On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no... [More...]

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... [More...]

Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside... [More...]

The Ice Man" is a "stomach-turning account of the multiple atrocities committed over 43 years by Richard 'The Ice Man Kuklinski—as sadistic a killer as most readers would ever want to encounter in print" ("Publishers Weekly").

As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, a local commissaire was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of... [More...]

The New York Times bestseller from the FBI agent who inspired the Jack Crawford character in The Silence of the Lambs, Mindhunter is a riveting look at the major serial killers of our time. It takes readers behind the scenes of America's most gruesome... [More...]

Now in mass market, "New York Times" bestselling author Rule investigates the case of a woman whose supposed suicide may not be what it seems.

America's master of true crime presents her biggest book yet: the long-awaited story of the terrifying Green River killings, with more than 48 young women victims, and a murderer who hid his horrific addiction for two decades. of photos.

The FBI expert who coined the term "serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on serial killers for the now-classic novel "The Silence of the Lambs" tells how he uses evidence from a crime scene to construct a psychological profile of the killer—and... [More...]

Horrifying in a way no fiction can be, Zodiac is the gripping story of the serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco bay area from 1966 to 1978. The book contains reproductions of the killer's communiques to the police as well as the author's own... [More...]