Coroner's Journal: Stalking Death in Louisiana

Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist

William R. Maples · 292 pages

William Maples is blessed with an eerie but powerful gift. From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, he can deduce the age, gender and ethnicity of a corpse, and the manner in which the victim was dispatched; his gift has sealed the doom of many a killer. His skill is to read the tales of death written on the bones of the dead, and in this fascinating book he revisits his stran

Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science

William M. Bass, Jon Jefferson · 304 pages

There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition—three acres of land on a hillside in Tennessee where human bodies are left to the elements. His research at "the Body Farm" has revolutionized forensic science, helping police crack cold cases and pinpoint time of death.

Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers

Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Ira Wood · 301 pages

Everyone has felt the urge to kill. Most people don't kill. Some people do. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, has spent the last quarter century studying the differences between those who do and those who don't. Among the murderers she has examined are the notorious killers Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot

Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner

Michael Baden, Judith Adler Hennessee · 223 pages

* JFK's autopsy failed to disclose crucial evidence. * The deaths of John Belushi and Elvis Presley were far more complex than anyone has let on. * Decisive medical findings in the von Bulow affair were consistently overlooked. These are but three of the shocking revelations in Dr. Michael Baden's first-person, no-holds-barred account of his distinguished career in forensic pathology. In dete

Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive'

Charles Manson · 232 pages

"The myth of Charles Manson is not likely to survive the impact of his own words,” Nuel Emmons writes in the introduction to *Manson In His Own Words*, the shocking true confessions that lay bare the life and mind of the cult leader and notorious criminal. His story provides an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the Tate-LaBianca murders, and reminds us of the comp

Law & Disorder: The Legendary FBI Profiler's Relentless Pursuit of Justice

John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 404 pages

"For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, he's had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam). Written with long-time col

Restless Souls: The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice

Alisa Statman, Brie Tate

A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder

Karen Spears Zacharias

El Sicario: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man. Edited by Molly Molloy and Charles Bowden

Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden

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

Jason M. Moss · 320 pages

Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

Walter Kirn · 272 pages

In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-

The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat

Edna Buchanan · 388 pages

This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for "The Miami Herald."

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

Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean

Richard Logan, Tere Duperrault · 218 pages

Co-authored by a psychologist and survival expert, this book delves into the details of how a little girl survived the at-sea murder of her family; the pod of whales who guarded her; and the aftermath and the recapturing of life.

Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra

Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein, Christopher Graziano

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

Casey Cep · 314 pages

Monster: My True Story

Aileen Wuornos, Christopher Berry-Dee · 238 pages

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

James Renner · 304 pages

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

Claudia Rowe · 288 pages

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

Jake Adelstein · 335 pages

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-