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Best for: stockings and the office party
The Serial Killers' Night Before Christmas
A darkly festive poem for grown-ups. Lock the door.
Gift the paperback · $9.99 Fancy relatives? Hardcover · $22.99
Case No. 2019-TCFK · Gift ideas
Finally.True crime the whole family* can enjoy.
Great gifts for the true crime fan with questionable taste. Illustrated storybooks, paperbacks under $10under CA$15under £8. Grab a few.
*Grown-ups. Strictly the grown-ups. Despite the name.
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Gift guide · Case No. 2019-GIFT
Gifts for the true crime fan with questionable taste
They've binged every documentary. They quote podcasts at dinner. They do not need another candle.
- Stocking stufferSlips into a stocking. Haunts the whole morning.
- Secret Santa & white elephantThe gift that gets stolen twice.
- Birthday gag giftAnother year older. Another reason to worry about them.
- Under $10Under CA$15Under £8Every paperback is under $10under CA$15under £8. Cheap enough to grab a few.
- Gift a bunchOne for them. One for the group chat. One for you. Nobody has to know.
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Best for: the friend who falls asleep to murder podcasts
Bedtime Bundy!
A cozy bedtime story with a body count. Sweet dreams.
Gift it · $9.99Best for: the foodie with a strong stomach
Dinner Time with Dahmer!
The dinner-table story nobody asked for. Pairs badly with everything.
Gift it · $9.99For the crafty one: colouring books for grown-ups who colour outside the lines. For the puzzler: Where's Bundy?, the true crime search-and-find.
🎄 Order by mid-December for Christmas delivery.
Heads up: satire for grown-ups with a dark sense of humour. Not actually for kids. Despite the name.
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Storybooks and colouring books for grown-ups. Buy one to gift. Buy three to be remembered.
Case No. 2019-001 · Out now
The Serial Killers' Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas, and history's worst guests all turned up for the party. A darkly festive poem for grown-ups. Lock the door.
Get the Christmas book – $9.99 on Amazon
Get the Christmas Hardcover – $22.99 on Amazon
🎄 Order by mid-December for Christmas delivery.
Case No. 2019-002 · Out now
Bedtime Bundy!
A cozy, illustrated bedtime story for grown-ups who like their lullabies with a body count.
Case No. 2019-003 · Out now
Dinner Time with Dahmer!
The dinner-table story nobody asked for. Pull up a chair. Maybe skip dessert.
Case No. 2019-004 · Out now
Game Time with Gacy!
Party games, paper plates and one very bad clown. A game-night story for grown-ups who never trusted clowns anyway.
Case No. 2019-005 · Out now
Late Night with the Night Stalker!
Warm summer nights, open windows and a city sleeping with the lights on. A sleepy-time story for grown-ups who already check the locks twice.
Case No. 2019-006 · Back on sale
Where's Bundy?
The true crime search-and-find. Twelve packed scenes from Seattle to the hardest prison search of all. Answer key included.
Case No. 2019-007 · Out now
The Serial Killer Colouring Book
24 notorious portraits and 24 fact-filled case cards. No gore. Colour the history, question the myth. Stay inside the lines. They didn't.
Case No. 2019-008 · Out now
Cozy Little Killers
Sweet smiles. Terrible people. 40 adorable, cozy scenes of history's most infamous names to colour, each with a true one-line fact. By Jack Morgan.
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Exhibit A · Case No. 2019-TCFK · Run time 1:53
Why True Crime For Kids?
The official explanation. Grab the popcorn, detective.
Heads up: despite the name, True Crime For Kids is dark-humour satire for grown-ups. Not actually for kids. Please don't screen this at show-and-tell.
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Case No. 2019-027 · New edition coming soon
Where's Dahmer?
From an Ohio childhood to the Oxford Apartments. Twelve new scenes, one notorious killer hiding in plain sight.
Case No. 2019-028 · New edition coming soon
Where's Gacy?
Case File 03: Chicago. An expert-level search through parades, clowns and crowded streets. One very friendly neighbour hiding in plain sight.
Case No. 2019-025 · Search-and-find
Where's Manson?
Case File 04. Spot one scruffy cult leader in packed scenes on the Sunset Strip, outside the Whisky a Go Go, inside a crowded recording studio and all over a dusty old movie ranch.
Case No. 2019-009 · Colouring
Cozy Little Killers: Crime Scenes
Do not cross (unless it's to colour). 40 adorable crime scenes with chalk outlines, police tape and a true case-file fact on every page. By Jack Morgan.
Case No. 2019-010 · Picture book
Getting Knotty with BTK!
The life, crimes and capture of Dennis Rader, with five perfectly ordinary knot lessons. Thirty years of fan mail, undone by one floppy disk.
Case No. 2019-012 · Picture book
Dress-Up Time with Ed Gein!
A Wisconsin farmhouse full of truly terrible craft projects, and the real case behind a century of horror movies.
Case No. 2019-013 · Picture book
Gardening with Dorothea Puente!
A tidy boarding house, a prize-winning garden and several reasons not to ask what makes the roses grow so well.
Case No. 2019-014 · Picture book
Puzzle Time with the Zodiac Killer!
Ciphers, clues and a killer who desperately wanted everyone to read his mail. Sharpen your pencil. Check the spelling.
Case No. 2019-016 · Picture book
Rhyme Time with Jack the Ripper!
Five women, three famous letters and one name nobody proved. A Victorian rhyme book that separates the documented case from the legend.
Case No. 2019-017 · Picture book
House Rules with H. H. Holmes!
Floor plans, false names and one very tall tale. Follow the documented frauds, murders and myths behind Chicago’s infamous “Murder Castle.”
Case No. 2019-018 · Picture book
Road Trip with Aileen Wuornos!
Seven names, six convictions and no easy myth. Follow the vehicles, prints, pawn records, recorded calls and evidence across Florida.
Case No. 2019-019 · Picture book
Family Time with the Mansons!
Songs, groupthink and one very bad family plan. Guitars, shag rugs and a gentle lesson in never letting the scruffy guy pick the family activities.
Case No. 2019-020 · Picture book
Picture Day with the Black Dahlia!
Hollywood dreams, newspaper ink and one unsolved mystery. Glamour shots, screaming headlines and the 1947 case Los Angeles still can't close.
Case No. 2019-021 · Picture book
Chore Time with Lizzie Borden!
Chores, courtrooms and one very famous rhyme. A tidy Fall River house, a long list of household jobs and the 1893 trial everyone still argues about.
Case No. 2019-022 · Picture book
Campus Tour with the Co-Ed Killer!
Hitchhikers, highways and one terrible tour guide. Sunny 1970s California, a very tall man with a map and the reason everyone stopped thumbing rides.
Case No. 2019-023 · Picture book
Doctor's Orders with Harold Shipman!
House calls, red flags and one dangerous prescription pad. A friendly village GP, a very full waiting room and paperwork that finally didn't add up.
Case No. 2019-024 · Picture book
Down by the River with the Green River Killer!
Highways, cold cases and one very long investigation. Pack a map, mind the blackberry bushes and follow the detectives who simply refused to give up.
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Wearable evidence for grown-ups with questionable taste. Shirts in muted team colours, plus stickers and mugs of every design.
Exhibit A
Bedtime Bundy!
Exhibit B
Dinner Time with Dahmer
Exhibit C
Where's Bundy?
Exhibit D
Where's Gacy?
Exhibit E
Game Time with Gacy!
Exhibit F
Cozy Little Killers
Exhibit G
The Serial Killers' Night Before Christmas
Exhibit H
Dress-Up Time with Ed Gein!
Exhibit I
Late Night with the Night Stalker!
Bedtime Bundy!
Exhibit BDinner Time with Dahmer
Exhibit CWhere's Bundy?
Exhibit DWhere's Gacy?
Exhibit EGame Time with Gacy!
Exhibit FCozy Little Killers
Exhibit GThe Serial Killers' Night Before Christmas
Exhibit HDress-Up Time with Ed Gein!
Exhibit ILate Night with the Night Stalker!
The Serial Killer Alphabet
A is for Aileen. B is for Bundy. Collect the whole set!
New Kindle series · Written by Jack Morgan
True Crime for Teens
Real cases. Carefully sourced. Written for older readers who want the full story without sensational gore, recycled myths or a hundred pages of filler.
True Crime for Teens · Book One
The Man With the Fake Cast
The true story of Ted Bundy: the carefully rehearsed charm, the escapes, the nationwide manhunt and the evidence that finally caught up with him.
Read on Kindle – $2.99
True Crime for Teens · Book Two
The Apartment on 25th Street
The true story of Jeffrey Dahmer: the warnings people missed, the systems that failed and the night one survivor finally brought police to his door.
Read on Kindle – $2.99
True Crime for Teens · Book Three
The Night Stalker
The true story of Richard Ramirez: a California manhunt, survivors who helped identify an intruder, and the vehicle and fingerprint evidence that brought the search to an end. By Jack Morgan.
Read on Kindle – $2.99
True Crime for Teens · Book Four
The Man Behind The Clown
The true story of John Wayne Gacy: behind the familiar Pogo makeup, a missing teenager, a discarded receipt and a suburban house led investigators to a devastating discovery. By Jack Morgan.
Read on Kindle – $2.99
True Crime for Teens · Book Five
The Man Who Loved His Mother
The true story of Ed Gein: a missing shopkeeper, an isolated Wisconsin farmhouse and the investigation behind one of horror’s most enduring legends. By Jack Morgan.
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True Crime for Teens · Book Six
The Devil Dog Next Door
The true story of the Son of Sam: a city on edge, threatening letters, a neighbor’s dog and the parking ticket that helped lead police to David Berkowitz. By Jack Morgan.
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Is this actually for kids?
No. True Crime For Kids is adult satire. The joke is in the name. Our books are non-graphic, but they are about real crimes and are not intended for children.
Think of us as the gift shop at the end of your favourite true-crime podcast.