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The executioner's song
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Norman Mailer |
Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 a… |
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It's a Battlefield
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Graham Greene |
Read as a condemnation of the British judicial system this dark novel follows the events the events that follow when a man kills an off-duty police officer who is attacking his wife. |
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Cruel intent
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J. A. Jance |
When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfrien… |
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Hunting the devil
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Richard Lourie |
An account of the search for the killer of fifty-three Soviet citizens describes how Russian Chief Inspector Issa Kostoev searched for the man who sexually mutilated, killed, and cannibalized his vic… |
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Child of Fire
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Harry Connolly |
Ray Lilly is living on borrowed time. He's the driver for Annalise Powliss, a high-ranking member of the Twenty Palace Society, a group of sorcerers devoted to hunting down and executing rogue magici… |
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Abandoned prayers
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Gregg Olsen |
It is the world of the Amish, their secrets and way of life. The villian left the the religious community with his son after the suspicious death of his wife. He set out on what can only be called an… |
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Bodies of evidence
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Sharon McGehee,Chris Anderson |
To the rest of the world, Judias Buenoano was the American sucess story -- a savvy businesswoman who pulled herself up from a childhood of dire poverty. To the men in her life, she was the charming s… |
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Praying for sleep
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Jeffery Deaver |
Praying for revenge...Psycho killer Michael Hrubek has escaped to find the woman who put him away. He'll show her what killing is all about...Praying for salvation...Lis knows he's out there. He's ha… |
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Ice
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Stephanie Rowe |
"Most people find beauty in Alaska's austere mountains. To Kaylie Fletcher, there is only death--her whole family gone after a disastrous climbing expedition. Then again, maybe not. A raspy call in t… |
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Pariah
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J. R. Roberts |
"Madeline Gerard is a good woman, sheltering and feeding folks in need. But her neighbors shun her because her strays bring trouble--and violence--to their tiny Arizona town. Clint Adams has experien… |
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Shades Of Twilight
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Linda Howard |
Roanna Davenport was raised a wealthy orphan on her grandmother's magnificent Alabama estate, Davencourt, where she had a passion for horses, a genius for trouble, and a deep love for her cousin Webb… |
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The murderer next door
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David M. Buss |
A leading psychologist profiles the killer in us all with this provocative, trailblazing workThough we may choose to believe that murderers are pathological misfits or hardened criminals, evolutionar… |
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Born to raise hell
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Jack Altman |
About Richard Speck, an American mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital on July 14, 1966. |
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Echoes in the darkness
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Joseph Wambaugh |
A true murder story, this book is based on the Main Line Murder Case in which a high school teacher was found dead in an automobile in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania, and her two children had disappeared. |
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Tag man
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Archer Mayor |
""Archer Mayor's Vermont police procedurals are the best thing going..." --New York Times Book Review Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high se… |
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Profiling
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Owen, David |
An exploration of criminal profiling that discusses its history, FBI crime scene analysis procedures, the development of a profile, crime signatures and rituals, and other related topics and offers d… |
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Passion's verdict
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Frances Williams |
"When a cop escorted a handcuffed prisoner into the roadside diner, reporter Kelsey Merrill was intrigued. And when she discovered that the convict being transferred to the state penitentiary was non… |
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Outrage
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Robert Tanenbaum |
New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp faces one of his most challenging and dramatic cases when his wife Marlene Ciampi learns that his office has indicted the wrong man for murder. |
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Hitman
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Howie Carr |
Crime reporter Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of Johnny Martorano. For two decades, Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey… |
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A need to kill
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Michael W. Cuneo |
Describes how sixteen-year-old Alec Kreider murdered his best friend, Kevin Haines, and Kevin's parents, Tom and Lisa, for no apparent reason, and showed no remorse for the brutal crime. |
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