Nurse Crime

When the principal of Hollywood's premier preschool is killed in a hit-and-run accident, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum gets off the mommy track - to track down a murderer.

They were trusted nurses—daughters, mothers, veterans themselves. Behind their calm smiles and steady hands, death moved quietly through the hospital halls. Kristen Gilbert and Reta Mays worked decades apart in two different states, yet their crimes were mirror images of betrayal. Each used the same access, the same authority, and the same mask of compassion to murder those who trusted them most: American veterans. In Angels of Death, investigative author Elliot Christopher reconstructs the parallel stories of two women who turned healing into horror—and exposes how a vast institution ...

I texted the wrong number. He texted back. Now the Bratva owns me. It was supposed to be a rant to the date who stood me up. Instead, I got Sergei Volkov. Cold. Ruthless. Powerful. The kind of man you don’t say no to. He took me to dinner. Then took me apart in bed. No names. No strings. Just the best night of my life. I never expected to see him again... Until he walked into my ER— While I was already five weeks pregnant. Now he wants me under his roof, caring for his ailing mother. I need the money. But how do I hide his baby... When he watches me like he already owns me? Because ...

This New York Times bestselling book is the mesmerizing basis for the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain that takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left hundreds dead. “The best book(s) I read this year” (top...

Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt...

The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadman—sadist, psychopath, cookie—is on the loose in Reading, but that’s not who Detective Jack Spratt...

Two nurses. One forbidden love. A murder pact that spelled out death. In a quiet Michigan nursing home, Gwen and Cathy shared everything—long shifts, whispered secrets, and an obsession that turned lethal. To bind themselves together forever, they made a chilling promise: kill patients whose initials would spell out a single word. MURDER. But when a seductive new hire entered their lives, jealousy ignited and their deadly plan began to unravel. Sealed With A Kill is a shocking true crime story of obsession, toxic love, and the dark lengths two women went to for each other. Lust. Love. ...

One by one, three waterlogged suitcases were pulled from the Chesapeake Bay. In each were body parts of a man. In a forensics room, the truth was discovered: William McGuire had been horribly murdered and dismembered. William and his loving wife, a registered nurse named Melanie, had just closed on their New Jersey dream home. But Melanie had been involved in a long-term affair with a married doctor at the fertility clinic where she worked - and she had plans for the future that didn't include William.

SLASHED: THE UNFORGETTABLE TRUE STORY THAT HAUNTED A GENERATION On a sweltering July night in 1966, Chicago’s South Side descended into madness. Eight young student nurses—each with a dream, a future, and a purpose—were bound, brutalized, and murdered inside their shared townhouse. The man responsible, Richard Speck, would become one of the most infamous names in American criminal history. The nation would never be the same. “The night Chicago screamed” was more than a headline—it was the night America lost its innocence. THE KILLER WHO CHANGED AMERICA FOREVER Richard Speck ...

In the early hours of March 2015, the police receive a call from a nurse at a provincial Danish hospital. She suspects her colleague is deliberately killing patients and fears that it has just happened again. Soon, several witnesses reveal that they too suspect the same nurse of poisoning patients; some have been harboring their suspicion for years… so why has no one done anything about it before? And now that those patients’ bodies have long been cremated, where is the evidence?

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...

This program is read by actor Sam Woolf, known for his roles on Call the Midwife, Humans, The Crown, and The Witcher. He currently stars in the World War II drama We Were The Lucky Ones. Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic bestseller...

Nothing could have shocked the sleepy community of Morgantown, West Virginia, more than the lurid details that surfaced after a house fire claimed the life of Shelly Michael's husband, Jimmy. Local authorities suspected possible arson. Then they discovered that Jimmy had been dead before the fire even started - paralyzed by a fatal dose of muscle relaxant.... Did Shelly Michael, a respected nurse and mother, kill her second husband and torch her own home?

"I really enjoyed this one. I honestly couldn't put it down. The ending was a total surprise. I'm still thinking about it!" - #1 Amazon and USA TODAY bestselling author Freida McFadden ER physician and medical researcher, Drake Cody, has developed an experimental drug that may treat spinal cord injury and help the paralyzed walk. A massive Big Pharma pay-off awaits twisted pharmaceutical genius Meryl Kampf if she can pirate Drake's breakthrough. Meryl, while ingesting increasing doses of cocaine and steroids, spearheads agents of an international crime syndicate and a traitor none suspect, ...

When Care Decides is a meticulously researched true-crime narrative that examines how trust, authority, and institutional silence enabled one of history’s most disturbing medical crimes. Through the life of Jane Toppan, a nurse who killed her patients while acting in the name of care, this book exposes the systems that failed to see — and the quiet decisions that proved fatal. Written with restraint and insight, When Care Decides is not a story about madness, but about what happens when care is given the power to choose.

A bush nurse. A buried scandal. A body on the track. 1912 When Tilly Whitewood arrives in the tight-knit township of Bongala, she hopes for a quiet life serving as community nurse—but rural life is rarely simple. Called to nearby Lalor Station, she is embroiled in a mystery of a man with a gun shot wound and and a tangled story that doesn’t quite add up. As whispers of a decades-old disappearance resurface, Tilly and her new friend Louise are drawn into a deepening mystery—one involving a vanished stranger, a missing chest of treasures, and an old scandal that still haunts the ...

From an award-winning Fortune reporter, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals the life-threatening dangers posed by globalization—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals The widespread use of generic drugs has been hailed as one of the most important public...

Rose Marlowe is a hard-working nurse, a loving wife, and a merciless killer. Or so she says. Despite her confession, it is hard to believe that this beautiful, kind woman could have killed her vulnerable patient in cold blood. Down-on-his-luck true crime author Theo Hazel is convinced that there's more to what happened than Rose is telling, and so decides to visit her behind bars to write her story. His first surprise comes when Rose reveals that the victim was not a stranger to her.

Fast-Paced Steamy BWWM Crime Romance Jordan Ehrhardt just met the woman of his dreams… Too bad she belongs to a rich, white real estate developer named Big Donnie, who treats her worse than dirt. Beautiful ebony-skinned art lover Alexis catches Jordan’s eye right away… she just has that something, a smile and a warmth he couldn’t turn away from if he tried. When Jordan and Alexis begin to spend time together, their passionate chemistry is off the charts. Just as their hookup begins to grow into something real, Alexis’s ex comes back with an ax to grind: if Big Donnie can’t have ...

I'll go to hell and back to make that angel mine. Eliza's a sweet ray of sunshine from a wealthy family. I’m an ex-Army Ranger biker with a lifetime of scars carved in my cold heart. I’ve got no business prowling around a girl like her. Everything I touch, I ruin. And I ache to do more than just touch her. But then I find out she has a stalker and I can't stay away. Eliza’s stalker is a brutal cop, a scumbag who’s deep in debt to the mob. He wants to kidnap her, steal her money, and kill her. But I’ll die before I let anyone threaten my angel. Because when she presses her shaking ...