Diane Fanning

On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler sons. It would be the last time she was seen alive....

The nation wept when news broke of nearly three-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2007....

In Death on the River, best-selling true crime author Diane Fanning recounts a tragic kayak accident that left one man dead - and his fiancee arrested for his murder....

Lisa Montgomery presented her husband, Kevin, with their newborn baby girl, while a state way, police were investigating the brutal murder of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett....

Susan McFarland watched, powerless, as her husband, Rick McFarland, went into a downhill spiral of get-rich-quick schemes, quirky shopping trips, and prescription-drug abuse....

Michael Peterson was driven to succeed. And compelled to kill....

The nice guy next door was hiding a dark secret - a homicidal obsession with young girls....

Sleep My Darlings is the deadly true story of a mother's betrayal of her natural instincts and the loss of two innocents' lives....

Ten-year-old Krystal Surles watched as her best friend was murdered before the intruder slashed her throat with a 12-inch boning knife....

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, otherwise known as the Secret City, rose seemingly overnight in 1942, built by the US government....

Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note-typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint on it.....

Beneath a veneer of respectability and religion, Mary Winkler's soul festered as she struggled to be obedient and loving to her husband and her God....

May 30, 1944. In the middle of the night, Libby Clark is roused from sleep by a colleague in distress. Marvin’s cousin Frannie has been charged with treason, and he hopes that Libby, with her clearheaded scientific mind, can find a way to help prove her innocence....

In the third book in the Lucinda Pierce mystery series, the detective unravels a labyrinth of evidence to track down a double murderer while exploring the depth of childhood scars....

When Molly Mullet's husband dies from a gunshot wound inflicted right before her eyes, she abandons her work as a high school chemistry teacher and joins the police force....

Beauty business entrepreneur Dean Faiello's "life of the party" attitude was constantly leading him to disaster....

An in-depth story of the astronaut love triangle that shocked America. This captivating account casts light on Lisa Nowak's groundbreaking fall from grace....

In the fifth book in the series, Lieutenant Lucinda Pierce encounters a death that at first appears to be suicide....

Lucinda Pierce investigates the death of charity worker Sharon Fleming, who was brutally murdered....

A missing elderly man shows up dead on his son's front porch, his pockets full of acorns....