First True Crime

Mix in murderous maids, bumbling burglars, and unflinching local heroes and you have True Crime Philadelphia.

Writer Karen Walker knows more than most about murderers. Her first love went on to become The Bagman, a notorious serial killer now locked away for life in a maximum-security prison. Karen has spent her life running from the weight of having loved him, defended him and, ultimately, leading the police to his door. But now, ten years later, just as she’s about to publish her account of his crimes, a young woman is abducted in horribly familiar circumstances.

'Gripping and moving' NINA STIBBE 'A masterpiece' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Creepy and compulsive, yet deeply touching' SABINE DURRANT 'I can't think of anyone who wouldn't love it' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON Camden, 1890. London is a city of gaslight, gossip and grisly headlines. Hannah Teale is a bright...

Picking up where True to the Game left off, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. With millions from Quadir’s stash hidden in duffel bags across city lockers, Gena tries to leave her heartbreak behind, stepping out in diamond jewels and a custom black Porsche. Little does Gena know that the...

2017 is the 21st anniversary of Howard Marks' classic bestselling autobiography. He was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him. During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five...

"Finlay’s debut is a twisty puzzle that will please fans of thrillers, suspense, and true crime. Cady McClain and Jon Lindstrom capably voice a large cast of characters and keep ratcheting up the tension." -- Library Journal One of the Most Anticipated Books of the year: Newsweek CNN...

This program is read by the author. A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks. On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered...

This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors. Taking place during the most critical period of our nation’s birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington’s character, but also illuminates...

For readers of true crime and books such as See What You Made Me Do, a shocking and movingly told portrait of the murder of suburban mum Tara Costigan and an examination of why domestic violence affects us all Tara Costigan was the woman next door. A hard worker. Quick to laugh and easy to like...

Mary "Mae" Foley was a force to be reckoned with. On one hip she held her makeup compact, on the other, her NYPD badge. When women were fighting for the vote, Mae was fighting crime in the heart of New York City—taking down rapists, bootleggers, Nazis, and serial killers. One of the first women to be sworn into the police force, Mae not only fought crime in the city that never sleeps, but also did something much bigger—challenged the patriarchal systems that continually tried to shut her and other women down.

'I'm interested in one thing and one thing only, and that's catching bent coppers.' Line of Duty: The Real Story is an astonishing exposé from inside the secret world of police corruption, starring a cast of twisted cops more chilling than all four H's put together. These characters operate...

Will Sandeson seemed like a model son. A member of the Dalhousie University track and field team, he was about to start classes at Dalhousie’s medical school. He worked at a group home for adults with disabilities. He came from a good family. “There’s times for whatever reason that things don’t go quite as planned,” a Halifax police officer told Sandeson shortly after he was arrested for the first-degree murder of Taylor Samson, who also, on the surface, seemed like a model son.

The forgotten lynching that launched America's fight for Black voting rights--and the federal cover-up that followed. Murder on the Hatchie uncovers one of the earliest and most consequential crimes in America's long struggle for Black voting rights: the 1940 lynching of Elbert Williams in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Straight from the harsh streets, American Cops is a first-person account of the days and nights of America's police force. PROTECT These men and women are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people. SERVE These cops...

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885 In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin...

Suspense. Secrets. Suspicion. Scandal. Storytelling that will keep you guessing until the very end. THE GUEST is the nerve-shredding new novel from the author of global bestseller BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. Iris and Gabriel have just got home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One...