American Crime

When newly appointed Sheriff Shea Callahan and her college friends plan a girls' weekend in a secluded cabin on Misty Mountain, they expect laughter, wine, and memories of their last carefree days together. But the weekend takes a dark turn when a group of strangers notices their matching "Girls' Weekend" T-shirts at a small-town gas station. What begins as innocent curiosity quickly spirals into a harrowing game of cat and mouse as the women find themselves stalked and terrorized by men who seem to know every move they make. With the clock ticking and their lives on the line, Shea must ...

In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his New York Times best-selling book Generation Kill and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned, began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the fabulously successful documentary Cocaine Cowboys. Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de-facto “transportation chief” of the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic.

On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland’s Lake Erie: the lower half of a female torso, neatly severed at the waist. The victim, dubbed “The Lady of the Lake,” was only the first of a butcher’s dozen. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Some were beheaded while still alive.

Broken Angel was written by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Reana Malori She was an angel... craving chaos. He was a demon... seeking peace. When Nico Mitchell met Lavinia Ross, it was annoyance-at-first-sight. She pushed his buttons, created chaos in her wake, and made him fall in love with the very essence of her soul. He’d never claimed to be a nice man, or even a good man, but none of that mattered to her. When Lavinia believes he’s betrayed her, the anger and retribution are swift and unmistakable. They call him a demon, but he needs his broken angel to soothe his soul. They were a ...

In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged 28 Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on 10 of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were hanged, while four received sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a brilliant philosopher-patriot named Okawa Shumei. His story proved strangest of all. Among all the political and military leaders on trial, Okawa was the lone civilian.

She thought he would save her. Now they are crawling through hell together with nothing left but guilt, rage, and a chance at revenge. Brianna trusted Sergei with everything. Her safety. Her secrets. Her heart. But when the Black Veil captured them both, stripped them, and forced them to perform for the camera, that trust shattered. She expected to hate him. He expected to be hated. But what neither of them expected was the fire that still burns beneath the wreckage. Every scrape of their bodies in the vents, every whispered promise of escape, reignites the hunger they both swore to bury. ...

The US government has spent half the time covering up conspiracies as it has spent helping the American people. In Hidden History, you will see the amount of effort over the past fifty years that our government has dedicated to lying and covering up the truth to the world. Starting with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Don Jeffries chronicles a wide variety of issues that have plagued our country's history.

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot and killed on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. But months before Versace’s murder, award-winning journalist Maureen Orth was already investigating a major story on Cunanan for Vanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights gleaned from thousands of pages of police reports, Vulgar Favors tells the complete story of Andrew Cunanan, his unwitting victims, and the moneyed world in which they lived . . . and died.

On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old Julia Parker was murdered in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. An area known for an exorbitant level of violence and crime, East New York had come to be known as the Killing Fields. In the six months after Julia Parker’s death, 62 more people were murdered in the same area. In the early 1990s, murder rates in the neighborhood climbed to the highest in NYPD history. East New York was dying. But how did this once thriving, diverse, family neighborhood fall into such ruin?

A smash debut novel from rising star Yasmin Angoe, Her Name Is Knight features an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family....

Thirty-year-old Holland Strokes was thrust into a lifestyle she had no idea existed after she said the words I do. Her life now is all about glamour, keeping up with the Joneses, and knowing at all times when to stay quiet and submit. The only thing that keeps her focus, besides the allotted time she’s awarded away from her chaotic life, are the pottery lessons she teaches. That’s until a mystery fellow joins her class with the skill and passion of an omega man, but the heart of an alpha. Thirty-six-year-old Flyte Tyme had always lived a lowkey lifestyle. He’s seen before heard and an...

He is a street star from the Southside of Jamaica Queens and a towering icon from the underworld of New York. At the dawn of the crack era he was the Don Dada of Baisley Projects and set the tone and styles for the would-be rappers and future CEO's of the music industry. They catered to and emulated him and his crew. He was the original hip-hop hustler and an American Gangster of epic proportions. Listen to his story today.

On a stormy Thanksgiving Eve in 1971, a man known only as “Dan Cooper” boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305, claimed to have a bomb, and demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. After releasing the passengers in Seattle, he vanished mid-flight—parachuting into the freezing darkness over the Pacific Northwest. He was never seen again. Decades later, the case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history. Despite an exhaustive FBI investigation, Cooper’s identity and fate remain a mystery, fuelling endless speculation and intrigue. In The Man Who Wasn't There, Mark Stokes ...

O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th-century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation’s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby-Face Nelson.

A beautiful but deadly serial killer is on the loose, dishing out gruesome and lethal punishment to men who reject her … When Rose arrives in Florida to meet her new love, she is stood up at the airport, but chalks it up to a misunderstanding. She soon learns there is more to her boyfriend’s disappearance than him going on a wild drinking bender. After a frustrating and ultimately fruitless search, Rose realizes he is being held against his will. Rose must risk everything to unravel the woman’s deadly plot before she once again loses the man she loves to a killer. Blood & Bone is the ...

A Marine returns home after suffering wounds from an RPG blast that killed many of his squad members, including his best friend. He now faces brutal battles at home. Sully’s parents are estranged, his father is an invalid, and the family ranch is nearing bankruptcy. Murdering thieves are stealing champion horses and disappearing into the desert like ghosts. While attempting to make peace with his abusive father, Sully discovers the shocking secrets that drove his parents apart. Deeply resentful, he works with his father solely for the survival of the ranch. Sully finds comfort in Maggie, ...

Katrina – A Dark and Thrilling Romantic Suspense 💀 She was their victim. Now, she’s their worst nightmare. 💀 By day, Detective Frank Gilford hunts criminals. By night, he’s consumed by an obsession—the elusive assassin known as The Phantom. For months, he’s tracked her kills, watching as she eliminates traffickers, corrupt politicians, and untouchable criminals. She’s not just a killer. She’s delivering justice the law can’t reach. Then, she calls him. Her voice is calm. Controlled. Dangerously familiar. She warns him about an enemy lurking in the shadows—the ...

He didn’t want fame. He didn’t leave clues. He didn’t fit the mold. He was the FBI’s worst nightmare: a killer without a pattern. In Invisible Predator, author E.V. Black delivers a gripping true-crime account of Israel Keyes — one of the most cold-blooded and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history. Keyes crisscrossed the United States, murdering victims at random and burying "kill kits" years in advance to fuel a chilling campaign of violence that went undetected for over a decade. From the abduction of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in Alaska to the unsolved murders he...

Trumped Up: From Rags to Redemption in Trump’s America By Josh Pruitt 🔥 The Untold Story of a Man Who Fought, Fell, and Rose Again in Trump’s America 🔥 From the streets to the spotlight, from the chaos of January 6th to a full presidential pardon—Josh Pruitt’s story is one of resilience, loyalty, and the fight for the American Dream. In Trumped Up, Pruitt takes readers on a gripping journey through his life—one marked by struggle, survival, and transformation. Born into hardship, he worked his way up from nothing, embracing the MAGA movement as a symbol of hope for forgotten...

Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities - beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books - sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least 2,000 cases in his 40-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes", Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest - and first - forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural.