True Crime

Violence in the Valley is a book of short stories about unusual murders and other crimes investigated in the mid-Ohio Valley by the Parkersburg Police Department Detective Bureau, West Virginia State Police, and other agencies along the peaceful Ohio River from Wheeling to Huntington,...

Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market economy. The core...

The national press has recently lavished coverage on several major sex-related scandals: the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, and the Mike Tyson case. With each event came lurid stories pitting either a loose or a virginal woman against an...

Author: Dale BrumfieldPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublished: 10/30/2017Pages: 274Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781540226938This title is not returnable

In Tallahassee, Florida, early one cold winter morning in 1978, a mad man entered the Chi Omega sorority house near the Florida State University campus, and viciously attacked four women. Two would die. A fifth woman was brutally attacked just blocks away. Authorities urgently...

Vivos se los llevaron: Buscando a los 43 de Ayotzinapa En un crimen que estremeció el mundo, la policía Mexicana secuestró 43 estudiantes de la escuela normal Ayotzinapa. No hay ningún rastro de ellos. Esta novela gráfica ilustra este momento cruel en la historia...

This book is a walkthrough of my journey with sexual abuse and incest within my family. Through my life story, readers will gain understanding why I felt the need to expose these secrets and shame that held my family in bondage for many years,...

Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series. "The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth's research are often staggering."--The New York Times "Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail."--Entertainment Weekly...

"Es war ein herrlicher Julimorgen, als der junge Sohn des Hauses die elterliche Wohnung verlie . Er hatte die f r die Schule n tigen B cher in einen Riemen geschnallt unter dem Arm, aber erst um die neunte Stunde forderten die dumpfen Klassenr...

I decided to walk away from my mother when I discovered she murdered my step-father. I was in my 30's then and shortly before had learned she murdered who I thought was a stranger. I didn't realize the man she murdered was my biological...

I decided to walk away from my mother when I discovered she murdered my step-father. I was in my 30's then and shortly before had learned she murdered who I thought was a stranger. I didn't realize the man she murdered was my biological...

A father's journey through grief, controversy, activism and healing following his son's death in the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The book describes the experiences of Tom Mauser, who became a nationally recognized gun control advocate who often spoke to...

*A New York Times Book Review Notable Book"*An NPR Best Book of the Year*For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever...

A New York Times Notable Book An NPR Book of the Year When the dead body of a ten-year-old boy is discovered under a heap of garbage in Lusaka's largest landfill, a murder investigation quickly heats up. The lives of four unforgettable children become...

Who was George de Morhenschildt, and what was his connection to Lee Harvey Oswald the accused assassin of President John F Kennedy? This book tells the amazing true story of Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans, his ten-year investigation into the assassination of President John F....

To most Hoosiers, John Dillinger is the very picture of an Indiana fugitive, but the state has seen many fascinating criminal characters on the run. In Tippecanoe County, two Lafayette youths murdered the sheriff's deputies transporting them to prison. The gun-toting Elwood gun girl...

What do you think of when you hear about someone on the FBI's Most Wanted List? Hardened criminals, without morals or any sense of right and wrong, ready to solve a dispute with a gun, right? But what if things weren't that cut and...

The true story of two law enforcement figures--one an FBI agent, the other a federal prosecutor--who led some of the most relentless and successful attacks on organized crime in American history. A unique and unexpected set of circumstances caused former federal prosecutor Dan Dorsky...

Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders for the government and how the Pentagon later turned on them.In January of 2007,...

'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a person who claimed to have worked for British Intelligence during the war. The...