True Crime

A riveting history of the Mafia's first one hundred years, from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America--narrated by a former high-ranking Gambino lieutenant. 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...

The culmination of 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...

The culmination of 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...

Homeless and living in his truck, forty-year-old Hadden Clark often drew stares in Bethesda, Maryland. He also slept with a teddy bear, and, dressed as a woman, strolling through town, he carried 28 carving knives, a straight razor, and a gun in his truck....

Gene Borrello's story isn't something that everyone has already heard, read about, or seen on various documentaries and dramatic cable shows about the history of the Mafia. His story is current, not something from the days of Bugsy Siegel, Albert Anastasia, and Mayer Lansky...

Overcompensating for his numerous personal inadequacies, Tom Mayes, a small-town bad boy from Springfield, Ohio, bullied and intimidated anyone who crossed his path, regardless of age or gender. His heartless and inhumane actions eventually cost him his family and his freedom.Twenty years later-before the...

Author: Christopher Berry-DeePublisher: John BlakePublished: 11/02/2009Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackSize: 7.80h x 5.08w x 0.67dISBN: 9781844548484

An outlaw biker. Car thief, meth dealer, rapist, and killer. Gets a last chance to be a good guy.Philadelphia suburbs, 1971. Bobby Nauss is a quiet, parochial school student. After high school, he becomes a gun-toting member of one of the most feared motorcycle...

Throughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York's Chinatown. They were the lost children of the Vietnam War, severed from their families by violence and cast adrift in a strange land. Banding together...

Frankie Saggio reminisces about the era of true wise guys like his Uncle Philly --a contemporary of Al Capone. After all, it was Frankie's uncle who "taught him the value of a dollar and how to steal it from someone else." Uncle Philly was...

"At least as good as Mario Puzo, with shades of David Mamet or even Arthur Miller."--New York Daily News Paul Castellano headed New York's immensely powerful Gambino crime family for more than ten years. On December 16, 1985, he was gunned down in a...

Journalist Marc Songini presents the brutal and bloody history of Boston's organized crime syndicates in the 1960s and 70s through the life of gangster Joseph Barboza. The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone...

Boston has had its share of bookies and loan sharks, gangsters and wiseguys, hoodlums and hit men. From the Great Brink's Robbery, which was hailed as the crime of the century; to the long-forgotten Cotton Club in Roxbury, where the legendary nightlife kingpin Charlie...

Veteran journalists Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge have written the definitive inside look at the Boston Marathon bombings with a unique, Boston-based account of the events that riveted the world. From the Tsarnaev brothers' years leading up to the act of terror to the...

The disappearance of a twenty-one-year-old woman from a Massachusetts suburb became one of the most discussed crimes of the twentieth century.The discussion intensified when the public learned that Robin Benedict worked as a prostitute in Boston's notorious red-light district, the "Combat Zone," and was...

The disappearance of a twenty-one-year-old woman from a Massachusetts suburb became one of the most discussed crimes of the twentieth century.The discussion intensified when the public learned that Robin Benedict worked as a prostitute in Boston's notorious red-light district, the "Combat Zone," and was...

"A thoughtful, compelling reexamination of an intriguing story of fatal obsession and its enduring mysteries."--Kirkus ReviewsThe disappearance of atwenty-one-year-old woman from a Massachusetts suburb became one of the mostdiscussed crimes of the twentieth century. The discussion intensified when thepublic learned that she worked as...

A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years...

On a nearly moonless night in October 1943, a single gunshot rang out in Littlefield, Texas. A prominent Texas doctor and his wife were found bound, shot, beaten, and murdered. The only witness: their five-year-old daughter, who was bound to silence and refused to...

The unprecedented rise and catastrophic fall of one of the world's most feared and admired business executives--Carlos Ghosn--a remarkable story of innovation, hubris, alleged crimes, and daring international escape, as chronicled by two Wall Street Journal reporters.Carlos Ghosn always wanted more. Born in the...