True Crime

Wednesday, October 2, 2002.

Aspen Hill, Maryland. Northgate Plaza.

5:20 PM.

Inside Michael’s craft supply store, cashier Ann Chapman rings up another customer. Then it happens. A loud crack; a gust of wind; the light in register five goes dark....

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered....

I first met Lindsey Rose playing pool at The Burwood Hotel in 1988. I was two years out of high school. He'd already committed three murders. None of us knew....

Stock market multimillionaire at 26, federal convict at 36, he partied like a rock star, lived like a king, and barely survived his rise and fall as an American entrepreneurial icon....

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison.....

In the most extraordinary journey Ann Rule has ever undertaken, she has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer....

This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history....

Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history....

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small-town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet....

We are the people our parents warned us about" is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs....

The internationally acclaimed true-crime story you have to hear to believe....

Aaron Hernandez was a college football All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. He was a star on the league-dominant New England Patriots, who extended his contract for a record $40 million....

The Irishman is an epic saga of organised crime in postwar America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hit man who worked for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th century....

Eighty thousand words, 100 Serial Killers, 100 Short Stories but thousands of Victims. I've selected at random 100 from A to Z....

America's foremost true-crime writer offers her most riveting real-life drama ever: a heartbreaking story of treachery, jealousy and murder....

The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread....

In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde and 21 years old - had disappeared....

How could five beautiful, intelligent, and successful women believe he was their dream come true? Ask any women who ever longed for "the perfect man"....

On 7 December 2003 Daniel Morcombe disappeared on the Sunshine Coast, while waiting for a bus....

After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there was only one name their equal in terror....

Journalist Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary Yates hours after their mother, Andrea Yates, drowned them in their suburban Houston home in June 2001....

Saville’s corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the sheets and pillow of the cot....

The powerful, gripping first-hand account of Brighton’s Babes in the Wood murders from long-serving detective Graham Bartlett with best-selling author Peter James....

Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force....

Fred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband and wife who loved and killed together.... 

When Craigslist prostitute Shannan Gilbert went missing, police paid little attention. Until seven months later, when four bodies were found nearby - none of them Shannan's....

John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet....