True Crime

For fans of Serial, Making a Murderer and The Keepers "Dramatic and disturbing . . . his evidence, used judiciously and presented without comment but with an undertone of urgency, is a damning indictment." - Anita Brookner, Observer Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac, Auto Focus, and Black Fire. Not since the infamous Zodiac Killer had the Bay Area lived under such a shadow. THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA WAS ONCE AGAIN ON HIGH ALERT. - In 1979, the...

The Cleveland Police Department Never Gave Up From the moment of the double-murder the police never gave up in the hunt for the six suspects involved in the payroll robbery-gone bad. Cleveland detectives and prosecutors pursued and/or arrested the killers in Los Angeles, Mexico...

Marijuana turned a Florida teen into a millionaire fugitiveAuthor: Steve LambPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 01/07/2015Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781505720396This title is not returnable

A New York Times-bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter chronicles the murder and abduction of two teens during a dream spring break vacation.Best friends Daryl Barber and James Boucher were responsible, and their parents trusted them to spend Spring Break at Daytona...

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people....

Author: Duncan McNabPublisher: Hachette AustraliaPublished: 03/01/2022Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9780733644702About the AuthorDuncan McNab is a former police detective, private investigator, investigative journalist and media adviser to government and the private sector. He is the author of over seven...

Although the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby was a worldwide sensation, it was only one of an estimated three thousand ransom kidnappings that occurred in the United States that year. The epidemic hit America during the Great Depression and the last days...

The gripping true story of a crew of serial killers whose specialty was robbing armored trucks and how they were ultimately undone. Unique to this particular robbery crew was its paramilitary-type operational sophistication and their use of a sniper hidden within a specially modified...

Over 13 months in 1976--1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides. The Oakland County Child Murders spawned panic across southeast Michigan, triggering the most...

A notorious case of terror and extortion in the Buckeye StateIn the early 1900s, a criminal society known as the Black Hand became feared across the United States as it extorted hard-working immigrants. In 1908, Agostino Iannarino received a series of threatening letters and...

Bestselling author Mike Sager's fourth collection showcases his deftly-written journalism at its best and most mature, a riveting marriage of crime reportage and you-are-there literary anthropology. The book's centerpiece examines the rise and fall of football RoboQuarterback Todd Marinovich-a previously unpublished, thirty-plus thousand-word "nonvella"...

How the Zodiac and Son of Sam Serial Murders Were Meant to Usher in the Coming of Satan.Author: Jack MyersPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 04/03/2019Pages: 496Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.11dISBN: 9781799141143This title is not returnable

Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivating exploration of the roots of the Molly Maguires. A secret society of...

Traces the rise of the Molly Maguires from Ireland's devastating potato famine to the turbulent dawn of the American labor movement. With a heavy emphasis on the folk culture that underpinned the Mollies, the book documents the group's Civil War rebirth in Pennsylvania, and...

Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure New York Times bestseller The Soprano State--back in trade paperback to tie-in with the release of the major documentary film. It's not a jokeNew Jersey leads the country in corruption The Soprano State details the you-couldn't-make-this-up true story of...

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many...

This book is about a horrific murder. No one deserves to be slaughtered like this victim was, and again, like most evildoings, it was over money. "The love of money is the root of all evil." I never thought this adage to be completely...

A SECRET RELATIVE. AN ANCIENT FORTUNE FOR THETAKING. ONE MAN DETERMINED TO EXCAVATE THE HIDDENMYSTERIES OF YESTERYEAR.Madrid, 1980s. Dave Samples will stop at nothing to unearththe truth. After his dying father confessed to having another sonout of wedlock, the electronics engineer relocates his family...

Set in the first half of the twentieth century in Toronto and framed as a murder mystery, The South Side of Queen is the saga of two burlesque theatres and the family that owned and operated them. Both the Roxy and Casino Theatres were...