Crime Shootings

On a freezing January in 1992, five teenage girls crowded into a car. By the end of the night, only four of them were alive. The fifth had been tortured and mutilated nearly beyond recognition. Her name was Shanda Sharer; her age--twelve. When the people of Madison, Indiana heard that a brutal murder had been committed in their midst, they were stunned. Then the story became even more bizarre. The four accused murderers were all girls under the age of eighteen: Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence. Veteran true crime journalist Aphrodite Jones reveals the ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Eva Benefield, the daughter of the victim of the viral “Black Swan Murder,” describes coming of age amid grief, violence, and a true-crime spectacle, in a poignant memoir "relatable to anyone who’s experienced grief or witnessed evil up close. Eva tells...

Think No Evil is the first insider account of the tragic events, the personal victories and the daily Amish life in Nickel Mines, written by a native of the Amish community who still lives and works where most of his relatives are Old Order Amish. Against the rich and fascinating backdrop of Amish culture, Beiler reveals the best of the human spirit in the midst of the worst, and leaves us all drawn heavenward, the richer for it.

In a gay nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016, the shooter, Omar Mateen, murdered 49 people and wounded 53 others. The attack was the deadliest act of violence against the LGBTQ+ community in US history and the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11. But there’s a story you haven’t heard. The FBI had a secret history with the shooter and his father. To obscure that history, the FBI pushed a false story that the media dutifully carried—that the attacker was a secretly gay Islamist extremist who had chosen to target Pulse and planned the attack for weeks.

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense! "Lazarre-White masterfully portrays people of multiple races, old and young. He also delivers Cosby's reflections on family, grief, and faith with genuine introspection and without distracting from the tense plotlines...This is a gripping...

Maverick FBI detective Amos Decker must forge an uneasy alliance with the Defense Intelligence Agency to prevent an international incident that could spell the end of the United States as we know it in this gripping thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Amos Decker witnesses a...

True Crime in Cook County: Stories of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem in America’s Second City From gangsters and massacres to unsolved mysteries and wrongful convictions... Cook County’s darkest stories are revealed. Chicago has always lived in two worlds: the city of bright lights and ambition, and the shadow city of crime and corruption. True Crime in Cook County takes you on a gripping journey through more than a century of the county’s most infamous cases. 📖 Inside you’ll discover: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929) that defined gangster-era Chicago. The shocking Our Lady...

On July 4, 2022, a shooter climbed onto a rooftop in Highland Park, Illinois, and opened fire on a Fourth of July parade below, killing seven people and wounding dozens more. Prosecutors charged Robert “Bobby” Crimo III with the mass shooting. But this attack was part of something even more insidious. Bobby had created an elaborate game—complete with cryptic videos, a book of numbers, and an eerie online presence—designed to seed a conspiracy theory about the massacre.

February 20, 2016 — Kalamazoo, Michigan. An ordinary Uber shift turned into a citywide nightmare. Jason Dalton seemed like any other driver on the road. But as he ferried passengers across Kalamazoo, Dalton became convinced that something had taken over his iPhone — a flashing app icon that shifted from red to black, a digital signal he believed was commanding him to kill. Minutes later, he began executing strangers at random, turning the city into a hunting ground and leaving police scrambling to understand the pattern behind the chaos. By the end of the night, eight people had been ...

A bipolar gangster, a naive young film director, and Batman. What could go wrong? Alex Ferrari is a first-time film director who just got hired to direct a $20 million feature film, the only problem is the film is about Jimmy, an egomaniacal gangster who wants the film to be about his life in the mob. Would you sell your soul to the devil to make your dream come true? By the way, did we mention that this story is based on true events?, no, seriously it is.

A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity. While awaiting trial, Lindsay...

The sensational killings that have rocked San Francisco appear to be unrelated except in their brutality. But detective Lindsay Boxer senses there's some thread connecting them all. She calls her friends in the Women's Murder Club together to see if they can discover what it is. Working with...

A neighborhood dispute. A locked door. One fatal shot. For years, Susan Lorincz complained about the children who played near her Ocala, Florida, home. She called deputies, recorded them, argued over property lines, and described their presence as threatening. Ajike “AJ” Owens saw something different: children trying to play in their own neighborhood and an adult who repeatedly targeted them. On June 2, 2023, AJ’s children came home upset after another confrontation with Lorincz. AJ walked to the nearby residence with her nine-year-old son and demanded answers. She was unarmed. ...

It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loose. Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career. A rising star football...

The newest Women's Murder Club thriller--and instant #1 New York Times bestseller A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to...

Parkland: A Story of Shadows and Light" On Valentine’s Day 2018, tragedy strikes Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, leaving a nation grieving and a community shattered. But beneath the surface of human sorrow lies a greater battle—one between angels and demons, light and darkness, and the very soul of humanity. Nikolas Cruz, tormented by forces beyond his understanding, becomes the center of this struggle. Manipulated by a Dark Angel intent on destruction, his choices ignite a storm of despair. Yet, in the aftermath of unthinkable loss, the story reaches beyond ...

Featuring a new preface and afterword by the author. From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston—one of the first to draw national headlines—and the dramatic investigation and court case...

Young college student Angel Andrews escaped the hood life growing up in Miami to get college nature, but his feminine nature that made him the butt of every joke when he was younger threatens to resurface and change him forever.

On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded. A Dark Night in Aurora uses the twenty-three hours of unredacted interview transcripts never seen by the public and Reid’s research to bring the listener inside the mind of a mass murderer. The result is chilling, gripping study of abnormal psychology and how a lovely boy named Jimmy became a killer.

Sometimes trouble follows a man. Sometimes a man has to go looking for it. The Chinese foreign minister is speaking at a Bangkok university, and there's a diplomatic reception for him before the speech. Like most diplomatic receptions, it's an occasion that's dull as dishwater. Until it isn't. The assembled diplomats discover the main doors of the reception hall have been locked. That's when a masked gunman comes in through the back and opens up with a silenced MP5. It's like shooting the proverbial fish in the proverbial barrel. Thirteen dead and nine wounded, including the British ...