True Crime

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Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases - Hardcover

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by Simon Read (Author)A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases. The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its establishment in 1829 through the eve of World War II, Scotland Yard--the world's first modern, professional, and centrally organized police force--set new standards for policing and inve...

Inside the Brotherhood: Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons - Paperback

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by Martin Short (Author)Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons When the House of Commons Affairs Committee recently recommended that police officers, magistrates, judges and crown officers should publicly register their masonic membership, it was vary largely thanks to the ammunition provided by Martin Short's investigative tour de force. His inside the Brotherhood carried on the pioneering work begun by Stephen Knight's explosive of the Brotherhood. Number of Pages: 720 Dimensions: 1.78 x 8 x 5...

Consumed By Misery Upon Hell's Half Acre: A True Story From The FIRE and RAIN Chronicles - Hardcover

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by Richard Lee Cook (Author)In this harrowing and deeply personal memoir, the author takes us on a journey through the darkest corners of his childhood. On April 16th, 1968, just a week before his sixteenth birthday, he witnessed his mother for the last time, marking the climax of a haunting nightmare that would forever shape his life.Raised in a household marred by anger, jealousy, and unspeakable abuse, he and his sister Bonnie navigated a world of chaos and violence. Their father, known fo...

Happy Face: A Family of Monsters - Paperback

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by Nicole D. Phoenix (Author), Keith H. Jesperson (Author)Unveiling the Mind of a Serial Killer in Happy Face: A Family of MonstersIn this gripping memoir, Keith Jesperson, infamously known as The Happy Face Killer, bares his soul in a chilling collaboration that will captivate true crime enthusiasts and forensic psychology aficionados alike. This riveting account delves deep into the dark psyche of one of America's most notorious serial killers, offering an unprecedented look into the crimin...

Traumatic Cognitive Dissonance - Hardcover

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by Peter Salerno (Author) Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 26, 2025

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by Elizabeth Bankes (Author)In the mid-1990s British and Irish backpackers invade Bondi. They have come for a good time and find work on building sites, in bars and strip joints. Many are regulars at the Regent Hotel, but their enjoyment is interrupted when one of their own, a gay Liverpudlian, is found dead down on Bondi Beach. As Jim Cameron knows the dead man he becomes involved in the investigation and once again joins forces with New Zealander, Detective Alan Stone. Jim engages the help ...

Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the Fbi, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty - Paperback

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by Melissa Del Bosque (Author)The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Trevi oDrugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the bu...

Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope - Paperback

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by Patty Wetterling (Author), Joy Baker (With)Tens of thousands of readers embraced Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope, first published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in hardcover in 2023. The paperback edition, featuring a new afterword and cover, spreads its powerful message even further. In 1989, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped not far from his home in St. Joseph, Minnesota. The community quickly rallied around the family, and Patty Wetterling, Jacob's mother,...

The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Second Edition - Paperback

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by Mel Ayton (Author), Alan Dershowitz (Foreword by)Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in 1968 seems like it should be an open-and-shut case. Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles's famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night saw Sirhan Sirhan pull the trigger. Sirhan was also convicted of the crime and still languishes in jail with a life sentence. However, conspiracy theorists have jumped on inconsistencies in the eyewitness testimony and alleged anomalies in the forensic eviden...

Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer - Paperback

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by John E. Douglas (Author), Johnny Dodd (Author)A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, sexually assaulting and strangling a series of women, taunting the police with frequent communications, and bragging about his crimes to loc...

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream - Paperback

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by Patrick Radden Keefe (Author)In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people. "Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it's all true." --Time Keefe revea...

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Maureen Callahan (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Amazon "Best Book of 2019"A Washington Post "10 Books To Read in July" A Los Angeles Times "Seven Highly Anticipated Books for Summer Reading" A USA Today "20 of the Season's Hottest New Books" A New York Post "25 Best Beach Reads of 2019 You Need to Pre-Order Now" A Bustle "The Best New True Crime Books You Can Read Right Now" "Maureen Callahan's deft reporting and stylish writing have created one of the all-time-great serial-k...

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science - Paperback

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by Sam Kean (Author)From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sa...

The Charles Manson Family in Death Valley - Paperback

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by Mary Ann McNeill (Author) Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 14, 2025

Twisted Tour Guide to Portland and Salem - Paperback

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by Marques Vickers (Author)Avoid The Tourist Herds. What could be more uninspiring than seeing the identical attractions that everyone else has for decades? This Twisted Tour Guide escorts you to the places locals don't want to talk about anymore...the same places people once couldn't stop talking about. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure historical sites remain hidden awaiting rediscovery. Each visitation site in this guide...

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by Tyrell Plair (Author)A serial killer's deadly game pushes Tracy Lane to her limits as she fights to protect Atlanta's streets. WHEN Amber Seasons, the daughter of two of the world's most popular reality stars, is murdered, the case lands on the lap of Tracy Lane and her partner Lewis Mitchell. Tracy is one of A.P.D's (Atlanta Police Department) most experienced detectives and has been solving crimes and witnessing travesties since the day she graduated from the police academy. Now, Lane an...

Fatal Vision: A True Crime Classic - Paperback

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by Joe McGinniss (Author)The electrifying true crime story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children--murders he vehemently denies committing.... "Chilling. . . . A haunting resurrection of Crime and Punishment."--TimeBestselling author Joe McGinniss chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime and probes the life and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald-...

Space Piracy: Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit - Hardcover

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by Marc Feldman (Author), Hugh Taylor (Author), Eric Felt (Foreword by)Comprehensive exploration of humanity's potential for criminal activities in outer space Space Piracy: Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit is a forward-thinking resource that considers, analyzes, and provides solutions to the influence of the ignoble side of humanity in the realm of outer space, where potential for crime, corruption, piracy, and war increases as the exploitation of space as a commercial resource conti...

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by V. D. Dominus (Author)How is the Vatican Bank structured? What secrets does the Vatican hold? Why are the Vatican archives closed? How is the Vatican Bank connected with the Italian mafia, Freemasons, and Nazis? Why did the Catholic Church support Mussolini? Who granted independence to the Vatican? How did the Pope earn from donations? Who was a client of the Vatican Bank? - We will talk about all this, as well as about the Vatican and the church as a whole in this book. Imagine "The Godfa...

Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit - Paperback

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by Tom Stanton (Author)A New York Times Bestseller Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in True Crime -Selected as one of "2016's Great Reads" by NPR -Finalist for the 2016 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year -An unforgettable cauldron of history, crime, race, and sports Now in paperback comes the critically acclaimed New York Times Bestseller about a championship city haunted by a wave of racist terror. Detroit, mid-1930s was abuzz over its unrivaled sports success w...

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by Douglas Preston (Author), Mario Spezi (Author)In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history. In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse...

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by Anais Renevier (Author), Laurie Bennett (Translator)One hot summer, two young children disappeared from their first-floor apartment in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York. Their mother, Alice Crimmins, reported them missing to the police. Later that day, the body of four-year-old Missy was found in a vacant lot, showing signs of having been strangled. The body of five-year-old Eddie, Jr., was found several days later. Police were immediately suspicious of the mother. Recently ...

American Mother: A Life Reclaimed - Paperback

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by Colum McCann (Author), Diane Foley (Author)AN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Featured on MSNBC's Morning JoeWith National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann, Diane Foley courageously returns to the story of her son, American journalist James Foley, who went abroad and never came home. In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "the Beatles," who pled guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son James Foley ...

Undercover Junkie: Chasing Highs, Confronting Killers, and Unraveling in the Chaos - Paperback

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by Brent Cartwright (Author)IN THE UNDERBELLY OF KANSAS CITY'S MOST LETHAL STREETS, ONE COP DESCENDS INTO A NIGHTMARE OF ADDICTION, BETRAYAL, AND LOST IDENTITY IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE.Detective Brent Cartwright seemed to have it all-a loving family, a promising police career, and a future full of possibilities. But the grind of everyday police work left him craving more-a deeper rush, bigger challenges, and higher stakes. His solution? Join the elite undercover unit, where he could chase the ci...

Undercover Junkie: Chasing Highs, Confronting Killers, and Unraveling in the Chaos - Hardcover

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by Juan Díaz Canales (Author), Juanjo Guarnido (Illustrator)Hardboiled feline detective John Blacksad is back in the latest tour de force from the multiple-award winning duo of writer Juan D az Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido Taking a much-needed break after the events of A Silent Hell, Blacksad lands a side job driving a rich Texan's prized yellow Cadillac Eldorado across 1950s America, hitting the back roads from New Orleans to Tulsa. But before long, the car is stolen and Blacksad find...

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by Erik Larson (Author)A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush."In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dy...

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War - Paperback

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by Ben MacIntyre (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. "The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist - Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim...

The Alex Murdaugh Paradox and 2024 Verdict: The Many Unresolved Questions And Lingering Mysteries About the Mudaugh family and Alex's legal troubles, - Paperback

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by Jude Hills (Author)In "The Alex Murdaugh Paradox and 2024 Verdict," the once-proud Murdaugh family legacy crumbles beneath the weight of dark secrets and unthinkable crimes. Renowned for their legal prominence spanning generations, the Murdaughs' immaculate facade unravels when Alex Murdaugh reports the lifeless bodies of his wife and son in June 2021. What begins as a tragic mystery soon transforms into a chilling saga of deception, shocking revelations, and a web of criminality.From a do...

Practical Cyber Intelligence: A Hands-On Guide to Digital Forensics - Hardcover

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by Adam Tilmar Jakobsen (Author)Overview of the latest techniques and practices used in digital forensics and how to apply them to the investigative process Practical Cyber Intelligence provides a thorough and practical introduction to the different tactics, techniques, and procedures that exist in the field of cyber investigation and cyber forensics to collect, preserve, and analyze digital evidence, enabling readers to understand the digital landscape and analyze legacy devices, current mod...

The Disappearance of Ray Gricar - Paperback

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by Pete Dove (Author)Some problems become more troublesome the longer they are left. The aching molar which remains untended; the lawn which is left uncut. The same might be said of the case of Ray Gricar. Although, of course, the disappearance and possible death of a man, one with a high local profile, is much more serious than sore teeth or an unkempt yard.Gricar was last seen on Friday April 15th 2005. It was a glorious day - one of the first of the year in which Spring had lightened the s...

The Disappearance of Patricia Adkins - Paperback

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by Pete Dove (Author)'Kiss, Kiss - love you sis, ' the goodbye that Patti Adkins shared with her sisters. How could they know that, at the end of June 2001, they would hear it from their younger sibling for the final time?'You don't think that the worst is going to happen. You don't think it will be the last time you speak to your little sister, ' Jeanine Laurie recalled the shock of hearing of Patti's disappearance. Within just a few hours of receiving the appalling news, Jeanine had no doub...