True Mystery

"This book will blow you away!" - Edna Buchanan, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter & bestselling mystery author. As featured on ABC's 20/20,Dateline NBC, Unsolved Mysteries, Time Magazine, People Magazine, The New York Times and many others: the riveting inside story of a mother's fearless search for her missing daughter, Without a Trace -- A Mother's Search for Justice went through four sold out printings and spent 12 weeks as the #2 True-Crime book on Amazon! On March 5, 1974 -- the same day that rival motorcycle clubs roared through suburban Miami in celebration of their annual "Bike Week"...

In Chase Darkness with Me, you’ll ride shotgun as journalist Billy Jensen identifies the Halloween Mask Murderer, finds a missing girl in the California Redwoods, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. You’ll hear intimate details of the hunts for two of the most terrifying serial killers in history: his friend Michelle’s pursuit of the Golden State Killer which is chronicled in I’ll Be Gone In The Dark which Billy helped finish after Michelle’s passing, and his own quest to find the murderer of the Allenstown 4 family.

A sinister secret lies buried—one that swallows two young teens into an abyss of mystery. When two young teens at a county fair are drawn to desperate cries emanating from the House of Horrors, their world spins into chaos. They never enter, but suddenly, they're gone—vanished into thin air. Thus begins a baffling mystery into which rookie detective Teresa Simmonds and veteran Allan Yeats are thrown headfirst into a maze of secrets and lies. As they unravel the web of secrets and cover-ups, the question haunts them: What happened to Yasmine and Jerry, and why does no one want the truth ...

Psychologist Margot Scott has a picture-perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a husband, two children and a successful career. On a warm spring morning Margot approaches one of her clients on a busy train platform. He is looking down at his phone, with his duffel bag in hand as the train approaches. That’s when she slams into his back and he falls in front of the train. Margot’s clients all lie to her, but one lie cost her family and freedom.

Step into a world where ancient enigmas meet modern investigation. From the haunting depths of vanished civilizations to cold cases that still chill detectives today, Epic Historical Mysteries takes you on a thrilling journey through humanity’s most captivating unsolved puzzles.

🔪 Murder, Mystery, and Legends from the Heart of the Mountains 🔪 The Ozarks hold more than breathtaking landscapes—they hide secrets soaked in blood. Across Arkansas and Missouri, small towns and winding highways have been the hunting grounds of killers whose crimes remain unsolved. Legends have formed around these dark events, leaving behind whispered warnings and restless ghosts of the past. Inside True Crime: Ozarks, you’ll discover: 🩸 The Highway’s Harvest – A forgotten serial killer stalked the roads of northwest Arkansas, preying on hitchhikers and vanishing without a...

A comprehensive boxed set of classic detective fiction featuring four of literature's greatest sleuths. The complete Sherlock Holmes collection by Arthur Conan Doyle, from "A Study in Scarlet" to "His Last Bow." Hercule Poirot stories by Agatha Christie, including "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" and "The Murder on the Links." G.K. Chesterton's complete Father Brown collection, from "The Innocence" to "The Scandal." And Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels, including "Whose Body?" and "Clouds of Witness." The greatest mysteries in one collection.

When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today - after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century - in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age fans.

Paige Barrett was living her dream as a journalist in New York City, racking up bylines as a staff writer at The Razor, a cutting-edge online magazine. But when she’s suddenly fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, she finds herself back home in the quaint seaside town of Shoreham, Florida, waiting tables and living in her sister’s guesthouse. Restless and itching for something meaningful to occupy her time, she decides to launch a true-crime podcast about the death of Jessica Cady, a beloved teacher who died mysteriously 20 years earlier.

The dead do not rest till they get what they want. You have arrived in the hills. In here, you are surrounded by dense, menacing forests, enveloped in a deadly silence... You never know what lurks here in the cold, dark night. Do not walk alone after sunset in the hills. A beautiful woman in white haunts the Lonely pathways, looking to enchant and ensnare men... All the people who died in accidents here... They say you hear their screams at night. And the deserted lodges sitting amidst lush greenery and calm streams...

In 2019, veteran journalist Mark Seal began investigating the suspicious death of music mogul Peter Ikin. Just 32 days before he was found dead in his Paris hotel room, Ikin had married a handsome, debonair Frenchman named Alexandre, who would claim to be entitled to his late husband’s fortune. As Seal dug into the case, he had no idea that tracing the incredible life of Alexandre Despallieres would take him from Paris to London to Beverly Hills, and unspool a web of intricate plots and deceptions.

They were doctors. They were community leaders. They were the family next door. When we think of threats, we picture shadowy figures lurking in the dark. But the most terrifying predators are often the ones we invite into our homes, trust with our health, and see every day. This chilling collection explores twenty deeply researched cases of individuals who used a veneer of extreme normalcy, professional prestige, or suburban charm to mask unimaginable darkness. These are the manipulators who weaponized society's trust to evade detection—sometimes for decades. Delve into the psychological ...

Two bright futures. Two senseless murders. One state left in shock. In the summer of 2018, Iowa was rocked by the disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts, a college student out for a run in her small town. For five agonizing weeks, her family, friends, and the entire nation held its breath—until her killer led police to a shallow grave in a cornfield. Just weeks later, another tragedy unfolded. Celia Barquin Arozamena, a champion golfer with a promising future, was brutally murdered on a quiet morning at her university’s golf course. She never saw her killer coming. These weren’t crimes of ...

In this wild, genre-bending audio documentary, New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow dives deep into the strange and storied life of high-society socialite and former Miss Arizona Celia (Cece) Doane.

Be Afraid… True Ghost Stories and Hauntings, Volume III, is the third in the extremely popular series of books featuring true ghost stories and hauntings by Simon B. Murik who is the son of a long line of mediums and sensitives originally from Eastern Europe. Many of the stories come from his own experiences while others have been contributed by family members and those who have shared their paranormal experiences with him. Here is a sampling of stories in this volume: • A student gets a real reason to hate school when he discovers an angry ghost living in a old hidden basement library ...

Check your locks. Then check your search history. She was the perfect roommate. Until she started living your life better than you. True crime podcaster Cassidy Burke is drowning. Her bank account is empty, her landlord is threatening eviction, and the case she’s investigating—the decades-old Milwaukee "Phantom" murders—is going nowhere. Then comes Evelyn Hart. Evelyn is a digital archivist. She’s quiet. She’s stable. She pays two months' rent in cash and even helps Cassidy find a flaw in her investigation that changes everything. For the first time in months, Cassidy can breathe....

REVENGE IS ONLY HALF THE STORY… An unreported disappearance. A crime hidden in plain sight. A temptation that threatens to corrupt even the incorruptible. When a corpse is finally uncovered, the dark secrets behind the crime are laid bare. But the dead cannot speak, cannot accuse, and cannot demand justice. It falls to DCI David Garrick and his team to piece together the clues and unravel a most peculiar and chilling case. Yet even as the investigation intensifies, Garrick is under pressure closer to home. Budget cuts, a wedding, and mounting personal crises force him to question ...

Hidden within the sprawling beauty of America’s national parks are secrets that defy explanation. National Park Encounters: Case Files of the Strange & Mysterious pulls back the curtain on eerie tales and perplexing phenomena reported by rangers, visitors, and locals alike. From unsettling sightings of humanoid creatures to unidentified flying objects in the sky, this collection delves into some chilling and unexplainable accounts recorded. Each chapter explores a unique case through first-hand statements, journal excerpts, and reconstructed events, the book captures the fear, wonder, and...

The first edition of Greentown helped reopen one of America's most shameful unsolved murder cases, the savage slaying of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in an exclusive enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, the night before Halloween 1975. Soon after Martha's body was discovered, attention focused on members of the Skakel family, who lived across the street from the Moxleys. Ethel Skakel and Robert Kennedy had married in Greenwich, and the two families were close.

From human stew to hammer murders, these are the crimes nightmares are made of. Why read ghost stories when history drips with cannibals, assassins, and ritual killers? This collection brings together all three volumes of the series, delivering 60 chilling true crime stories and mysteries from around the world. Within these pages lie the darkest corners of human history: serial killers who stalked with hammers, ritual murders steeped in superstition, cannibal feasts, political assassinations that shook nations, and unsolved mysteries that defy explanation. Each story is meticulously ...