True Crime

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by Alexia Jones Helsley (Author)Beaufort's long history of wickedness stretches back to 1562, when Captain Jean Ribaut built the ill-fated French outpost Charlesfort on Parris Island, eventually destroyed by mutiny and starvation. Colonial Beaufortonians were no strangers to thwarting the law, from the murder of Charles Purry to the priestly misbehavior of Reverend William Peaseley. The Revolutionary War brought civil strife to the area in the form of bands of outlaws, and the early Federal y...

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...

The Disquieting Death of Emma Gill: Abortion, Death, and Concealment in Victorian New England - Hardcover

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by Marcia Biederman (Author)"The narrative unfolds like a high-stakes crime novel."--Kirkus Reviews In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman. Finding that the dead woman had just undergone an abortion, prosecutors raced to establish her identity and fix blame for her death. Suspicion fell on Nancy Guilford, half of a married pair of "doctors" well known to police throughout New Engla...

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by James Patterson (Author)As seen on the Discovery ID TV series Murder is Forever, these two true-crime thrillers follow a lawyer struggling to stop a killer and a detective angling to solve a double homicide.Home Sweet Murder (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the evening, two people will be shot, stabbed, and...

When the Subject Is Rape: A Guide for Male Partners, Friends & Family Members - Paperback

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by Alan W. McEvoy Phd (Author)Rape is, unfortunately, an all-too-common violent crime usually perpetrated against women. For victims, the process of sharing information about an assault with loves ones or reporting the crime to the police can be harrowing, embarrassing, and painful. The responses of others can greatly affect the way a rape survivor copes. Often the men who are closest to rape survivors--intimate partners, friends, and family members--are simply unprepared to offer the right a...

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by Gene Mustain (Author), Jerry Capeci (Author)"The inside story of a single Brooklyn gang that killed more Americans than the Iraqi army."--Mike McAlary, columnist, New York Post They were the DeMeo gang--the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from c...

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains - Hardcover

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by Alexa Hagerty (Author)New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Absorbing . . . multifaceted and elegiac . . . Still Life with Bones captures the ethos that drives the search--often tireless and against the odds--for truth...

Unsolved Murders: UK True Crime - Paperback

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by Pam D'Mona (Author)A school girl strangled on her way home from buying breakfast cereal, a banker blasted to death on his doorstep and the vicious slaughter of a Playboy Bunny - these are just some of the crimes that still lie unsolved on the files of Britain's police forcesUnsolved Murders - UK True Crime examines some cases that have baffled detectives over the last eight decades. From the puzzle of a woman's body found in a wych elm tree during the Second World War to modern cases such ...

The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries - Paperback

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by Mitzi Szereto (Author)Sometimes the most mystifying and enticing stories are those without an ending. Mitzi Szereto's latest collection The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries profiles the true crime stories that have mystified us for years, teasing us with possibilities and unpredictable suspects. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2022

Louder: Love, Lies, Deceit, and Breaking the Narcissist's Mirror - Paperback

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by Rachel Elizabeth Ehrenreich (Author)You think it can't and won't happen to you. So did I. Trigger warnings ahead. After escaping the extreme grip of an abusive narcissist who tried to destroy my life, I believed I'd found my happily ever after--but it was all a twisted reality of lies and deceit. A charming sociopath--a master of disguise--targeted me, and I fell in love with the mask he hid behind. By the time I realized that he had lied about everything, he had spent my entire life savin...

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning - Paperback

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by Sarah Weinman (Author), Rabia Chaudry (Foreword by)From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genreTrue crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast ...

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - Paperback

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by Sam Quinones (Author)Winner of the NBCC Award for General NonfictionNamed on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015--Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2015 --Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015--The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015--Se...

Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry - Hardcover

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by Kelly Richmond Pope (Author)A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from forensic accounting expert and documentarian Kelly Richmond Pope.Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients' money? Or why investors were so easily duped by Elizabeth Holmes? Or how courageous people like Jeffrey Wigand are willing to become whistleblowers and put their careers on the line?Fraud is everywhere, from Nigerian "pr...

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by John E. Douglas (Author), Mark Olshaker (Author)Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizing questions and more in this mesmerizing work of ...

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by Dina Cahaney (Author)Jack's life is unraveling. He believes he is married to Laura; the woman he's shared his life with for years. But when strange inconsistencies start to surface-disconnected memories, puzzled reactions from those around him, and a haunting sense of something missing-Jack is forced to confront the unsettling truth: Laura might never have existed.As Jack delves deeper into his past, he uncovers a web of deception, guilt, and buried secrets. The more he searches for answer...

Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed - Paperback

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by Sandra Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author)"While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA team that conducted the intense "Ames Mole Hunt." Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille were two of the five principals of the CIA team tasked with hunting one of their own and were directly responsible for identifying Ames as the mole, leading to his arrest and conviction. One of the most des...

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,...

Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota's Most Infamous Cold Case - Paperback

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by Lou Raguse (Author)The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the script on a typical investigation narrative, revealing the biggest law enforcement embarrassment in South Dakota history. In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown Studebaker Lark when they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. Police back then didn't do enough to try and find the...

Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia - Hardcover

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by Louis Ferrante (Author)A riveting history of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America--as narrated by a former heist expert and Gambino family mobster. The culmination Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories about the mafia in Si...

Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest - Paperback

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by Gregg Olsen (Author)In this true story--a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights--Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history. In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary "fasting treatment" of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month...

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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...

Goodbye, Butterfly: Murder, Faith and Forgiveness in a Small Kansas Town - Paperback

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by Ernie W. Webb (Author)Brenda Keller had it all. The beloved 12-year-old daughter of the town pastor in tiny Dover, Kansas, she was pretty, smart, and kind. She loved God, family, friends, animals, nature, and riding her bike. That all changed on Oct. 19, 1991, when she was abducted, raped, and murdered by a man who should have been behind bars. Her grisly death stunned the quintessential small town in Kansas and robbed a community of its innocence. Her family relied on faith to overcome ...

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by Robin Bowles (Author)The most mystifying murder and abduction to take place on Australian soil. Thanks to Robin Bowles' extensive research, this is the exclusive story of Peter Falconio's murder and the escape and tale of Joanne Lees which raised more questions than answers.'This is by far the most engaging of the books on the Falconio case, because it is a picaresque odyssey in which Bowles emerges as the comic hero of her own investigation. Bowles is my kind of sleuth' - Dr Sue Turnbull,...

Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn - Hardcover

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by Peter Houlahan (Author)The bestselling author of Norco '80 returns with a riveting story of mid-1980s San Diego that placed one young Black man at the center of a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profoundly altered Southern California March 31, 1985. Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member followed a pickup truck carrying seven young Black men up a dirt driveway in the Encanto neighborhood of Southeastern San Diego. Minutes later, gunshots rang out, and the truck's drive...

The Devil's Jazz: The Haunted Chronicles of the Axman of New Orleans - Paperback

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by Vincent B. Chip Lococo (Author)"They have never caught me and they never will . . . I have been, am, and will be the worst spirit that ever existed either in fact or the realm of fancy." - The AxmanIn the sultry heart of New Orleans, a city haunted by the legacy of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London, a new menace emerges. The year is 1918, and the Axman of New Orleans prowls the cobblestone streets, targeting the city's large population of Sicilian immigrants.Vincent LoCoco's "The...

Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Robert Graysmith (Author)Robert Graysmith's New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California's unsolved Zodiac murders. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead in a lovers' lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill more. The official tally of his victims was six. He claim...

True Crime Stories You Won't Believe: Book Two - Paperback

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by Romeo Vitelli (Author)In this book, I present additional tales of true crime and bizarre applications of justice (or injustice, as the case may be). They include: The real story behind "Arsenic and Old Lace" and why the reality isn't as lighthearted as Hollywood made it out to be.A case in which a dream helped solve a gruesome murder. Or did it?When a staunch Irish sea captain murdered almost his entire crew on the high seas and what happened afterward.Did an Ouija board drive an Alabama ...

The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, Updated and Expanded Edition - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Kendall (Author), Molly Kendall (Contribution by)The inspiration for the five-part Amazon Original docuseries Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer Now in paperback, this updated, expanded edition of The Phantom Prince, Elizabeth Kendall's 1981 memoir detailing her six-year relationship with serial killer Ted Bundy, includes a new introduction and a new afterword by the author, never-before-seen photos, and a startling new chapter from the author's daughter, Molly, who has not previou...

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi - Paperback

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by Wright Thompson (Author)"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel... The Barn describes not just the poison of silence and lies, but also the dignity of courage and truth." -- The Washington Post "The most brutal, layered, and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read...Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more im...

More Likely Dead: An American Story Crime, Drugs, Sex, Violence-Redemption? - Paperback

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by Keith Hutchison (Author)MORE LIKELY DEAD An American Story Crime, Drugs, Sex, Violence-Redemption is a true story about a young man in California lost and thrown into a world of drugs, sex, and violence. This is a look back at how he got there. It's a rough ride with rays of light and a chance for self-redemption. Everyone has a story. This is mine. It's an adventure I didn't sign up for, a mental struggle to avoid self-destruction. But it is the path I traveled on the ride of my life. Num...

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood - Hardcover

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by Gregg Olsen (Author)A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors.After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.For years, behind the closed door...