True Crime

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise--until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in...

For fans of We Keep the Dead Close and The Night of the Gun, a propulsive and moving memoir about a brother's decades-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding his sister's tragic death--and his own journey to forgiveness and closure. On a summer evening in...

The story is a fictionalized description based on the actual Townsend murders that occurred in the outskirts of Fruitvale, British Columbia in 1959.Author: Brian T. Seifrit, Alison TownsendPublisher: Hudu Creek PublishingPublished: 11/28/2020Pages: 180Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38dISBN: 9781777328085This title is...

Mike Sager has made a career "finding the quotidian within the extreme, the tender amid the grotesque," according to author and popular Columbia Journalism School professor Sam Freedman.A Boy and His Dog in Hell collects 19 stories that Sager-a best-selling author and veteran of...

In March 1960, two students at Divine Word Seminary in East Troy discovered their 15-year-old classmate, Kenneth "Red" Rudnitski, hanging from the clothes hook in a bathroom stall. He was barefoot and dressed in his pajamas.Walworth County botched its one-hour investigation into Red's death....

In March 1960, two students at Divine Word Seminary in East Troy discovered their 15-year-old classmate, Kenneth "Red" Rudnitski, hanging from the clothes hook in a bathroom stall. He was barefoot and dressed in his pajamas.Walworth County botched its one-hour investigation into Red's death....

My story is real, and I hope it reaches a mess of followers who want to know about the truth and also understand the hurt and pain you may cause the ones who love you and want the very best for you.Author: Charles MortonPublisher:...

A Brain of My Own is about slavery, about brains stolen in childhood and before; brains that have been intruded upon, stopped, shrunk, paralyzed. We know about the history of people whose bodies were enslaved; but we know barely anything about the victims who...

Sometimes we meet people who have been hurt in the past or present. Sometimes you think that because this person is broken or damaged, they can't be loved? But I wonder if you really understand the cause of the damage. "I'm wondering if being...

The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a turning point in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of...

A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disaster On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet...

Dive into the afterlife of a dark spirit through the true story, A Call From Purgatory. After watching a movie about a serial killer, odd occurrences began taking place in my home. Flickering lights, moving objects, and haunting dreams were only a few hints...

It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, the United States-flagged cargo ship which was carrying, among other things, food and agricultural materials for the World Food Program. That all changed when armed Somali pirates...

On February 1, 1922, the distinguished silent-film director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles bungalow by an unknown assailant. Reports of strange activities at the scene of the crime circulated soon after. When the police arrived, was the head...

Here is the ultimate inside history of twentieth-century intelligence gathering and covert activity. Unrivalled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises...

From the Gilded Age through WWII, America was rife with ne'er-do-wells on a never-ending search for the next big score. Between 1850 and 1950 lawlessness melded with ingenuity, fueled by optimism and ruthlessness: America was dangerous, buzzing, and where opportunity came to take flight....

From award-winning author Anthony Flacco comes a powerful tale of a picture-perfect family, the madness that plagued them, and a betrayal that plunged them into a fatal nightmare. Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life; working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert...

One cold night in November 1971, 13-year-old Kathy Lynn Gloddy went missing. Her beaten, bruised body was found on the cold ground the next day. Enter into the tragedy as Karen Beaudin vividly recounts the horrifying details of her younger sister's death in A...

Author: A. ScholtensPublisher: Sas155Published: 01/15/2023Pages: 118Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.25dISBN: 9798215465837This title is not returnable

It is 1743, and Great Britain's coffers are overflowing with the profits of Caribbean sugar. But when a spat between two London schoolboys turns deadly, the simmering contempt between London's powerful sugar merchants and the Establishment is laid bare. As the ring of Newgate...