Freebook! - Buy Two, Get One Free
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to PowellsBooks.news for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Crime


Sale Aisles


spacer

Crime
Sale Books

There are 138 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.

Featured Titles in Crime - Sale Books
Page 1 of 7 next

The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
by Michael Capuzzo
Staff Pick
The Murder Room is an absolutely riveting story about the history of the Vidocq Society, a group of forensic scientists, cops, FBI agents, etc., that come together to solve unsolvable crimes. I'm not usually a fan of true crime, but The Murder Room is... (read more)

List Price $17.00
Your price: $8.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Criminal Psychology: A Beginner's Guide, 2nd Edition
Criminal Psychology: A Beginner's Guide, 2nd Edition
by Ray Bull
Synopsis
How does the mind of a criminal work? How can you stop criminals from re-offending? What does being in prison do to your mind? From lie detection to psychological profiling, Professor Ray Bull and his team of experts demonstrate how understanding the... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Forensic Science: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
Forensic Science: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
by Jay Siegel
Synopsis
In the wake of the phenomenal success of such shows as CSI, forensic science has never been so popular. The obsessive attention to detail that Grissom and his crew afford seemingly insignificant details like particles of dirt in a bullet wound have had... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Strange Piece of Paradise
Strange Piece of Paradise
by Terri Jentz
Publisher Comments
In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate took a cross-country bike trip. As they lay sleeping in the central Oregon desert, a man in a pickup truck deliberately ran over their tent and proceeded to attack them with an axe. The horrific... (read more)

List Price $22.00
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


And Hell Followed with Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border
And Hell Followed with Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border
by David Neiwert
Publisher Comments
It began with a frantic 911 call from a woman in a dusty Arizona border town. A gang claiming to be affiliated with the Border Patrol had shot her husband and daughter. It was initially assumed that the murders were products of border drug wars ravaging... (read more)

List Price $26.99
Your price: $10.98
Sale - Hardcover

add to wish list


Columbine
Columbine
by Dave Cullen
Publisher Comments
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave a lasting impression on the world. Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new... (read more)

List Price $15.99
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History
Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History
by Deanne Stillman
Publisher Comments
North of Los Angeles — the studios, the beaches, Rodeo Drive — lies a sparsely populated region that comprises fully one half of Los Angeles County. Sprawling across 2200 miles, this shadow side of Los Angeles is in the high Mojave Desert... (read more)

List Price $26.00
Your price: $10.98
Sale - Hardcover

add to wish list


Saving Grace: The True Story of a Mother-To-Be, a Deranged Attacker, and an Unborn Child
Saving Grace: The True Story of a Mother-To-Be, a Deranged Attacker, and an Unborn Child
by Sarah Brady
Publisher Comments
In a compelling account, the author describes how, nine months into her pregnancy, she was lured to another woman's apartment, attacked by a deranged, knife-wielding assailant who wanted to steal her baby, and forced to fight for her life, during which... (read more)

List Price $22.25
Your price: $1.00
Sale - Hardcover

add to wish list


Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16
by Ann Rule
Publisher Comments
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Its a chilling reality that homicide investigators know all too well: the last face most murder victims see is not that of a stranger, but of someone familiar. Whether only an acquaintance or a trusted intimate, such killers share a... (read more)

List Price $7.99
Your price: $3.98
Sale - Mass Market

add to wish list


The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
by Allison Hoover Bartlett
Staff Pick
Wow! What a fascinating book about a fascinating man: John Gilkey, professional book thief. Hoover Bartlett seems to have a hard time untangling herself from her story, which gives the book an interesting discordant feel. It is practically impossible to... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere
by Poe Ballantine
Publisher Comments
Fans of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and John Berendt's In the Garden of Good and Evil will embrace Poe Ballantine's Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere. For well over twenty years Poe Ballantine traveled America, taking odd jobs, living in... (read more)

List Price $16.95
Your price: $11.87
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Rides Back on Uk
Rides Back on Uk
by Dave Courtney
Publisher Comments
Further adventures of the violent criminal turned author whose total sales across three previous titles now stand at 170,000. Continues where "Stop The Ride..." - the bestselling crime biography of 2001 - left off. 8pp illus.... (read more)

Your price: $3.98
Sale - Mass Market

add to wish list


The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival
The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival
by Stanley N Alpert
Publisher Comments
On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley N. Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan by a car full of gun-toting thugs looking to use his ATM card. He ended up blindfolded in a Brooklyn... (read more)

List Price $14.50
Your price: $1.00
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
by T J English
Publisher Comments
A finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime On August 28, 1963—the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. The... (read more)

List Price $15.99
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
by Molly Molloy
Publisher Comments
In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante... (read more)

List Price $15.99
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
by Philip Carlo
Publisher Comments
The New York Times bestselling author of Gaspipe and The Ice Man, Phillip Carlo returns with a hair-raising portrait of arguably the most depraved psychopath in the history of the Mafia, mob enforcer Tommy “Karate” Pitera. The Butcher tells... (read more)

List Price $15.99
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


All Around the Town: The Sequel to the Gangs of New York
All Around the Town: The Sequel to the Gangs of New York
by Herbert Asbury
Publisher Comments
The author of the New York Times best-seller The Gangs of New York returns with a second volume of tales from Gotham's underworld. In this wonderfully colorful and surprising history, Herbert Asbury expands his purview beyond the Five Corners to the... (read more)

List Price $16.99
Your price: $6.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


A Death in Belmont (P.S.)
A Death in Belmont (P.S.)
by Sebastian Junger
Staff Pick
An absorbing crime story about the Boston stranglings, Junger's exceptional narrative re-examines the killings of the early '60s, with a focus on one murder not associated with Albert DeSalvo, the convicted serial killer. A disturbing story on many... (read more)

List Price $14.99
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception
The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception
by Robin Gaby Fisher
Publisher Comments
Tania Head’s astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001, was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. It transformed her into one of the great victims and heroes of that tragic day. But there... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord
The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord
by Malcolm Beith
Synopsis
The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, are home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman is among the worlds ten most wanted men and also appeared on Forbes magazines 2009 billionaire list. With his... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


1 3 4 5 ... 7 next»


Browse the entire aisle:
by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
There are 138 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Crime
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.