood-this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh's violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case."
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Don't call it a cult
by Berman, Sarah
An investigative journalist explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere and many enablers, detailing its rise as a personal development company, its ability to evade prosecution for decades, and the investigation that finally revealed its dark secrets to the world.
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Murderers In New Jersey: The Horrific True Stories of the Garden State Killers
by Becker, Ryan, Brenda Brown, True Crime Seven
Inside of Murderers In New Jersey, you will find eight gruesome and most horrifying true stories of the infamous Garden State killers. Here is what this collection of true crime stories can offer you: John List – Family Annihilator Richard Kuklinski – The Iceman Richard Biegenwald - The Thrill Killer Corey Hamlet - The Grape Street Crips Robert Reldan - Ten Million Dollar Killer Richard Cottingham - The Torso Killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver - Caught by a Dead Woman Robert Zarinsky: Caught by a Missing Woman.
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The cold vanish
by Billman, Jon
These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved ones left behind. The cases that are an embarrassment for park superintendents, rangers and law enforcement charged with Search & Rescue. The ones that baffle the volunteers who comb the mountains, woods and badlands. The stories that should give you pause every time you venture outdoors.
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Blood runs coal
by Bradley, Mark A.
Documents the 1969 assassination of the Yablonski family amid a campaign to oust the corrupt president of the UMWA, in a timely account that reflects the violent labor movements, industrial transformations and socioeconomic realities of fossil-fuel dependency. Illustrations.
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Guilty creatures
by Brottman, Mikita
"From the critically-acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman comes the murky retelling of the murder of Mike Williams committed under the haze of faith and devotion. Perfect for true-crime and literary fiction fans alike."
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Fire on the levee
by Fishman, Jared
A former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab describes his struggles investigating a mysterious, post-Katrina death in New Orleans that led him to uncover a police shooting and subsequent burning of the victim's body.
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Black Dahlia
by Geary, Rick
Chronicles in graphic novel format the investigation into the murder of beautiful aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, who became known as the Black Dahlia.
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A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium
by Geary, Rick
An engrossing, illustrated journey into true crime classics of the Victorian era, this omnibus volume contains three works in Rick Geary’s increasingly storied treasuries of murder—Jack the Ripper, The Beast of Chicago, and The Fatal Bullet. These carefully researched presentations of true crime stories include a bibliography of research sources, presenting true facts about famous murders in an entertaining fashion.
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Framed
by Grisham, John
Exposes 10 harrowing tales of innocent Americans unjustly found guilty and convicted of crimes they didn't commit, shedding light on the flaws within the legal system that led to their imprisonment and the relentless battles for exoneration that ensued.
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The witch of New York
by Hortis, Alex
In this first narrative history of Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder from 1844-1846, a constitutional lawyer and crime historian shows how dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen and shameless hucksters turned her case in America's formative tabloid trial.
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The devil behind the badge
by Jervis, Rick
A Pulitzer Prize-winning USA Today journalist tells the gripping story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent--and family man--who violently executed four sex workers, shocking the small border town of Laredo, and along the way, raises serious questions about the border crisis and the abuse of law enforcement.
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Hell's half-acre
by Jonusas, Susan
Describes the true-crime story around the 1873 discovery of the remains of numerous bodies beneath an apple orchard, thought to be the work of the Benders, a family of four who seemed to be respectable homesteaders in Labette County, Kansas.
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Lost girls
by Kolker, Robert
Working closely with the victim's families, this tragic account details the lives and deaths of the five women—prostitutes who advertised on Craigslist—who were victims of the Long Island serial killer, the most skillful and accomplished psychopath in New York since the Son of Sam, David Berkowitz.
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Return to Uluru
by McKenna, Mark
In this book that recounts a cold case that strikes at the heart of Australia's white supremacy, one of Australia's leading historians uncovers new evidence in regard to the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934 at the continent's most sacred and mysterious landmark.
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Race against time
by Mitchell, Jerry
"An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder."
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Deliberate cruelty
by Montillo, Roseanne
Describes how author Truman Capote became obsessed with the true crime story of a Manhattan socialite who shot her banking heir husband in 1955, and discusses how publication of his book led to her suicide and his own scandalous downfall.
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If I can't have you
by Olsen, Gregg
An award-winning journalist and bestselling author investigate one of the 21st century's most puzzling cases - the disappearance of Susan Powell, a pretty, blonde Utah mother who went missing in December of 2009, and the resulting murder of her two little boys by her husband three years later.
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The last place you'd look
by Moore, Carole
This book examines true stories of missing persons and their families alongside the various resources available to them
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I know who you are
by Rae-Venter, Barbara
A retiree researching her family history explains how she used her knowledge of DNA data to uncover the culprit of the Golden State Killer crime spree, a cold case that had baffled law enforcement for decades.
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Maniac
by Schechter, Harold
The best-selling author of Hell’s Princess describes how Andrew P. Kehoe blew up the new primary school in Bath, Michigan in 1927, killing 38 children and 6 adults in one of the first and worst mass murders in American history.
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Roll Red roll
by Schwartzman, Nancy
A Peabody Award-nominated documentary film director and producer recounts the 2012 rape of a 16-year-old girl by the Steubenville, Ohio high school football team, offering a broader understanding of rape culture, weaving memory and new testimony from a decade's research into the event and town.
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The Waltham murders
by Zalkind, Susan Clare
A crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking cold case and the radicalization of a terrorist.
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