True Crime

THE CLASSIC TRUE STORY OF THE COP WHO COULDN'T BE BOUGHT"I don't think anyone can come away from Serpico without admiration for one man's lonely integrity." --New York TimesWith an Afterword by Frank SerpicoThe 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt...

Are you ready for a stroll down memory alley?Can you recall a time when cops arrested rioters who were setting fire to buildings and vandalizing historical monuments? Remember when shoplifters actually went to jail? Imagine an era when violent lunatics weren't allowed to wander...

Serving Life - 25-One Guard's Story will provide a peek behind the curtain into an Oz-Like environment of Canada's troubled prison system. Experience the not so normal days of a Canadian Correctional Officer in British Columbia.Neil MacLean retired in 2014 as a Correctional Manager...

From a producer of 48 Hours Mystery and The Boston Globe reporter comes the full account of the shocking crime spree of the infamous Craigslist Killer. In this "detailed and absorbing" (The Boston Globe) true crime bAuthor: Paul Larosa, Maria CramerPublisher: Gallery BooksPublished: 05/02/2020Pages:...

On a freezing night in January 1993, masked gunmen walked through the laughably lax security at the Rochester Brink's depot, tied up the guards, and unhurriedly made off with $7.4 million in one of the FBI's top-five armored car heists in history. Suspicion quickly...

"Alex Mar's bold yet sensitive account of one of America's youngest death row inmates--and the people whose lives she forever changed--is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unforgettable." --Robert Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road "An absorbing work of social history...

The grisly 1947 murder of aspiring starlet and nightclub habitue Elizabeth Short, known even before her death as the "Black Dahlia," has over the decades transmogrified from L.A.'s "crime of the century" into an almost mythical symbol of unfathomable Hollywood Babylon/film noir glamour-cum-sordidness. It...

In the early 1980s, William Steel's life took a turn towards the macabre when he quite literally ran into Robert Durst in midtown Manhattan. Steel was attending a school for locksmithing and security systems at the time, and Durst -- the black sheep of...

Sex crimes, such as rape, child sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence, are increasingly transnational in nature, introducing unique cross-border and cross-cultural challenges for police, the courts, and the law. Policy makers and practitioners are in need of a resource that explores the incidence,...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Bronx had one of the country's highest per capita homicide rates. As crack cocaine use surged, dealers claimed territory through intimidation and murder, while families were fractured by crime and incarceration. Chronicling the rise and fall...

From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet--moon rocks--from an "impregnable" high-tech vault. But breaking...

Paola Monzini's new book focuses on the experiences of migrant women and girls who have very little choice or control over their lives. They can be distinguished from those women who do work as prostitutes, with some autonomy, however limited. Rooting her analysis firmly...

Case studies explore how women's rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help prevent and combat human traffickingHuman trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately...

Case studies explore how women's rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help prevent and combat human traffickingHuman trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately...

A psycho haunts the hills of Hollywood....It's 1961. The Berlin Wall goes up, the Bay of Pigs invasion flops, punks cruise the Boulevard with their tops down blasting Chubby Checker's "Pony Time," and women are being savagely butchered on LAPD cop Mike Montego's beat....

From Edgar Award finalist James Polchin comes a thrilling examination of the murder that captivated Jazz Age America, with echoes of the decadence and violence of The Great Gatsby On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man's body was found on a...

For four decades the name Gotti has been synonymous with organized crime in the minds of the public, who were told stories about them with varying degrees of accuracy. But now in Shadow of My Father, the real story of the King of the...

It was the most brutal murder in the history of Coffey County, Kansas. On May 30, 1925, Florence Knoblock, a farmer's wife and the mother of a young boy, was found slaughtered on her kitchen floor. Several innocent men were taken into custody before...

Air Force Special Agent Devin Jackson is out for retribution, and nothing will stand in his way. After losing everything he loved in pursuit of his career with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Agent Jackson immerses himself in the world of...

Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare.--Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI's Behavioral Science...