Browsing: True Crime

Authors

Memorial Drive

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A New York Times bestseller, this raw and powerful memoir traces the story of a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, including her mother’s shocking murder by her stepfather and its lasting impact on her writing. “Luminous and searing” (The Boston Globe).

20th Century

Buried Beneath the Boarding House

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In the late 1980s, a man’s disappearance led Sacramento police to the discovery of a boarding home for the needy run by a kindly old woman… who buried bodies in her backyard. A shocking true story you’ll have to read to believe.

20th Century

18 Tiny Deaths

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“Eye-opening… Genuinely compelling”(Kirkus Reviews): After becoming fascinated with the investigation of violent crimes, 19th-century socialite Frances Glessner Lee went on to become the mother of modern forensics. “Devotees of TV’s CSI will have their minds blown” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

Biographies and Memoirs

Gone at Midnight

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When Elisa Lam’s body was discovered in a rooftop water tank at Los Angeles’s notorious Cecil Hotel, her story took the media by storm. Yet her final hours — a portion of which was chillingly captured via elevator surveillance video — remain a mystery. “True crime buffs won’t want to miss this” (Publishers Weekly).

Biographies and Memoirs

If You Tell

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From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes the harrowing story of Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek, three sisters who survived years of torture at the hands of their sadistic mother. “Even the most devoted true crime reader will be shocked” (Aphrodite Jones). With over 8,000 five-star Amazon reviews.