In Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant, Lisa A. Peebles and John O'Brien investigate the abduction of Heidi Allen on the early morning of Easter - April 3, 1994 - from the store where she worked. Despite no evidence linking them to the crime, two...

Liv to Tell by Ann Heathman is based on the true story of Olivia Carson. Liv Carson is on a caving expedition when disaster strikes. Saved by Gary Preston, Liv thinks she is the luckiest woman alive and is reeled in by his kind, loving...

Rise of the Oathbreakers by David (D.B.) McCrea is a true crime story detailing just how bad policing can be in the USA. We’re all aware of some of the recent stories about law enforcement, but this book will open your eyes even further. This...

The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge is the third book I've read in Mitzi Szereto's The Best New True Crime Stories series, following Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals, and Small Towns, and I was not disappointed. Well researched and...

The Power of Truth by Tristin Engels is a book focused on true crime. When Louis Rocco Vitullo joined the Chicago police department in 1951, little did he realize that he would soon become a chief forensic scientist and crime scene investigation expert. In...

Stephanie Scott was a 26-year-old teacher who moved to Leeton, New South Wales. A few days before marrying Aaron Leeson-Woolley, tragedy strikes when this bride-to-be goes missing. In Monique Patterson’s crime non-fiction book, United in Grief: The Tragic Story of Stephanie Scott’s Murder and the...

The 3-0 by Liborio Lungaro is a story that is based, as the subtitle aptly puts it, on a True Story of the Largest Police Corruption Scandal in New York City's History: The Dirty Thirty. Set in the 1990s, the book follows this historic event...

The murder of a young girl is the start of a series of circumstances leading to the solution of three perplexing crimes from the twentieth century in the thrilling non-fiction true crime story, Encoded: Based On True Events by R.W. Gates. Growing up near the...

The blurb of The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns by Mitzi Szereto had me hooked. We’ve been told nothing bad happens in small towns. You can leave your doors unlocked and your windows wide open. We picture peaceful hamlets with a strong sense...

The fictional account of a true story, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution, written by Phillip Bruce Chute, is an intriguing tale. Alice Barro experienced poverty as a child and a young woman. Raymond McDade was the owner...