The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder

Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine

M. William Phelps · 477 pages

'Perfect Poison' tells the shocking true story of a female serial killer who abused her respected position as a nurse to administer death to her trusting patients.

Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder

James B. Stewart · 334 pages

"Young, blond, handsome Dr. Swango seemed a godsend wherever he was hired to practice medicine. But acclaim would turn to disbelief, dismay, then horror, as the evidence mounted that he could actually be murdering his patients. Then Dr. Michael Swango would leave that hospital - only to be rehired at another. Today the FBI believes that Swango may he the most prolific serial killer in American his

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman · 341 pages

When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Caroline Fraser · 480 pages

The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco

Robert Graysmith · 552 pages

Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer

Ann Rule · 504 pages

"Ann Rule has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty-nine young women. The quest to discover the most prolific serial killer in American history has been an intimate part of Rule's life, with some of the corpses found only a mile or so from where she lived and raised her own daughters. She did not know the killer, but he apparently

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed

Patricia Cornwell · 387 pages

"Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer - Jack the Ripper.". "For over a hundred years the murders have remained among the world's greatest unsolved crimes, and a wealth o

Poisoned Love

Caitlin Rother · 480 pages

Case seen on Inside Edition, Good Morning America, and 48 Hours Accident, Suicide... Or Murder?On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum, 24, sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning she was leaving him. But family and friends who knew of Greg's distaste for drugs weren't buying Kristin's story—par

The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders

Jack Olsen · 256 pages

The mass murder of almost thirty young boys in Houston may well have been the most heinous crime of the century. How could such a series of murders go undetected for almost three years before being exposed? *The Man with the Candy* is a brilliant investigative journalist's story of the crime and the answer to that question.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson · 464 pages

From back cover: Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spell-binding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men - the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America's place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik

Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery

Robert Kolker · 424 pages

"A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five Craigslist prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York magazine cover story"--

Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.

Julie Holland · 310 pages

Documents a psychiatrist's employment at New York City's Bellevue Hospital while sharing the life lessons she learned from her patients and colleagues, describing some of the more remarkable cases of her career and their influences on her family life.

The Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders

Joseph Wambaugh · 304 pages

Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scienti

The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare

Don Davis · 320 pages

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan · 285 pages

A Death in Belmont

Sebastian Junger · 288 pages

In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim's house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of the

The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border

Teresa Rodriguez, Diana Montane, Lisa Pulitzer · 316 pages

For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juárez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile--young, slender, and poor. Speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens has led the U.S. government to send in criminal profilers from the FBI

The Ultimate Evil : The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond

Maury Terry · 526 pages

On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the "Son of Sam" murders that had terrorized New York City for more than thirteen months. Berkowitz eagerly confessed to being a lone marauder—one who had carried out eight senseless shootings with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver. The case was officially closed. Journalist Maury Terry was suspicious of Berkowitz's confession. He has spent t

The Monster of Florence

Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi · 345 pages

Marshal Guarnaccia feels out of his league when he is assigned to help track down a serial killer, especially when he assigned to work under Simonetti, a man so dedicated to achieving a conviction that he is blinded to the consequences.

Black Dahlia Avenger

Steve Hodel · 481 pages

The author, a former Los Angeles police officer, recounts how he concluded that his late father, Dr. George Hodel, was the Black Dahlia Avenger, the serial killer responsible for the death of Elizabeth Short in 1947 and other murders. More than fifty years after what has been called the most notorious unsolved murder of the 20th century, the case has finally been solved. On January 15, 1947, the b

The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

Claudia Rowe · 288 pages

On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women

Stevie Cameron

Bitter Almonds: The True Story of Mothers, Daughters, and the Seattle Cyanide Murders

Gregg Olsen · 551 pages

Stella Maudine Nickell's small-time world was one of big-time dreams. In 1986, her biggest one came true when her husband died during a seizure, making her the beneficiary of a $175,000,plus insurance payoff,until authorities discovered Bruce Nickell's headache capsules had been laced with cyanide. In an attempt to cover her tracks, Stella did the unconscionable. She saw to it that a stranger woul

Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer

Ann McElhinney, Phelim McAleer · 256 pages

In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree. Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for murdering babies and patients at his "House of Horrors" abortion clinic. This book--now a major movie starring Dean Cain (Lois & Cl