True Crime

The book is in memory of our father, Robert Arthur Stanley, who was murdered June 1, 2001.The story covers the case from the beginning of his murder to the end, at the sentencing of the persons involved. The story also takes in the process...

Prohibition Glenview made many people rich, some angry, some sad, and some dead.Today, Glenview is one of the safest places to live in Illinois, but during Prohibition, speakeasies, saloons, and ice cream parlors hijacked the small farming town. Good men and women, trying make...

Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and...

Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents...

Global Responses to Maritime Violence is a full discussion of maritime security short of war that goes beyond the current literature in both scope and perspective. The chapters in this volume examine terrorism, piracy, armed robbery at sea, illegal maritime trafficking, illegal fishing, and...

In 2017, the White House denied it was planning to hire a private Montana company to run a covert direct-action spy network. It sounded unbelievable.That was actually the most believable part of the whole story.In the mountain town of Whitefish, accusations flew between a...

Forget everything you think you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker--previous books and films, including the brilliant 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, have emphasized the supposed glamour of America's most notorious criminal couple, thus contributing to ongoing mythology. The real...

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery--known in the press as the "Wild Man" and...

A powerful love story about fighting against the church and God himself. Recreating the Colombia of the early twentieth century, God's Punishment tells the story of a small town nestled in the mountains of Colombia that became a concentration camp run by the state,...

Discover the untold story of the Windy City's Ghost Shadows. Even in a town notorious for gangsters like Al Capone, much of Chicago's lawless lore has remained uncharted. Chicago's Chinatown, in particular, was home to a vast criminal enterprise, strictly bound by old country...

This harrowing, no-holds-barred true story is the "brash account of a reformed bad boy's decision to help the federal government take down Green Nation, the Vagos outlaw motorcycle gang" (Kirkus Reviews).Gods of Mischief is the harrowing, no-holds-barred true story of a bad guy turned...

Going Home to Die No More is the true story of a post-Civil War-era train robbery for which two men would eventually hang. It all began in November 1866, when Captain William P. King, a Union army veteran, along with 12 accomplices, derailed a...

In Golden Boy, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the handsome and charming New York socialite accused of murdering his father, a Manhattan millionaire and hedge fund founder. By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led...

The basis of the Sundance TV series Gomorrah A New York Times Notable Book of the YearGomorrah is a bold and important work of investigative writing that holds global significance, one heroic young man's impassioned story of a place under the rule of a...

The case that captivated a nation and inspired the Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel! The New York Times Summer ReadsFortune Magazine's "Most Anticipated Books of the Year" Oxygen's List of "Best True Crime Books of the Year" "The Cecil...

The case that captivated a nation and inspired the Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel A Fortune Magazine "Most Anticipated Books of 2020" Selection A Goodreads Featured Release for February 2020 Oxygen's List of "Best True Crime Books of 2020"...

Angus Robertson Sinclair, one of the worst killers the UK has ever seen, was convicted of four murders. His first took place in his home city of Glasgow in 1961, when he raped and murdered his seven-year-old neighbour Catherine Reehill when he was just...

Susan McFarland was a vivacious, successful mother of three young sons. On November 25, 2002, she disappeared. Three days later, her car was found, keys in the ignition. Later that day, her husband reported her missing--and a desperate search began.Her friends and family hoped...

On February 28, 1977, former police officer Billy Joe McIlvain entered his West Covina home with local 18 year old gang member, David Dominguez. McIlvain shouted out to his wife to grab the baby and run as Dominguez was there to kill them. She...

Award-winning journalist Mike McAlary pulls the curtain and reveals the details of a disturbing case of police corruption based on the confession of NYPD officer Michael Dowd and the testimony of Sergeant Joseph Trimboli, the detective investigating the case and a key witness. New...