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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Jigsaw Man
Paul Britton · 565 pages
An appalling, self-serving book full of pop-psychology and in some cases downright false claims. For instance, Britton tries to play down his role in the investigation of Colin Stagg in the Rachel Nickell case, despite the fact that he was advising the police even while they were interviewing Stagg at the time of his first arrest. An update on the Rachel Nickell case – in the form of an audiob
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
Thunderstruck
Erik Larson · 480 pages
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush." In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein, Christopher Graziano
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.
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
Bye Mam, I Love You
Sonia Oatley, Lynne Barrett-Lee · 276 pages
On Saturday, 23 October 2010, Sonia Oatley waved off her 15-year-old daughter, Becca, to meet Joshua Davies, a former boyfriend. Becca's hope was that the two of them would get back together, but it was not to be. By 3pm, oddly, she stopped answering her mobile. By 7.30 she was officially declared missing. And at 10am the following morning, while Sonia and the family were out searching, came the c
Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster
John "Red" Shea · 312 pages
The man who has remained silent for more than a decade finally speaks, revealing the gritty true story of his life inside the infamous South Boston Irish mob led by the elusive, Machiavellian kingpin Whitey Bulger, who to this day remains on the lam as one of the world's Ten Most Wanted criminals, second only to Osama bin Laden ...
Not Just Another Killing in Oakland: A Civil Lawyer's View Of A Murder Trial From The Jury Box
David H. Fleisig · 138 pages
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
The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
Roberto Escobar Gaviria
Coroner's Journal: Stalking Death in Louisiana
Louis Cataldie · 344 pages
A chief coroner from a Creole section of Baton Rouge describes some of his cases, including the investigation of the violent deaths of an LSU professor, a young woman whose remains were scattered in a churchyard, and one of the Beltway Sniper shooting victims.
Tears of Rage: From Grieving Father to Crusader for Justce: The Untold Story of the Adam Walsh Case
John Walsh, Susan Schindehette · 318 pages
As the host of the immensely popular America's Most Wanted, John Walsh has been instrumental in the capture of nearly four hundred and fifty of this country's most dangeroues fugitives. However, few know the full story of the personal tragedy behind his public crusade: the 1981 abduction and murder of his six-year-old son, Adam. Here, for the first time, Walsh, his wife Revé, and their closest fri
Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Emily Craig · 304 pages
Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history. In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent teasing secrets from the dead.Emily Craig has been a witness to history, helping to seek justice for thousands of murder victims, both f
A Father's Story
Lionel Dahmer · 255 pages
On July 23, 1991, Milwaukee chemist Lionel Dahmer discovered - along with the rest of the world - that his son Jeffrey was a murderer who, over a period of many years, had carried out some of the most ghastly crimes ever committed in the United States. These crimes were so grisly that for a time Dahmer entered a world of complete denial - first convinced that Jeff was innocent, then later that he
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
Dead Reckoning
Caitlin Rother · 474 pages
Describes how former child star Skylar Deleon, aided by his pregnant wife and a criminal associate, brutally murdered Tom and Jackie Hawks, a retired couple, for their fifty-five-foot yacht.
And the Sea Will Tell
Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce Henderson · 576 pages
The author reconstructs a true, mystery of murder on a South Seas island.
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-