18 books like A good month for murder

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Cape May Court House Lawrence Schiller · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate No one in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, was surprised when Eric Thomas, a popular young doctor, sued Ford Motor Company for the wrongful death of his pregnant wife, Tracy. The accident they were involved in was minor, and they were driving a big, powerful Explorer. Nevertheless, Tracy died in the accident, leaving behind her husband and cherished young daughter. Backed by the medical… Shares: Homicide investigation, Homicide, True Crime, Murder

Organized crime Howard Abadinsky · 1981 · ★ 3.9 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate xiii, 417 pages ; 24 cm Shares: Law enforcement, Criminology, True Crime

True Blue Randy Sutton · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Lieutenant Randy Sutton's fascinating collection of stories and memories, solicited from law enforcement officers across the country, offers a broad and insightful look at the many facets of police life: courage, exhilaration, frustration, loss, and even humor, from the everyday to the career-defining moments on the job. Told by the cops that lived them, these stories show what it truly means to… Shares: Law enforcement, True Crime

Breaking and entering Paul F. Cromwell · 1990 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares: Criminal procedure, Criminology, Social Science, True Crime Shares: Criminal procedure, Criminology, Social Science, True Crime

Life Means Life Nick Appleyard · 2009 From sex-crazed fiends to cold-eyed professional assassins, only those convicted of the most terrible murders are told they will die behind bars.This book tells the stories of those most depraved killers whose crimes outraged society and demanded the harshest penalty available to a British court. Among a UK prison population of close to 100,000, fewer than 40 men and women have been told they… Shares: Criminology, Social Science, True Crime, Murder

Dark Secrets of the Black Museum : 1835-1985 Gordon Honeycombe · 2014 · 498p · ≈ 16h · Moderate 'EXCELLENT WRITING AND RESEARCH' - RUTH RENDELLThe Crime Museum of New Scotland Yard - invariably known as 'the Black Museum' - houses a remarkable collection of exhibits, photographs and documents connected with some of the most notorious crimes in this country's history. Although the museum is closed to the general public, Gordon Honeycombe was granted privileged access to its classified… Shares: Criminology, Social Science, True Crime, Murder

Die, My Love Kathryn Casey · 2007 · ★ 3.4 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The day before Halloween 2004 was the last day on Earth for respected, well-liked college professor Fred Jablin. That morning, a neighbor discovered his body lying in a pool of blood in the driveway of Jablin's Virginia home. Police immediately turned their attentions to the victim's ex-wife, Piper, a petite, pretty Texas lawyer who had lost a bitter custody battle and would do anything to get… Shares: Criminal investigation, Homicide, True Crime, Murder

Perfect murder, perfect town Lawrence Schiller · 1999 · ★ 4.2 · 621p · ≈ 20h · Moderate In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenet Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under the spotlight of public suspicion and an affluent, tranquil city torn apart by a crime it couldn't handle, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town uncovers the mysteries that have bewildered the nation.Why were… Shares: Homicide investigation, Homicide, True Crime, Murder

Predator John McShane · 2011 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The powerfully-built nightclub bouncer kidnapped and murdered 13 year old Milly Dowler as she walked home from school in broad daylight. She had stopped for a bag of chips with friends at a railway station cafe. The case horrified the nation when six months later her body was found 25 miles away by mushroom pickers in a quiet wood in the Hampshire countryside. Her abduction and death was… Shares: Criminology, Social Science, True Crime, Murder

By the Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle · 2024 · ★ 4.4 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven’t heard of into a legal thriller." —New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year • NPR 2024 "Books We Loved"… Shares: Social Science, True Crime, Murder

Death's Shadow Jon Wells · 2013 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Victims and survivors, angels and demons, intersect along winding roads to imperfect justice.“Bare light bulbs shone against walls painted with graffiti and dried blood, the rooms reeking of a sweet pungent odour like burnt plastic …” So writes award-winning Hamilton Spectator journalist and author Jon Wells in one of four harrowing murder stories in Death’s Shadow. Wells take readers up close… Shares: Criminal investigation, True Crime, Murder

Cass Cass Pennant · 2001 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate He arrived to rally the troops, the main man in the Inter City Firm and his greeting passed into football fan history. 'Afternoon, gentlemen, the name's Bill Gardner.' That introduction alone was often enough to provoke sheer terror in his opponents. He is a genuine legend to anyone who's ever stood proud on a football terrace. No serious book on the culture would be complete without at least one… Shares: Criminology, Social Science, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Homicide David Simon · 1991 · ★ 4.2 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Moderate The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and his remarkable book is both a compelling… Shares: Homicide investigation, Homicide, True Crime

Missing Rose Rouse · 2009 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate It is every person's - particularly every parent's - worst nightmare. For a loved one to walk out through the front door and never to return is one of the most heartbreaking, terrifying and harrowing experiences someone can go through. Not to know the fate of a person close to you is simply agonising - did they choose to disappear? Were they involved in an accident or did something even worse… Shares: Law enforcement, Social Science, True Crime

Environment and crime among residents in urban areas Olof Dahlbäck · 2012 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This groundbreaking book by Olof Dahlbäck analyzes the direct effects of the environment and the indirect effects of geographical differentiation of individuals on the offender rates of different urban areas. In order to do this, relationships between crime and independent factors are analyzed in various ways - by considering cross-sectional and longitudinal aspects, linear and non-linear… Shares: Criminology, Social Science, True Crime

Killer with a badge Chuck Hustmyre · 2004 · ★ 4.7 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Details the shocking true account of rogue cop Antoinette Frank of the New Orleans police department, who, along with her drug dealer boyfriend Rogers LaCaze, murdered off-duty cop Ronald Wilson and two innocent bystanders in the name of misguided revenge. Shares: Homicide investigation, True Crime, Murder, Biography & Memoir

Safety crimes Steve Tombs · 2004 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Every year in the UK, hundreds of workers are killed just doing their jobs, thousands more die of illnesses caused by their work and tens of thousands suffer major injuries such as amputations, loss of sight, serious burns, and so on. Worldwide, two million people are killed by work each year. Yet with the exception of high profile cases such as the gas leak at Bhopal, India, which killed tens of… Shares: Criminology, Social Science, True Crime

The blooding Joseph Wambaugh · 1989 · ★ 4.0 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a… Shares: Criminal investigation, Homicide, True Crime, Murder

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