Browsing: True Crime

A Wall Street Journal bestseller: In the Old West, badly behaved women rivaled male outlaws in immorality, mayhem, and murder. This collection of action-packed true stories will change your view of Western history forever!

An “eye-opening” National Book Critics Circle Award winner (Publishers Weekly): This unflinching look at the opioid crisis in America examines how the epidemic began and what allowed it to grow. “A driven and important narrative” (The Wall Street Journal).

A New York Times bestseller: In 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted — and she didn’t resurface for 18 years. This gripping account chronicles her captor’s crimes and shocking abuses.

This “fine effort to demystify a legendary episode in the history of the American West” (Booklist) follows Pat Garrett’s hunt for Billy the Kid. “So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles” (New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides).

A Pulitzer Prize–winning account with over 6,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: When four Black men were accused of sexual assault in 1940s Florida, attorney Thurgood Marshall — who went on to become a Supreme Court justice — risked his life to fight a racist criminal justice system and the Ku Klux Klan.

This is the true crime account of Eugenia Falleni, a woman who in 1920 was charged with the murder of…

Now a Netflix original series Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative…

This New York Times bestseller reveals the eye-opening true story of four women who became spies during the Civil War. “This is that rare work of history that reads like a novel — and a really good one at that” (New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda).

“This is an amazing, amazing story” (Ellen DeGeneres): When Stephen McGarva witnessed Puerto Rico’s notorious Dead Dog Beach, he devoted himself to saving the island’s unwanted dogs. A moving memoir and an eye-opening look at the unseen cost of the tourism industry.

A “powerful” New York Times bestseller (John Grisham) about redemption, justice, and forgiveness: After Jennifer Thompson incorrectly testified that Ronald Cotton was her assaulter, he spent 11 years behind bars before DNA identified the real perpetrator. Following his release, the two met face-to-face, forming a life-changing friendship.