Strange Crime

"A taut, psychological thriller with deeply relatable characters. Patch’s brilliantly created plot will keep readers turning pages until they reach the shocking conclusion. I highly recommend it!” —Nancy Mehl, author of the Quantico Files series When a cold-case serial killer returns, FBI...

Every year, thousands of people vanish without explanation. Some leave behind abandoned vehicles, untouched belongings, or disturbing final messages. Others simply step out of sight and are never seen again. Strange Disappearances: Present Day examines twenty-five recent missing-person cases that remain surrounded by unanswered questions. Moving beyond the familiar stories that have dominated headlines for decades, Scott Jones explores lesser-known disappearances involving baffling timelines, unexplained evidence, conflicting accounts, and investigations that reached unsettling dead ends. ...

True Crime Stories You Won't Believe-Omnibus Edition s brings together three critically acclaimed volumes—Books One, Two, and Three—into a single, unflinching collection of true crime stories that dig deeper than most. From forgotten killers and overlooked trials to psychological profiles and courtroom spectacles, this is a journey through the darkest corners of criminal history. Written by forensic psychologist and author Romeo Vitelli, Ph.D., this omnibus offers a sweeping look at real-life crimes that defy easy explanation. These aren’t just tales of murder—they are explorations ...

REVISED & EXPANDED SECOND EDITION — A darker, deeper, and more serious journey into America’s most bizarre true crime cases. 50 Bizarre True Crime Cases That Shocked America is a fully revised and expanded true crime anthology exploring fifty disturbing cases from across American history: unsolved murders, cold cases, strange motives, poisonings, family crimes, serial killers, disappearances, staged crime scenes, and killers who hid in plain sight. This second edition has been completely reworked for a sharper, more atmospheric, and more mature reading experience. Each chapter has been ...

Without A Trace explores the haunting mysteries of individuals who vanished without explanation between the late nineteenth century to the late 20th century, blending historical research with the emotional weight of unresolved loss. The book delves into the lives of Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who disappeared in 1925 while seeking a lost city in the Amazon with his son and a friend, sparking theories of hostile tribes or a hidden utopia; Etta Place, the enigmatic companion of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, who vanished after 1925 in Argentina, her true identity and fate ...

A mark on a cash box. A cassette left unheard. A bottle from an impossible year. Sometimes the detail that changes an investigation looks ordinary—until someone looks again. One Strange Clue follows eighteen lesser-known crimes through the people, timelines, testimony, and forensic findings behind them. Meet the people involved, examine what investigators discovered, and pause to weigh the evidence before reading what happened next. Written for older teenage readers, these researched narratives explore both the power and the limits of evidence. A match may suggest a connection. A witness ...

A stranger telephoned a Liverpool chess club and left an address that did not exist. The next evening, while a husband walked the cold streets looking for it, his wife was beaten to death in their own front parlour. Nobody invented that. There is a court transcript. Britain keeps its horror in filing cabinets. Not in haunted castles, but in police files, inquest records, government documents and yellowing newspapers. This is a collection of thirty-one true stories that sound like fiction and are not — arranged as one story for every night of October, building towards Halloween itself. ...

What if the creepiest things that happen on Halloween are the ones that are completely real? A masked visitor knocks on a door and commits murder. A child dies after eating poisoned Halloween candy, but the monster is not a stranger. Two teenage girls vanish on October 31 and are never seen again. A real dead body hangs in plain sight while people drive past, assuming it is just another Halloween decoration. And that is only the beginning. STRANGE BUT TRUE: CREEPY THINGS THAT HAPPEN ON HALLOWEEN digs into the bizarre, disturbing, unbelievable, and sometimes darkly funny true stories that ...

Weird but True Stories from the Roaring 1920s: Strange and Bizarre Tales from the Prohibition Era is a riveting collection of real, historically documented events that prove truth is stranger than fiction. From haunted courtrooms and dance marathons that drove people to madness, to bootlegging schemes, deadly medical frauds, and a massacre that changed organized crime forever, this book explores the weirdest corners of 1920s America. Set against the backdrop of Prohibition, jazz, flappers, and gangsters, these ten unforgettable stories showcase the bizarre side of the decade that redefined ...

A true story of murder, folk magic, and a tradition that refused to die. In the wooded hollow of a Pennsylvania farm, a man believed for fifteen years that he had been cursed. He was not alone in that belief. His search for the person responsible ended on a November night in 1928, when he and two other men walked to Nelson Rehmeyer's farmhouse and killed him. What followed made national headlines for months: a confessed motive rooted in centuries-old Pennsylvania Dutch folk healing, a trial that argued over whether belief in witchcraft could excuse murder, and a case that turned an entire ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Strange Buildings and Strange Houses comes another infernal puzzle centered around an ancient map that contains the key to a deserted coastal village, an inexplicable fatal accident, and a tunnel steeped in ill fortune. A demonic map hidden for years...

Twenty cases. Vanished children, abandoned vehicles, mysterious journeys, and families still waiting for answers. In Strange Disappearances: Present Day, Volume 3, Scott Jones examines twenty-five modern missing-person cases that continue to defy explanation. A teenager walks away from her California home before sunrise and is never seen again. A young man’s burned truck is discovered in the Canadian wilderness hundreds of miles from his last known location. A pregnant postal worker disappears from Chicago. A mother and her two children leave Hawaii aboard a boat and never return. A seven...

Weird but True Stories from the 1950's: Bizarre, Shocking, and Unbelievable Tales from America’s Atomic Age Think you know the 1950's? Think again. Beneath the surface of poodle skirts, chrome diners, and black-and-white TV was a decade overflowing with mystery, irony, and stranger-than-fiction true stories. This captivating collection reveals ten astonishing real-life events from the 1950's that defy expectation and logic—each one verified and rooted in historical fact. From radar panic over Washington D.C. to the eerie Phantom Whistler of New Jersey, from mid-air collisions with ...

STRANGE CRIMES (Book 6 of the Nick Carter Classic Mysteries) Featuring: The Stolen Brain, An Uncanny Revenge, A Human Counterfeit, and The Forced Crime What happens when crime appears impossible—and science itself becomes the weapon? In this thrilling collection of classic Nick Carter adventures, America's legendary detective confronts some of the most bizarre and unsettling mysteries of the early twentieth century. Mad surgeons, stolen identities, psychological manipulation, human experimentation, and seemingly impossible crimes challenge Carter's powers of observation, deduction, and ...

Her Darkest Secret When a cold-case serial killer returns, FBI special agent Fiona Kelly has one last chance to stop him before he claims the prize he’s always wanted—her. The sight of a goose feather at a murder scene modeled after a children’s poem is enough to make FBI special agent...

"Jessica R. Patch is my newest automatic buy author. If you like romantic suspense, you need to read this book.” –Lynette Eason, award-winning, best-selling author of the Extreme Measures series Deep in the Kentucky hills, three women have been found brutalized and murdered. But the folks in...

Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and...

Brought to you by Penguin. **Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023** **WINNER Crime Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023** **SHORTLISTED for The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award** **SHORTLISTED for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024** Sally Diamond cannot...

Private investigator Derek Strange returns in a riveting drama about revenge, greed, and redemption—from bestselling author and Emmy-nominated writer for HBO’s The Wire and Treme, George Pelecanos. He was curious. It was the cop in him. That flame was still alive. The neon “Strange...

“An excellent read.” —St. Petersburg Times “An often hilarious, always candid and astutely observed memoir chronicling a life observed, largely, from the vantage point of a drum throne.” —Buffalo News Rock legend Stewart Copeland, drummer for seminal pop trio The Police, shares his...