True Crime

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Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine - Paperback

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by Maximillian Potter (Author)Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romance-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an anonymous note threatening the destruction of his priceless vines by poison--a crime that in the world of high-end wine is akin...

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story - Paperback

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by Phil Stanford (Author)Ex-stripper Heidi Rikan was working for the mob in Washington, DC. White House Call Girl tells how a call girl operation she was running at the time led to the Watergate break-in, which brought down Tricky Dick Nixon himself.Needless to say, this is not part of the usual Watergate story that has come down to us over the decades. It is also only fair to point out that this version of the story might be dismissed out of hand as being dangerous "revisionist" history. If ...

Life is a Series of Unexpected Interruptions: The Untold Real-Life Story of How One Bad Decision Destroyed a Multimillionaires Life and His Road Back - Hardcover

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by Clark East (Author)It would be a horrific world to live in if we were harshly judged by a single wrong decision made under immense economic pressure. But it is not those moments that define you. It is how you respond to them that makes you who you are. You will find out what you are really made of once you have everything stripped away. A journey from a fortunate middle-class family of privilege and a wealthy multimillionaire developer lifestyle to the soul-crushing prison life learns what...

The Lost History of Tennessee Whiskey: Heroes, Villains, and Legends From a Whiskey Story Time Forgot - Paperback

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by Drew Hannush (Author)Immerse Yourself in 250 Years of Distilleries, Taverns, Teetotallers, and 'Shiners!Think Jack and George are the complete story of Tennessee whiskey? Think again. For far too long, the real history and legacy of Tennessee whiskey has been hidden from whiskey fans. It's a history that not only predates Kentucky Bourbon but also the Whiskey Rebellion. From its early days, it is filled with amazing stories, legends, and villains.The Lost History of Tennessee Whiskey will ...

Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts - Hardcover

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by Roberta Mazza (Author)In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact--a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fra...

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by Judge Carol Erskine (Author), Blair Miller (Contribution by), Johnathan Bobbit-Miller (Contribution by) Number of Pages: 286 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 27, 2024

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by Amanda R. Woomer (Author)A murder at the hands of a mother is a heartbreaking deviation and a crime against nature! How can a mother commit such an appalling crime? How can she end the lives of the innocents she so recently bore and nurtured? A mother is supposed to be loving, protective, caring, and kind. She's supposed to nurture and guide her children from infancy into childhood and adolescence. The very thought of murdering a child--much less their own child--is not only bizarre but pe...

Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld - Paperback

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by Jake Adelstein (Author)A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime expos?, and memoir. It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organized crime world, has been banished from the yakuza, giving Adelstein one less enemy t...

Enforcer: Spilotro: The Chicago Mob's Man Over Las Vegas - Paperback

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by William F. Roemer (Author)The most decorated agent in the FBI's history continues his account of war against the Chicago mob. With all the personal detail he brought to War of the Godfathers and Roemer: Man Against the Mob, the man who played hardball with the most celebrated and feared criminal kingpins paints a bloody portrait of the rise and fall of Tony Spilotro.Front JacketBugsy Siegel built Las Vegas, but it was Tony "The Ant" Spilotro who ran the show. Now William F. Roemer, Jr., ve...

Serial Chase: A true story of the lives and deaths of a doctor and a deputy - Paperback

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by Neil Bradley Hampson MD (Author)Serial Chase is the true story of the tragic intersection of two lives in a hotel bar one night in Everett, Washington in 1950. One individual is a prominent 52-year-old optometrist, while the other is a 21-year-old man in a Sheriff's posse special deputy uniform. The optometrist appears inebriated when he stands to leave and the young man volunteers to drive him home. An hour later, they arrive at the hospital emergency entrance, the passenger dead of appar...

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by Vincent Di Maio (Author), Ron Franscell (Author)"[AN] ENGROSSING LOOK BEHIND THE HEADLINES OF NOTORIOUS HOMICIDES."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) In this clear-eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a fascinating life story through the cases that have made Di Maio famous--from the exhumation of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to the complex issues in the shooting of Florida teenager Trayv...

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by Keith Smith (Author)It is indeed rare when the young victim of a brutal crime grows up to reveal his story in a way that is both compelling and objective. Such is the case with Keith Smith in the gripping and deeply disconcerting bio-novel, Men in My Town. Based on his experience of having been abducted, beaten, and raped by a local pedophile, Smith reminds us how quickly the innocence of youth can be snatched away. But there are two stories here, one of despair, the other of revenge. Whil...

Crime School: Money Laundering - Paperback

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by Chris Mathers (Author)Author Chris Mathers has had one of those lives most of us cannot fathom. He is a well-known international authority on money laundering whose work has seen him operating phony businesses and laundering money for drug lords and the Mob while working undercover with the RCMP, DEA, FBI and other foreign agencies worldwide. In this updated edition Mathers proves again that he has seen it all. Humorous at times, deadly serious at others, he describes how organized crimina...

Truth And Lies in Beverly Hills - Paperback

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by David Kennedy (Author)Before there was a trial for O.J. Simpson, Jodi Arias, or Amanda Knox, there was Erik and Lyle Menendez. It was the first trial that was televised and America couldn't get enough. They wanted all the gory details of the murders and as far as the public were concerned, the juicer the better.The Menendez brothers were rich teens that claimed that their father physically, emotionally, and sexually abused them. To end the abuse, they decide to kill both parents, by slaugh...

La Familia Mafiosa Genovese: La Historia Completa de la Organización Criminal de Nueva York - Paperback

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by Mafia Library (Author) Te fascina el crimen organizado y las familias mafiosas más prolíficas de la historia? Entonces esta inmersión profunda en la historia de la Familia Genovese de la Mafia te encantará, este es el libro para ti.La Familia Genovese se labró un nombre gracias a su reinado durante décadas en las calles de Nueva York, que dominó desde la década de 1930 hasta el siglo XXI.Creada a partir de una pequeña banda liderada por Giuseppe Morello, estos humildes comienzos con raíces...

Unbelievable Crimes Volume Eight: Macabre Yet Unknown True Crime Stories - Paperback

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by Daniela Airlie (Author)Delve into an anthology of true crime stories you've not heard of. From child killers to twisted matriarchs, Unbelievable Crimes Volume Eight dives into the most twisted crimes carried out by the most depraved individuals.In this volume, I'll cover a shocking case that took place in Iowa in 2012. A young boy decided to murder his mother - for taking away his video game.I'll also tell the story of a teenage girl tortured to death by a sadistic family. It is a tragic c...

James Wallace: The Kelly Gang Sympathiser - Paperback

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by Peter L. Newman (Author)Most Australians think they know the full Kelly story. James Wallace: The Kelly Gang Sympathiser is about a man who was complicit in keeping the Kelly gang at large for two years, but who has somehow been largely forgotten in the annals of Australian history.James Wallace was a respectable schoolteacher and lifelong friend of gang member Joe Byrne. Working away behind the scenes to protect his friend, Wallace helped to keep the gang provisioned. He contributed to cr...

Beyond the Headlines: True Crime's Myths and Legends - Paperback

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by Jeff Ignatowski (Author)Ever wonder about the truth behind the sensationalized headlines when it comes to history's most infamous killers? So did author Jeff Ignatowski, a nationally known speaker on the psychology of serial killers, who turned that curiosity into his meticulously researched book BEYOND THE HEADLINES: True Crime's Myths and Legends. More than a collection of dramatically told true crime stories, Ignatowski's anthology challenges and explores the integrity of widespread ...

Beyond the Headlines: True Crime's Myths and Legends - Hardcover

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The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice - Paperback

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by Maria Laurino (Author)"I was spellbound . . . one of the best books I've recently read" --Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kittredge. A powerful church. An acquiescent government. In The Price of Children, investigative journalist Maria Laurino details the shocking story of mothers and children deceived and exploited as directed by the highest levels of the Vatican. Between 1950 and 1970, the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent nearly four thousand Itali...

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions - Hardcover

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by John Grisham (Author), Jim McCloskey (Author)In John Grisham's first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, "the master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. "Each of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and breathtaking courage. But these are more than just grip...

Legally Dead: A Father and Son--Bound by Murder - Paperback

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by Kevin Flynn (Author), Rebecca Lavoie (Author)Attorney Seth Bader and his wife, Vicki, moved to New Hampshire in 1992. Three tumultuous years later, their marriage ended and left Vicki a broken woman, driven to the edge as Seth seduced their teenage son Joey into a violent plot to kill her in cold blood. What followed was one of the most bizarre and harrowing crime stories in New Hampshire history.Author BiographyKevin Flynn is the coauthor of several books, including Dark Heart, Notes on a...

Espionage: Past, Present and Future? - Paperback

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by Wesley K. Wark (Editor)Highlights of the volume include pioneering essays on the methodology of intelligence studies by Michael Fry and Miles Hochstein, and the future perils of the surveillance state by James Der Derian. Two leading authorities on the history of Soviet/Russian intelligence, Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, contribute essays on the final days of the KGB. Also, the mythology surrounding the life of Second World War intelligence chief, Sir William Stephenson, The Man ...

American Murder: Criminals, Crimes, and the Media - Paperback

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by Mike Mayo (Author)How would you treat a murderer? If you're from Hollywood and he's notorious, you might turn him into a folk hero. Separate the facts from the many legends and revisions that have blossomed around these killers in this frightening look at the bloody real lives of movie's infamous antiheroes.You'll find a blood-curdling assortment of the "criminal elite" in American Murder: Criminals, Crime and the Media, a rogue's gallery of our most famous killings, killers and other scou...

Code Name: THE FOX: Operation Yucatan Cartel - Paperback

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by Hal Bradley DD (Author)Hatred is a tough monster to kill, as Harold soon discovers the moment he realizes that his war against the cartels is morphing into a never-ending vigilante mission.There is a lot to be said about the devastation that the cartels bring into human existence. But Harold Brandon, drug-lord-turned-minister-turned-contractor-turned-vigilante, is not about to sit idly by and let them continue.They need to be stopped.This brings him to the Yucatan peninsula in southern Mex...

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by Amanda R. Woomer (Author)A murder at the hands of a mother is a heartbreaking deviation and a crime against nature! How can a mother commit such an appalling crime? How can she end the lives of the innocents she so recently bore and nurtured? A mother is supposed to be loving, protective, caring, and kind. She's supposed to nurture and guide her children from infancy into childhood and adolescence. The very thought of murdering a child-much less their own child--is not only bizarre but per...

Organized Crime on Page and Screen: Portrayals in Hit Novels, Films, and Television Shows - Paperback

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by David Geherin (Author) Thanks to writers like Mario Puzo, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and actors like Al Pacino and James Gandolfini, American and Sicilian Mafia characters are well-known figures in contemporary popular culture. Other powerful organized crime groups appearing in popular media include the Neapolitan Camorra and Mexican drug cartels. This book takes a close look at all these examples of organized crime by examining the different ways these organ...

Prisons and Punishment in America: Examining the Facts - Paperback

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by Michael O'Hear (Author)Synthesizing recent scholarship in law and the social sciences on criminal sentencing and corrections, this book provides a thorough, balanced, and accessible survey of the major policy issues in these fields of persistent public interest and political debate. After three decades of explosive growth, the American incarceration rate is impracticably high. Drawing on leading research in law and the social sciences, this book covers a range of topics in sentencing and c...

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by Rodney Shields (Author)The body of a murdered young woman is found in a wooded mountainous area in PA, then another woman's body is discovered. The common link between these two killings is that both victims worked at the same company, in different divisions. Three more eerily similar killings take place 1712 miles away in a different part of the country.Parker McIntyre of McIntyre, Reed & O'Brien Agency happens to have known one of the dead victims and is reluctantly drawn into the in...

Afterwhile: A True Crime Memoir - Hardcover

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by Nicolette Nappi (Author), Tom Matt (Illustrator)What was supposed to be a fun-filled afternoon with Nicolette Nappi and her friends suddenly turned deadly when her sister, Angelica, was killed. Nothing has been the same since.Seventeen years later, Nicolette is still searching for answers about the events that led to her sister's untimely death. Will she uncover the truth?In this gripping true crime memoir, Nicolette weaves together diary entries, police records, court transcripts, and tal...

Goodbye, Fat Larry: The Murder of Movie Director Jon Pownall - Paperback

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by Elly Stevens (Author), Larry Cieslinski (Author) Number of Pages: 364 Dimensions: 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 23, 2024

The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox - Paperback

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by Nina Burleigh (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A compelling true-crime tale" (Elle) from an award-winning journalist about a murder in Italy and the controversial prosecution, conviction, and twenty-six-year sentencing of Amanda Knox--featuring a new epilogue "Clear-eyed, sweeping, honest, and tough . . . This is what long-form journalism is all about."--Tim Egan, author of The Worst Hard Time The sexually violent murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, became a media sensation w...