Monster Crime

These pages rescue you from an abusive relationship. When Sarah met Luis he was charming, funny, and smart. He doted on her and wanted to spend every waking moment with her. She felt seen, loved. With each day they spent together, Sarah fell deeper into his web. As their relationship progressed, Sarah realized Luis wasn’t the man she thought he was. As Luis settled into a career in law enforcement, he became more and more abusive to her and his family. Luis’s behavior began to escalate. Sarah struggled to protect herself and her children from the monster in her home. When Sarah left him...

THE MONSTER OF STATEN ISLAND The Shocking True Story of Andre Rand and the Children Who Vanished By Miles Donovan In the heart of New York’s forgotten borough, a shadow grew so dark that even time refused to forget it. Deep within the woods of Staten Island, hidden behind iron fences and rotting brick, stood the remains of Willowbrook State School—an institution that promised care, but instead became a breeding ground for neglect, fear, and tragedy. From those ruins, a new kind of horror emerged. It began with whispers, then vanished children, and finally, one man whose very name would ...

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned from them how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us - and put them behind bars. Now the man who coined the phrase "serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the Lambs shows how he has tracked down some of the nation's most brutal murderers. Join Ressler as he takes you on the hunt for America's most dangerous psychopaths. It is a terrifying journey you will not forget.

On a snowy winter evening in 1982, 21-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and raped. Mary survived, but her predator's violence had only just begun. After 10 years in prison, Tom Luther was released a far more vicious criminal. Soon, from the Rockies to West Virginia, like Ted Bundy, Luther enticed a chain of women into his murderous trap.

“Sam, could you do me a favor?” Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true-crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga - the story of a young lawyer fresh from the public defender's office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation's history. This is a gripping true crime narrative that reenacts the gruesome killings and the famous trial that shocked a nation.

The monsters didn't just want her kingdom. They wanted her womb. Princess Isolde spent her life preparing to rule a civilized court. But civilization burns to ash when Gromak the Iron Tyrant smashes through her castle gates. The massive emerald warlord offers her a cruel choice. She can watch her people perish or surrender her freedom to become the breeding stock of the Iron Horde. She chooses the chains. Now she belongs to Gromak and his three elite knights. Thrag the Skullcracker, Urzog the Bloodreaver, and Drakkar the Warchanter do not know how to be gentle. They demand she service their...

True Crime Fact Meets Truly Thrilling Mystery Fiction True Crime Fiction is a collection of mystery thrillers inspired by and including factual information about actual true crime cases. Books Included (and the cases that inspired them): INNOCENT BLOOD (The Atlanta Monster / The Atlanta Child Murders) BLOOD WORK (Ted Bundy) COLD BLOOD (Maura Murray) BLOOD BETRAYAL (Hae Min Lee / Adnan Syed) BLOOD TIES (JonBenét Ramsey) BLOODSHED (Columbine) "Michael Lister is a master storyteller." Michael Connelly

She came to watch the moon. He came to claim his mate. Amateur astronomer Marina Cross is determined to capture the perfect photo of the rare blood moon. She ignores the warning signs and sneaks onto restricted land, finding a clearing that feels ancient and sacred. She thinks she's alone, ready for a celestial spectacle. But the clearing belongs to Kaedor, the exiled alpha of a werewolf pack. The crimson light of the eclipse awakens a primal madness within him, a need to hunt, to claim, to possess. When he finds a human female on his sacred altar stone, he sees not an intruder, but a gift ...

He bought me, chained me, but nothing prepared me for the beast who now claims me. Zivra They sold me as a prize to the highest bidder—Korvax, a minotaur warlord with a savage reputation. He’s monstrous, relentless, and intent on breaking me. Yet each brutal touch ignites desires I never knew existed. My mind screams for freedom, but my traitorous heart yearns to surrender completely to the beast whose darkness matches my own. Korvax She’s mine by right of purchase, a beautiful, defiant treasure I intend to tame. Zivra fights me at every turn, her fiery resistance fueling my obsession...

It's August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, 12-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret. Crystal, Sammy's 17-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees an opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay, one that could win her a scholarship - and a ticket out of their small Iowa town.

A Vengeful Killer Carries Out an Insidious Plan of Death and Retribution When a troubled woman is lured to her death in the small coastal town of Belle Harbor, Florida, Special Agent Bailey Flynn discovers an unsettling connection between the gruesome murder and the mutilated body of a teenage girl found hidden in a long-abandoned grave. As the local police begin an investigation into the latest homicide and quickly identify a surprising prime suspect, Bailey realizes that all is not as it seems. And when a resource working closely with the investigation becomes the killer’s next victim, ...

For fans of Pretty Little Liars, Little Monsters is a new psychological thriller, from the author of The Darkest Corners, about appearances versus reality and the power of manipulation amongst teenage girls. Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she...

He came to conquer. She swore to resist. But in the war of dominance and desire, only one will kneel. Elara I will never bow. Not to the monsters who burned my village. Not to the warlord who ripped me from my home. I am not his to command, to use, to break. No matter how my body betrays me. No matter how his golden eyes watch me like a beast ready to devour. He can drag me to his camp. He can chain me. But he will never own me. Varkash She fights me. Claws at me. Spits in my face. But I see it—the way her breath hitches when I get too close, the shudder she tries to hide when I touch her...

Told in her own words, this is the story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Charlize Theron in the film Monster. There have been few female serial killers, but Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002, was a remarkable example of this rare breed of death row inmate. All too often, female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - Wuornos’ killings were the inverse of this pattern.

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history...

He doesn't speak. He growls. And when he looks at me, I forget Earth ever existed. Lyra One minute I was photographing wildflowers. The next, I woke up in a cage lightyears from Earth—barely clothed, definitely for sale, and completely screwed. Until he tore the doors off my prison. Solear isn’t human. Not really. He doesn’t talk. He stalks. Moves like a predator, fights like a weapon, and watches me like I’m his next obsession. I should be afraid of him… but when he lays his rough hands on me, fear is the last thing I feel. Now I’m on the run with a beast of a man who doesn’t...

On death row at San Quentin, artist and inmate William Noguera formed an unlikely bond with notorious serial killer Joseph Naso. Over years of disturbing conversations—and at great personal risk—Noguera gained his trust. What he revealed was far worse than anyone imagined. Behind prison walls, Naso described his brutal crimes in chilling detail, exposing the darkness that drove him and disclosing evidence that had eluded investigators for decades.

Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke.

For more than fifteen years, the man known only as the NorCal Rapist invaded homes, terrorized women, and vanished into the night without leaving a name, a face, or a single clue that pointed to his identity. His crimes spanned multiple counties, countless investigative agencies, and nearly two decades of fear. Survivors rebuilt their lives while living with the haunting knowledge that their attacker was still out there—hidden, silent, and watching. Detectives followed every lead. Traditional DNA testing failed. The case went cold. The ghost remained. Until forensic genealogy changed ...

The third book in the scorchingly hot mafia romance Queens and Monsters series by New York Times bestselling author J.T. Geissinger, where John Wick meets Romeo and Juliet. This program features multicast narration.