True Crime

Author: Rebecca WilsonPublisher: E.P. HousePublished: 06/25/2024Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9798330209835

"Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I've ever read. A triumph in every way."--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River"The most significant missing child case since the...

American Mafia . . . was lucid, concise, and devoid of sensationalism . . . This equally well-written sequel is] cogent and] coherent.--The New York Times Book Review In his critically acclaimed American Mafia, Thomas Reppetto revealed the details of organized crime's ascendancy in...

Serial killer Patrick Mackay was dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain when he appeared in court in 1975 charged with three killings, including the axe murder of a priest. The Nazi-obsessed alcoholic had stalked the upmarket streets of West London hunting for victims...

The definitive, jaw-dropping account of the Jazz Age con woman, escort, speakeasy owner, and racketeer Vivian Gordon, whose sensational murder - and the damning list of powerful politicos, gangsters, and businessmen left behind in her diary - captivated Prohibition-era New York, obsessed its then-governor...

The shocking and powerful true story of the woman who tried to stop the abuse in Rotherham.Author: Jayne SeniorPublisher: Pan PublishingPublished: 03/24/2016Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00dISBN: 9781509801626About the AuthorJayne Senior managed Risky Business, a youth work program reporting to...

In 1909, twisted feuds spawn murder in Tangipahoa Parish, also known as "Bloody Tangipahoa," Louisiana's wild land where shotgun-pistol packing outlaws not only hide in swamps and dense forests, but also command the corridors of law-making and keeping places. Charged with murder and held...

Broken Circle recounts "The Chokecherry Massacre," in which three New Mexico high-school students were charged with the murder of two Navajo Indian men, causing a violent, racial street riot that prompted the governor to call out the National Guard. The tensions between whites and...

*An NPR Best Book of the Year* A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020 "I can't imagine a more important book."--Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author An explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader...

"From only a few feet away, my attacker fired her large caliber handgun directly at me. Round afterround struck my body as I began praying even more fervently than I already had been. She had broken into my home and laid in wait for...

Danny joined the Marines in 1967 and saw some of the worst fighting of the Vietnam War. He was continually bombarded by the enemy, never knowing if he would live or die. When his best friend was brutally murdered, he became angry, depressed, and...

Humans are a species that classifies. We arrange the flow of the things and events that we see and experience, place them into categories, and erect boundaries around those categories. Among the boundaries that we erect are those that we put around groups of...

"Rays story as an Undercover Agent is legendary." -Joaquin "Jack" Garcia, NYT Bestselling Auhtor of Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia FamilyBroken Shield is the remarkable narrative of a young, inexperienced agent who became the primary undercover agent of...

One fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. An investigation ensued, but the real story has never been told...until now. It was a cool, quiet evening at Calumet Farm, where the most valuable racehorses-including the prolific...

One fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. An investigation ensued, but the real story has never been told...until now. It was a cool, quiet evening at Calumet Farm, where the most valuable racehorses-including the prolific...

"Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare--a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery... An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel." --David Grann, author of The Lost...

For over twenty-five years, charismatic Pentecostal evangelist Brother Tony Leyva used Christianity, the Bible, and his status as an "annointed prophet of God" to gain access to, seduce, and sexually assault the young sons of his enthralled followers in twenty-three states. How could such...

Author: Scott CaweltiPublisher: Ice Cube PressPublished: 09/01/2011Pages: 211Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.33w x 0.69dISBN: 9781888160598This title is only available via back order

On New Year's Eve in 1843, Rhode Island textile manufacturer Amasa Sprague was shot and beaten to death. Within two days, three Irish immigrant brothers were arrested, charged with murder, and eventually brought to trial. Brotherly Love is a graphic reconstruction of the crime,...

A shadowy killer stalks the mountains of Colorado, using the endless wilderness to conceal his crimes. He disappears his victims so completely that no one is even aware he exists. Fate and a hundred-year storm intervene in his crime spree, bringing evidence of his...