Best True Crime Novels - April 2024

True Crime Stories: 3 True Crime Books Collection (True Crime Novels Anthology) (Volume 1)

It is no secret that true crime murder stories are not for the faint of heart. They can lead you to double-check your windows and doors at night, and question everything you thought or believed about human nature. Yet they are intriguing and fascinating at the same time.What is it that makes us different from those who take the lives of others? That is a question that many ask themselves, and these true crime stories help to identify the method and psychology behind some of the most terrifying killers in modern history.This set includes three true crime books, volumes 1-3, and each is filled w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1975732200
• ASIN: 1975732200
• ISBN: 1975732200
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Spilled Milk: Based On A True Story

"Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful — and ultimately triumphant — story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." - Brown, Stacy. Interview with the Pocono Record Newspaper "Spilled Milk is a story about resilience. The strength of the human mind and will power to live a better life." - The Weekly Sparkle"Beautifully written, hauntingly real, Spilled Milk is a must read for any young adult today." - F.P Lione, AuthorBrooke Nolan is a battered chil... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00D9GY2BU
• ASIN: B00D9GY2BU

The Last Thing She Ever Did

From the Amazon Charts and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a psychological thriller exploring the things we dare to do when no one is looking . . .The community along Oregon’s Deschutes River is one of successful careers and perfect families. For years, up-and-comers Liz and Owen have admired their good friends and neighbors, Carole and David. They appear to have it all—security, happiness, and a beautiful young son, Charlie.Then Charlie vanishes without a trace, and all that seemed safe is shattered by a tragedy that is incomprehensible—except to Liz.It took one fleeting mome... [Read More]

• ASIN: B072LD57FC
• ASIN: B072LD57FC
• Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

A Killer Among Us: A True Story of Murder and Justice

Elizabeth DeCaro, a 28 year-old mother of four was found dead in her own home, murdered execution-style with two bullets to the head. Her husband Rick was immediately suspect, having previously struck her "accidentally" with the family van after taking out a $100,000 life insurance policy on her. A Killer Among Us presents the true shocking story of Elizabeth's family and their search for justice against the man who continued to play father to the children whose mother he had killed.Charles Bosworth, Jr. is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Previous Victims and Silent Witness.

• ASIN: B00YT7RAQW
• ASIN: B00YT7RAQW
• Manufacturer: Crime Rant Books

The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived.No one believes her story.The police think she's crazy.Her therapist thinks she's suicidal.Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk.They're all right--but did she see the killer?As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on earth she wants to be--her hometown where the slayings took place. Wracked by the lingering echoes of survivor's guilt, Faith spirals into a black hole of alcoholism and wanton self-destruction. Finding no solace a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1683993039
• ASIN: 1683993039
• ISBN: 1683993039
• Manufacturer: Greyson Media Associates

The Evil Within: Murdered by her stepbrother - the crime that shocked a nation. The heartbreaking story of Becky Watts by her father

Previously published as Becky, this is the heartbreaking story behind the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a crime that shocked the nation and tore a family in two.A vulnerable and shy girl, Becky Watts was brutally murdered and dismembered by her own step-brother on 19 February 2015. As her father Darren discovered the horrific details of what happened to his darling girl, his world fell apart.Writing about the darkest hours, Darren uncovers what Becky’s relationship with her step-brother Nathan, a child he had raised as his own son, was really like. He recalls the deva... [Read More]

• ASIN: B019MIKTJM
• ASIN: B019MIKTJM
• Manufacturer: HarperElement

Blood and Money: The Classic True Story of Murder, Passion, and Power

New York Times Bestseller: The “gripping” true story of a beautiful Texas socialite, her ambitious husband, and a string of mysterious deaths (Los Angeles Times). Joan Robinson Hill was a world-class equestrian, a glamorous member of Houston high society, and the wife of Dr. John Hill, a handsome and successful plastic surgeon. Her father, Ash Robinson, was a charismatic oil tycoon obsessed with making his daughter’s every dream come true.   Rich, attractive, and reckless, Joan was one of the most celebrated women in a town infatuated with money, power, and fame. Then one morning in 196... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01NBJYHPW
• ASIN: B01NBJYHPW
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

True Crime Stories: 3 True Crime Books Collection (Book 4, 5 & 6) (True Crime Novels Anthology 2)

Night falls and the rivers of blood flow forth once more. For what are murderers if not creatures of the dark? Hiding in plain sight as the average neighbor, co-worker or even employer, just waiting for the moment to unleash their murderous urges. Whether they are sadistic in their methods or not does not change the common trait that they all share: the presence of evil.These crimes shock us to the core, leading us to wonder just what is going on in their minds that leads them to take lives without any feeling of remorse…yet deep down we’re actually intrigued by their crimes. Fascinated, e... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DZB84RP
• ASIN: B07DZB84RP

The Life We Bury

A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
• ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

A Dangerous Fortune: A Novel

• ASIN: B003V4BPJW
• ASIN: B003V4BPJW
• Manufacturer: Dell

Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

Edgar Award Finalist: The “sensational” true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.   On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MTU86Z7
• ASIN: B01MTU86Z7
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Dark Sacred Night (A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel Book 1)

• ASIN: B0796R3RR4
• ASIN: B0796R3RR4
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

West Cork

This much we do know: Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered days before Christmas in 1996, her broken body discovered at the edge of her property near the town of Schull in West Cork, Ireland. The rest remains a mystery. Gripping, yet ever elusive, join the real-life hunt for answers in the year's first not-to-be-missed, true-crime series. Investigative journalist Sam Bungey and documentarian Jennifer Forde guide listeners through the brutal, unsolved murder and the tangled web of its investigation, while introducing an intricate cast of characters, a provocative prime suspect, and a recoveri... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0792BWQWT
• ASIN: B0792BWQWT
• Manufacturer: Audible Originals

The Meaning of Our Tears: The True Story of the Lawson Family Murders of Christmas Day 1929

On a snowy Christmas Day in 1929, Charles Davis Lawson, a respected tobacco farmer in rural North Carolina, murdered everyone in his family except one son. He left the world to consider the reason behind his extremely surprising and brutal act. Since that time, a huge and lonely mass grave has existed quietly in a small family cemetery deep in the North Carolina woods, and it has left generations of people wondering why.On the tombstone, the epitaph reads:"Not now, but in the coming years,It will be in a better land,We'll read the meaning of our tears,and then sometime we'll understand."This s... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01EKOU42U
• ASIN: B01EKOU42U
• Manufacturer: DTS Group Inc.

Above Suspicion: An Undercover FBI Agent, an Illicit Affair, and a Murder of Passion

The “expertly told” true story of an FBI agent’s affair that leads to murder in Kentucky coal country—soon to be a major motion picture starring Emilia Clarke (Publishers Weekly). When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong dream, if not the most desirable location. Pikeville, Kentucky, is high in Appalachian coal country, an outpost rife with lawlessness dating back to the Hatfields and McCoys. As a rising star in the bureau, however, Putnam soon was cultivating paid informants and busting drug rings and bank robbers... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N49MWZH
• ASIN: B01N49MWZH
• Brand: Open Road Media
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The 57 Bus : A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland,

• UPC: 55863059
• Rating: 4.667

Blood Sins : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

A "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers once again with this chilling novel in which the Special Crimes Unit sends a Haven operative undercover to catch a charismatic killer, who promises his victims heaven in exchange

• UPC: 11019822
• Rating: 3.2

Stealing Shadows : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

While recovering from her last traumatic attempt to help the police catch a killer, psychic Cassie Neill's mind is filled with the thoughts of a pscyhopath, but as she struggles to place a name or

• UPC: 789555
• Rating: 4.0

Out of the Shadows : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

Sheriff Miranda Knight is reunited with FBI profiler Noah Bishop when her small town of Gladstone, Tennessee is torn apart by the kidnapping, torture, and murder of several teenagers, and Miranda is forced to use

• UPC: 815005
• Rating: 3.571

True Crime : The Novel

There are 18 hours until midnight. In those escaping hours, reporter Steve Everett must prove the innocence of Frank Beachum, the death row convict sentenced to die by lethal injection whom he is to interview

• UPC: 25673941
• Rating: 4.75

Love You Gone: A Gripping Psychological Crime Novel with an Incredible Twist (Paperback)

'I couldn't put it down... jaw dropping... fantastic... If you're a fan of Gone Girl, you're seriously going to enjoy this!' Netgalley reviewer, 5 stars 'Hello? Police? My husband and our children... they're gone.' When

• UPC: 518802211

Past Crimes : A Van Shaw Novel

When his estranged grandfather is shot and left for dead, Army Ranger Van Shaw plunges into the criminal underworld of his youth to find a murderer and uncover a shocking family

• UPC: 40795331
• Rating: 4.667

Hiding in the Shadows : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

When Faith Parker awakens from a coma, she has no memory of her life--or of her friend Dinah, who has vanished without a trace. Death is stalking both women and one of them will not

• UPC: 25652341
• Rating: 4.167

Crime Scene : A Novel

"A corpse lying at the bottom of the stairs. A beautiful but troubled young woman. A brutal, decades-old murder. And the man charged with making sense of it all. Clay Edison is a former star

• UPC: 55699278
• Rating: 3.25

Sleeping with Fear : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

In the thrilling, "New York Times" bestselling conclusion to Hoopers spellbinding Fear trilogy, Special Agent Riley Crane of the FBIs Special Crimes Unit wakes up alone in a beach cottage covered in blood, unable to

• UPC: 5278522
• Rating: 2.5

The Mammoth Book of the Best Short SF Novels (Ma... by Dozois, Gardner Paperback

• UPC: 391921003865
• Category: Children & YA Fiction
• Price: 5 USD