Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2877

Secondhand True Crime Bargain Book Box SP2877

Eighteen true crime titles dominated by Ann Rule — eleven books bearing her name — alongside British case studies and serial killer investigations from Stephen Michaud, Bernard Taylor, and Maria Eftimiades. An essential haul for serious readers of the genre.

1. The Stranger Beside Me — Ann Rule — Rule's account of her friendship with Ted Bundy while both worked a crisis hotline — written from inside the relationship, it remains the definitive Bundy book.
2. Bitter Harvest — Ann Rule — A Kansas doctor's perfect life conceals murderous rage — Rule traces the moment a woman's fury and a mother's sacrifice converged in catastrophe.
3. A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases — Ann Rule — A collection of obsessive-love cases, with the title story a lethal triangle of coach, player, and wife.
4. Dead by Sunset — Ann Rule — Brad Cunningham, the perfect husband, the perfect killer — Rule's reconstruction of a Portland murder and the elaborate double life behind it.
5. The Killing of Julia Wallace — Jonathan Goodman — A meticulous reconstruction of the 1931 Liverpool murder that has baffled investigators and armchair detectives ever since — one of Britain's great unsolved cases.
6. Lethal Shadow — Stephen G. Michaud — A portrait of a sadistic sex slayer told through court records and forensic evidence, by the co-author of the definitive Ted Bundy study.
7. Lust Killer — Ann Rule (writing as Andy Stack) — Jerry Brudos, the Oregon shoe-fetishist serial killer, and the evidence trail that finally brought him down.
8. The Want-Ad Killer — Ann Rule (writing as Andy Stack) — Harvey Carignan used classified ads to lure victims across multiple states — Rule reconstructs both the crimes and the psychology.
9. Murderous Women — John Dunning — Case studies of women who killed, spanning multiple countries and motivations, with Dunning's research thorough and his narrative grip strong throughout.
10. Deadly Doctors — Max Marquis — True accounts of medical professionals who used their training and access to kill — trained to cure, compelled to kill.
11. Cruelly Murdered — Bernard Taylor — The case of Constance Kent and the killing at Road Hill House in 1860 — one of Victorian England's most sensational murders, reconstructed with meticulous care.
12. Sins of the Mother — Maria Eftimiades — The true story behind the Susan Smith case, in which a South Carolina mother drowned her two young sons and blamed a carjacker.
13. The Piano Teacher — Robert K. Tanenbaum and Peter S. Greenberg — The true story of a psychotic killer whose carefully constructed facade of normality concealed extreme violence.
14. Small Sacrifices — Ann Rule — Diane Downs shot her three children on an Oregon road and claimed a stranger attacked them — one of Rule's most exhaustively documented cases.
15. Truly Murderous — John Dunning, intro by Colin Wilson — A collection of modern murder cases gathering some of the most disturbing crimes of the twentieth century in one volume.
16. Spouse Killers — ed. Rose G. Mandelsberg (True Detective Magazine) — Real cases of husbands and wives who turned on their partners, drawn from the archives of the longest-running true crime publication in America.
17. The I-5 Killer — Ann Rule (writing as Andy Stack) — Randy Woodfield killed along the Interstate 5 corridor in Oregon and Washington — Rule's account honours the detectives as much as it profiles the killer.
18. Green River, Running Red — Ann Rule — The definitive account of Gary Ridgway, America's most prolific serial killer — Rule had followed this case for years before Ridgway's capture and writes with the authority of deep immersion.