Bloody Crimes

On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time - the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis fled the capital, setting off an intense and thrilling chase in which Union cavalry hunted the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime.

Rene "Boxer" Enriquez grew up on the violent streets of East L.A., where gang fights, robberies, and drive-by shootings were fueled by rage, drugs, and alcohol. When he finally landed in prison - at the age of 19 - Enriquez found an organization that brought him the respect he always wanted: the near-mythic and widely feared Mexican Mafia, La Eme. What the organization saw in Enriquez was a young man who knew no fear and would kill anyone - justifiably or not - in the blink of an eye.

For centuries, Johnny Appleseed has been celebrated as a pioneering hero — a wanderer who traversed the American frontier, planting apple trees that would nourish future generations. His legacy is one of environmentalism, selflessness, and humility. But the truth? It’s far darker than anyone ever imagined. In this audacious and twisted reimagining of an American legend, Johnny Appleseed is revealed to be something far more sinister — a man who used trees as a cover for the crimes he committed in his ruthless quest for power. Beneath his charming facade of kindness lies a cold-blooded ...

Grace Repton, a beautiful older woman, walks into the police station to tell Detective Matt Ballard she has information that could stop a murder. Her fiance, the infamous serial killer Jeremy Reader, has told her that he has a disciple who is going to kill using Reader's horrific methods. Reader murdered five women and was finally brought to justice by Detective Ballard. Reader is safely imprisoned in a high security prison, and claiming to be a reformed man who wants to help the police.

An exciting, evocative first-in-series noir novel set in 1973 Glasgow, a city on the cusp of a heroin epidemic, featuring detective Harry McCoy. When an 18-year-old boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commits suicide, McCoy knows it can't be a random act of violence. With a newbie partner in tow, McCoy uses his underworld network to build a picture of a secret society run by Glasgow's wealthiest family, the Dunlops. Drugs, sex, incest; every nefarious predilection is catered to....

When the dismembered body of a notorious banker washes up on the beach at Luss, DCI John Lomond finds a sinister message carved into the dead man's forehead. And the same message has just been found on a tortured businessman in Gullane on the east coast. With a twisted vigilante on the loose, and a brewing scandal threatening to pull his Major Investigations Team apart, they and Lomond must join forces with a team from Edinburgh – led by Lomond's ex.

>From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask.

The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” (Booklist).

JAYVON has found the woman of his dreams in CHRISSY, a gorgeous young lady who only has eyes for him. The only one standing in their way of happiness is BARTISE, one of New York’s fiercest crime lords. Unable to track down Chrissy’s father to collect on his debt, Bartise takes his daughter as payment, and he will not let her go until he gets what he is owed. Vowing to get Chrissy from under Bartise’s rule, Jayvon competes for the money in an underground fighting circuit. But even if he does manage to get the bag, will Bartise honor their agreement? Or will he have him assassinated and...

Denny O’Callaghan is afraid to open his eyes. He’d been out drinking last night with the guys, and his head throbs, his arms hurt, and he can’t remember what he’s done. He opens his eyes. Blood. On his sheets. His pillowcase. Then he gets a call: his ex-wife was murdered last night. He desperately tries to piece together what happened. But he can’t explain how he got the scratches on his arms, the police want to know about the domestic violence report his ex filed against him, and his buddies say he was raging against her last night before he stormed off on his own. Right about ...

JAYVON and his crew—CHYNA, AUGUSTUS, and BAG MAN—are on a mission to save his father TRICK, from the clutches of the callous kingpin DRACO. With a tight deadline and $5,000,000 to collect, they hustle hard, hitting stash houses, shaking down card games, and street fighting. The streets aren’t safe with DOLPH looming over their every move. One slip-up and the leader of the Kings of Thieve’s wrath will crush them all. The tension is high, and the clock is ticking fast. Will Jayvon and the gang deliver Draco’s cash in time, or is Trick destined to meet his end at the hands of his ...

We tend to think of serial killers as a modern phenomenon. They are not. The first known serial killers in the United States were the Harpe brothers. Active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Harpe brothers spread a path of terror across more than half a dozen American states. Along their way, they murdered between 39 and 50 men, women, and children. Their crimes, which often included grotesque mutilations, were so vicious that they made other murderers cringe with disgust. This is a true story, and it is as gruesome as any horror tale ever told. This fully documented story ...

A murderous atmosphere pervaded 19th-century America marked by lurid newspaper accounts and remembered in ballad and verse. The Bloody Century presents 50 of the most intriguing murder cases from the archives of American crime. It is a collection of fascinating stories - some famous, some long-buried - of Americans, driven by desperation, greed, jealousy, or an irrational bloodlust, to take another’s life.

Big Ken, the leader of the Bloody Money Bag clique, gives his all to elevate his whole team to the top. His status in the streets and his power to maintain that immense status is unparalleled Big Ken until, a drug exchange gone bad places him under the feds microscope. Big Ken’s stress of facing fed time turns him into a demon that he never knew was a part of himself. While Big Ken is doing everything possible to try to fight to keep his freedom, Angel, his wife, is toes down. With Big Ken under the microscope, he’s forced to stay out of the limelight, but business must keep going. Big ...

Tormented by the recent loss of a colleague, DCI Jack Logan is on the warpath, determined to bring down all those he holds responsible for the officer's death. His quest for revenge is cut short when a woman's body turns up on the remote island of Canna, and Jack is summoned to investigate. As a storm closes in, Jack finds himself cut-off from the rest of the world, with no car, no phone signal, and only DC Neish for company,

The Victorian Detectives return to delve into more complex mysteries. When a couple of newly weds discover the body of a man swinging from Tower Bridge at night, the gruesome murder is quickly delegated to Chief Inspector Richard Rayner to investigate. Much to the famous detective’s dismay, other serious crimes involving kidnappings and rape soon require Rayner’s attention and when his own son is abducted, the Tower Bridge murder is relegated to a less priority Inquiry. In similar fashion to its predecessors in the series, Bloody Retribution takes the reader back to 19th century London ...

At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate...and as he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy.

Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history - "Little" Nicky Scarfo’s reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980s - written by Scarfo’s underboss and nephew, "Crazy" Phil Leonetti. The youngest-ever underboss at the age of 31, Leonetti was at the crux of the violent downfall of the traditional American Mafia in the 1980s when he infiltrated Atlantic City after gambling was legalized, and later turned state’s evidence against his own.

Love, one of the most powerful emotions we're capable of feeling, an emotion that is meant to be positive and life-affirming, yet one which frequently ends in some of the bloodiest events the world has seen. In Murder Tales: The Valentine Companion, H. N. Lloyd examines twelve blood-chilling real-life murders which would not have occurred if it hadn't have been for the emotion of love. The cases examined in this volume include: Timothy and Hanna Simm: In this travesty of British justice a peculiar judge took it upon himself to reduce a murder charge to manslaughter, and sought to ruin the ...

1985. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before investigators unearthed the terrible truth. As Betty Lou's sordid past emerged, so did her chilling trail of marital violence.

For ten years, Nick Parker was an elite operative for the US Government. He was a legend; he was an assassin. But over time, the line between good and evil became blurred and the nightmares that followed were constant reminders. After leaving the government, he joined the Washington State Criminal Investigation Division in Seattle, using his unique skills to serve and protect, and maybe find a little redemption in the process. He was good at what he did, but after shooting a murder suspect to save his partner, he was placed on paid leave. When he headed to his cabin in the Cascade Mountains...