True Crime - Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions

A captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed everyone from Rockefellers to members of the royal family while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the 1920s. "A...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister's wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead. Colorado, 1976. When Reverend Mike Fuller and his beautiful wife Sharon arrive in the...

"A project of epic proportions, pulled off with remarkable élan."--Kirkus ReviewsA gripping exposé of deception, cult power, and the long shadow of Carlos Castaneda, the man behind the biggest literary hoax of the twentieth century.Twenty years in the making, American Trickster: The Hidden Lives...

These are the 14 red flags to identify the scammer in your life before they con you--from a victim-turned-vigilante and host of the hit podcast Queen of the Con. "Johnathan Walton has written a master class on how to spot scammers, con artists, grifters,...

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller! The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver. When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black...

In this "unflinching and wildly entertaining" investigation of the modern New Age movement in America, a journalist aims to understand how women like Amy Carlson (the leader of Love Has Won) and others become devoutly invested in their beliefs (Talia Lavin, author of Culture...

The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney.Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South...

Author: Kathy Bingham Turner,Leon AlligoodPublisher: University of Tennessee PressPublished: 11/25/2025Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54dISBN: 9798895270363Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2026About the AuthorKathy Bingham Turner is a former corporate director of human resources for newspapers in ten states. Uncovering the complicated...

The gripping true story of a serial con man and the innocent man he sent to death row by award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Pamela Colloff For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. He...

The riveting, true story of an audacious con man who helped send another man to death row for a murder he did not commit "Incendiary, emotionally devastating. [This] is a feat of dogged reporting, bravura storytelling, and clear-eyed moral conscience."--Patrick Radden Keefe, author of...

From snake-oil salesmen to crypto grifters, the "fascinating" (Fareed Zakaria) story of charlatans--and why we fall for them For centuries charlatans have been bamboozling victims. But today, charlatanry is more lucrative and global than ever. Using the power of digital technology, our age's charlatans...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A smart, savvy road map through the mayhem of the cryptocurrency madness."--Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton From "one of the crypto industry's unlikely but most prominent critics" (Washington Post), an entertaining and well-researched account of the...

"This isn't just a tale of one cultish company--it's a mirror held up to tech's dark side, so full of greed and self-delusion." --Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author of When the Heavens Went on Sale and Elon MuskA cautionary tale of sex...

In Big Pharma, lives are secondary to profit margins. But Lisa Pratta stood her ground--risking everything to expose the lies of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical business mired in deception, greed, and the systemic abuse of both patients and employeesAs a rising star in pharmaceutical sales,...

"Spellbinding." --Rick Perlstein * "A clever, fast-paced read of dazzling originality." --William I. Hitchcock "An excellent new book, both important and unsettling" (The New York Times), Ghosts of Iron Mountain unravels the astounding origins and far-reaching impacts of a monumental late 1960s hoax, perpetrated...

"Spellbinding." --Rick Perlstein * "A clever, fast-paced read of dazzling originality." --William I. Hitchcock "An excellent new book, both important and unsettling" (The New York Times), Ghosts of Iron Mountain unravels the astounding origins and far-reaching impacts of a monumental late 1960s hoax, perpetrated...

This is the real story of Bonnie and Clyde and their troubled times, separating fact from fiction, delivered with cinematic sweep by the author of bestselling true crime biographies of Charles Manson, Jim Jones, and the shootout at the OK Corral.Author: Jeff GuinnPublisher: Simon...

Here lies Fanny Lynes, whose whispers from beyondthe grave set London alight with scandal. Here swings Mary Bateman, who lived a life of lies - and died aprophetess and murderer. Here stands Mary Willcocks. Or is it Anne Burgess? Or Princess Caraboo, from the...

Based on exclusive, fresh reporting, the thrilling, definitive inside story of the pursuit, capture, and killing of legendary South Boston mob boss, James "Whitey" Bulger, detailing as never before his years on the run, how he evaded capture, and his brutal murder in prison.For...