Books like The Kirtland massacre by Cynthia Stalter Sassé

A compelling overview of American history through the eyes and experiences of its women, workers, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working poor.

An unflinching look at the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, the case that ignited the modern civil‑rights movement, drawing on newly recovered court transcripts, FBI reports, and the only interview given by Carolyn Bryant.

A case study of a young girl's murder investigation in Texas, where her father, a manipulative man, murdered his daughter for an insurance policy.

A true‑crime case study of the 1991 Luby's supermarket massacre in Killeen, Texas.

In 1921, John S. Williams’s Georgia plantation, still run by enslaved labor, becomes the site of a chilling federal investigation after the governor orders the destruction of evidence. The case, involving the murder of slaves and a trial that captured national attention, marks a turning point in the treatment of black Americans.

A Descent Into Hell details the shocking 2005 murder of Jennifer Cave, the desperate flight of her partner Colton Pitonyak, and the investigative pursuit that unfolded in Austin, Texas.

A detailed biography of Hawley Harvey Crippen, the early 20th‑century London doctor convicted of murdering his wife, examining the case through original research and biographical context.

True crime chronicle of a flamboyant smuggling family whose alleged assassination of a Federal judge triggered the most expensive FBI investigation in U.S. history.

True‑crime account of Regina Hartwell, a wealthy Texas drug dealer, whose obsession with young Kim LeBlanc ends in a fatal stabbing and arson.

Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapses and has to be taken to a neighbor's house, but her weeping can be heard across the city. With this terrifying scene - one that would haunt this family forever - David I. Kertzer begins his fascinating investigation of the dramatic kidnapping, and shows how the deep-rooted antisemitism of the Catholic Church would eventually contribute to the collapse of its temporal power in Italy. As Edgardo's parents desperately search for a way to get their son back, they learn why he - out of all their eight children - was taken. Years earlier, the family's Catholic serving girl, fearful that the infant might die of an illness, had secretly baptized him (or so she claimed). Edgardo recovered, but when the story reached the Bologna inquisitor, the result was his order for Edgardo to be seized and sent to a special monastery where Jews were converted into good Catholics. His justification in Church teachings: No Christian child could be raised by Jewish parents. The case of Edgardo Mortara became an international cause celebre. Although such kidnappings were not uncommon in Jewish communities across Europe, this time the political climate had changed. As news of the family's plight spread to Britain, where the Rothschilds got involved, to France, where it mobilized Napoleon III, and even to America, public opinion turned against the Vatican. The fate of this one boy came to symbolize the entire revolutionary campaign of Mazzini and Garibaldi to end the dominance of the Catholic Church and establish a modern, secular Italian state.

A gripping legal thriller about a prosecutor's quest for justice after a brutal murder in Washington, D.C.

A true‑crime examination of the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey, the famous Colorado beauty contest participant, exploring the investigation, media frenzy, and legal battles that followed.

An intensive look at the unsolved 1991 murder of four girls in Austin, Texas, tracing decades of investigation, DNA advances, and the challenges of justice.

A chilling investigation into the dark practices of doctors and nurses in a nursing home.