True Crime Fiction

Two youths, Sam and Stacie, live their college years in full symbiosis. Year in and year out, their circumstances and ambitions change. The two main characters separate and live two parallel lives. After some time, coincidentally, their fates will cross again but the background is no longer the carefree time of their lives during college.

The bodies are piling high - 36 unsolved gangland murders at last count - and FBI Supervisor Hans Bauer has to do the unthinkable: put tough, independent Special Agent Frank Murray back on the squad he was twice kicked out of, Organized Crime. Mafia Kingpin Nick Scarponi is back from prison and orchestrating the bloodiest reign of mob killings in Philadelphia history and Frank Murray, who tossed Scarponi in the can three years earlier, is his number-one target. The taunt, tense, visually gritty story grabs you by the throat.

On December 11, 2008, in the middle of a busy baseball offseason, Bernard Madoff was arrested for orchestrating a massive financial fraud. Among his chief investors was Mets owner Fred Wilpon, who not only lost a major revenue stream as a result, but is now being sued for "fictitious profits" that he now owes to other Madoff victims. To the tune of almost a billion dollars. How did this happen? Where did Wilpon go wrong, and why does a fraud victim suddenly owe money?

London 1901. The city is in the grip of "monkey man mania". Intrepid explorer Drake Patterson has caused a media storm following his astonishing discovery of a frozen ancient man in the remote Himalayan Mountains. This primal man has been triumphantly transported back to England as proof of the missing link in evolutionary theory. The upcoming auction of the specimen causes a stir amongst academics and the board of the British Museum.

Cocaine and politics are a big part of life in the land of pleasant living. Maryland State Police Detective Christy Lee Vennetti and her newspaper reporter husband, T. J. Kent, share a life together. Join them as their paths cross more than a few times as major figures in a drug ring explode into the headlines when their gambling boat is blasted into the hereafter.

Kriminalfälle aus aller Welt. Alle wahr, ungelöst und hochspannend! Im Wassertank eines Hotels schwimmt die Leiche einer vermissten Studentin. Auf einem Bauernhof in Oberbayern werden sechs Menschen nachts mit einer Hacke erschlagen. Zwei Mädchen fotografieren einen fremden Mann und posten es auf Snapchat - wenig später sind sie tot. Nur: Was war geschehen? Und wer war der Täter? Julian Hannes ist die Mystery-Größe auf YouTube. Mehr als 1,8 Millionen Fans folgen ihm auf seinem Kanal "Jarow". Seine dort geschilderten Kriminalgeschichten wurden millionenfach angesehen.

Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Addams Award-winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the civil rights movement.

An electrifying true story of Marco, a poor adolescent Colombian fishermen who dreams of wealth and whose ambitions result in his forced servitude to the AUC, a ruthlessly violent narco paramilitary organization that operates at the height of Colombia's drug-fueled civil war. The adventure thrusts the listener into the mind and soul of Marco, who's charged with the dangerous responsibility of moving millions of dollars in cash and thousands of kilos of cocaine through the treacherous jungles of Central and South America and the Gulf of Mexico's unforgiving waters.

Twenty-seven years after the murder of Nancy Willem, the State of California has not put Johnny Miles to death. He has lived in a one-person cell on San Quentin’s death row, among hundreds of others convicted of first-degree murder. Johnny Miles has had to find a measure of acceptance to continue living on death row; he has chosen to live while under the sentence of death. The learning curve is meant for the learned: a person that can separate flair from meaning...more or less an investigative and curious art enthusiast and/or enjoyer of abstract poetry.

Living in denial doesn't just make problems go away. Andrew Monroe is finally going to learn this when the past begins to call, reminding him of the murder of a child in his early years in Chicago. Firstly, after the mysterious disappearance of his wife one morning during their honeymoon and the police's refusal to take up their case, he would have to enlist the help of an old-time lover to help find her.

If you enjoyed travel, seeing the world, and meeting new and exciting people, how could you package everything and make it a “career”? Simone, Marie, Jane, Adelina, Mary…or whatever name she’s using today, has a unique set of skills and a different outlook on life. Pretty but anonymous, she can use almost anything at her fingertips to get the job done.

Millicent “Mill” Brown is not the perfect mother, as she runs her apartment as a trap house on the Southside of Chicago. However, when Mill’s apartment is raided, and a deal goes wrong, Mill is arrested and watches Mrs. Ross, the Director of the Department of Children and Family Services, take her children away.

Det låter som sånt som händer i sagor, du vet filmer. Fast sånt händer i verkligheten. När jag berättar här, det låter så... man kan tro att det inte händer... men det gör det, man måste uppleva det för att överhuvudtaget kunna förstå det. Att alltså, att typ styvmödrar är taskiga emot en... Så inledde Beatrice sitt första förhör i november 2011. Förhörsledaren försökte enträget att lista ut vad vittnesmålet handlade om, men informationen som skulle uppenbaras var något som han aldrig skulle kunnat föreställa sig.

Jack the Ripper may get all the fame, but his 1960s counterpart, Jack the Stripper, will really send shivers down your spine. At least six women, all prostitutes, were murdered at his hand - possibly more. Most intriguing of all...he was never caught. The crimes, though often forgotten today, inspired the crime novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, which Alfred Hitchcock turned into the 1972 movie, Frenzy. Go inside the hunt for this brutal killer in this gripping short biography.

Detectives O'Roarke and Garcia have a cold case dumped on their desk. Despite their objections that they don't do cold cases, their commander tells them that they do now, since the new mayor has asked for them. Three years earlier, a relative of the mayor's was murdered and the case was never solved. The cold case plunges the murder cops into the world of television and cooking.

Join Marsha and Danny Jones as they face the greatest threat yet to the Sea Empress and her passengers on a wonderful cruise to the Caribbean - with a serial killer on board! A fascinating group of people have joined the cruise to the warm and sunny islands, from famous authors to stalking reviewers, a country music legend and a top FBI agent sent to help track down a killer. Danger lurks every day as the body count begins. When will it all end? Only The Shadow knows for sure!

Wolf is in Panama waiting for the details of his next assignment. When his handler contacts him, he is immediately distrustful and suspicious of the plan. He sees it as a suicide mission with no way out. Within hours, bodies start to pile up, a double-cross and betrayal are tripped up, and a final showdown that leaves the target alive and Wolf on the run.

Dive into the haunting world of Andrei Chikatilo, the notorious "Rostov Ripper," whose reign of terror gripped Soviet Russia for over a decade. In this meticulously researched account, The Rostov Ripper unearths the chilling details of Chikatilo’s life, his heinous crimes, and the police failures that allowed him to evade capture. From twisted motives to relentless pursuit, this true-crime narrative takes you inside the mind of a murderer and the flawed justice system that struggled to bring him to justice.

This is the most detailed storytelling of the crimes of the one that came to be known as "The Monster of Florence": Brunoro and Pezzan write about everything, from Vincenzo Spalletti to the Sardinian Lead, from Pietro Pacciani to the picnicking friends, and finally from the esoteric theory to the Narducci story. A detailed map to find your way through a deep mystery.We are talking about an event that has tested all existing criminology theories on serial killers, to the point where we can state that there are traditional crimes, serial killers, and then there is "The Monster of Florence".

Surrounded by the Great Lakes and divided in two, Michigan has a special mystique. Violence extends from a city like Detroit to more genteel college towns, lake resorts, and the murky backwoods. A deer hunter might stumble into Deliverance, a child could meet a serial killer, or a love-struck admirer may focus on a killer. Here, we have murders turned into movies, record victim tolls, innocent choices that led to horror, and the darkest side of high society.