Presumed Guilty: Casey Anthony: the Inside Story

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Asne Seierstad · 530 pages

"On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In [this book], the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and i

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Caroline Fraser · 480 pages

Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars

Juan Martinez · 427 pages

The prosecutor who convicted Jodi Arias for the killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the sensational trial that captivated the nation.

Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Amy Billig -- A Mother's Search for Justice

Greg Aunapu, Susan Billig · 352 pages

Journey Into Darkness

John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 384 pages

The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer

Jason M. Moss · 320 pages

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

Monica Hesse · 263 pages

"The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist se

Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

David Reichert · 320 pages

The riveting personal account of one sheriffs epic hunt for America's most heinous serial killer. For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer--the most notorious serial killer in American history. He was the first detective on the case in 1982 and doggedly pursued it as the body count climbed to 49 and it became the most infamous unsolved cas

John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

Sam L. Amirante, Dan Broderick

Columbine

Dave Cullen · 417 pages

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt · 393 pages

Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print. All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oa

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

Claudia Rowe · 288 pages

Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

Jeff Ashton · 324 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

Who Killed My Daughter?

Lois Duncan · 321 pages

On July 16, 1989, Lois Duncan's daughter was chased down and shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After the police abandoned all leads, Duncan refused to give up her search for the truth. In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigatio

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

Michael Finkel · 336 pages

In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of

A Rip in Heaven

Jeanine Cummins · 311 pages

It was a headline story in the New York Times and USA Today. It was covered by Court TV and profiled on the Ricki Lake Show. Now, here is the intimate memoir of a shocking crime and its aftermath...one family's immediate and unforgettable story of what victims can suffer long after they should be safe.

The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story

Ann Rule · 512 pages

There are actually two stories here: one describes the gradual disintegration of a seemingly normal, affable, brilliant man into a sexual psychopath so evil, so methodical in his vicious killings, that one wonders if he was at all human. The other story is that of Ann Rule herself, a decent, hard-working, middle-aged mother of four who meets and befriends a nice young man working beside her in a c

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Casey Cep · 314 pages

Murder by Family: The Incredible True Story of a Son's Treachery and a Father's Forgiveness

Kent Whitaker · 224 pages

This is the tragic story of Kent Whitaker's heart-wrenching journey toward forgiveness and faith after the brutal murder of his wife and one of his sons. Straight from the headlines comes an incredible true story of a son's treachery. For the first time, readers are offered inside access to the emotional drama that went on behind the scenes. At the core is the remarkable healing power of forgi

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman · 289 pages

The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer

Gary L. Stewart, Susan D. Mustafa · 367 pages

"An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious--and still at large--serial killers in America. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to searc

Dance with the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss

David Bagby · 320 pages

On November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, by a homeless man searching dumpsters for aluminum cans. The alleged murderer was his ex-girlfriend Shirley Turner---also a doctor. For parents Dave and Kate, the pain was unbearable. Little did they know, however, that the worst was far from over. Shirley Turner---k

True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

James Renner · 304 pages