M William Phelps Books in Order

Kristen Gilbert was a well-liked nurse at a Massachusetts veterans hospital, but patients kept dying on her shift. Phelps traces how suspicion slowly built around the so-called Angel of Death and the colleagues who finally spoke up.

Connecticut lawyer Beth Carpenter wanted custody of her niece so badly that her sister's new husband became a target. Phelps follows the murder-for-hire plot through privilege, obsession, and the unlikely crew hired to do the killing.

Career criminal Gary C. Evans spent years working both sides of the law, manipulating women and feeding information to investigator James Horton. Phelps turns their long relationship into a tense cat-and-mouse story with bodies left behind.

Bobbie Jo Stinnett is found dying in Missouri, her unborn baby cut from her womb. Phelps follows the investigation that led to Lisa Montgomery and turned a horrifying murder into a national manhunt.

The discovery of dead infants in storage boxes and an abandoned car leads police to Dianne Odell, a mother carrying decades of secrets. Phelps traces a case shaped by child abuse, denial, and delayed justice.

Jeanne Dominico worked hard to protect her children, but her concern over her teenage daughter's boyfriend put her in danger. Phelps recounts the murder through family strain, online obsession, and a confession that stunned the case open.

Phelps uses letters and case records to trace Edwin Ned Snelgrove, a murderer obsessed with Ted Bundy and eager to outdo him. It is a disturbing look at fantasy, escalation, and the predator's urge to keep performing.

Jeff Zack is executed in an Akron parking lot by a killer on a motorcycle, but the bigger mystery is why so many people wanted him dead. Phelps follows the money, adultery, and social climbing behind the ambush.

Rather than retelling a patriotic legend, Phelps rebuilds Nathan Hale's life from letters, journals, and contemporary accounts. The result is a grounded portrait of the young teacher, soldier, and spy behind one of the Revolution's most famous lines.

Erika and B.J. Sifrit seemed like another carefree young couple in Ocean City, until a holiday weekend ended with two dismembered victims. Phelps turns the case into a chilling portrait of privilege, recklessness, and sudden lethal violence.

Susan Fassett is shot after choir practice in upstate New York, and the case soon uncovers a double life few people saw coming. Phelps follows the investigation through sex, control, betrayal, and a small town rocked by hidden truth.

What starts with a routine custody pickup in Georgia ends with two charred bodies in a burned car and a bitter divorce at the center of the case. Phelps tracks the vengeance, rage, and deception behind a brutal double murder.

After Sandee Rozzo agrees to testify against the abusive ex-con who terrorized her, she is gunned down. Phelps shows how Timothy Humphrey used devotion and manipulation to turn young Ashley Laney into the key weapon in his murder scheme.

Amy Archer-Gilligan's Connecticut home for the elderly looked respectable from the outside. Phelps digs into the 1911 case that exposed greed, arsenic, and one of America's earliest notorious female serial killers.

Phelps steps away from homicide to look at presidential misconduct and disastrous decision-making. The book moves through several administrations, asking how mistakes, abuses, and political cover-ups can shape national history for decades.

Jan Roseboro is found dead in her backyard pool in Pennsylvania, and the scene first looks deceptively simple. Phelps peels back a secret affair, a carefully staged crime, and the slow collapse of a supposedly solid marriage.

This historical true-crime book follows the Colt family through scandal, grief, and a notorious 1840s murder case. Phelps mixes biography, business rivalry, and the death of printer Samuel Adams into a dark American family saga.

Adrianne Reynolds hoped for a fresh start in Illinois, but the friends she trusted turned on her with shocking cruelty. Phelps recounts the murder and dismemberment case as a grim story of teen bullying, domination, and violence.

Donna Palomba spent years fighting not only the man who raped her, but the institutions that doubted her. Phelps tells a survivor's story of persistence, bad police work, DNA evidence, and a long battle to reclaim her name.

This anthology gathers eight murder cases from across New England and tears through the region's postcard image. Phelps shows how old mill towns, quiet roads, and familiar neighborhoods can hide brutal crimes and long memories.

Four young people are murdered in a Houston suburb, and the trail leads back to someone the victims knew well. Phelps turns the Clear Lake killings into a tense account of friendship, damage, and the slow unmasking of Christine Paolilla.

In Phelps's first novel, Detective Jake Sundance Cooper hunts a sadistic killer called the Optimist, who leaves bodies along Boston's Freedom Trail. The case is brutal enough on its own, but corruption and loyalty inside the department make it worse.

Phelps revisits the still-unsolved Eastbound Strangler case, in which four women were found dead in a drainage ditch behind Atlantic City motels. The book blends case facts, suspect theories, and his own connections to the investigation.

The murder of Bob Dow in small-town Texas sends two teenage lovers on the run and opens up a sleazy world of exploitation and manipulation. Phelps digs into the evidence and the verdict, asking whether both girls were equally responsible.

A librarian is shot in a Michigan parking lot, and both her husband and his glamorous lover seem to have airtight alibis. Phelps follows the investigation into a twisted triangle shaped by deceit, control, and careful planning.

This collection brings together three grim true-crime pieces, including the Edwin Snelgrove case, the Eastbound Strangler investigation, and a disturbing look at Son of Sam's prison letters. It reads like a compact tour through some of Phelps's darkest material.

Sheila Davalloo seemed smart, polished, and successful, but her fixation on one man left a trail of blood. Phelps turns a corporate love triangle into a chilling study of jealousy, calculation, and the violence hiding behind professional surfaces.

Phelps shifts the focus from the killer to the victim in this account of a woman who survives a savage attack in her own home. The book stays with the aftermath, showing how fear, recovery, and determination can define a life after violence.

In South Carolina, the murders of teenage Heather Catterton and Randi Saldana lead to Danny Hembree. Phelps reconstructs the victims' lives, the investigation, and the killer's own words in a book that stays close to the human cost.

Phelps explores the psychology behind violent crime in a dark, fast-moving true-crime read built around killers, manipulation, and motive. It has the same urgent pacing that runs through much of his work on murder and the people who chase answers.

After famed DNA researcher Warren Schwartz is killed with a sword in rural Virginia, investigators enter a strange world of role-playing, obsession, and teenage darkness. Phelps focuses on Clara Schwartz, Kyle Hulbert, and the fatal collision of their fantasies.

Heather Strong disappears in Florida, and detectives soon suspect the people closest to her know far more than they admit. Phelps follows the search for her body through jealousy, betrayal, and a murder plot rooted in intimacy.

When Donald Rogers is found dead in his Michigan mansion, the story behind the crime grows stranger by the page. Phelps unpacks addictions, family loyalties, identity secrets, and money in a murder case that refuses to stay simple.

This collection pulls together several of Phelps's shorter true-crime pieces, from bizarre murders to unsettling serial-killer material. The appeal is the variety, with each case carrying its own hook, plus bonus material tied to *Dark Minds*.

Jennifer Mee was once known worldwide as the Hiccup Girl, a teenager made famous by an endless case of hiccups. Phelps traces her fall from media curiosity to murder case, showing how loneliness, bad choices, and manipulation turned deadly.

Tracey Pittman Roberts looked like a picture-perfect Iowa wife and mother, until a shooting exposed years of manipulation, fraud, and intimidation. Phelps follows the long path from her self-defense claim to the explosive trial that tested it.

Phelps turns the lens on himself in this unsettling account of working with an imprisoned serial killer known as Raven for *Dark Minds*. It is part memoir, part case study, and part warning about how professional fascination can turn personal.

Cherry Walker was kind, trusting, and ready to testify about a child's abuse. After she is murdered in Texas, Phelps traces the case back to Kim Cargill, a volatile mother with secrets worth killing to protect.

A Georgia deputy's missing boyfriend is found murdered, encased in cement and dumped in a field. Phelps digs into the case against Tracy Fortson, exploring sex, power, and the uneasy gap between accusation and certainty.

Chris Regan vanishes in Michigan, and suspicion falls on the married coworker he was seeing and her husband. What begins as a missing-person case turns into a brutal investigation centered on Kelly Cochran and a trail of lies stretching into Indiana.

The first Murderers' Row volume collects several of Phelps's shorter true-crime pieces in one place. Expect oddball openings, brutal cases, a strong investigative voice, and bonus material connected to *Dark Minds* and Henry Lee.

This omnibus pairs Phelps's *Targeted* with two other full-length true-crime books, giving the series a broader multi-author feel. It is a hefty volume for readers who like variety but still want hard, case-driven storytelling.

When upstate New York chiropractor Mary Yoder dies from a mysterious poisoning, grief quickly turns into accusation. Phelps follows the twisting case through family tensions, digital evidence, and the unnerving question of who seemed trustworthy until the very end.