Reality Crime

Bailey Collins believed she had outrun what Eli Murphy did to her in high school. Ten years and thousands of miles away from the scene of the crime, Bailey is laser-focused on her career. She's a rising star at her TV network, newly promoted as senior producer for the reality show, The Cruise. Things are on the up. And then Eli Murphy applies to be a contestant on The Cruise. It’s taken a lot for Bailey to make something of her life and to heal from her adolescent trauma.

Two true tales of small-town murders Unfriendly: How a social media feud led to a double homicide When the bodies of Bill Payne and Billie-Jean Hayworth were discovered in their Mountain City, Tennessee home on January 30 2012, investigators initially assumed it was a drug deal gone awry. However, soon their attention was drawn to a vicious online feud that had been simmering in full view of the entire town of Mountain City for over a year. What followed was an unbelievable case involving a CIA agent, a secret relationship, and an impressionable local man who had never had a girlfriend. At ...

Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly). Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every...

Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind... “I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York...

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other–real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for...

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon. In one of the most buzzed-about debuts, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured...

Twenty-three orphans with numbers for names from 1 to 23. Number Nine wants to escape from 'the orphanage'. Read the highly-rated international conspiracy thriller series in full and at a discounted price. Three novels spanning over 1,000 explosive pages... Book One: THE NINTH ORPHAN Book Two: THE ORPHAN FACTORY Book Three: THE ORPHAN UPRISING Meet Number Nine - an orphan, a spy, a lover...a master of disguise, an assassin, a shapeshifter...a freedom fighter, a human chameleon, a reformed contract killer. He's all of the above. He's none of the above. Nine is enslaved by the Omega Agency, a...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face. . . . Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters...

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* The No-Holds-Barred Truth About Life Inside the Gotti Dynasty—Told by Their Most Famous Daughter Victoria Gotti never intended to reveal the inside story of the Gotti household—the day-to-day life of a family that has sparked scandalous rumors and sensational...

The Whitechapel Murders Were Not a Mystery. They Were a Systemic Collapse. Forget the conspiracy theories and the legends of a criminal mastermind. Step into the brutal, mechanical reality of a police machine pushed beyond its operational limits. In 1888, London was the largest industrial city on Earth, yet it was policed by an infrastructure designed decades earlier for basic crowd control. When a calculated predator began operating in the East End, the Metropolitan Police did not simply fail to catch him—the entire investigative apparatus suffered a catastrophic system overload. In The ...

The Victorian Mind Was Not a Soul. It Was Malfunctioning Machinery. Forget the ghost stories and the gaslit myths of haunted asylums. Step into the brutal, mechanical reality of 19th-century criminal lunacy. The industrial expansion of London produced cities dense enough to magnify every social instability. The courts could hang murderers, but execution was a terminal output, not a diagnostic tool. It did nothing to explain why certain individuals were immune to the deterrence of the gallows. In The Victorian Alienist: The Medical Reality of Criminal Insanity, Glenn S. Martinez reconstructs...

The Victorian Underworld Was Not a Street Gang. It Was a Shadow Economy. Forget the romanticized tales of gaslit street toughs and penny-dreadful villains. Step into the brutal, economic reality of an interconnected black market operating directly beneath the gaze of Scotland Yard. The popular image of 19th-century crime focuses entirely on the frontline workers: the pickpockets, the burglars, and the footpads. But those visible crimes were only the acquisition phase of something far larger. Behind every stolen gold watch stood a highly structured, multi-tiered marketplace designed to ...

The New York Times bestseller from “one of the most astute and entertaining commentators on our astonishing, chaotic present.”( Washington Post Book World) Hollis Henry is a journalist on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn’t exist yet. Bobby Chombo is a...

Government: The Original Crime Family How the State Took the Mob’s Best Ideas and Made Them Legal Ever get the feeling that your government is just one step away from running a protection racket? Good news: it already is. Even better news: this book explains exactly how. In Government: The Original Crime Family, Joseph Sapp takes readers on a blistering, hilarious, and disturbingly accurate tour through the machinery of modern governance—and shows how it mirrors organized crime in structure, strategy, and spirit. Inside, you’ll discover: Why taxes are just protection money with better...

“Bad Monkeys has wit and imagination by the bucketload. . . . Buy it, read it, memorize then destroy it. There are eyes everywhere.”—Chris Moore, bestselling author of A Dirty Job and Lamb Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret...

In April 1997, pretty, 22-year-old Jacine Gielinski stopped her car at a red light in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She had no idea that the two young men looking at her from the car next to hers would in that moment decide she would be their target for unspeakable horrors.

Victorian Poverty Was Not Chaos. It Was Arithmetic. Beyond the myths of Jack the Ripper and Charles Dickens lies the brutal, mechanical reality of the London Underworld. You’ve read the novels. You’ve walked the gaslit streets in your imagination. But what did survival actually cost in the East End? How much did you pay for eight hours of sleep on a stretched rope? How many calories sustained a workhouse inmate? What did it mean to raise a family inside a single, airless room in a rookery? The stories are familiar. The numbers are not. In The Victorian Rookery: The Economic Reality of ...

You Know the Drill. The World is Weird. The Stories are Real. 'Too many WTF moments!' For fifteen volumes, the Bizarre True Crime series has been the gold standard for historical oddities and unsettling non-fiction. Now, Ben Oakley returns with a fresh slate of true stories guaranteed to astonish, disturb, and entertain. This is a museum of the macabre, a grab bag of gripping anomalies pulled from the darkest corners of the past. From cunning criminals whose schemes defy belief to bizarre events that have never been fully explained, this collection delivers the unfiltered, hard-hitting ...

"One of the most anticipated books of 2026!" —New York Times "One of the finest suspense writers of her generation. Amazing dialogue, complex characters and a dazzling plot. Never has betrayal seemed so fascinating. " —S.A Cosby Twenty-five years ago in Seaside, Washington, a charming...

The Victorian Economy Was Not a Monument to Trust. It Was an Algorithmic Exploit. Forget the charming myths of the gentleman thief. Step into the brutal, mechanical reality of 19th-century corporate extraction. The Victorian age is often remembered for railways, industry, and imperial power. But beneath the polished reputation of banks and gentlemen’s clubs, a handful of disciplined predators learned to read the financial system the way an engineer reads a blueprint. They did not need violence. They needed chemistry, patience, and a well-tailored coat. In The Victorian Syndicate: The ...