The Crate: A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice by Deborah Levison is a true crime story that started with the discovery of a crate under the crawl spaces of a cottage owned by the Vadas family in July 2010. In the first part...

Uniquely Dangerous: A True Story is a nonfiction book written by Carreen Maloney. On April 14, 2010, Douglas Spink woke to the commotion raised by a 19-member strong SWAT team as they pounded on the door of his small cabin. His Reese Hill location should...

What would make a normal, rational person throw away everything and everyone he holds dear? Meth VS Death: "No Way Out" by Stormy Rainey explores the true story of one man’s relationship with drugs. From the age of three when his brother dies in a...

Poisoned by John William Hamilton details situations in the author’s life when three malicious people tried to poison him on three different occasions. The sheer audacity and effort of the culprits in the occurrences left me utterly aghast. In one case, Hamilton was poisoned with...

World Codex: Book 1 by World Codex Staff is an amazing historical account of events, legends, and other phenomena dating back to ancient Greece. What is brought to light here are clues to mysteries, murders, and paradoxes that have perplexed and bewildered mankind for centuries,...

Targeted: A Deputy, Her Love Affairs, A Brutal Murder by M. William Phelps follows the case of Tracy Fortson. Fortson, who is an ex-sheriff, was accused of killing her boyfriend, Doug Benton. She was convicted of the crime, but claims that she is innocent. In...

It’s remarkable that a book this compact can leave you reeling and overwhelmed with sadness at the atrocities one human being can inflict upon another. And when the victims of those atrocities are children who haven’t even hit puberty, as in the case of Yuna...

As one person commented on Zap Tales' blog, “I honestly don’t know where to begin.” The Fourth Side: A Prison Odyssey zapped me too…and how! When I began reading, I knew I was about to enter a world I knew only from movies and TV...

I, a Squealer: The Insider's Account of the Pied Piper of Tucson Murders by Richard Bruns is a fascinating and disturbing account of his friendship with, and ultimate betrayal of, serial killer Charles Schmid. Bruns wrote the account after the events leading up to Schmid’s...

The Shawcross Letters: My Journey Into The Mind Of Evil by John Paul Fay and Brian Whitney is a disturbing true crime story, told through a series of letters and interviews. Arthur Shawcross is one of the most evil of all killers and his interviewer,...