Criminology

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the...

Bonus material! Includes an excerpt from John Douglas and Mark Olshaker’s Obsession! Discover the classic behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas' 25-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country's most...

New York Times bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year “It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote...

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime...

The Sun Does Shine is an arresting audiobook memoir of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading, written by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit....

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century....

INCLUDES AN INTRODUCTION WRITTEN AND READ BY MARTIN SCORSESE! Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and...

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most...

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners....

Written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI profiles and catches serial killers, this thought-provoking book takes an intimate look at the creation of the Behavioral Science Unit–the inspiration for Hulu’s Mastermind documentary. In the 1970s, the FBI created the...

A book covering the topic of self-defense from a shocking, firsthand perspective. The subjects of criminal violence, self-defense, lethal force, mindset, firearms training, and concealment have never been introduced so comprehensively in one place....

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned from them how to identify unknown monsters who walk among us....

Getting someone to tell the truth is an essential skill that very few people possess. In the boardroom, classroom, or our own homes, every day we interact with others and try to get the truth from them. People are often untruthful out of fear of negative consequences associated with divulging...

“Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true.”—Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito Bowl...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America’s most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man’s life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of...

Love, greed and betrayal in the Las Vegas mob. From Nicholas Pileggi, author of the bestselling Wiseguy -- the #1 bestseller that later became the hit movie Goodfellas -- comes this brilliantly told tale of love, marriage, adultery, murder and revenge Mafia-style, the true story of how the mob...

This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West....

New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit. In Mindhunter, John Douglas—who headed the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit—told the story of his brilliant and terrifying...

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City....

Instant New York Times Bestseller “Compelling. . . . Blum capably maintains the suspense and thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story.”—Kirkus Reviews"" The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from acclaimed...

The dead talk - to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them....

In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn Street. Now he’s a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all. The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Lennon entered...

The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations....

“Fans of the forensics-oriented novels of such mystery writers as Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell...not to mention television series like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, will make an eager audience for this one.”—Booklist On a patch of land in the Tennessee hills, human corpses...

Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection features case file facts, fascinating details, and chilling testimonies of the world's most famous cold cases. Written for true crime junkies and armchair detectives, this book delves into the investigations of JonBenét Ramsey, the Black Dahlia, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, the Cleveland Torso Murders, and more.

The Ocala National Forest is vast, quiet, and unforgiving. On one weekend in 1994, it became a killing ground. In this standalone true crime investigation, the 1994 abduction and murder of Florida State University student John Edwards is reconstructed alongside the harrowing survival of his sister, Pam Edwards, in a case that has remained largely confined to court records and regional reporting. What was meant to be a quiet weekend of camping in the Ocala National Forest became a nightmare when two fugitives approached the siblings under the guise of friendliness. Offering help, ...

Este capítulo aborda la vida de Juan Carlos I como un ejemplo excepcionalmente revelador de cómo determinadas condiciones vitales, educativas e institucionales pueden adiestrar a un individuo en la construcción de una personalidad narcisista. No se trata de un juicio moral ni de un diagnóstico clínico, sino de un análisis estructural: la observación de un entorno que reúne, de forma casi perfecta, todos los factores que la psicología identifica como facilitadores del narcisismo. A lo largo del primer capítulo se examinan las circunstancias que rodearon su infancia, su ...

The Unfinished Mind A Profiler’s Journal on Empathy, Evil, and the Human Condition Some crimes are solved with evidence. Others are solved by understanding the mind that left none behind. The Unfinished Mind is not a typical true crime book. It is a reflective field journal from a career spent listening to lies, silences, confessions, and the spaces in between. Written by a veteran profiler, this book explores the psychological patterns that shape violent behavior, not to sensationalize it, but to understand it. Through carefully reconstructed cases, quiet observations, and firsthand ...

“The Price of a Person: Inside the Shadow World of Human Trafficking and Drug-Gang Predators” is a gripping exposé of one of the most profitable and least confronted crimes in the world. This book pulls readers into a hidden economy where drug gangs have learned that human beings are more valuable than cocaine. Through powerful storytelling and hard facts, it reveals how women are trapped through lies, debt, and fear, how migrants are turned into forced labor, and how children become targets in a market driven by demand and protected by silence. Moving across cities like Medellín, ...

Working in security or corrections demands a rare combination of discipline, communication skill, emotional steadiness, and situational awareness. Conquer the Security and Correctional Officer Exams provides a comprehensive, clear, and practical guide to the essential knowledge and professional behaviors expected of officers across diverse environments. Through focused chapters written in easy-to-understand language, this study guide builds a strong foundation in legal concepts, safety procedures, emergency response, de-escalation, documentation, ethics, and professional conduct. Readers ...

When consequences disappear, chaos steps in. The Collapse of Consequence uncovers the deep fractures beneath today’s surge in violence. Michael Tate delivers a bold, unfiltered exploration of how a weakened justice system, political hesitation, and an increasingly impulsive culture have allowed disorder to spread unchecked.

UNMASKING THE RIPPER A killer in the fog. A city paralyzed. A mystery that refuses to die. In the autumn of 1888, the gaslit streets of Whitechapel became the hunting ground of a phantom whose crimes would ignite the greatest murder investigation in world history. Jack the Ripper did more than strike terror into the heart of Victorian London—he shattered its confidence, exposed its darkest secrets, and left behind a legacy of fear that still echoes today. Unmasking the Ripper tears away the myths, distortions, and sensational headlines to reveal the chilling truth behind the most infamous...

In Pain Bleeds Crime, she shares twenty-three gripping true stories from her decades working in maximum-security prisons, courts, and forensic hospitals. The crimes are shocking—murder, rape, paedophilia, assault, fetishism, bestiality, and more—but what lies beneath is often even more confronting.