True Crime

An NPR Best Book of the YearA New York Times New & Noteworthy BookA brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real LolitaThe appeal...

Genore Guillory was one of the nicest people anyone in the small town of Clinton, Louisiana, had ever known. Then she was found dead--shot, stabbed, and beaten. Investigators had few clues. A policeman was the primary suspect. But there were rumors...whispers of a burgeoning...

It was a warm, still, July summer night in 2014, when an 85-year-old woman, a beloved grandmother and neighbor, was viciously murdered by someone who slipped quietly into her bedroom and slit her throat and watched her bleed to death in less than a...

UNTIL DEATH DO US PARTMURDER, MAYHEM & MALEVOLENT TALES OF LOVE GONE WRONGBY TROY TAYLORThere is no question that we are fascinated by murder. And among those murders, there are none we find more intriguing than crimes of passion. They're compelling for many reasons,...

Sudden riches lead to a world of trouble...Newly widowed Charlotte McLaughlin is adrift following the sudden death of her husband of twenty years and the shocking discovery of the lavish double life he'd lived while purportedly traveling for business.When Charlotte's only nephew and his...

They were two of the most notorious and controversial murder trials of the last twenty-five years, splitting American public opinion in half.Before dawn on November 5, 1989, Betty Broderick got into her car and drove over to the house in San Diego of her...

Author: Karen TintoriPublisher: St. Martin's GriffinPublished: 07/08/2008Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70dISBN: 9780312334642About the AuthorKAREN TINTORI is a writer and journalist who lives in Michigan with her family. Karen's books include Trapped, a 2002 Chicago Tribune favorite book, and The...

On May 5, 1993, second-graders Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore disappeared from their West Memphis, Arkansas, homes. The following afternoon, their nude, beaten, and bound bodies were discovered in a drainage ditch less than a mile away. After a troublesome confession, three...

The powerful story of a CIA whistleblower and political prisoner who refused to give up on his American dreamIn 2015, Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to prison, convicted of violating the Espionage Act. Sterling, it is now clear, was another victim of our government's draconian...

UNWAVERING: A Border Agent's JourneyThe Definitive EditionWith Foreward by Kris "Tanto" Paronto "It's great to get a view of the border and homeland security from someone who actually worked it and keeps politics out of it. Jason does that, and it comes through in...

In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her newborn son. Once one of the most sought-after young women in Virginia society,...

Sean M. McWeeney has led an amazing life. Up by the Bootstraps outlines his life on the rough and tough West Side of Chicago, where he was unafraid of hard work or a good fight. He ran numbers, struggled, and triumphed through life's twists...

URGES chronicles Larry DeWayne Hall who, in 1994, confessed to killing four women and young girls; yet Hall has never been convicted of murder. Police in some jurisdictions believe Hall may have killed 40 or more women and young girls in a dozen states....

When the police scanner announced an active shooter at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022, Uvalde Leader-News staff writers held their collective breath. In those confusing and terrifying moments, these journalists embarked on coverage that no community newspaper should ever have to undertake. Among...

Author: Emmanuel CarrerePublisher: Editorial AnagramaPublished: 07/11/2023Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.66h x 5.43w x 0.79dISBN: 9788433904973Language: Spanish

A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading nonfiction writer. Nearly every day for ten months, from September 2021 to June 2022, life on the ?le de la Cit? in central Paris came to a standstill. The most expensive and...

Author: Kerrie Droban, Charles FalcoPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 07/28/2015Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200003549About the AuthorDroban, Kerrie: - Kerrie Droban is the award-winning author of many books, including, A Socialite Scorned: The Murder of a Tucson High-Roller, Prodigal Father, Pagan Son: Growing Up Inside the Dangerous World...

The basis for the hit TV series Gangland Undercover!Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws presents the gripping account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the ATF infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangs. Despite lacking any experience with motorcycle gangs, Charles Falco infiltrated...

The basis for the hit TV series Gangland Undercover! Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws presents the gripping account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the ATF infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangs. Despite lacking any experience with motorcycle gangs, Charles Falco...

The authoritative biography of the 60s countercultural icon who wrote SCUM Manifesto, shot Andy Warhol, and made an unforgettable mark on feminist history. Too drastic, too crazy, too out there, too early, too late, too damaged, too much--Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never...