True Crime

A Call for Justice for the Victims of Sex Trafficking and Those Left Vulnerable by the SystemFor over four decades, Cynthia L. Clack, a Texas Board Certified Family Law specialist, has been uncovering a disturbing pattern. She's consistently observed how court outcomes failed to...

In the quiet Belgian farming settlements near Green Bay, Wisconsin, whispers traveled faster than truth. At the center of it all stood Jean Philippe Soquet--a man known by many names: the Bay Settlement Bruiser, the Belgian Archfiend... and, to some, a murderer. Over four...

Based on an exhaustive review of formerly classified government documents-as well as previously unexplored corporate filings, office diaries and unguarded interviews-Grant F. Smith has written a riveting story of the 1960s diversion of US weapons-grade nuclear material from an Israeli front company in Pennsylvania...

Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the "resurrectionists" - body snatchers....

A RUTHLESS ACCOUNT OF DEATH IN AMERICA"Constructed from evidence extracted from a database of unsolved human remains cases, the poems in Conor Hultman's DOE stare back and dare you to look away. Disturbing, sad, haunting, and addictive, they evoke the sickening nostalgia of shows...

The area known as Dogtown--an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts--has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature lovers. But its history is also woven through with tales of witches, supernatural sightings, pirates, former slaves,...

Forget what you think you know about the Winter Hill Gang; this is the ruthless truth of the Boston underworld and its most ominous figure - his tragic origins, unsolved murders, and his daughter who broke the silence around him. In 2020, author Springs...

An expose of organised crime and its unholy alliance with world leaders, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement, Double Deal is a 40-year saga told with unflinching honesty by mob insider and former Chicago chief of police Michael Corbitt. Growing up poor and angry, Michael...

A twisting, deeply engrossing investigation into the many lingering questions surrounding the sudden disappearance of the McStays, a family of four who vanished from their suburban San Diego home without a trace - until their skeletal remains were found in the Mojave Desert nearly...

Dream Room: Tales of the Dixie Mafia, Chet Nicholson's breakout true-crime book is a thrilling tale that takes the reader inside the infamous Dixie Mafia. The band of loosely organized criminals operated throughout the states of the old Confederacy. The more violent of their...

Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction Named on Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years, 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...

Author: Elizabethton High School TnPublisher: Little Creek BooksPublished: 04/30/2026Pages: 284Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64dISBN: 9781970471328

In this book, high school students, as a high school project, investigated unsolved murder cases. They looked at the 'how' the cases were investigated. Their research uncovered unestablished coincidences and revealed the broader impacts of these cases.The students' investigations will walk you through the...

On September 18, 1992 a violent explosion deep in Yellowknife's Giant mine took the lives of nine miners. The men had defied the picket lines that were the scene of violent clashes between the mineworkers and company security forces during a long and bitter...

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...

America may have had its fill of psychos for the last forty years, but no serial killer has inspired so many books and films (Pyscho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as Wisconsin's cannibalistic handyman murderer, Ed Gein. None of them...

The shocking true story of one of America's most gruesome and unforgettable serial killers. In the quiet town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, police uncovered a house of horrors-furniture made from human skin, skulls turned into bowls, and a hidden life of unimaginable depravity. At the...

A power-hungry baroness with two lovers disrupts life on an Eden-like island in the Galápagos, and an isolated community descends into madness and murder--a true story of utopia gone wrong from New York Times bestselling author Abbott Kahler. "Abbott Kahler's wickedly gothic tale confronts...

Crónica del surgimiento, desarrollo y transformaciones del Cártel de las drogas más peligroso de México. El cártel de Sinaloa explica y detalla el mundo del narco: desde los pioneros del negocio como Pedro Avilés, los sicarios desalmados que matan gobernadores como el Gitano, policías...

Ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2024 de Memoria o Autobiografía PRESELECCIONADA PARA EL NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS EN LA CATEGORIA DE NO FICCIÓN Incluido en los libros de ficción notables del New York Times de 2023 Este libro es para celebrar el paso de Liliana Rivera...