Criminals

After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media....

In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today....

First published in 1966, Hell’s Angels is Thompson’s up-close and personal look at the infamous motorcycle gang during the time when its moniker was most feared....

San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world....

In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot. But the investigation that led law enforcement to their suspect, William Devin Howell, is only part of the story behind His Garden: Conversations with a Serial Killer....

The rise over the last two decades of a powerful new class of billionaire financiers marks a singular shift in the American economic and political landscape....

Jimmy Joste was a powerhouse in the oil and gas industry, but he was a weakling when it came to his gorgeous, athletic, longtime lover, Rhonda Glover....

The definitive memoir by Damien Echols of the "West Memphis Three", who was falsely convicted of committing three murders. Hear this unforgettable account of his 18 years on death row....

Rigorous and intimate, Al Capone provides new answers to the enduring questions about this fascinating figure, who was equal parts charismatic gangster, and devoted patriarch....

A successful entertainment executive. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success. Until tragedy struck. Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case - and the source material for NBC's Law and Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders....

Mikal Gilmore is the youngest brother of Gary Gilmore, executed at his own urging for the murder of two innocent men...

Founded more than 150 years ago by shepherding families in the toe of Italy, the 'Ndrangheta is today the world's most powerful mafia, with a crushing presence in Southern Italy....

Edge of Madness - The Story of Joseph Kallinger is the fourth book in a compelling series of true crime short stories for people who don't have time to listen to a full-length novel. This audiobook examines the horrifying account of a knife-wielding shoemaker who kills under the command of Charlie, a floating head.

A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot behind a suburban strip mall. But the investigation that led law enforcement to their suspect, William Devin Howell, is only part of the story behind His Garden: Conversations with a Serial Killer. A practicing attorney, author Anne K. Howard first contacted Howell while he was serving a 15-year sentence for the murder of one of his seven victims. He was about to be charged for the remaining six murders. 

The true story of an abused childhood, of shocking brutality and life as the daughter of notorious serial killer and master manipulator Rose West. You're 21 years old. Police arrive on the doorstep of your house, 25 Cromwell Street, with a warrant to search the garden for the remains of your older sister you didn't know was dead. Bones are found, and they are from more than one body. And so the nightmare begins. You are the daughter of Fred and Rose West.  

This is the definitive biography of the most powerful man in Hollywood during the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, the man who founded The Hollywood Reporter and the most storied nightspots of the Sunset Strip. In the 30 years as Tinseltown’s premier behind-the-scenes power broker, Billy Wilkerson introduced Clark Gable and Lana Turner to the world, brought the Mafia to Hollywood, and engineered the shakedown of the Hollywood studios by Willie Bioff and his mob-run unions. He also helped to invent Las Vegas, tangled with Bugsy Siegel (and possibly was involved with his murder), and touched off the Hollywood blacklist.

Every cop has a case that dug its claws in and would not let go. For veteran detective Ron Iddles, it was his very first homicide case - the 1980 murder of single mother Maria James at the back of her Melbourne bookshop. He never managed to solve it, and it still grates like hell. Maria's two sons, Mark and Adam, have lived in a holding pattern longer than Rachael Brown has been alive. 

From a cell in San Quentin, the San Francisco Bay Area’s internationally known California state prison, comes to you the true biography of an incarcerated felon, Jay Jay. Raised in the Silicon Valley during an era when farms out numbered industry, Jay Jay found trouble young - very young. Serving time at age 12 is not the beginning of Jay Jay's descent into criminality. Take a crash course on the drug game with Jay Jay, and you will find yourself hearing about scenarios you never imagined possible.