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Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith / |
Krakauer recounts the true story of two fundamentalist Mormon brothers who killed their younger brother's wife and baby daughter, claiming that God told them to commit the horrific crime. |
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In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences / |
Capote's classic "nonfiction novel" is a chilling look at a slain family in rural Kansas and the two men who murdered them. |
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Midnight in the garden of good and evil : a Savannah Story. |
Savannah, Georgia is the backdrop to this strange tale of a group of eccentrics that inhabits the city and the murder trial of one of their own, Jim Williams. |
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Positively 5th street : murderers, cheetah's, and binion's world series of poker / |
McManus, a poet and novelist, is sent to Las Vegas to write about the World Series of Poker but ends up entering the tournament as a player. Weaved together with his progress through the tournament is the story of the trial being held at the same time for the accused murderers of Ted Binion, an heir of the casino family that started the event. |
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Wiseguy : life in a Mafia family / |
The book that the movie Goodfellas is based upon tells the story of Henry Hill, a successful street-level hoodlum who brought down an arm of the New York mafia and had to enter the witness protection program. |
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Hell's angels : a strange and terrible saga / |
This book is a journalistic look at the notorious American motorcycle gang Hell's Angels, which the press sensationalized in the 1960s. Hunter exposes both the criminal behavior of the gang and also the exaggerated mythology that surrounded it. |
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Eight men out : the Black Sox and the 1919 world series / |
Asinof writes a compelling history of the biggest scandal in baseball, the fixing of the 1919 World Series by the Chicago White Sox. Sympathetically but honestly told, Eight Men Out looks at not only the players involved, but also the hardened gamblers and greedy owners that contributed to this tale of the corruption of the beloved national pastime. |
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And the dead shall rise : the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank / |
A murdered 13-year-old factory worker, a sensational trial and the lynching of the Jewish man convicted of the crime in early 20th century Georgia are the subjects that dominate this historical account at one of the century's most riveting events. |
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Helter skelter : the true story of the Manson murders / |
Bugliosi is the prosecutor who helped convict Manson and his female groupies for the murder of multiple victims, including Roman Polanski's wife. Here he recounts the trials and the events surrounding them in this classic true crime narrative. |
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The stranger beside me / |
Prolific true crime writer Ann Rule became friends with Ted Bundy when they worked together at a crisis center. In this classic page-turner, she recounts the serial murderer's crimes without sensationalizing them and re-examines the nature of the man she thought she knew. |
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Arc of justice : a saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age / |
In 1925, the Sweet family and some friends defend themselves against a violent mob of white neighbors by taking up arms. A white man is shot, and the African-American occupants of the Sweet home find themselves on trial for murder with Clarence Darrow at their defense. |
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Catch me if you can : the amazing true story of the most extraordinary liar in the history of fun an |
This is the real-life account of a teenage high school dropout, successful counterfeiter, impersonator and womanizer who eluded the government for years only to finally assist them in combating the same crimes at which he excelled. |
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The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / |
Weaving together the story of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the serial killer who operated in the city at the same time, Larson's vivdly told history shows a city on the cusp of a new modern age. This novelistic work of history has two main characters: Daniel Burnham, the architect of the fair, and H.H. Holmes, a killer who used the fair to lure his victims. |
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Manhunt : the twelve day chase for Lincoln's killer / |
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history - the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. Swanson tells the story of the suspenseful 12 day chase by U.S. Cavalry of Booth and his conspirators. |
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Satan's circus : murder, vice, police corruption, and New York's trial of the century / |
Satan's Circus was the name given to an entertainment district with a high crime rate in midtown Manhattan. NYPD officer Charles Becker, enmeshed in the corruption, was convicted for the murder of a casino owner in the district, a crime for which he was exectued in 1915, the only police officer to die by the death penalty. |