True Crime

True crime is a non-fiction literary genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people. The crimes most commonly include murder, but true crime works have also touched on other legal cases. Still others revisit historic crimes (or alleged crimes) and propose solutions, such as books examining political assassinations, well-known unsolved murders, or the deaths of celebrities.

New Releases Tagged "True Crime"

Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir
A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #3)
And Hell Followed with Her:  Crossing to the Dark Side of the American Border
Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss
Sleep My Darlings: The true story of a mother who killed her children in cold blood
The Case Of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered
Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs
Kiss of the She-Devil

Giveaways

  • Hero To Zero by Zach Fortier
    Hero To Zero
    by
    Release date: Mar 26, 2013
    Zach Fortier is back with more true crime accounts from the streets. This time with true stories of Cops gone bad. Join Zach as he meets a cop who wil…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: May 07 - May 21, 2013
    2 copies available, 325 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • True Crime by Lee Gutkind
    True Crime: Real-Life Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, Grave-robbing, and More
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    Release date: Jun 11, 2013
    Thirteen stories. Thirteen crimes. Countless lives changed.

    In these pages, a magazine intern, kidnapped and brutalized by her ex-boyfriend, struggles…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: May 10 - Jun 10, 2013
    15 copies available, 392 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • Octopus by Guy Lawson
    Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
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    Release date: Jul 09, 2013
    WIN A PAPERBACK EDITION OF GUY LAWSON'S ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'OCTOPUS'

    Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: May 15 - Jun 15, 2013
    20 copies available, 159 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir
    The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
    Life After Death
    Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
    Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked
    People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
    Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox
    Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
    Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
    Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
    The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
    El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
    Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
    Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony
    The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths
    Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian RubinsteinPriceless by Robert K. WittmanFlawless by Scott Andrew SelbyThe Rescue Artist by Edward DolnickThe Great Pearl Heist by Molly Caldwell Crosby
    True-Crime Heists
    6 books — 2 voters

    The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Beast of Chicago by Rick GearySin in the Second City by Karen AbbottFor the Thrill of It by Simon BaatzThe St. Valentine's Day Massacre by William J. Helmer
    Chicago Crime
    63 books — 3 voters
    Wrong Place Wrong Time by David P. PerlmutterNo Time for Goodbye by Linwood BarclayBlood Wounds by Susan Beth PfefferAm I Free To Go? by Kathryn CramerThe Shattering by Karen Healey
    Wrong Place Wrong Time
    9 books — 8 voters

    In Cold Blood
    Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
    Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder
    Columbine
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
    Zodiac
    The Monster of Florence
    Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper -- Case Closed
    Fatal Vision
    Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
    Bitter Harvest
    Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
    If You Really Loved Me

    Ben Mezrich
    Ben Mezrich Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
    A ballsy aspiring astronaut steals moon rocks from NASA in Sex on the Moon, a work of true crime by the author of The Accidental Billionaires:The Founding of Facebook.
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    Marc  Schiller
    When backed into a corner, a victim has two options: he can lie down and die, or, he can fight regardless of the odds.
    Marc Schiller, Pain and Gain - The Untold True Story

    Jeannie Walker
    I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.
    Jeannie Walker

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    A Sword and a Whetstone Bringing together all literature lovers to perfect the art of literary criticism.

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    An act of murder focused on fictional and non-fictional homicide, serial killers, and the real life science behin…more

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    The Bandido Massacre: A True Story of Bikers, Brotherhood and Betrayal
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    Luggage By Kroger
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