By Tom Henderson
A mortgage broker's wife is found floating the water during a family getaway, and her husband is suspected of murder.
The Algiers Motel Incident
By John Hersey
Details events that occurred in 1967 at the Algiers Motel in Detroit, where law enforcement officials interrogated ten African-American men, and ultimately killed three of them.
Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing
By Arnie Bernstein
Tells the story of the Bath School Disaster, in which a disgruntled school board member planted dynamite in the community's new school building, leading the deaths and injuries of dozens of children, teachers, and community members. (See also: The Bath School Disaster and Mayday: History of a Village Holocaust)
The Bath School Disaster
By M.J. Ellsworth
First published in 1927, shortly after an explosion caused by a disgruntled school board member killed or injured dozens of students, teachers, and community members in the community of Bath. Several reprints have been published since then.
Blood in the Snow
By Tom Henderson
A missing persons case turns into a homicide investigation when a woman's body is discovered in southeast Michigan and her husband goes on the lam.
Blood Justice
By Tom Henderson
A sting operation results in the capture of a man suspected of killing several women.
Butcher's Dozen
By Lawrence Wakefield
Contains thirteen stories about famous Michigan murders.
Cause of Death: Forensic Files of a Medical Examiner
By Stephen D. Cohle, MD, and Tobin T. Buhk
Discusses cases that Dr. Cohle encountered as medical examiner for Kent County
The Co-Ed Call Girl Murder
By Fannie Weinstein and Melinda Wilson
A college student working on a project involving prostitutes becomes one herself, a decision that ultimately leads to her death.
The Color of Night: A Young Mother, a Missing Child, and a Cold-Blooded Killer
By John H. Timmerman and L.C. Timmerman
Details the story of Rachel Timmerman, who was murdered before she could testify against the man who raped her, and whose toddler disappeared at the same time and has never been found.
Darker Than Night
By Tom Henderson
Two hunters go missing in 1985, and the secret to their disappearances turns up eighteen years later near Mio. (The author also wrote: Afraid of the Dark; Blood in the Snow; Blood Justice; and A Deadly Affair)
Dead But Not Forgotten
By Amber Hunt
A Detroit man having an affair is accused of murdering his wife.
A Deadly Affair
By Tom Henderson
A man who was having an affair with a judge goes on trial for killing his pregnant wife.
The Detroit True Crime Chronicles
By Scott M. Burnstein
Covers several true-crime cases from throughout Detroit's storied history.
Diary of a Motor City Hit Man
By Christian Cipollini
Discusses the case of Chester Wheeler Campbell, who was a hit man in Detroit in the 1970s.
The Dungeon Master
By William Dear
Written by the private investigator who looked into the disappearance of a teenage boy from Michigan State University in 1979.
The Errant Nun
By Harry Milostan
Discusses the case of Sister Mary Janina, a Roman Catholic nun who was found buried in the basement of her church in the northern Michigan community of Isadore. (See also: Isadore's Secret)
The Events of October
By Gail Griffin
Covers a murder/suicide that occurred at Kalamazoo College in 1999.
Eye of the Beholder
By Lowell Cauffiel
A Battle Creek television anchorwoman is killed in her driveway by her husband.
Fatal Error
By Mark Morris and Paul Janczewski
A Flint woman convinces her long-distance boyfriend to murder her husband.
Final Doom: The Frederick Hollman Story
By Kevin Collier
Delves into the life of serial killer Frederick Hollman, including his years spent living in Grand Haven.
Forever and Five Days
By Lowell Cauffiel
Two attendants at a Grand Rapids nursing home kill six of their patients.
Great Lakes Cold Case Files
By Wayne Louis Kadar
Discusses "cold cases" from throughout the Great Lakes region.
Great Lakes Crime: Murder, Mayhem, Booze and Broads
By Frederick Stonehouse
Covers a variety of crimes that took place within the Great Lakes region. (The author also wrote Great Lakes Crime II: More Murder, Mayhem, Booze & Broads)
Great Lakes Crime II: More Murder, Mayhem, Booze & Broads
By Frederick Stonehouse
A continuation of Stonehouse's first book, which focused on historic crimes around the Great Lakes region.
Great Lakes Heroes and Villains
By Wayne Louis Kadar
Discusses do-gooders and miscreants from throughout the history of the Great Lakes area.
Great Lakes Serial Killers
By Wayne Louis Kadar
Discusses serial killers who sought their victims from throughout the Great Lakes region.
Hillsdale: Greek Tragedy in America's Heartland
By Roger Rapoport
An official at Hillsdale College commits suicide in 1999, but many people involved in the case believe that her death was, in fact, a murder.
Hunt to Kill (earlier edition published as The Sweater Letter)
By Dave Distel and Lynn Distel
A woman is shot while walking her dogs in the Upper Peninsula woods, and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
Internal Combustion
By Joyce Maynard
An automobile engineer from Farmington Hills is found murdered, and while his wife admits that she killed him, she claims the deed was done in self-defense.
Isadore's Secret
By Mardi Link
In the early 20th century, the body of a nun is found buried in the basement of a Catholic Church in the northwestern Michigan community of Isadore.
Kiss of the She-Devil
By M. William Phelps
A love triangle leads to murder.
Lethal Friendship
By Sue Young
A mother recounts her efforts to keep her daughter's murderer behind bars.
Love Kills: The Stalking of Diane Newton King
By Andy Hoffman
Recounts the story of a Battle Creek newswoman who was murdered by her husband. (See also: Eye of the Beholder and Someone is Stalking Me)
Luke Karamazov
By Conrad Hilberry
Focuses on the life stories of two brothers---one a serial killer, the other a multiple rapist.
Masquerade
By Lowell Cauffiel
A Detroit psychologist gets caught up in an underworld of drugs and prostitution that leads to his death.
Mayday: History of a Village Holocaust
By Grant Parker
Covers the Bath School Disaster, in which dozens of children, teachers, and community members were injured or killed when a disgruntled school board member planted dynamite in the community's new school building. (See also: Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing and The Bath School Disaster)
The Michigan Murders
By Edward Keyes
Relates the story of a string of murders of college co-eds that took place in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti during the late 1960s, and the eventual capture of the man suspected of killing them. (See also: The Red Parts)
Michigan's Strychnine Saint: The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight
By Tobin T. Buhk
Tells the story of the Murphy family---father, mother, and child---who, in 1903, died of a mysterious malady within a week and a half of each other.
Murder in Battle Creek: The Mysterious Death of Daisy Zick
By Blaine L. Pardoe
Discusses the unsolved 1963 murder of a Battle Creek woman who worked for the Kellogg Company.
Murder Michigan
By Gary W. Barfknecht
Recounts several notorious murders that happened in Michigan throughout its history.
Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
By Sonny Longtine
Covers 24 murders that happened in the Upper Peninsula. (The author also wrote Wading in Blood)
Murder in the Thumb
By Richard W. Carson
Discusses the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl in Caro, the eventual discovery of her body, and the fight to bring her killer to justice.
Murder So Cold
By Patricia Springer
A Portage woman goes missing, and her husband is the prime suspect in her disappearance, even though he insists that she ran off with another man.
Needle Work
By Fred Rosen
A woman from southeastern Michigan is killed by her roommate and the roommate's boyfriend.
Outlaws of the Lakes
By Edward Butts
Tells the stories of criminals who worked in and around the Great Lakes.
The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit 1910-1945
By Paul R. Kavieff
Discusses the notorious gang that ruled the Detroit underworld during the Prohibition era.
The Red Parts
By Maggie Nelson
A memoir that discusses the author's aunt, Jane Mixer, who is suspected to be the victim of serial killer John Norman Collins. (See also: The Michigan Murders)
Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties
By Phillip P. Mason
Discusses illicit efforts to smuggle liquor from Canada to Michigan during Prohibition.
Secret Witness: The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan
By Blaine Pardoe
A café worker in Marshall is killed when a package explodes after she opens it.
The Shocking Story of Helmuth Schmidt: Michigan's Original Lonely Hearts Killer
By Tobin Buhk
In the early 20th century, a Detroit man uses personal ads to lure women to their deaths.
Skeletons in the Closet: Stories from the County Morgue
By Tobin T. Buhk and Dr. Stephen D. Cohle, MD
Covers twenty-one cases that Dr. Cohle confronted as medical examiner in Kent County. (The author also wrote Cause of Death; Michigan's Strychnine Saint; The Shocking Story of Helmuth Schmidt; and True Crime Michigan)
A Slaying in the Suburbs: The Tara Grant Murder
By Andrea Billups and Steve Miller
A suburban Detroit woman is murdered and dismembered by her husband. (See also: Blood in the Snow)
Someone is Stalking Me
By Robert J. Dvorchak
Discusses the stalking and eventual murder of Battle Creek newscaster Diane King. (See also: Eye of the Beholder and Love Kills)
Three Bullets Sealed His Lips
By Bruce A. Rubenstein and Lawrence F. Ziewacz
Investigates the 1945 murder of Warren Hooper, a Michigan state senator who was due to testify before a grand jury about corruption in the state capital.
True Crime Michigan
By Tobin T. Buhk
Covers ten murders that occurred in Michigan's throughout its past and present.
The Violent Years: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs
By Paul R. Kavieff
Discusses the underworld's role in running the Prohibition racket in Detroit.
Wading in Blood: Murder in Michigan
By Sonny Longtine
Covers several murders that occurred in Michigan.
When Evil Came to Good Hart
By Mardi Link
Tells the story of the Robison family, whose six members were murdered in their vacation home near Good Hart in 1968.
Wicked Ann Arbor
By James Thomas Mann
Details sordid events from Ann Arbor's past.
Wicked Hamtramck
By Greg Kowalski
Describes the underbelly of Hamtramck throughout its history.
Wicked Ottawa County, Michigan
By Amberrose Hammond
Covers unsavory events in Ottawa County's past.
Wicked Washtenaw County
By James Thomas Mann
Describes historical crimes in Washtenaw County.
With Murderous Intent
By Robert Hemming
A husband murders his wife, then eludes authorities for eight years before finally being captured.
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The Search for a Child Killer
By Tommy McIntyre
Discusses the murders of four children killed in Oakland County in 1976 and 1977.
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