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Number of Pages: 304Genre: Social ScienceSub-Genre: CriminologyFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Penguin PressAge Range: AdultAuthor: Carl L Dr HartLanguage: English About the Book From one of the world's foremost experts on the effects of recreational drugs on the mind and body comes a powerful argument that the greatest dangers from drugs flow from their being illegal, and a field guide to their use as part of a responsible and happy life.. Book Synopsis "Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country's war on drugs, we should all share his outrage." --The New York Times Book Review From one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a hopeful reckoning with the possibility of their use as part of a responsible and happy life Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with the rest of his full and productive life as a colleague, husband, father, and friend. In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use--not drugs themselves--have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country's enduring structural racism. Dr. Hart did not always have this view. He came of age in one of Miami's most troubled neighborhoods at a time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack cocaine. His initial work as a researcher was aimed at proving that drug use caused bad outcomes. But one problem kept cropping up: the evidence from his research did not support his hypothesis. From inside the massively well-funded research arm of the American war on drugs, he saw how the facts did not support the ideology. The truth was dismissed and distorted in order to keep fear and outrage stoked, the funds rolling in, and Black and brown bodies behind bars. Drug Use for Grown-Ups will be controversial, to be sure: the propaganda war, Dr. Hart argues, has been tremendously effective. Imagine if the only subject of any discussion about driving automobiles was fatal car crashes. Drug Use for Grown-Ups offers a radically different vision: when used responsibly, drugs can enrich and enhance our lives. We have a long way to go, but the vital conversation this book will generate is an extraordinarily important step. Review Quotes "[Hart's] positions may seem quite extreme to some but they also, by and large, make a lot of sense--and are backed up by ample research . . . A major reason drugs have such a negative public image, Hart asserts, is racism . . . eye-opening." --NPR.org "Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country's war on drugs, we should all share his outrage." --The New York Times Book Review"One of the most thought-provoking reads I've had the pleasure of exploring in a long time . . ." --Trevor Noah, The Daily Show"Hart's book is compelling and well-argued. It's one of those zeitgeisty books that manages to perform iconoclasm while outlining the unspoken obvious, detailing a lifestyle that many hold but few admit to publicly . . . Provocative and necessary." --Jezebel "Provocative and enlightening . . . Drug Use for Grown-Ups has the soul of a manifesto." --Wall Street Journal "As more and more states across the country legalize marijuana, and as popular opinion toward the war on drugs sours, Dr. Carl L. Hart's new book arrives at the perfect time. . . . thoughtful and persuasive . . . He argues that if we truly believe in liberty as established in the Declaration of Independence, then the pursuit of this particular happiness should also be part of our protected civil liberties." --BookPage "I approached this book with knee-jerk skepticism . . . But Hart, a neuroscientist who specializes in drugs and addiction, met my ignorance with a series of thought-provoking arguments . . . Through his own experiences and research, he makes a compelling case for revising our mindsets about taboo substances, and the people who use them." --Discover Magazine "A full-throated defense of self-aware, voluntary drug use . . . a valuable tool for mounting arguments in defense of free choice." --Kirkus Reviews "A timely, fact-based, coherent, humane counterargument to America's spectacularly failed War on Drugs." --Booklist, starred review "Comprehensive and illuminating . . . Columbia University psychology professor Hart combines his scientific research on how recreational drugs impact brain functioning with reflections on his own use of heroin and other drugs. . . . Careful reasoning and detailed evidence buttress the book's most surprising claims . . . This bracingly contrarian take provides much food for thought." --Publisher's Weekly "You must read this book. It's an eye-opening, mind-expanding masterpiece from one of the most important scientists in the world. You won't be the same after." --Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream "Why won't this nation admit that criminalizing drugs has been far more deadly than the drugs themselves? This deeply personal, honest, and courageous book shines a crucial light on a topic cloaked in racism, repression, and myth." --Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, and Fatal Invention "You may not agree with the author's personal enthusiasm for recreational drug use (and I happen not to). Nonetheless, Drug Use For Grown-Ups is a powerful, convincing tour of the hypocrisy that underlies so many of our drug laws, and the brutally unequal ways in which the laws are enforced. One shares Hart's fury at how, as per usual, it is the weak and marginalized members of society who are most cartneared." --Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave "Dr. Carl Hart challenges our popular assumptions about drug addiction both through science and through a forthright account of hiw own heroin use. Drug Use For Grown-Ups makes a powerful case against stigmatizing--and criminalizing--adults who get high." --Shane Bauer, author of American Prison "Carl Hart provides a viscerally personal and candid book that debunks common myths that demonize recreational drug use. Hart--a neuroscientist and expert on substance abuse--brings us inside his own experiences with enlightened drug use and his frustration with the ineffectiveness and harm of the war on drugs. His book is timely with the dramatic rise in overdoses in the US compared to societies that have decriminalized drugs and seen a reduction in usage, overdoses and arrests." --BJ Casey, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Yale University "Dr. Carl Hart is that rara avis: A stellar neuroscientist--in fact, the preeminent expert on 'recreational' drugs--who is honest and enthusiastic about drug use. In Drug Use For Grown-Ups he dissects unalloyed data to dismiss our pernicious mythologies so that we can better understand the truly liberating nature and the real, not the imaginary, risks of these oft-maligned experiences. But Hart is also a captivating storyteller, and that's what makes this book . . . well, addictive as he follows the data, wisdom and love from Switzerland to Portugal to New York City, taking you along for the ride. As he bravely and humanely traces the science supporting treatment, regulation and decriminalization instead of succumbing to stigma or pandering to respectability politics, he displays a devotion to scientific truth in the service of better human health and relationships. By the time you reluctantly approach this book's end, you will have acquired an education in what drugs offer us, their potential price, and healthy policies. Armed with this new clarity, it doesn't matter whether you choose to shun drug use or to embrace its potential as a wondrous human experience: Thanks to Hart's clarity and courage, your eyes will be opened and for the first time, your choice will be informed." --Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present"This book is written by a leading drug researcher and neuroscientist who has himself grown up through, and been significantly affected by, the era of the 'war on drugs.' His personal story from acceptance of the status quo to understanding its fundamental flaws permeates both the science and the wisdom that this book projects. One hopes that the political and scientific establishment reads it and reflects on the urgent need for new evidence-based drugs policies." --David Nutt, author of Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health"Like he did in my Netflix cannabis doc, Grass Is Greener, DR. Carl Hart gives you the real-to-real regarding drug use and dismantles all the lies and misinformation we've been assaulted with for decades. Drug Use for Grown-Ups is a hip, street smart, scholarly yet easy-to-read deep dive into the how and why of illegal drugs that should be required reading from millennials to seniors." --Fab 5 Freddy About the Author Dr. Carl L. Hart is the Ziff Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Professor Hart has published numerous scientific and popular articles in the area of neuropsychopharmacology and is co-author of the textbook Drugs, Society and Human Behavior (with Charles Ksir). His book High Price was the 2014 winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

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Number of Pages: 396Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderSeries Title: Modern Library (Hardcover)Format: HardcoverPublisher: Modern LibraryAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralAuthor: Truman CapoteLanguage: English About the Book Originally published: New York: Random House, c1965. Book Synopsis Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the "new journalism." Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. "I thought he was a very nice gentleman," he says of Herb Clutter. "Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers' flight, Capote's account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events. Review Quotes A masterpiece . . . a spellbinding work. --LifeA remarkable, tensely exciting, superbly written 'true account.' --The New York Times The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence . . . harrowing. --The New York Review of Books About the Author Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents' divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Among his celebrated works are Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Tree of Night, The Grass Harp, Summer Crossing, A Christmas Memory, and In Cold Blood, widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. He died August 25, 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inch (W) x .7 Inch (D)Weight: .5 PoundsNumber of Pages: 288Genre: Mystery + CrimeSub-Genre: Mystery & DetectiveFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Harper CollinsAuthor: Agatha ChristieAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book "Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer"--Amazon.com. Book Synopsis The most widely read mystery of all time. Now a major motion picture directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. "The murderer is with us--on the train now . . ."Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.This edition includes a photo insert of images from the film. Review Quotes "[Moves] smoothly and entertainingly to its surprise conclusion."--Chicago Daily Tribune "A brilliantly ingenious story."--Dorothy L. Sayers, Daily Herald (UK) "Agatha Christie taught me many important lessons about the inner workings of the mystery novel before it ever occurred to me that I might one day be writing mysteries myself."--Sue Grafton, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Kinsey Millhone novels "Agatha Christie's books are both wonderful crime novels and studies in contrast and duality, and I adore them still. Underestimate them at your peril."--Louise Penny, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Inspector Gamache novels "Agatha Christie's indelibly etched characters have entertained millions across the years and a love of her work has brough together generations of readers--a singular achievement for any author and an inspiration to writers across the literary landscape."--Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times-bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs novels "Any mystery writer who wants to learn how to plot should spend a few days reading Agatha Christie. She'll show you everything you want to know."--Donna Leon, New York Times-bestselling author of the Commissario Brunetti novels "I always wanted to be Agatha Christie when I grew up. I still do."--J. A. Jance, New York Times-bestselling author of the Joanna Brady and J. P. Beaumont novels "It's tempting to say that Agatha Christie is a genius and let it go at that, but the world's had plenty of geniuses. Agatha Christie is something special."--Lawrence Block, New York Times bestselling author "Need it be said--the little grey cells solve once more the seemingly insoluble. Mrs Christie makes an improbable tale very real, and keeps her readers enthralled and guessing to the end."--Times Literary Supplement (London) "Nothing short of swell. [Christie] is probably the best suspicion scatterer and diverter in the business."--New York Herald Tribune "Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction."--Tana French, New York Times-bestselling author of the Dublin Murder Squad novels "What more...can a mystery addict desire?"--New York Times

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Dimensions (Overall): 6.7 Inches (H) x 4.1 Inch (W) x .7 Inch (D)Weight: .25 PoundsNumber of Pages: 256Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderSeries Title: Murder Is ForeverFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Grand Central PublishingAuthor: James PattersonAge Range: AdultBook theme: Serial KillersLanguage: English About the Book "As seen on Investigation Discovery's Murder is forever." Book Synopsis As seen on the Discovery ID TV series Murder is Forever, these two true-crime thrillers follow a lawyer struggling to stop a killer and a detective angling to solve a double homicide.Home Sweet Murder (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the evening, two people will be shot, stabbed, and tortured. And two others will fare worse . . . Murder on the Run (with Scott Slaven): The middle-aged housekeeper found dead with a knife in her throat was bad. But the little boy was worse. After a bloody double homicide that puts Omaha, Nebraska, on the map, Detective Derek Mois promises the boy's parents he will catch the killer, no matter how long or far he runs . . . Review Quotes "Behind all the noise and numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what James Patterson has, in spades."--Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series "Every once in a while a writer comes along and fundamentally changes the way people read. He or she is so bright, innovative, so industrious that what they envision and create becomes the measure by which all others are judged. In 1993 one such writer - James Patterson - began to do just that. Now...with his mission still unfolding, James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged."--Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series About The Author James Patterson is the world's bestselling author and most trusted storyteller. He has created many enduring fictional characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Middle School, and I Funny. Among his notable literary collaborations are The President Is Missing, with President Bill Clinton, and the Max Einstein series, produced in partnership with the Albert Einstein Estate. Patterson's writing career is characterized by a single mission: to prove that there is no such thing as a person who "doesn't like to read," only people who haven't found the right book. He's given over three million books to schoolkids and the military, donated more than seventy million dollars to support education, and endowed over five thousand college scholarships for teachers. The National Book Foundation recently presented Patterson with the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, and he is also the recipient of an Edgar Award and six Emmy Awards. He lives in Florida with his family.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9 Inches (H) x 7.6 Inch (W) x .7 Inch (D)Weight: 1.55 PoundsNumber of Pages: 176Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: HardcoverPublisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Author: Emily G ThompsonAge Range: AdultBook theme: Serial KillersLanguage: English About the Book Presents case studies of the most infamous unsolved murders of the modern age, including the Black Dahlia murder, the Zodiac Killer, and the Gilgo Beach serial murders. Book Synopsis Discover the stories behind 20 of the most infamous unsolved murders of the last century, including the Black Dahlia, the Zodiac Killer, and the JonBenét Ramsey case. This true crime book lets you judge for yourself, investigating some of the most infamous unsolved cases of the 20th and 21st centuries. It presents crime scenes, crucial evidence, witnesses, and persons of interest along with essential details and clues. Unsolved Murders also profiles the psychology of the killer, discusses the background and life of the unfortunate victim (or victims), and explores how these horrific crimes impacted the victim's family and friends. Spanning domestic tragedies to serial killers with a love for the macabre, this book will have you up all night. Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered is like having your favorite true crime podcast or documentary at your fingertips every day. About The Author Amber Hunt is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family. She is an award-winning crime reporter and host of the acclaimed true crime podcast Accused. Hunt also helped report a Pulitzer Prize-winning project for the Cincinnati Enquirer, where she works as a special projects reporter. Emily G. Thompson has several years of experience as an investigative reporter. She has her own popular true crime website, Morbidology, and has contributed articles to numerous blogs and websites. Her first true crime book, Unsolved Child Murders: Eighteen American Cases, 1956-1998, was published in November 2017 and became a #1 New Release on Amazon.

Unsolved Murders - by Emily G Thompson (Hardcover)

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Number of Pages: 320Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: White Collar CrimeFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Lyons PressAge Range: AdultAuthor: John TempleLanguage: English About the Book * Finalist for the Edgar(R) Award in Best Fact Crime * New York Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015" * Suspense Magazine's "Best True Crime Books of 2015" * Gold Medal Winner for Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime * Publishers Weekly, Big Indie Book of Fall 2015 The rise and fall of the nation's largest painkiller distribution ring, "American Pain," a mega-clinic that served as a prototype for the rest. Pill mills have spread across the country, but this is where it started. It's a gritty story of lax regulations, conflicts of interest, and good ol' fashioned greed. With an eccentric cast of real characters, bizarre events, and a setting that runs from Kentucky to Florida, it's also a stranger-than-fiction Southern Gothic tale. Book Synopsis * Finalist for the Edgar(R) Award in Best Fact Crime * New York Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015" * Suspense Magazine's "Best True Crime Books of 2015" * Finalist for Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime * Publishers Weekly, Big Indie Book of Fall 2015 The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortress-like former bank building, American Pain's doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscle-heads ran the clinic's security. Former strippers operated the pharmacy, counting out pills and stashing cash in garbage bags. Under their lab coats, the doctors carried guns-and it was all legal... sort of. American Pain was the brainchild of Chris George, a 27-year-old convicted drug felon. The son of a South Florida home builder, Chris George grew up in ultra-rich Wellington, where Bill Gates, Springsteen, and Madonna kept houses. Thick-necked from weightlifting, he and his twin brother hung out with mobsters, invested in strip clubs, brawled with cops, and grinned for their mug shots. After the housing market stalled, a local doctor clued in the brothers to the burgeoning underground market for lightly regulated prescription painkillers. In Florida, pain clinics could dispense the meds, and no one tracked the patients. Seizing the opportunity, Chris George teamed up with the doctor, and word got out. Just two years later Chris had raked in $40 million, and 90 percent of the pills his doctors prescribed flowed north to feed the rest of the country's insatiable narcotics addiction. Meanwhile, hundreds more pain clinics in the mold of American Pain had popped up in the Sunshine State, creating a gigantic new drug industry. American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill, and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis, the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. The narrative swings back and forth between Florida and Kentucky, and is populated by a gaudy and diverse cast of characters. This includes the incongruous band of wealthy bad boys, thugs and esteemed physicians who built American Pain, as well as penniless Kentucky clans who transformed themselves into painkiller trafficking rings. It includes addicts whose lives were devastated by American Pain's drugs, and the federal agents and grieving mothers who labored for years to bring the clinic's crew to justice. Review Quotes In his masterful nonfiction book American Pain, John Temple lays bare the perfect storm of lax regulation, aggressive marketing, greed, and addiction that created an opioid epidemic. .. .Temple's writing is propulsive--Foreword Reviews(Starred Review). . . . [An] exhilarating blow-by-blow account. . . . Journalism professor Temple dissects the . . . criminal operation and documents the rise and fall of American Pain with precision and authority in this highly readable true crime account.--Publishers WeeklyFascinating. . . . thoroughly reported. . . . American Pain offers a window into America's drug-addiction epidemic.--The Washington Post"American Pain made me angrier with every page. Why? Because John Temple has so adeptly reported this story of how a handful of criminals and shady doctors in Florida profited from the poverty and addiction of the Appalachian South." --James Higdon, national bestselling author of The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History"John Temple's American Pain is as addicting a read as the little pills he writes about. Temple details the brazen operations of some of America's largest pill mills and how they thrived in plain sight for years before the government took action." --Jason Ryan, author of Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs"John Temple's American Pain takes you on a hysterically funny, yet equally tragic, tour of Florida's pill mill industry as the painkiller epidemic was reaching a fever pitch.... a must-read for anyone trying to understand this government-sanctioned drug and the destructive power of Big Pharma." --Melisa Wallack, Oscar-nominated co-writer of Dallas Buyers Club About the Author John Temple is a professor of journalism at West Virginia University and the author of Deadhouse and The Last Lawyer, the latter of which won the Scribes Award given by the Society of Legal Writers. C-SPAN, the Washington Post, Raleigh News and Observer, and many other media outlets have covered him and his work, and before teaching he worked in newspapers for six years at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Greensboro News and Record, and the Tampa Tribune. Temple lives with his wife and two sons in Morgantown, West Virginia.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.44 Inches (H) x 5.56 Inch (W) x 1.19 Inch (D)Weight: .92 PoundsNumber of Pages: 432Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Atria BooksAuthor: Mara LeverittAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralLanguage: English About the Book In 1993, in an area of Memphis called Robin Hood Woods, three eight-year-old boys were savagely murdered. Written by an award winning journalist "Devil's Knot" brings shocking new evidence to the case of the West Memphis Three. Book Synopsis *A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH* The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted...and set free. Do you know their story? In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt's The Devil's Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three. For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers--alleged members of a satanic cult--with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teenagers were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state--even upheld on appeal--and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. With close-up views of its key participants, this award-winning account unravels the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case, one which will shape the American legal landscape for years to come. Review Quotes Devil's Knot becomes the best horror novel you've ever read, one of those that leaves you wondering what new sick dread might be lying in wait on the next page...The monster Leveritt reveals in the end, however, is more terrifying than even the fork-tailed boogeymen conjured by West Memphis police and prosecutors to fit their crime. What Leveritt reveals to us is the most horrible fiend a rational person can imagine when matters of life and death are at stake: the Specter of Doubt.-- "Arkansas Times" An affecting account of a controversial trial...Leveritt's carefully researched book offers a riveting portrait of a down-at-the-heels, socially conservative rural town with more than its share of corruption and violence.-- "Publishers Weekly" The chronology [of Devil's Knot] is the first time all elements of the case have been assembled in one narrative, which offers surprises, even for those familiar with the events. As such, it is a true public service.-- "Arkansas Democrat Gazette" Well written in descriptive language, Devil's Knot is an indictment of a culture and legal system that failed to protect children as defendants or victims. Highly recommended.-- "Library Journal" Brutal, riveting....The true horror of Leveritt's well-written book is that this barely believable fate could potentially befall any American.--Henry Rollins The abuses of the criminal justice system shown here are so blatant--and so profoundly tragic--that they would be hard to believe were it not for the depth and even-handedness of Mara Leveritt's reporting.--Sister Helen Prejean "author of Dead Man Walking" About The Author Mara Leveritt has won several awards for investigative journalism, including Arkansas's Booker Worthen Prize for her book The Boys on the Tracks. She is also author of The Mena File, Dark Spell, and Devil's Knot. A contributing editor to the Arkansas Times, she lives in Little Roc

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Number of Pages: 368Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Citadel PressAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralAuthor: Caitlin RotherLanguage: English About the Book "The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharmaceuticla tycoon Jonah Shacknai. When authorities arrived, they found the naked body of Jonah's girlfried, Rebecca Zahau, gagged, with her ankles tied and her wrists bound behind her. Jonah's brother, Adam, claimed to have found Rebecca hanging by a rope from the second-floor balcony. Rebecca's death came two days after Jonah's six-year-old son, Max, took a devastating fall while in Rebecca's care. Authorities deemed Rebecca's death a suicide resulting from her guilt. But who would stage either a suicide or a murder in such a bizarre, attention-seeking way?"--Provided by publisher. Book Synopsis Award-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author Caitlin Rother explores the mysterious death of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, who was found hanging from a second-story balcony of her multimillionaire boyfriend's San Diego mansion in 2011. She was naked and gagged, with her ankles tied and hands bound behind her. On the door to her bedroom, investigators found a hand-written message: SHE SAVED HIM CAN YOU SAVE HER. The death was deemed a suicide, but Rother reveals there's more to the story... I got a girl, hung herself in the guest house. The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharmaceutical tycoon and multimillionaire Jonah Shacknai. When authorities arrived, they found the naked body of Jonah's girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, gagged, her ankles tied and her wrists bound behind her. Jonah's brother, Adam, claimed to have found Rebecca hanging by a rope from the second-floor balcony. On a bedroom door in black paint were the cryptic words: SHE SAVED HIM CAN YOU SAVE HER.Was this scrawled message a suicide note or a killer's taunt? Rebecca's death came two days after Jonah's six-year-old son, Max, took a devastating fall while in Rebecca's care. Authorities deemed Rebecca's death a suicide resulting from her guilt. But who would stage either a suicide or a murder in such a bizarre, elaborate way?Award-winning investigative journalist Caitlin Rother weaves stunning new details into a personal yet objective examination of the sensational case. She explores its many layers--including the civil suit in which a jury found Adam Shacknai responsible for Rebecca's death, and the San Diego County Sheriff's Department bombshell decision to reconfirm its original findings. As compelling as it is troubling, this controversial real-life mystery is a classic American tragedy that evokes the same haunting fascination as the JonBenet Ramsey and O.J. Simpson cases. Review Quotes Praise for DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD "In Death on Ocean Boulevard, Caitlin Rother skillfully chronicles one of the most fascinating and controversial cases of the past decade. Big money, sex and a questionable death make for an addictive read."--Kathryn Casey, bestselling author of In Plain Sight "The Rebecca Zahau case is one of the great crime mysteries of modern times. It took an author of Caitlin Rother's caliber to bring it into sharp focus. A riveting read."--Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Rother's meticulous journalism shines through in this authoritative account of the Rebecca Zahau death incident. It's difficult to know what to think of this kaleidoscopic case, but Rother provides the multiple perspectives and theories in a balanced manner, along with some significant surprises. If you think you know this case, think again. And read this book."--Katherine Ramsland, professor of forensic psychology and author of The Psychology of Death Investigations Was it suicide or was it murder? Investigative journalist extraordinaire Caitlin Rother masterfully examines the controversial death of Rebeca Zahau in Death on Ocean Boulevard. What truths does she uncover? Riveting!--Dan Zupansky, host of the True Murder podcast This book is a deep dive into the muddy waters of a fascinating case. Caitlin Rother is methodical and brilliant in her reporting! --Martha Steele, host of the 3 Book Girls podcast Praise for Caitlin Rother A close look at a killer...Lost Girls by veteran journalist and true-crime writer Caitlin Rother is a deeply reported, dispassionately written attempt to determine what created a monster and predator. It is a cautionary tale and a horror story, done superbly by a writer who knows how to burrow into a complex case without becoming captive to her sources. --The Los Angeles Times A true crime triumph for Caitlin Rother... It's a grim and bloody tale, one that directs our attention to the often-shocking complexities of the human animal and the sordid depths to which he may descend. Rother, who was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize during her tenure at the U-T, tells it well, thereby solidifying her star status in the field of true crime. --The San Diego Union-Tribune on Dead Reckoning We've finally found the next Ann Rule! Caitlin Rother writes with heart and suspense. Dead Reckoning is a chilling read by a writer at the top of her game. --Gregg Olsen, author of A Twisted Faith Riveting... a story that will haunt you... Rother presents a fascinating study of one woman's evil and greed--that ultimately leads to the murder of a kind-hearted millionaire. The compassion the author shows for the victim and the victim's family makes this book an emotional and gripping tale from beginning to end. --Aphrodite Jones, New York Times bestselling author, on Then No One Can Have Her "Rother's meticulous journalism shines through in this authoritative account of the Rebecca Zahau death incident. It's difficult to know what to think of this kaleidoscopic case, but Rother provides the multiple perspectives and theories in a balanced manner, along with some significant surprises. If you think you know this case, think again. And read this book." --Katherine Ramsland, professor of forensic psychology and author of The Psychology of Death Investigations "Caitlin Rother again blows the lid off a headline-making case that shook an upscale California community. Moments will astound and disturb you. All true-crime buffs should be drawn to this first-class reporting and stay until the last page is turned." --Ron Franscell, USA Today bestselling author "A suspicious headline-making death proves to be only the beginning as Rother unlocks the door of this real-life mansion of horrors to reveal a shocking true story of money, power, duplicity and scandal."--Michael Fleeman, New York Times bestselling author "Using her innermost understanding of suicide, Caitlin Rother connects you with the heart-wrenching details of the Coronado Mansion Case. Prepare to be deeply immersed in this beautifully written, impeccably researched book right up to the gripping epilogue. The new facts never before exposed about this case will shock you! DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD is a must-read for any true crime fan!"--Alan R. Warren, author and host of "House of Mystery" podcast About the Author Caitlin Rother is a New York Times bestselling true crime author and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist. She worked for nearly two decades as an investigative reporter and has had work published in Cosmopolitan, The Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, among others. As a TV crime commentator, she has done more than 200 media appearances on episodes of 20/20, People Magazine Investigates, Crime Watch Daily, Australia's World News, Nancy Grace, Snapped, and numerous shows on Netflix, Investigation Discovery, HLN, REELZ, Oxygen, E!, A & E, C-SPAN and various PBS affiliates. Rother also works as a writing/research coach and consultant, and plays piano and sings in an acoustic band. She lives in Southern California and can be found online at CaitlinRother.com.

Death on Ocean Boulevard - by Caitlin Rother…

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The Monfils Conspiracy - by Denis Gullickson &…

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Dimensions (Overall): 6.8 Inches (H) x 4.2 Inch (W) x .7 Inch (D)Weight: .3 PoundsNumber of Pages: 288Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderSeries Title: Murder Is ForeverFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Grand Central PublishingAuthor: James PattersonAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralLanguage: English About the Book "As seen on Investigation Discovery's Murder is forever." Book Synopsis A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series. Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight hours of oxygen. The clock is ticking . . .Murder in Paradise (with Christopher Charles): High in the Sierra Nevada mountains, developers Jim and Bonnie Hood excitedly tour Camp Nelson Lodge. They intend to buy and modernize this beautiful rustic property, but the locals don't like rich outsiders changing their way of life. After a grisly shooting, everybody will discover just how you can make a killing in real estate . . . Review Quotes "Behind all the noise and numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what James Patterson has, in spades."--Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series "Every once in a while a writer comes along and fundamentally changes the way people read. He or she is so bright, innovative, so industrious that what they envision and create becomes the measure by which all others are judged. In 1993 one such writer - James Patterson - began to do just that. Now...with his mission still unfolding, James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged."--Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series About The Author James Patterson is the world's bestselling author and most trusted storyteller. He has created many enduring fictional characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Middle School, and I Funny. Among his notable literary collaborations are The President Is Missing, with President Bill Clinton, and the Max Einstein series, produced in partnership with the Albert Einstein Estate. Patterson's writing career is characterized by a single mission: to prove that there is no such thing as a person who "doesn't like to read," only people who haven't found the right book. He's given over three million books to schoolkids and the military, donated more than seventy million dollars to support education, and endowed over five thousand college scholarships for teachers. The National Book Foundation recently presented Patterson with the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, and he is also the recipient of an Edgar Award and six Emmy Awards. He lives in Florida with his family.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6 Inch (W) x .8 Inch (D)Weight: .7 PoundsNumber of Pages: 192Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: Organized CrimeFormat: PaperbackPublisher: AguilarAuthor: Alejandra IbarraAge Range: AdultLanguage: Spanish About the Book Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul was one of the few journalists in the world who covered the whole trial of El Chapo Guzman in the federal court of New York, in Brooklyn, from November of 2018 to February of 2019. Examining crimes, criminal strategies, and revelations, Ibarra Chaoul portrays the personalities and confessions of the criminals who betrayed El Chapo. The trial posits--according to witnesses--that the governments of Felipe Calderâon and Enrique Peäna Nieto received millions of dollars in exchange for keeping El Chapo's cartel operations and those of his closest accomplices in operation. Book Synopsis TODO LO QUE NO SABIAS DEL NARCOTRAFICANTE MAS BUSCADO DEL MUNDO CONTADO POR LOS CRIMINALES QUE LO TRAICIONARON. El juicio del hombre más buscado por la policía estadounidense: un repaso de sus actividades en el narcotráfico, sus venganzas y los nexos con políticos y delincuentes. Un retrato severo, implacable, de El Chapo Guzmán en la corte de Estados Unidos. Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul fue de las pocas periodistas en el mundo que cubrió todo el juicio de El Chapo Guzmán --el llamado Juicio del siglo, por sus implicaciones políticas y sociales-- en la corte federal de Nueva York, en Brooklyn, de noviembre de 2018 a febrero de 2019. A través de la crónica y la exposición implacable de crímenes, estrategias delictivas y múltiples revelaciones, Ibarra Chaoul ofrece en este libro la personalidad y las confesiones de los criminales que traicionaron al Chapo. El juicio, alucinante, por momentos escalofriante y mediático, revela --según los testigos-- que los gobiernos de los presidentes Felipe Calderón y Enrique Peña Nieto recibieron millones de dólares a cambio de la libertad para mantener las operaciones del cártel del Chapo y sus cómplices más cercanos. Imposible terminar el libro sin cuestionarnos: el juez Cogan y la fiscalía coinciden con el jurado en la culpabilidad del capo sinaloense y la corrupción del gobierno mexicano, pero ¿existen en el gobierno y entre los ciudadanos norteamericanos cómplices en la compra y la distribución de la droga? ¿Realmente las autoridades de Estados Unidos tienen un compromiso sólido con el combate al tráfico de drogas en su país? La respuesta: silencio absoluto. El Chapo Guzmán: el juicio del siglo es un valioso documento periodístico que señala aspectos vitales para comprender la violencia, impunidad y corrupción de nuestros políticos, así como el turbulento y manipulador ejercicio de la justicia norteamericana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION El Chapo Guzmán: The Trial of the Century Everything you didn't know about the most searched-for drug lord in the world, told by the criminals who betrayed him. The trial of the man most sought-after by the US police: a review of his activities in the drug trade, his vengeance, and his connections with politicians and criminals. A severe, ruthless portrait of El Chapo Guzmán in US court. Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul was one of the few journalists in the world who covered the whole trial of El Chapo Guzmán--called "the trial of the century" for its social and political implications--in the federal court of New York, in Brooklyn, from November of 2018 to February of 2019. Through the chronicle and unsparing exposition of crimes, criminal strategies, and multiple revelations, Ibarra Chaoul portrays the personalities and confessions of the criminals who betrayed El Chapo. The trial, alternately mind-boggling and chilling, reveals--according to witnesses--that the governments of Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto received millions of dollars in exchange for the freedom to keep El Chapo's cartel operations and those of his closest accomplices in operation. El Chapo Guzmán: The Trial of the Century is a valuable journalistic documentary that indicates important aspects for understanding violence, impunity, and the corruption of our politicians, as well as the turbulent and manipulative US justice system. About The Author Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul ha participado activamente en investigaciones para The New Yorker y Univision. Ha publicado sus artículos en Nexos, Horizontal, Worcester Magazine, The Haitian Times y en el libro de periodismo narrativo No basta con encender una vela (2015). Cubrió el juicio contra Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán como corresponsal para Ríodoce. En 2014 fue seleccionada como una de las diez escritoras jóvenes con más potencial para la primera edición de Balas y baladas, de la Agencia Bengala. En 2017 fue finalista del Premio internacional de crónica Nuevas Plumas. Y en 2018 recibió una de las doce becas otorgadas por The Brown Institute for Media Innovation con la que fundó y dirige Democracy Fighters, un archivo vivo que conserva los trabajos de los periodistas asesinados en México. Es politóloga egresada del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) y maestra en Periodismo de investigación por la Universidad de Columbia.

El Chapo Guzman: El Juicio del Siglo. /…

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Oklahoma's Most Notorious Cases Volume #2 - by…

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Number of Pages: 296Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: St. Martin's PressAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralAuthor: Diane FanningLanguage: English About the Book In November 2002, Susan McFarland disappeared from her San Antonio, Texas, home. Her burned and decomposed body was found seven weeks later, and her husband Richard--whom Susan had secretly planned to divorce--pleaded guilty before his murder trial was to begin. photos. Original. Book Synopsis 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 against hope that Susan was not gone forever. But investigators became increasingly suspicious of Richard McFarland. When the charred, decomposed body of Susan McFarland was finally discovered at an overgrown farmstead outside of San Antonio, a new hunt began--for justice.McFarland maintained his innocence, and investigators only had circumstantial evidence against him. While headlines screamed out new details in the case, and police tried to gather more evidence, a blockbuster trial was about to begin. Then, Richard McFarland finally spoke...and a terrifying, chilling truth came out... From the Back Cover A BAFFLING DISAPPEARANCESusan 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.A SILENT HUSBANDHer friends and family hoped against hope that Susan was not gone forever. But investigators became increasingly suspicious of Richard McFarland. When the charred, decomposed body of Susan McFarland was finally discovered at an overgrown farmstead outside of San Antonio, a new hunt began--for justice.A SHOCKING STORY--TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIMEMcFarland maintained his innocence, and investigators only had circumstantial evidence against him. While headlines screamed out new details in the case, and police tried to gather more evidence, a blockbuster trial was about to begin. Then, Richard McFarland finally spoke...and a terrifying, chilling truth came out... About the Author Diane Fanning is the author of the Edgar Award finalist "Written in Blood: A True Story of Murder and a Deadly 16-Year-Old Secret That Tore a Family Apart." Her other works of true crime include the best-selling "Mommy's Little Girl," "A Poisoned Passion," "The Pastor's Wife," and "Through the Window." She has been featured on "48 Hours," "20/20," Court TV and the Discovery Channel, and has been interviewed on dozens of radio stations coast to coast. Before becoming a nonfiction writer, Fanning worked in advertising, and she earned more than 70 Addy Awards. She lives in New Braunfels, Texas.

Gone Forever - by Diane Fanning (Paperback)

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.4 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)Weight: 1.35 PoundsNumber of Pages: 340Genre: Mystery + CrimeSub-Genre: ThrillersFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupAuthor: John GrishamAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book It is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Fogletree just became number five. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies--Judge Fogletree and his young secretary. And only one man knows the story. Book Synopsis Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. On paper, Malcolm's situation isn't looking too good these days, but he's got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. The judge's body was found in his remote lakeside cabin. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied. What was in the safe? The FBI would love to know. And Malcolm Bannister would love to tell them. But everything has a price--especially information as explosive as the sequence of events that led to Judge Fawcett's death. And the Racketeer wasn't born yesterday . . . Nothing is as it seems and everything's fair game in this wickedly clever new novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller. Review Quotes Critical Acclaim for the Undisputed Master of the Legal Thriller "With every new book I appreciate John Grisham a little more, for his feisty critiques of the legal system, his compassion for the underdog, and his willingness to strike out in new directions."--Entertainment Weekly"John Grisham is exceptionally good at what he does--indeed, right now in this country, nobody does it better . . . Grisham's books are also smart, imaginative, and funny, populated by complex interesting people, written by a man who is driven not merely by the desire to entertain but also by genuine (if understated) outrage at human cupidity and venality."--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post"The secrets of Grisham's success are no secret at all. There are two of them: his pacing, which ranges from fast to breakneck, and his theme--little guy takes on big conspiracy with the little guy getting the win in the end. --Time"The law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of an entertainment." - Los Angeles Times "John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got in the United States these days."--The New York Times Book Review"Grisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "John Grisham owns the legal thriller."--The Denver Post "John Grisham is not just popular, he is one of the most popular novelists of our time. He is a craftsman and he writes good stories, engaging characters, and clever plots."--The Seattle Times"A mighty narrative talent and an unerring eye for hot-button issues."--Chicago Sun-Times "A legal literary legend."--USA Today About The Author JOHN GRISHAM is the author of twenty-five novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and two novels for young readers. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.

The Racketeer (Hardcover) by John Grisham

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Number of Pages: 384Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: White Collar CrimeFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Thomas Dunne BooksAge Range: AdultAuthor: Scott JamesLanguage: English About the Book "In only 90 seconds, a fire in the Station nightclub killed 100 people and injured hundreds more. It would take nearly 20 years to find out why-and who was really at fault. All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from two giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. But who was at fault? And who would pay? This being Rhode Island, the two questions wouldn't necessarily have the same answer. Within 24 hours the governor of Rhode Island and the local police commissioner were calling for criminal charges, although the investigation had barely begun, no real evidence had been gathered, and many of the victims hadn't been identified. Though many parties could be held responsible, fingers pointed quickly at the two brothers who owned the club. But were they really to blame? Bestselling author and three-time Emmy Award-winning reporter Scott James investigates all the central figures, including the band's manager and lead singer, the fire inspector, the maker of the acoustical foam, as well as the brothers. Drawing on firsthand accounts, interviews with many involved, and court documents, James explores the rush to judgment about what happened that left the victims and their families, whose stories he also tells, desperate for justice. 'Trial By Fire' is the heart-wrenching story of the fire's aftermath because while the fire, one of America's deadliest, lasted fewer than two minutes, the search for the truth would take twenty years"-- Book Synopsis In only 90 seconds, a fire in the Station nightclub killed 100 people and injured hundreds more. It would take nearly 20 years to find out why--and who was really at fault. All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from four giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. But who was at fault? And who would pay? This being Rhode Island, the two questions wouldn't necessarily have the same answer. Within 24 hours the governor of Rhode Island and the local police chief were calling for criminal charges, although the investigation had barely begun, key evidence still needed to be gathered, and many of the victims hadn't been identified. Though many parties could be held responsible, fingers pointed quickly at the two brothers who owned the club. But were they really to blame? Bestselling author and three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Scott James investigates all the central figures, including the band's manager and lead singer, the fire inspector, the maker of the acoustical foam, as well as the brothers. Drawing on firsthand accounts, interviews with many involved, and court documents, James explores the rush to judgment about what happened that left the victims and their families, whose stories he also tells, desperate for justice. Trial By Fire is the heart-wrenching story of the fire's aftermath because while the fire, one of America's deadliest, lasted minutes, the search for the truth would take years. Review Quotes "Scott James examines the harrowing incident by talking to those who were there and directly impacted--augmented with previously unseen documentation that really puts the tragedy into perspective 15 years later."--David Chiu, Forbes"Everything you thought you knew about the [Station nightclub] fire is probably wrong....Trial By Fire details the many misconceptions about the blaze....This is not a book simply about uncovering truths. This is about the people whose lives were changed forever by the blaze."--Mike Kirby, The Sun Chronicle (Attleboro, MA) The author's account is minutely detailed, its technical discussions punctuated by human-interest-story portraits of the victims...An unsettling history of horrific events whose memory is still fresh. --Kirkus Reviews James draws on his knowledge of the state's politics and interviews with the principal players to present a complete, affecting picture of the tragedy's terrible human cost. This is essential reading for true crime fans. --Publisher's Weekly Well-researched and well written... it is well worth reading for true crime fans who are tired of serial killers. --Booklist "Another example of how investigative reporting can upend official truths."--Berkeleyside (CA) When Scott James tells the tragedy of The Station nightclub fire, he does for Rhode Island what Truman Capote did for Kansas. With new evidence and interviews, he traces the horror that left 100 dead and hundreds more scarred for life, and in James' new investigation, none are spared. From the judicial system to the media to the club owners and vendors, each is subjected to a reporter's skepticism, and an insider's unflinching compassion. This is journalism as it is meant to be. --Raj Patel, New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing "Trial by Fire sucks you in faster than flames racing across an oil-based ceiling before pulling you into the wrangling and untangling of the aftermath. Scott James' investigative journalism reads like an Agatha Christie whodunit." --Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Alex Storozynski, author of The Peasant Prince "Trial by Fire is an incredible work of investigative writing and storytelling that thankfully never loses sight of the people at the heart of this awful tragedy. This is a story of community, of those that existed prior to the horrific events at The Station Nightclub and those that were born out of it. James brings the proper amount of compassion, skepticism and nuance to construct a narrative that is as engaging as it is, at times, alarming." --Academy Award winning filmmaker Daniel Lindsay, for best documentary "Undefeated." About the Author SCOTT JAMES is the bestselling author of the novels The Sower and Soma, finalist for the national Lambda Literary Award for debut fiction, under the pen name Kemble Scott. With his weekly eponymous San Francisco column for The New York Times, James found stories that drew coverage from other national and international media, including The New Yorker, The London Times, The Guardian, and many more. He's been honored with three Emmy Awards for his work in television news. He lives in San Francisco, and is co-founder of The Castro Writers' Cooperative, known as The Coop, a co-working space for Bay Area writers.

Trial by Fire - by Scott James (Hardcover)

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Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)Weight: .75 PoundsNumber of Pages: 432Genre: Mystery + CrimeSub-Genre: ThrillersFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Grand Central PublishingAuthor: James PattersonAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book Alex Cross was a rising star in the D.C. police department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. Alex's need for vengeance was placed on hold as he raised his children without their mother. Years later, Alex is making a bold move in his life. Book Synopsis Alex Cross faces the most cunning, psychotic killer of his career in the blockbuster James Patterson novel that inspired a major motion picture.Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, D. C. Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife in front of him. Alex's need for vengeance was placed on hold as he faced another huge challenge: raising his children without their mother.Years later, Alex is making a bold move in his life. He has left the FBI and set up practice as a psychologist once again. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie, and little Alex finally feels like it's in order. He even has a chance at a new love.Then Cross's former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favor. Now Cross must go on the hunt for the most cunning, psychotic killer he has ever faced. . . and it pushes him dangerously close to the breaking point. Review Quotes "Cross's competence and vulnerability make a stark contract with Sullivan's sadistic mutilations and psychological manipulations of his victims."--Publishers Weekly "The story whips by with incredible speed."--Booklist "Another great one from James Patterson. Hold onto your seat!"--ArmchairInterviews.com About The Author James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson's books have sold more than 300 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.

Alex Cross (Paperback) by James Patterson

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.4 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inch (W) x 1.7 Inch (D)Weight: 1.52 PoundsNumber of Pages: 448Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyAuthor: James PattersonAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralLanguage: English Book Synopsis The greatest true-crime story in music history, as only James Patterson can tell it. With the Beatles, John Lennon surpasses his youthful dreams, achieving a level of superstardom that defies classification. "We were the best bloody band there was," he says. "There was nobody to touch us." Nobody except the original nowhere man, Mark David Chapman. Chapman once worshipped his idols from afar--but now harbors grudges against those, like Lennon, whom he feels betrayed him. He's convinced Lennon has misled fans with his message of hope and peace. And Chapman's not staying away any longer. By the summer of 1980, Lennon is recording new music for the first time in years, energized and ready for it to be "(Just Like) Starting Over." He can't wait to show the world what he will do. Neither can Chapman, who quits his security job and boards a flight to New York, a handgun and bullets stowed in his luggage. The greatest true-crime story in music history, as only James Patterson can tell it. Enriched by exclusive interviews with Lennon's friends and associates, including Paul McCartney, The Last Days of John Lennon is the thrilling true story of two men who changed history: One whose indelible songs enliven our world to this day--and the other who ended the beautiful music with five pulls of a trigger. Review Quotes "A first-rate book . . . a winner."--Baltimore Post Examiner "A must read for music fans, true crime aficionados, or anyone looking for a deep, insightful dive into a dark chapter of American history." --Town & Country "Incredibly tense and thriller-like ... I totally recommend it."--Lee Child, #1 bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series About The Author James Patterson is the world's bestselling author. The creator of Alex Cross, he has produced more enduring fictional heroes than any other novelist alive. He lives in Florida with his family. Casey Sherman is a New York Times bestselling author of eleven books including The Finest Hours and Hunting Whitey. He's an award-winning journalist who's written for the Washington Post, Esquire, and the Boston Herald. Dave Wedge is a New York Times bestselling author of four books, including Boston Strong and Hunting Whitey. He's an award-winning journalist who's written for the Boston Herald, Vice, and Esquire.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.3 Inches (H) x 4.5 Inch (W) x .8 Inch (D)Weight: .9 PoundsNumber of Pages: 304Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: Murder, Sexual AssaultFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Sterling Pub Co IncAuthor: Stephen G. Michaud & Hugh AynesworthAge Range: AdultBook theme: Serial KillersLanguage: English Book Synopsis In a series of death row interviews done shortly before his execution, infamous serial killer Ted Bundy gave a third-person "confession" of his many murders. This definitive book on Bundy was recently made into a Netflix documentary. What goes on in the mind of a serial killer? Drawn from more than 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with the handsome, charismastic Bundy, whose grisly killing spree left at least 30 young women dead across seven states between 1974 and 1978, this chilling exposï¿½ provides a shocking self-portrait of one of the most savage sex murderers in history. Speaking eerily in the third person, Bundy reveals appalling details about his crimes, discloses how he attracted his victims, explains how he methodically disguised his acts, and recounts his two daring jailbreaks. Bundy also offers his thoughts on other infamous serial killers, including John Wayne Gacy and Son of Sam. About the Book What goes on in the mind of a serial killer? Drawn from more than 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with the handsome, charismatic Bundy, whose grisly killing spree left at least 30 young women dead, this chilling exposï¿½ provides a shocking self-portrait. Speaking eerily in the third person, Bundy reveals appalling details about his crimes and methods and recounts his two daring jailbreaks. Bundy also offers his thoughts on other infamous serial killers.Here's the book features: Told via a third-person "confession," Bundy details how, and often why, he killed many of his 30-odd victims, including how he lured them and how they were killed.Bundy reveals his motivations, his tactics, and how he evaded law enforcement on a victim-by-victim basis.Much of the book is told is Q & A form, making it detailed a window into the thinking of a serial murder, as explained by one. About The Author Stephen G. Michaud is the author or coauthor of 18 books, including Wanted for Murder; Dark Dreams, an Edgar finalist; and The Only Living Witness, which the New York Daily News called one of the ten best true crime books ever written. Hugh Aynesworth is a veteran journalist who witnessed the assassinations of both JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for his work reporting on another mass murderer, Henry Lee Lucas. He has coauthored seven books with Michaud.

Ted Bundy Conversations With a Killer : The…

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Number of Pages: 310Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: GeneralFormat: PaperbackPublisher: BookbabyAge Range: AdultAuthor: D B McCreaLanguage: English About the Book American law enforcement has lost its way, particularly after 9/11, and its trajectory is headed in the wrong direction. Some notable observers have even concluded that the police may have already reached the point of no return; where reformation of long-standing police practices detrimental to community relations is no longer feasible. Unless something changes very soon, the United States of America will almost certainly become a quasi-police state. In some ways, it already has. This book is my way, my ONLY way, of fighting back against the looming tyranny. Book Synopsis American law enforcement has lost its way, particularly after 9/11, and its trajectory is headed in the wrong direction. Some notable observers have even concluded that the police have already reached the point of no return; where reformation of long-standing police practices detrimental to community relations is no longer feasible. Unless something changes very soon, the United States of America will almost certainly become a quasi-police state. In some ways, it already has. This book is my way, my ONLY way, of fighting back against the looming tyranny. About the Author Born in Philadelphia, PA in 1960, then took Horace Greeley's advice and moved west, to Aberdeen, South Dakota, in 1968. Attended May Overby Grade School, Simmons Jr. High, and Aberdeen Central High School before attending and graduating from South Dakota State University (with a 4-year degree in wildlife science) in 1981. First hired as a state game warden in 1983, stationed in Flandreau (Moody County) in east-central South Dakota. The Moody County warden district was roughly 500 sq. miles in size and had been without a warden living within its boundaries for 24 years prior to my arrival, at the young age of just 23. During my career, I (further) served as: game warden in Sioux Falls; state law enforcement training coordinator; administrator for the statewide Turn in Poachers Program; firearm and use of deadly force instructor; head range master; policy and procedure analyst; registered lobbyist and chief legislative liaison for the Division of Wildlife's law enforcement program; until serving the last seven years of my accumulated 25-year career as the state's asst. chief game warden in Pierre, SD. After my retirement in 2006, I worked in the private security industry for the next seven years, eventually retiring full-time to write books in the beautiful state of Maine.

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Number of Pages: 200Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Plan B RecordsAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralAuthor: Andalusia K Soloff & Marco Parra & Anahí H GalavizLanguage: Spanish About the Book "A graphic novel about the 43 young people who disappeared in Ayotzinapa. A tale about what happened from the heart of Guerrero, Mexico, with a first-person perspective of those who lived through this tragedy, Ernesto and Uriel, two survivors who dodged bullets during the attack at Iguala; Margarito and María de Jesús, two parents who, while searching for their children, went from being a farmer and a housewife to being social leaders; and a journalist, Andalusia, who left her urban life behind in order to follow the case. In the middle of dangerous situations--during the siege of the school by federal police and helicopters, the popular boycott of state elections, or when hooded students threw Molotov cocktails at government buildings--the 60 first-hand, previously unpublished interviews that make up this novel were attained"-- Book Synopsis 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 actual de México con testimonios de los jóvenes que esquivaron las balas, los padres y madres que buscan sus hijos, y las periodistas valientes que documentan el caso. Esta desaparición masiva reveló las fallas de la supuesta "guerra contra el narco" la lucha en defensa de la educación publica y cómo miles de personas en el mundo se unieron al lema, Vivos se los llevaron, Vivos los queremos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Taken Alive: The Search for the 43 Ayotzinapa Students In a crime that stunned the world, Mexican police kidnapped 43 student teachers from the Ayotzinapa college. There is still no trace of them. This graphic novel illustrates this cruel moment in Mexican history through first person testimonies by the young men who dodged bullets, the parents who tirelessly search for their missing children and the brave journalists who report on the case. Ayotzinapa is an open wound where reality surpasses fiction. This mass disappearance revealed the failures of the war on drugs and the ongoing battle for public education while inspiring thousands of people across the globe to demand that the students who were TAKEN ALIVE, be brought home, ALIVE. About the Author ANDALUSIA KNOLL es considerada una referente del periodismo mexicano por sus publicaciones en inglés y español, es corresponsal para los medios NBC, BBC, HBO, Vice News, Al Jazeera, NPR, entre otros.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6 Inch (W) x 1.4 Inch (D)Weight: 1.55 PoundsEdition: RevisedNumber of Pages: 336Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: United StatesFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Lone Star BooksAuthor: Mike CoxAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book They were men who could not be stampeded, said the late Colonel Homer Garrison Jr. of the men who wore the badge of the Texas Rangers. An important part of Texas history, these few good men were distinguished, unique even among themselves, and soon, even mythical. Texas Ranger Tales is a collection of legendary Texas Ranger stories, from new takes on the famous tales to fresh stories. Book Synopsis They were men who could not be stampeded, said the late Colonel Homer Garrison Jr. of the men who wore the badge of the Texas Rangers. Colonist Stephen F. Austin, during the earliest days of Anglo settlement in Texas, wrote that he would employ 10 men to act as 'rangers' for the common defense... and thus, the famous Texas Rangers came into being. An important part of Texas history, these few good men were distinguished, unique even among themselves, and soon, even mythical. The myths and traditions surrounding the Rangers have endured and evolved. Today the Texas Rangers are among the most respected law enforcement agencies in the world. Texas Ranger Tales is a collection of legendary Texas Ranger stories, from new takes on the famous tales to fresh stories few, if any, have heard. From the Back Cover Stories that need tellin'..... They were men who could not be stampeded, said the late Colonel Homer Garrison Jr. of the men who wore the badge of the Texas Rangers. Colonist Stephen F. Austin, during the earliest days of Anglo settlement in Texas, wrote that he would employ 10 men to act as 'rangers' for the common defense... and thus, the famous Texas Rangers came into being. An important part of Texas history, these few good men were distinguished, unique even among themselves, and soon, even mythical. The myths and traditions surrounding the Rangers have endured and evolved. Today the Texas Rangers are among the most respected law enforcement agencies in the world. Texas Ranger Tales offers a collection of legendary Texas Ranger stories, from new takes on the famous tales to fresh stories few, if any, have heard. Mike Cox is a freelance writer, speaker, and author of numerous Texas- related books and magazine articles. Cox spent several years as Chief of Media Relations for the Texas Department of Public Relations and served as the department's principal spokesman during several national and international law enforcement crisis situations. About The Author Mike Cox is a freelance writer, speaker, and author of numerous Texas- related books and magazine articles. Cox spent several years as Chief of Media Relations for the Texas Department of Public Relations and served as the department's principal spokesman during several national and international law enforcement crisis situations.

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Number of Pages: 286Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Thomas Dunne BooksAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralAuthor: Rod Englert & Kathy PasseroLanguage: English Book Synopsis Blood Secrets reveals how forensic experts read the story of a murder told in the traces of blood left behind, providing crucial evidence that has helped convict criminals who might have otherwise walked free.When Rod Englert began his career in law enforcement, virtually no police force in the world knew how to correctly examine blood spatter. He spent years studying and testing how blood behaves, pioneering a vital new tool that is now a part of any criminal investigation. In Blood Secrets he demonstrates how detectives and forensic experts use blood-spatter analysis to solve real cases.How can the police tell what type of murder weapon was used when the body is missing and all that's left is a trace of gore? How can they tell if a victim was moved, or which person in a room fired the fatal shot? Englert lays out what he's learned on a variety of intriguing cases, from puzzling murders in tiny, remote towns to the highest-profile celebrity trials--including O. J. Simpson, Robert Blake, and many others.Filled with fascinating details of forensic science and real-life CSI stories, Blood Secrets shows the techniques and tools used to decipher blood spatter's code. Review Quotes "This is one great read, and I hope for more. . . . keeps the reader engaged and interested in every turn of the 268 page hardcover." --The Portlander"A fascinating collection of human stories and emerging science that includes discussions of blood basics. . . . If crime novels and shows like "CSI" are in your blood, Englert's book is a must-read." --The Sunday Oregonian"Providing that one person's bloody mess is another's treasure trove of clues, blood spatter analyst Englert takes readers on a fascinating journey into the study of crimson drops. . . . With the help of reporter Passero, Englert deftly balances real-life examples and detailed scientific analysis, giving readers a richer understanding of this developing avenue of forensic science." --Publishers Weekly"Has backgrounding value for true-crime and crime-fiction fans in its revelatory detail about the particular component of criminal investigation on which it focuses." --Booklist"In this engaging and readable book, Englert includes many different types of cases, some involving celebrities, some with a vexing mystery, and some from long ago, including a bullet trajectory analysis from the 1863 battle at Gettysburg. . . . Gives readers a human side as much as an educational source-- there's something for true crime readers as well as for experts in the field." --Writers Forensics Blog"[Englert] has transcended his own distress and sorrow at man's (or woman's) inhumanity to man to offer remarkable insights into what the dead can tell us, even after they can no longer speak. Blood Secrets is a fascinating book." --Ann Rule, from the foreword"From the crime scene to the courtroom Rod Englert bridges the myriad of gaps between fantasy and forensic reality. This book is packed with sensational murder cases articulated in such a manner that it will have you reading voraciously and wanting more." --Detective Tom Lange, author of Evidence Dismissed: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O.J. Simpson"Rod Englert is the ideal forensics professional. Blood Secrets shares many special insights and lessons learned from his long and storied law-enforcement career. The reader will appreciate his honesty and conviction as he weaves his way through the world of forensics and criminal investigation." --Dayle Hinman, criminal profiler, host of Body of Evidence: from the case files of Dayle Hinman About the Author ROD ENGLERT, a fourty-four-year veteran of law enforcement, is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, where he was president of the 159th Session. He is a member of the International Homicide Investigator's Association; a past president of the Association of Crime Scene Reconstructionists; and a past president of the International Association of Blood Pattern Analysts. He lives in Oregon. KATHY PASSERO is an award-winning writer and reporter and is the author of five non-fiction books on a variety of subjects.

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Number of Pages: 384Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Harper PaperbacksAge Range: AdultBook theme: Serial KillersAuthor: Gary L Stewart & Susan MustafaLanguage: English Book Synopsis An explosive and historic New York Times bestseller of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious-and still at large-serial killers in America--THE BASIS FOR A 4-PART FX DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES."I promise that you've never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be prepared to read non-stop; this really is a book you won't be able to put down." --Jeff Guinn, author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Soon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. It was a quest that would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan D. Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long hunt for his father following a complex trail of startling twists and connections. Combing through government records and news reports and through conversations with his father's relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues, including forensic evidence, identifying his father as one of the most infamous and still-wanted serial killers in American history. From the Back Cover When Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father at the age of thirty-nine, he never imagined his quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself.Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long hunt. While combing through government records and news reports and tracking down relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues--including forensic evidence--that conclusively identifies his father as the Zodiac Killer, one of the most notorious and elusive serial murderers in history. At last, all the questions that have surrounded the case for almost fifty years are answered in this riveting narrative--a singular work of true crime at its finest as well as a sensational and powerful memoir. Review Quotes "Convincing....The author painstakingly pieces together over a decade's worth of personal research and verbatim interviews with family, friends and law enforcement, then goes further to scrutinize and compare handwriting samples, police sketches and photographs, all bearing uncanny resemblances to recorded documentation from the Zodiac files."--Kirkus"I promise that you've never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be prepared to read non-stop; this really is a book you won't be able to put down."--Jeff Guinn, author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.4 Inches (H) x 6.2 Inch (W) x 1.9 Inch (D)Weight: 1.85 PoundsNumber of Pages: 496Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: Organized CrimeFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Doubleday BooksAuthor: Jeffrey ToobinAge Range: AdultLanguage: EnglishFrom CNN chief legal analyst and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, a real-life legal thriller about the prosecutors and congressional investigators pursuing the truth about Donald Trump's complicity in several crimes--and why they failed. Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his national security advisor pled guilty to others. Several Russian spies were indicted in absentia. Career intelligence agents and military officers were alarmed enough by the president's actions that they alerted senior government officials and ignited the impeachment process. Yet despite all this, a years-long inquiry led by special counsel Robert Mueller, and the third impeachment of a president in American history, Donald Trump survived to run for re-election. Why? Jeffrey Toobin's highly entertaining definitive account of the Mueller investigation and the impeachment of the president takes readers behind the scenes of the epic legal and political struggle to call Trump to account for his misdeeds. With his superb storytelling and analytic skills Toobin recounts all the mind-boggling twists and turns in the case--Trump's son met with a Russian operative promising Kremlin support! Trump paid a porn star $130,000 to hush up an affair! Rudy Giuliani and a pair of shady Ukrainian-American businessmen got the Justice Department to look at Russian-created conspiracy theories! Toobin shows how Trump's canny lawyers used Mueller's famous integrity against him, and how Trump's bullying and bluster cowed Republican legislators into ignoring the clear evidence of the impeachment hearings. Based on dozens of interviews with prosecutors in Mueller's office, Trump's legal team, Congressional investigators, White House staffers, and several of the key players, including some who are now in prison, True Crimes and Misdemeanors is a revelatory narrative that makes sense of the seemingly endless chaos of the Trump years. Filled with never-before-reported details of the high-stakes legal battles and political machinations, the book weaves a tale of a rogue president guilty of historic misconduct, and how he got away with it.

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Number of Pages: 288Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Simon & SchusterAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralAuthor: Michael Baden & Marion RoachLanguage: English About the Book Considered one of the world's leading pathologists, Baden is host of the popular program "Autopsy" on HBO. Along with award-winning writer Roach, Dr. Baden, takes readers on a you-are-there tour of the morgue to demonstrate how the advances in forensic science are helping to solve crimes as never before. Book Synopsis For most people, the forensic sciences are something reported on the news when a crime is solved through DNA evidence, or used as a plot twist for television shows. But behind the crime-scene tape and the doors of the morgue is a world never seen by the public. Now famed pathologist and medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden and award-winning writer Marion Roach take readers into the laboratory, above the autopsy table, onto the witness stand and out in the field to show how advances in forensic science can solve crucial questions in a criminal case, often with startling accuracy. Baden and Roach reveal how a key clue to the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson was lost when her body was moved to the morgue, and why the JonBenet Ramsey case can never be solved. They show how no clue is too small to be analyzed and no case too old to be reopened. Full of behind-the-scenes drama and surprising revelations, Dead Reckoning is a fascinating look at how forensic science is changing the way we convict the guilty and free the innocent. Review Quotes Ann Rule author of "And Never Let Her Go" and "The Stranger Beside Me" Few readers know what a medical examiner's world is really like. Now they will. The secrets of the dead and the way Dr. Baden discovers them taught me so much that I never knew -- even after decades as a true crime writer. "Dead Reckoning" is like no other book you've ever read. Intensely readable! Marvelous!Jeffrey Toobin author of "Too Close to Call: The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election" Yuck! Gross! But, especially, gee whiz! Michael Baden can make dead bodies say more than most talk-show guests. "Dead Reckoning" is a completely fascinating study of modern pathology, and Baden-on-autopsies never fails to astonish, educate, and (I swear) entertain.Kathy Reichs author of "Deadly Decisions" Candid as a Y-incision. "Dead Reckoning" describes forensic science in vivid, living color.Patricia Cornwell If you've ever wanted to explore the mind of a brilliant chief medical examiner and wander through the secret rooms of the morgue with their gleaming stainless steel tables and tragic tales of naked truth, this is your chance. Dr. Baden is honest, relentless -- simply one of the best!Tracy Kidder This book is about the work of one of our era's foremost forensic pathologists. It is a fascinating window into the world of the medical detective.Vernon J. Geberth, M.S., M.P.S. author of "Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques" (3rd edition) "Dead Reckoning" is a must-read for anyone who has a passionate enthusiasm for forensic science and its application to the investigative process. A captivating read.William Kennedy Marion Roach and Michael Baden have written a genuinely fascinating and entertaining book of tales that reveal just how garrulous the dead really are. This is the most fun you'll ever have in the morgue. About the Author Michael Baden, M.D., was the chief medical examiner of New York City for more than twenty-five years. He is a forensic pathologist and currently codirector of the New York State Police Medico-Legal Investigation Unit. He is the host of the popular HBO series Autopsy and is the author of a previous book, Unnatural Death. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.22 Inches (H) x 5.63 Inches (W) x 1.26 Inches (D)Weight: .91 PoundsNumber of Pages: 464Genre: Mystery + CrimeSub-Genre: Mystery & DetectiveSeries Title: Cormoran Strike Series , #1Format: PaperbackPublisher: Little, Brown and CompanyAuthor: Robert GalbraithAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book "After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man"--Provided by publisher. Book Synopsis Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry -- known to her friends as the Cuckoo -- famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this. Review Quotes [Rowling's] literary gift is on display in this work. She crafts an entertaining story [and] comes up with an ending that I'll admit I was surprised by. . . . A fun read, with a main character you can care about and one you'll want to see again in other adventures.--Washington Post An extravagant, alien, fascinating world for its characters to explore...great pleasures.--Slate.com One of the books of the year.--USA Today Robert Galbraith has written a highly entertaining book... Even better, he has introduced an appealing protagonist in Strike, who's sure to be the star of many sequels to come.... its narrative moves forward with propulsive suspense. More important, Strike and his now-permanent assistant, Robin (playing Nora to his Nick, Salander to his Blomkvist), have become a team--a team whose further adventures the reader cannot help eagerly awaiting.--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Rowling switches genres seamlessly...a gritty, absorbing tale.--People (3.5 out of 4 stars) About The Author Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potterseries and The Casual Vacancy.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6 Inch (W) x 1 Inch (D)Weight: 1 PoundsNumber of Pages: 384Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Steerforth PressAuthor: Charles BrandtAge Range: AdultFeatured book lists: New York Times BestsellersBook theme: GeneralLanguage: English About the Book Originally published as I Heard You Paint Houses, Sheeran's true story will be perhaps the last great Mafia movie, and the case can now be closed on Jimmy Hoffa, perhaps the greatest murder mystery in American history. Book Synopsis ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES New York Times Bestseller Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award(R) winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award(R) winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award(R) nominee Harvey Keitel, and written by Academy Award(R) winner Steven Zaillian. The Irishman "gives new meaning to the term 'guilty pleasure.''' -- Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies, in The New York Times Book Review "Told with such economy and chilling force as to make The Sopranos suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical." --New York Daily News "A terrific read." --Kansas City Star Includes an Epilogue and a Conclusion that detail substantial post-publication corroboration of Frank Sheeran's revelations about the killings of Jimmy Hoffa, Joey Gallo and JFK. The Irishman is an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century. Spanning decades, Sheeran's story chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa, and it offers a monumental journey through the hidden corridors of organized crime: its inner workings, rivalries and connections to mainstream politics. Sheeran would rise to a position of such prominence that in a RICO suit against The Commission of La Cosa Nostra, the US Government would name him as one of only two non-Italians in conspiracy with the Commission. Sheeran is listed alongside the likes of Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano and Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and Brandt turned Sheeran's story into a page-turning true crime classic. Review Quotes 'The Irishman' named Best Film By National Board Of Review and New York Film Critics Circle "Sheeran's confession that he killed Hoffa in the manner described in the book is supported by the forensic evidence, is entirely credible, and solves the Hoffa mystery." -- Michael Baden M.D., former Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York "I'm fully convinced - now - that Sheeran was in fact the man who did the deed. And I'm impressed, too, by the book's readability and by its factual accuracy in all areas on which I'm qualified to pass judgment. Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa mystery." --Professor Arthur Sloane, author of Hoffa "Sometimes you can believe everything you read." -- William "Big Billy" D'Elia, successor to Russell Bufalino as godfather of the Bufalino crime family "My source in the Bufalino family . . . read I Heard You Paint Houses. All the Bufalino guys read it. This old-time Bufalino guy told me he was shocked. He couldn't believe Sheeran confessed all that stuff to [Brandt]. It's all true." -- New York Police Department organized crime homicide detective Joseph Coffey "If the made men Brandt rubbed up against during his five years with Sheeran suspected what Sheeran was confessing to him on tape, they'd both have been promptly whacked." -- Joe Pistone, retired FBI deep undercover agent and the author of Donnie Brasco I Heard You Paint Houses "gives new meaning to the term 'guilty pleasure.' It promises to clear up the mystery of Hoffa's demise, and appears to do so. Sheeran not only admits he was in on the hit, he says it was he who actually pulled the trigger -- and not just on Hoffa but on dozens of other victims, including many, he alleges, dispatched on Hoffa's orders. This last seems likely to spur a reappraisal of Hoffa's career. . . . Sheeran is Old School, and his tale is admirably free of self-pity and self-aggrandizement. Without getting all Oprah about it, he admits he was an alcoholic and a lousy father. His business was killing people, and . . . he did it with little muss, fuss or introspection.'' -- Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies, in The New York Times Book Review"One of Sheeran's virtues was his gift as a storyteller; one of his flaws was his tendency to murder, in mobster jargon, 'to paint houses.' . . . Although he professed his loyalty to Hoffa - he said on one occasion, 'I'll be a Hoffa man 'til they pat my face with a shovel and steal my cufflinks' - Sheeran acknowledged that he was the one who killed the Teamsters boss. . . . On July 30, 1975, Hoffa disappeared. Sheeran explains how he did it, in prose reminiscent of the best gangster films." -- Associated Press "I Heard You Paint Houses is the best Mafia book I ever read, and believe me, I read them all. It's so authentic." -- Steven Van Zandt, featured actor, "Silvio Dante," in The Sopranos and musician in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band "Told with such economy and chilling force as to make The Sopranos suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical." --New York Daily News "Is Sheeran believable? Very . . . and 'I Heard You Paint Houses' is a very enjoyable book." --Trial Magazine "A page-turning account of one man's descent into the mob." --Delaware News Journal "A terrific read." --Kansas City Star About The Author Born and raised in New York City, Charles Brandt is a former junior high school English teacher, welfare investigator in East Harlem, homicide prosecutor, and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware. In private practice since 1976, Brandt has been president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association and the Delaware Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has been named by his peers to both Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers in Delaware. He is a frequent speaker on cross-examination and interrogation techniques for reluctant witnesses. Brandt is the author of a novel based on major cases he solved through interrogation, The Right to Remain Silent. He is also the co-author of Joe Pistone's Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business and of Lin DeVecchio's We're Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-Up of a Mafia Crime Buster.

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Number of Pages: 328Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: Con Artists, Hoaxes & DeceptionsFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Skyhorse PublishingAge Range: AdultAuthor: David L LewisLanguage: English About the Book When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: "You know you're going to be fired for this, don't you?" "I know," Dr. Lewis replied, "I just hope to stay out of prison." Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis's commentary in Nature, titled "EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics." Three years later, and thirty years after Dr. Lewis began working at EPA, he was back in Washington to receive a Science Achievement Award from Administrator Carol Browner for his second article in Nature. By then, EPA had transferred Dr. Lewis to the University of Georgia to await termination--the Agency's only scientist to ever be lead author on papers published in Nature and Lancet. The government hires scientists to support its policies; industry hires them to support its business; and universities hire them to bring in grants that are handed out to support government policies and industry practices. Organizations dealing with scientific integrity are designed only to weed out those who commit fraud behind the backs of the institutions where they work. The greatest threat of all is the purposeful corruption of the scientific enterprise by the institutions themselves. The science they create is often only an illusion, designed to deceive; and the scientists they destroy to protect that illusion are often our best. This book is about both, beginning with Dr. Lewis's experience, and ending with the story of Dr. Andrew Wakefield. About the Author David L. Lewis, PhD, changed dentistry to a heat-sterilization standard worldwide in 1992 when his research at the University of Georgia showed that germicides recommended by the CDC and FDA could not prevent common dental devices from causing sporadic cases of HIV infection. As a veteran microbiologist in EPA's Office of Research & Development, his medical and environmental research and commentaries on the politics of science have been covered in news articles and documentaries by every major media outlet, from Reader's Digest to National Geographic.

Science for Sale - by David L Lewis…

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Number of Pages: 752Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: Organized CrimeFormat: PaperbackPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyAge Range: AdultAuthor: Max Allan CollinsLanguage: English Book Synopsis The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago-a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. Now featuring a new preface, plus 115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago.A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year"Gripping. ... Reads like a novel." --Chicago "Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness. --Matthew PearlIn 1929, thirty-year-old gangster Al Capone ruled both Chicago's underworld and its corrupt government. To a public who scorned Prohibition, Scarface became a local hero and national celebrity. But after the brutal St. Valentine's Day Massacre transformed Capone into Public Enemy Number One, the federal government found an unlikely new hero in a twenty-seven-year-old Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness. Chosen to head the legendary law enforcement team known as The Untouchables, Ness set his sights on crippling Capone's criminal empire.Today, no underworld figure is more iconic than Al Capone and no lawman as renowned as Eliot Ness. Yet in 2016 the Chicago Tribune wrote, Al Capone still awaits the biographer who can fully untangle, and balance, the complexities of his life, while revisionist historians have continued to misrepresent Ness and his remarkable career.Enter Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz, a unique and vibrant writing team combining the narrative skill of a master novelist with the scholarly rigor of a trained historian. Collins is the New York Times bestselling author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition. Schwartz is a rising-star historian whose work anticipated the fake-news phenomenon.Scarface and the Untouchable draws upon decades of primary source research--including the personal papers of Ness and his associates, newly released federal files, and long-forgotten crime magazines containing interviews with the gangsters and G-men themselves. Collins and Schwartz have recaptured a bygone bullet-ridden era while uncovering the previously unrevealed truth behind Scarface's downfall. Together they have crafted the definitive work on Capone, Ness, and the battle for Chicago. From the Back Cover A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFeaturing a new preface and bonus materialThe definitive history of gangster-era Chicago--a landmark work that is as riveting as a thrillerIn 1929, thirty-year-old gangster Al Capone ruled both Chicago's underworld and its corrupt government. To a public who scorned Prohibition, "Scarface" became a local hero and national celebrity. But after the brutal St. Valentine's Day Massacre transformed Capone into "Public Enemy Number One," the federal government found an unlikely new hero in a twenty-seven-year-old Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness. Chosen to head the legendary law enforcement team known as "The Untouchables," Ness set his sights on crippling Capone's criminal empire.Today, no underworld figure is more iconic than Al Capone and no lawman as renowned as Eliot Ness. In Scarface and the Untouchable, Max Allan Collins, the New York Times bestselling author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, and A. Brad Schwartz, a rising-star historian whose work anticipated the fake news phenomenon, draw upon decades of primary source research, including the personal papers of Ness and his associates, newly released federal files, and long-forgotten crime magazines containing interviews with the gangsters and G-men themselves.Recapturing a bygone bullet-ridden era while uncovering the previously unrevealed truth behind Scarface's downfall, Collins and Schwartz have crafted the definitive work on Capone, Ness, and the battle for Chicago. Review Quotes "Scarface and the Untouchable is a page-turning history that overwhelms the past retellings of the pre-eminent battle against organized crime. An excellent book that is history, biography, and true crime."--San Francisco Book Review"An informed and valuable addition to the numerous books about Capone and Ness."--Publishers Weekly"Compelling. ... A very good book. ... A narrative that reads with force and style."--Chicago Tribune"Epic. ... A good read."--New York Journal of Books"Succeed[s] admirably. ... Careful research combined with vivid pulp style."--Booklist"The scholarship displayed in Scarface and the Untouchable is extraordinary, probing deeply into the activities, interrelationships and mindsets of the many principal characters."--BookPage"Vivid. ... A deep and detailed dive into a staple of American popular mythology."--Washington Independent Review of Books"A page-turner, as gripping as any novel. ... A vividly detailed chronicle. ... What a great saga this is."--LEONARD MALTIN"Entrancing. ... Will keep you enthralled, reading for hours. ... [A] monumental volume, including the discovery of considerable previously unknown information."--Lansing State Journal"Essential. ... A superior example [of true crime]. ... When the subject is this fascinating and the telling so expertly done, it's hard to resist."--Seattle Times"A book full of fascinating details... [and] made-for-movies scenes."--The Star-Ledger"Scarface and the Untouchable reads like fiction. But it's real. Collins and Schwartz bring to life an era of American which will never be replicated."--OSCAR B. GOODMAN, legendary "mob attorney" and three-term mayor of Las Vegas"Scarface and the Untouchable is an extraordinary achievement. The writing is riveting, the research impeccable--including material never published before--and the history of a city and a country teetering on the brink of total lawlessness is a sober warning for our own age."--SARA PARETSKY, author of the bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels"Scarface and the Untouchable revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness. An indispensable exercise in Prohibition-era excitement."--MATTHEW PEARL, author of The Dante Club and The Dante Chamber"A gripping take on Chicago's past that reads like a novel."--Chicago Magazine"Provide[s] a definitive account of Capone and Ness's linked destinies. ... Lively and masterfully written... with the scholarship to back it up."--CrimeReads"Readers will enjoy this dual biography, which reads like a popular novel, and will learn that Capone could be a cold-blooded killer."--Lansing City Pulse

Scarface and the Untouchable - by Max Allan…

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x 1.5 Inches (D)Weight: 1.2 PoundsNumber of Pages: 523Genre: Mystery + CrimeSub-Genre: Action + Thrillers, SuspenseSeries Title: The Bowers FilesFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Fleming H. Revell CoAuthor: Steven JamesAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book A congressman's daughter is found dead as her killers launch a spree of perfect murders in the Northeast. With nothing to link the crimes to each other, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers faces his most difficult case yet--even as his personal life begins to crumble around him. Book Synopsis FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers's cutting-edge 21st-century geospatial investigative techniques and impeccable logic have helped him track some of the country's most grisly killers. But those skills are pushed to the limit in this new installment of the highly-acclaimed, award-winning The Bowers Files series.This time it's a congressman's daughter who is found dead even as her killers launch a spree of perfect murders in the Northeast. With nothing to link the crimes to each other, Agent Bowers faces his most difficult case yet--even as his personal life begins to crumble around him.Known for his intricately woven, masterfully plotted novels of high-octane action and spine-tingling suspense, Steven James delivers once again. The Bishop is a gripping, adrenaline-laced story for readers who are tired of timid thrillers. Strap on your seatbelt and get ready for a wild ride. The game is on. From the Back Cover The game is on.FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers's cutting-edge skills are about to be pushed to the limit. When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Washington DC, her killers continue a spree of perfect crimes in the Northeast. But with nothing to link them to each other, Agent Bowers faces his most difficult case yet--even as his personal life begins to crumble around him.The Bishop is a gripping, adrenaline-laced story for readers who are tired of timid thrillers. Strap on your seat belt and get ready for a wild ride. What everybody is talking about"Be warned--James's books are not for the timid."--Mitch Galin, producer, Stephen King's The Stand"Impossible to put down."--Kathleen Antrim, bestselling author, Capital Offense"An intense, intelligent thriller. . . . Riveting!"--Karen Dionne, International Thriller Writers website chair"James tells stories that grab you by the collar and don't let go."--Norb Vonnegut, author, Top Producer"Absolutely brilliant."--Jeff Buick, bestselling author, Bloodline"As thrilling and unexpected as any five-star action movie."--John Tinker, Emmy-award-winning writerCritically acclaimed author Steven James has written more than twenty books, including the bestselling thriller series The Bowers Files. One of the nation's most innovative storytellers, Steven developed his skill as a performer at East Tennessee State University (MA in storytelling). He lives in Tennessee with his wife and three daughters. About The Author Critically acclaimed author Steven James has written more than thirty books, including Story, A Heart Exposed, and the bestselling Patrick Bowers thriller series. He is considered one of the nation's most innovative storytellers and versatile authors, and is a contributing editor to Writer's Digest. Steven lives in Tennessee with his wife and three daughters.

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Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: HardcoverPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralAuthor: Charlotte GrayLanguage: English Book Synopsis A gold mine. A millionaire. An island paradise. An unsolved murder. A missing fortune. The story of the infamous Sir Harry Oakes as only Charlotte Gray can tell it On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold mining tycoon, philanthropist and richest man in the Empire, was murdered. The news of his death surged across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake, in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder became celebrated as the crime of the century. The layers of mystery deepened as the involvement of Oakes' son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny, came quickly to be questioned, as did the odd machinations of the Governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. Despite a sensational trial, no murderer was ever convicted. Rumours were unrelenting about Oakes' missing fortune, and fascination with the Oakes story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores, for the first time, the life of the man behind the scandal, a man who was both reviled and admired - from his early, hardscrabble days of mining exploration, to his explosion of wealth, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial in the remote colonial island streets, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, who, despite his wealth and position, was never able to have justice. Review Quotes A great story, well told by Charlotte [Gray]. She has an easy conversational style which makes reading her work a great pleasure. This is an engrossing and very readable book.--Millstone NewsAn entertaining and satisfying read.--Quill & QuireGray brings fresh eyes, deep research and her trademark page-turning, plot- and character-driven style to this fascinating history of a scandal that rocked the postwar world.--Globe and Mail (Toronto)Gray is Canada's most accomplished popular historian. . . .Her deeply researched, brilliantly told account, with its motley cast of characters and exotic locale, is an engrossing must-read.--Ellery QueenYou'll likely feel guilty for enjoying this true-crime account about an unsolved murder, but when a story is told with fulsome information and explained well, it's hard not to smile. When it's written by historian and biographer Charlotte Gray, you'll smile more.--Winnipeg Free PressFINALIST FOR THE ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FOR NONFICTION--No Source

Murdered Midas - by Charlotte Gray (Hardcover)

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Red Alert: An NYPD Red Mystery (Hardcover) (James…

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.3 Inches (H) x 6.4 Inch (W) x 1.4 Inch (D)Weight: 1.5 PoundsNumber of Pages: 464Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: Sexual AssaultFormat: HardcoverPublisher: LITTLE BROWN ADULTAuthor: Farrow RonanAge Range: AdultFeatured book lists: New York Times BestsellersLanguage: English Book Synopsis In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance they could not explain -- until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood to Washington and beyond.This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement. Both a spy thriller and a meticulous work of investigative journalism, Catch and Kill breaks devastating new stories about the rampant abuse of power and sheds far-reaching light on investigations that shook our culture.Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in AutobiographyIndie Bound #1 BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerWall Street Journal Bestseller Review Quotes Time Must-Read Book of 2019 NPR Favorite Book of 2019Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2019Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2019Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2019Fortune Best Business Book of 2019Bloomberg Best Book of the YearTelegraph (U.K) Best Book of 2019Kirkus Best Nonfiction Books of 2019A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2019Library Journal Best Social Science Book of 2019One of USA Today's Best Books to Read While Stuck at Home Absorbing...The behavior documented in Catch and Kill is obviously and profoundly distressing. ... But there are some hopeful threads, too.--Jennifer Szalai, New York Times An engrossing, emotive, often drily funny binge... a humdinger of a story... a nuanced appreciation of how women are smeared and discredited...combines righteous anger, gossip and comedy.--The Times (U.K.) Darkly funny and poignant...a winning account of how it feels to be at the centre of the biggest story in the world. It is also, of course, a breathtakingly dogged piece of reporting, in the face of extraordinary opposition.--EmmaBrockes, The Guardian (U.K.) Explosive.--KateAurthur, Variety Meticulous and devastating...part All the President's Men, part spy thriller.--Rasha Madkour, Associated Press Must read: Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow. How #sexualabuse stories got suppressed, and how deep-diving, fact-gathering reporting blew the lid off, despite threats, intimidation, and cronymongering at the top. Chilling!--Margaret Atwood Read this book...Farrow's greatest success was to listen, believe and act, even at his own peril.--MariaL. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times Reads like a thriller...The reveal in Catch and Kill is not that there are corrupt people; it's that corrupt people are in control of our media, politics, and entertainment and that, in fact, many of them remain in control.--RebeccaTraister, The Cut Riveting and often shocking . . . Catch and Kill has gone off like a hand grenade in the world of New York media . . . compelling--Sunday Times (U.K.) The book no one can stop talking about.--Bustle The year's best spy thriller is stranger - and more horrifying - than fiction...He weaves a breathless narrative as compelling as it is disturbing...bracingly exposes the rot that's persisted across elite American institutions for decades.--DavidCanfield, Entertainment Weekly Catch and Killis an important, frightening book...it's also a propulsive, cinematic page-turner --Erin Keane, Salon Catch and Kill reads like a thriller, prime to be adapted for the screen.--Sophie McBain, New Statesman Catch and Kill is a rip-roaring account of the years spent chasing the Weinstein story and its spin-offs. It's a deep dive into the world of US media, Hollywood pay-outs, Donald Trump's eccentric ways, spies and spineless editors. And is it gripping...dripping with jaw-dropping revelations and moments of astonishing pathos.--Harriet Alexander, The Telegraph (U.K) Catch and Kill is exhaustively reported...and compulsively readable, with nearly every page revealing a provocative detail about a household name in media or entertainment.--EJDickson, Rolling Stone Catch and Kill is literally jaw-dropping-a shocking, meticulous record of the vast machinery with which moral bankruptcy protects itself, and of the arsenal of weapons available to colossally powerful men whose careers depend on silencing those seeking accountability and truth...This book reveals damningly widespread corruption, complacency, and cowardice, and against it, the blazing courage of the women who spoke out-it's a blueprint of a hideous world, and a foundational building block of a new one.--JiaTolentino, author of Trick Mirror Catch and Kill is proof that Ronan Farrow is the best kind of reporter: thorough, honest, and compassionate...it digs deep and Farrow is never afraid to tell the truth no matter where the sparks may fly.--James Patterson Catch and Kill is the latest reminder of the extent to which men in power in America can protect one another, and the consequences when that protection succeeds.--Anna North, Vox Catch and Kill is, in many ways, horrifyingly grim - a nightmare confirmation of the worst in human nature and the entangled upper echelons of the media and political worlds. But, as Farrow has noted in interviews, it also admits some rays of hope.--Julia M. Klein, Forward Catch and Kill weaves together months of reporting to reveal explosive allegations that play out like a terrifying spy thriller.--KateStorey, Esquire A measured but damning portrait of that failure at NBC, which he ties to a pattern of harassment and abuse within the network.--Annalisa Quinn, NPR.org At the heart of every great noir is a conspiracy of evil that imbues the initial crime uncovered by the hero with a weightier resonance than was immediately obvious. So it goes with Catch and Kill.--Elizabeth Bruenig, TheWashington Post Befitting a Farrow story, Catch and Kill is chocka¬block with scoops and revelations.--PaulFarhi, The Washington Post Combines the intricate reporting of All The President's Men with Kafkaesque atmosphere to reveal troubling collusion between the media and the powerful interests they cover. This is a crackerjack journalistic thriller.--Publishers Weekly Historically this book is going to have lasting importance as a vividly detailed, in-the-trenches account of the epic effort it took to try to bring down just a piece of the wall of patriarchy that has kept women exploited and oppressed in the media industry and American life forever.--David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun One can only marvel at [Farrow's] courage, his resilience and moral fiber. It's one thing to tilt at windmills, it's another to tilt at a human power saw.--Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter Part memoir, part spy thriller, the book is an engrossing account of the dark arts employed by the powerful to suppress their stockpiled bad behavior as well as the cover-up culture that pervades executive suites-many of them at Farrow's former employer, NBC News.--MarisaGuthrie, The Hollywood Reporter Ronan is the kind of journalist that activists like myself rely on...His care and compassion for the stories survivors' entrusted him with shows in how diligently he investigated each claim. After all of the work he has done to carry their stories forward, I am excited for the world to read this book.--Tarana Burke Ronan Farrow has entered the pantheon of great investigative reporters. With meticulous research and endless revelations, he exposes a system of abuses and cover ups-a system that for too long has been protected. This is an invaluable book. --David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killersof the Flower Moon The book is full of plot and drama...This is a story about a ruling class of men who protect one another - and about the courage of women who speak up.--Abraham Gutman, The Philadelphia Inquirer The connections between presidents, media moguls, and spies described in Catch and Kill are stranger than fiction. As a novel, it would be a page-turner. As a reported piece of nonfiction, it's terrifying.--Eliana Dockterman, Time This is an urgent, significant book.--Kirkus Reviews, starred We've been reading about sex scandals beginning with Harvey Weinstein, but only Ronan Farrow, who reported them, tells us how women's voices were discredited and suppressed for so long. Catch and Kill reads like a great detective novel, and could lead to a safer and more just future.--GloriaSteinem About The Author Ronan Farrow is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, where his investigative reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the National Magazine Award, and the George Polk Award, among other honors. He previously worked as an anchor and investigative reporter at MSNBC and NBC News, with his print commentary and reporting appearing in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Before his career in journalism, he served as a State Department official in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence. Farrow has been named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People and one of GQ's Men of the Year. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the New York Bar. He recently completed a Ph.D. in political science at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in New York.

Catch & Kill - By Farrow Ronan (Hardcover)

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Number of Pages: 496Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: White Collar CrimeFormat: PaperbackPublisher: BookbabyAge Range: AdultAuthor: Todd A BlodgettLanguage: English About the Book For years, Todd Blodgett dealt with the nastiest, professional anti-Semites and organized White Supremacists in America and Europe. As a full-time, paid FBI informant, he was on a first-name basis with money-laundering Holocaust deniers and the leaders of the KKK, the Aryan Nations, and other HATE organizations. While working in this sordid realm, Mr. Blodgett was addicted to crack cocaine - which wasn't part of his plan, when he was serving on Ronald Reagan's White House staff. The author's unlikely journey from the White House to the crack house, and then to the 'Big House' - the Washington, D.C. Jail - is a fascinating, true story. What Blodgett experienced makes 'The Wire', 'The West Wing', 'American History X', 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad' look like 'The Brady Bunch'. Book Synopsis Not many Americans go from working for Presidents to monitoring White Supremacists and violent, neo-Nazi skinheads, but that's what happened to author Todd Blodgett. After serving on Ronald Reagan's White House staff, and President George H.W. Bush's successful presidential campaign, Blodgett took a wrong turn and found himself ensconced in the milieu of organized White Supremacy. Eventually, he - along with America's two leading Nazis, William L. Pierce, and Willis A. Carto - co-owned the world's largest, most profitable racist music corporation. His business dealings with these savvy, money-laundering Haters led to him being recruited by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF); for nearly three years, he worked as a full-time, paid, professional FBI informant, assigned to monitor the HATE movement and its top echelon. But the FBI didn't know that their informant was a junkie, heavily addicted to crack cocaine. About the Author Todd Blodgett served on President Reagan's White House staff and on the staff of President George H.W. Bush. He also worked for the Republican National Committee and the FBI. For seven years, including while he worked, full-time, as a paid FBI informant, Blodgett was addicted to crack cocaine. Mr. Blodgett was on a first-name basis with the leaders of every major white supremacy organization in the U.S., and many in Europe.

Republican Crackhead - by Todd A Blodgett (Paperback)

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Dimensions (Overall): 7.5 Inches (H) x 4.3 Inch (W) x 1.1 Inch (D)Weight: .5 PoundsNumber of Pages: 432Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Steerforth PressAuthor: Charles BrandtAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralLanguage: English Book Synopsis ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES New York Times Bestseller Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award(R) winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award(R) winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award(R) nominee Harvey Keitel, and written by Academy Award(R) winner Steven Zaillian. The Irishman "gives new meaning to the term 'guilty pleasure.''' -- Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies, in The New York Times Book Review "Told with such economy and chilling force as to make The Sopranos suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical." --New York Daily News "A terrific read." --Kansas City Star Includes an Epilogue and a Conclusion that detail substantial post-publication corroboration of Frank Sheeran's revelations about the killings of Jimmy Hoffa, Joey Gallo and JFK. The Irishman is an epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century. Spanning decades, Sheeran's story chronicles one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in American history, the disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa, and it offers a monumental journey through the hidden corridors of organized crime: its inner workings, rivalries and connections to mainstream politics. Sheeran would rise to a position of such prominence that in a RICO suit against The Commission of La Cosa Nostra, the US Government would name him as one of only two non-Italians in conspiracy with the Commission. Sheeran is listed alongside the likes of Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano and Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and Brandt turned Sheeran's story into a page-turning true crime classic. Review Quotes 'The Irishman' named Best Film By National Board Of Review and New York Film Critics Circle "Sheeran's confession that he killed Hoffa in the manner described in the book is supported by the forensic evidence, is entirely credible, and solves the Hoffa mystery." -- Michael Baden M.D., former Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York "I'm fully convinced - now - that Sheeran was in fact the man who did the deed. And I'm impressed, too, by the book's readability and by its factual accuracy in all areas on which I'm qualified to pass judgment. Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa mystery." --Professor Arthur Sloane, author of Hoffa "Sometimes you can believe everything you read." -- William "Big Billy" D'Elia, successor to Russell Bufalino as godfather of the Bufalino crime family "My source in the Bufalino family . . . read I Heard You Paint Houses. All the Bufalino guys read it. This old-time Bufalino guy told me he was shocked. He couldn't believe Sheeran confessed all that stuff to [Brandt]. It's all true." -- New York Police Department organized crime homicide detective Joseph Coffey "If the made men Brandt rubbed up against during his five years with Sheeran suspected what Sheeran was confessing to him on tape, they'd both have been promptly whacked." -- Joe Pistone, retired FBI deep undercover agent and the author of Donnie Brasco I Heard You Paint Houses "gives new meaning to the term 'guilty pleasure.' It promises to clear up the mystery of Hoffa's demise, and appears to do so. Sheeran not only admits he was in on the hit, he says it was he who actually pulled the trigger -- and not just on Hoffa but on dozens of other victims, including many, he alleges, dispatched on Hoffa's orders. This last seems likely to spur a reappraisal of Hoffa's career. . . . Sheeran is Old School, and his tale is admirably free of self-pity and self-aggrandizement. Without getting all Oprah about it, he admits he was an alcoholic and a lousy father. His business was killing people, and . . . he did it with little muss, fuss or introspection.'' -- Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies, in The New York Times Book Review"One of Sheeran's virtues was his gift as a storyteller; one of his flaws was his tendency to murder, in mobster jargon, 'to paint houses.' . . . Although he professed his loyalty to Hoffa - he said on one occasion, 'I'll be a Hoffa man 'til they pat my face with a shovel and steal my cufflinks' - Sheeran acknowledged that he was the one who killed the Teamsters boss. . . . On July 30, 1975, Hoffa disappeared. Sheeran explains how he did it, in prose reminiscent of the best gangster films." -- Associated Press "I Heard You Paint Houses is the best Mafia book I ever read, and believe me, I read them all. It's so authentic." -- Steven Van Zandt, featured actor, "Silvio Dante," in The Sopranos and musician in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band "Told with such economy and chilling force as to make The Sopranos suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical." --New York Daily News "Is Sheeran believable? Very . . . and 'I Heard You Paint Houses' is a very enjoyable book." --Trial Magazine "A page-turning account of one man's descent into the mob." --Delaware News Journal "A terrific read." --Kansas City Star About The Author Born and raised in New York City, Charles Brandt is a former junior high school English teacher, welfare investigator in East Harlem, homicide prosecutor, and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware. As a prosecutor, he handled more than 50 homicide proceedings, four of which sent men to death row. In private practice since 1976, Brandt was a criminal defense attorney specializing in homicide for a decade, and has been president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association and the Delaware Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has been named by his peers to both Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers in Delaware. He is a frequent speaker on cross-examination and interrogation techniques for reluctant witnesses. Brandt is the author of a novel based on major cases he solved through interrogation, The Right to Remain Silent. He is also the co-author of Joe Pistone's Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business and of Lin DeVecchio's We're Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-Up of a Mafia Crime Buster.

The Irishman - by Charles Brandt (Paperback)

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The Burger Chef Murders in Indiana - by…

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Number of Pages: 304Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: EspionageFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Scribner Book CompanyAge Range: AdultAuthor: Naveed Jamali & Ellis HenicanLanguage: English About the Book "In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. This American had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, movies, video games, and TV. And yet, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo, he ended up at the center of a highly successful counterintelligence operation that cartneared Russian espionage in America"-- Book Synopsis With an epilogue on recent Russian spying, a "page-turner of a memoir" (Publishers Weekly) about an American civilian with a dream, who worked as a double agent with the FBI in the early 2000s to bring down a Russian intelligence agent in New York City. For three nerve-wracking years, from 2005 to 2008, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical data for envelopes of cash, selling out his beloved country across noisy restaurant tables and in quiet parking lots. Or so the Russians believed. In fact, Jamali was a covert double agent working with the FBI. The Cold War wasn't really over. It had just gone high-tech. "A classic case of American counterespionage from the inside...a never-ending game of cat and mouse" (The Wall Street Journal), How to Catch a Russian Spy is the story of how one young man's post-college-adventure became a real-life intelligence coup. Incredibly, Jamali had no previous counterespionage experience. Everything he knew about undercover work he'd picked up from TV cop shows and movies, yet he convinced the FBI and the Russians they could trust him. With charm, cunning, and bold naiveté, he matched wits with a veteran Russian military-intelligence officer, out-maneuvering him and his superiors. Along the way, Jamali and his FBI handlers exposed espionage activities at the Russian Mission to the United Nations. Jamali now reveals the full riveting story behind his double-agent adventure--from coded signals on Craigslist to clandestine meetings at Hooter's to veiled explanations to his worried family. He also brings the story up to date with an epilogue showing how the very same playbook the Russians used on him was used with spectacularly more success around the 2016 election. Cinematic, news-breaking, and "an entertaining and breezy read" (The Washington Post), How to Catch a Russian Spy is an armchair spy fantasy brought to life. Review Quotes The end of the Cold War didn't stop Russia's intelligence operations in America, as Naveed Jamali's amusing tale of his life as an amateur spy deftly illustrates. Corvettes, military secrets swapped in suburban Uno Pizzerias, and a clandestine operation to snare a Russian operative at Hooter's--this is a real-life Get Smart for the twenty-first century.--Guy Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Octopus and Arms and the Dudes"How to Catch a Russian Spy simply blew me away. Imagine John Le Carre assigning a spy mission to Walter Mitty and you have Naveed Jamali. His fascinating account strips away the glamour of fictional espionage, replacing it with even more provocative reality. Here, spies communicate by Craigslist, thumb drives are as dangerous as a Walther PPK, and agents and handlers meet at Hooters. Viewers of 'The Americans' will love this story's take on the real world of espionage. There are no George Smileys here, but there is a hero whose patriotism is quite stirring."--Gary Weiss, former Senior Writer for Business Week and bestselling author of Born to Steal"[A] page-turner of a memoir....This highly entertaining read is enhanced by the author's self-deprecating sense of humor."--Publishers Weekly"A classic case of American counterespionage from the inside . . . [a] never-ending game of cat and mouse."--The Wall Street Journal"A gripping true tale of high-level espionage in which the author, Naveed Jamali, impressively displays tradecraft belying his amateur status. His stories of teaming with FBI agent handlers to doublecross Russian spies are nothing short of sensational."--Robert K. Wittman, former Senior Investigator of the FBI National Art Crime Team and New York Times bestselling author of Priceless and The Devil's Diary"A Cold War-style thriller, full of Russians, federal agents, code names and, in the lead, a New York techie who preps for his double-agent moments by practicing lines from 'Goodfellas' and 'Scarface.' Jamali makes his tough-guy dreams come true by outwitting a Borat-like Russian intelligence officer who recruits him to commit treason. The finale, like in every Bond film, goes down in a New Jersey Hooters. A hilarious book that is being made into a movie."--The Washington Post, Funniest Book of the Year"Apparently goofballs aren't limited to the world of fictional spies - before there was Sterling Archer, there was Naveed and Oleg. I wish I could steal some of these stories for the show!"--Adam Reed, creator of "Archer""Every now and then, the safety and security of our country depends on an everyday young American doing the right thing. What sets Naveed apart is that he obviously had such a blast doing it. As amusing as it is to read this book and watch an admitted amateur get over on a Russian operative here in the U.S. to steal secrets, it's also sobering to contemplate how many bad actors there are waiting to take advantage of the fact that we live in an open society."--Frances Fragos Townsend, former Homeland Security Adviser to President George W. Bush"Jamali, a smart, young New York techie, somehow spent three years going toe to toe with a Russian intelligence officer who thought he was developing an asset, even though all the while Jamali was quietly collaborating with U.S. federal agents. . . . Watching Jamali and Oleg try to outsmart each other is the joy of the book. . . . If you've watched too much 'Homeland' or 'The Americans, ' then How to Catch a Russian Spy is a hilarious corrective showing how prosaic low-level espionage can be....an entertaining and breezy read."--The Washington Post"One early lesson I learned leading SEAL units is that it's not enough to begin with a good plan - an effective operator must adapt to fast-changing conditions and adjust the plan accordingly. Despite his lack of training, Naveed Jamali intuitively grasped that lesson, repeatedly calling on the main weapon in his amateur's arsenal - ingenuity - to deceive his opponent. In a time when our nation's enemies vigorously troll for information that will give them an edge, it's comforting to know that American resourcefulness can triumph even out of uniform."--Rorke Denver, New York Times bestselling author of Damn Few"So celebrated in American pop culture are the tactics of espionage that even a motivated amateur - with a talent for improvisation and a taste for Hollywood flair - can take on a real-life Russian intelligence operative, and best him at his own game.What's most charming about this page-turning account is Naveed's honesty about his missteps, and the joy he takes in designing deceptions that actually work. Readers will smile right along with him."--Lindsay Moran, bestselling author of Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy"Suspenseful and often uproarious...How to Catch a Russian Spy offers a rare opportunity to share in the intensity, fear and adrenaline rush of working as a double agent, trying to take down a cagey and skilled operative for the world's most notorious and ruthless gangster regime. Without any formal training, Jamali soon discovers he has all the essential tools of a good undercover: intuition, curiosity, and a jazz-like ability to improvise on the spot. Indeed, by going 'off-script' - both in the way he veers from his parents' conventional-life expectations and by always keeping his adversary guessing - Jamali has given us one gem of a comic counter-espionage yarn."--Douglas Century, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Under and Alone and Takedown About the Author Naveed Jamali spent three years as a civilian double agent then joined the US Navy as a reserve intelligence officer, where he continues to serve. He has appeared as an expert commentator on several TV networks and is currently a regular contributor to MSNBC as well as Newsweek magazine. Ellis Henican is a newspaper columnist, TV political analyst, and author of several New York Times bestselling books. Ellis Henican is a newspaper columnist, a television commentator, and the coauthor of five New York Times bestsellers, including Damn Few.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inch (W) x 1.1 Inch (D)Weight: .7 PoundsNumber of Pages: 416Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: GeneralFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Ecco PressAuthor: Sarah WeinmanAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book Presents a collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by notable comtemporary journalists and true crime writers. Book Synopsis 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 of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I'll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Country, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable. Acclaimed author ofThe Real Lolita and editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. Michelle Dean's "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick" went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV showThe Act and Pamela Colloff's "The Reckoning," is the gold standard for forensic journalism. There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader. Review Quotes "Thoughtful and wide-ranging. . . . The superior quality of these essays begs for future volumes." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Irresistible."--People, "Best New Books of the Week" "This spine-tingling true crime anthology....[looks] beyond killers and victims and at systemic and institutionalized depravity."--Shelf Awareness, starred review "An excellent anthology . . . Weinman has done more than create entertainment . . . she challenges the reader to use true crime as a lens to explore the world around us."--BookPage "Moves the needle closer to a version of the genre where crime is systemic abuse, baked into the work of institutions designed to protect us."--Jezebel "Superb . . . one of the best true crime books of the year."--NPR.org "With nuance and sensitivity, Weinman curates essays that consider the explosion of interest in true crime, stories from the perspectives of victims, and tales that present new information about notorious killers. . . . This enthralling volume insists that there can and should be humanity within true crime." --Library Journal (starred review) Essential reading for all true crime fans.--Booklist

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Number of Pages: 288Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: EspionageFormat: PaperbackPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyAge Range: AdultAuthor: Dave HirschmanLanguage: English About the Book "David Sanders, Jim Tucker, and Andy Peterson had taken off on a regular "out-and-back," delivering and picking up packages for FedEx's next-day service. They had one jumpseat passenger, an off-duty colleague who they assumed was simply taking advantage of the FedEx perk allowing virtually all employees to ride the company jets for free. The shock came twenty minutes later, before the plane had reached its normal cruising altitude. The lone passenger attacked the pilots."--Back cover. Book Synopsis The incredible true story of three pilots flying a routine Federal Express flight who must call on their inner courage, strength, and ability to stop a bitter, suicidal hijacker from killing them, and thousands of people below.David Sanders, Jim Tucker, and Andy Peterson had taken off on a regular "out-and-back," delivering and picking up packages for FedEx's next-day service. They had one jumpseat passenger, an off-duty colleague who they assumed was simply taking advantage of the FedEx perk allowing virtually all employees to ride the company jets for free. The shock came twenty minutes later. Before the plane had reached its normal cruising altitude, the lone passenger attacked the pilots with hammers and a spear gun. He'd had his diabolical plan in the works for months: by crashing the plane into the Federal Express Memphis hub, he'd ruin the company, which he felt had treated him unfairly. In a relentless and brutal assault, the passenger struck the pilots again and again.What he didn't count on was the skill and teamwork of the pilots. While Sanders and Peterson tried to stop the relentless battering, copilot Tucker swung the aircraft into dangerous flight maneuvers in an attempt to literally knock the man off his feet.In Hijacked, Dave Hirschman vividly re-creates this hair-raising battle of wills, giving each pilot's point of view and drawing on his own experiences as a pilot to take us inside that fateful day. From the Back Cover The incredible true story of three pilots flying a FedEx flight who must call on their inner courage, ability, and strength to stop a suicidal hijacker from killing them and thousands of people belowDavid Sanders, Jim Tucker, and Andy Peterson had taken off on a regular "out-and-back," delivering and picking up packages for FedEx's next-day service. They had one jumpseat passenger, an off-duty colleague who they assumed was simply taking advantage of the FedEx perk allowing virtually all employees to ride the company jets for free. The shock came twenty minutes later. Before the plane had reached its normal cruising altitude, the lone passenger attacked the pilots with hammers and a spear gun. He'd had his diabolical plan in the works for months: by crashing the plane into the FedEx Memphis hub, he'd ruin the company, which he felt had treated him unfairly. In a relentless and brutal assault, the passenger struck the pilots again and again.What he didn't count on was the skill and teamwork of the three men. While Sanders and Peterson tried to stop the relentless battering, copilot Tucker swung the aircraft into dangerous flight maneuvers in an attempt to literally knock the man off his feet.In Hijacked, Dave Hirschman vividly re-creates this hair-raising battle of wills, giving each pilot's point of view and drawing on his own experiences as a pilot to take us inside that fateful day.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.22 Inches (H) x 5.47 Inches (W) x .95 Inches (D)Weight: .7 PoundsNumber of Pages: 352Genre: Mystery + CrimeSub-Genre: Mystery & DetectiveFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Minotaur BooksAuthor: Louise PennyAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book A chief inspector in Quebec is called to a tiny village where he finds luminaries of the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light, where every sweet relationship hides a broken heart. Book Synopsis A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011 Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm.... --Booklist (starred review) Hearts are broken, Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. Sweet relationships are dead.But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light. Review Quotes "The superbly gifted Louise Penny is on my secret shortlist of must-read authors, and A TRICK OF THE LIGHT proves why. Artist Clara Morrow is about to have a prestigious show of her paintings when her childhood friend is found murdered, and the finger of suspicion points to Clara. Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate, and using his trademark powers of deduction and his intuitive knack for the right question at the right time, he exposes the darkness that underlies the bright stars of Montreal's art world, where competition between friends, and even between husband and wife, can turn lethal. Ultimately, of course, it's Louise Penny who steals the show, and A TRICK OF THE LIGHT will not only keep you engrossed from start to finish, it will teach you something new about love, truth, and the human heart." --Lisa Scottoline "Penny, elevating herself to the pantheon that houses P.D. James, Ruth Rendell and Minette Walters, demonstrates an exquisite touch with characterization, plotting and artistic sensitivity. And there could be no better explanation of A.A. than you will find here." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Outstanding....With her usual subtle touch and timely injections of humor, Penny effectively employs the recurring motif of the chiaroscuro, the interplay of light and dark, which distinguishes Morrow's artwork and which resonates symbolically in the souls of the author's characters." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Like P. D. James, Penny shows how the tight structure of the classical mystery story can accommodate a wealth of deeply felt emotions and interpersonal drama.--BooklistPenny's characters are sharply drawn, realistically complicated and heartbreakingly real. Wonderful, complex characters and sophisticated plotting makes this a perfect book. Do not miss it." --RT Book Reviews Additional Praise for Louise Penny and the Armand Gamache Mysteries "Penny sustains her high-wire act, creating characters of remarkable depth in an exhilarating whodunit." --People"Louise Penny is unsurpassed at building a sense of heart-stopping urgency. --The Charlotte Observer"Penny, who raises the bar with each entry in this superb series, has always mixed murder and corruption with issues of morality...[S]he does so with her accustomed talent for a gripping plot, rich characterizations, arresting prose and thought-provoking questions of mercy, malice and the contradictions of the human race. --Richmond-Times DispatchThis series dominates best-seller lists and award lists for a reason. Penny tells powerful stories of damage and healing in the human heart, leavened with affection, humor and - thank goodness - redemption. --Salem Macknee, Charlotte Observer"Penny writes with grace and intelligence about complex people struggling with complex emotions. But her great gift is her uncanny ability to describe what might seem indescribable - the play of light, the sound of celestial music, a quiet sense of peace." --New York Times Book Review About The Author LOUISE PENNY is the author of the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (six times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 2017, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal.

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Number of Pages: 336Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Picador USAAge Range: AdultBook theme: Serial KillersAuthor: Skip HollandsworthLanguage: English About the Book "In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders. Along the way, the murders would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life"-- Book Synopsis Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins Award A New York Times BestsellerOne of Book Riot Best Book of the YearIn nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any fiction. In the late 1800s, just as Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis, a series of brutal murders rocked the burgeoning city and shook it to its core. At the time, the concept of a serial killer was unknown and unimaginable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. For more than a decade, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth has researched this gripping tale of murder and madness that plays out like a well-crafted whodunit. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Hollandsworth's The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer brings this terrifying saga to life. Review Quotes "Skip Hollandsworth knows his way around a crime scene...Fans of Erik Larson's 2003 hit, The Devil in the White City...will find similar pleasures here. This is true crime of high quality. . . Mr. Hollandsworth handles gruesome details with a smart, restrained touch...Chilling.--The New York Times Gripping and atmospheric...This true crime page-turner is a balanced and insightful examination of one of the most stirring serial killing sprees in American history, and certainly one of the least well-known.--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Readers who loved The Devil in the White City now have the pleasure of reading The Midnight Assassin. It paints a compelling portrait of a culture at a turning point - that is, the capitol of Texas at the end of the 19th Century, when the barbarism of the frontier was giving way to the savagery of urban life."--Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Looming Towerand Thirteen Days in September "As a magazine journalist, Skip Hollandsworth has forged a reputation as one of the best storytellers in the country. The Midnight Assassin takes his singular narrative skills to a thrilling new level. Reading this book is like cracking open a time capsule and breathing the air of a vanished era. In Hollandsworth's hands, one of the ghastliest and most inscrutable crimes in American history becomes hair-raisingly immediate, and the mystery at its center grows ever more mysterious with every page."--Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln Skip Hollandsworth has achieved a literary miracle with The Midnight Assassin. With haunting granularity, Hollandsworth breathes vivid life into a forgotten, century-old tale of the hunt for America's first diabolical serial murderer--set in, of all places, the quaint but upwardly mobile town of Austin, Texas. To read The Midnight Assassin is to experience the lost innocence of a 19th-century capital city set on edge by the unseen monster in its midst.--Robert Draper, The New York Times Magazine and author of Dead Certain Skip Hollandsworth, one of the great true-crime writers of our era, has brought his remarkable talent to bear on one of the most fascinating untold criminal stories in American history. The Midnight Assassin captures a time, a place, and a feeling--booming Texas in the latter 19th century--in a way no nonfiction account I have read has done. A jewel of a book.--S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell "Skip Hollandsworth has a bloodhound's nose for a great tale. With The Midnight Assassin, he's found the perfect subject for his many talents. Through scrupulous research and a finely tuned sense of the gothic, Hollandsworth has brought this Texas-sized true-crime story, more than a century old, to vivid, chilling life on the page."--Hampton Sides, author of Hellhound On His Trail and In the Kingdom of Ice As the state of Texas's best-known magazine writer, Skip Hollandsworth is not just a Lone Star treasure, but a national treasure. In this, his first book, he uncovers the amazing untold story of America's first serial killer, a phantom who stalked the streets of Austin in 1885, three years before Jack the Ripper. Whether you love true crime, history or Texana, The Midnight Assassin is bursting at the seams with everything you want in a great book; a spellbinding mix of mystery, horror and historical detective work. It's the book Hollandsworth was born to write.''--Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair special correspondent and author of Barbarians at the Gate, Days of Rage and The Big Rich About the Author Skip Hollandsworth is an award-winning journalist, screenwriter, and executive editor of Texas Monthly magazine. His work was included in the 2006 edition of Best American Crime Writing and he has won a National Magazine Award for feature writing. Hollandsworth co-wrote the acclaimed screenplay Bernie with director Richard Linklater. He lives in Texas with his wife.

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Number of Pages: 344Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: GeneralSeries Title: Killer BooksFormat: PaperbackPublisher: SourcebooksAge Range: AdultAuthor: Tom Philbin & Michael PhilbinLanguage: English About the Book The Killer Book of True Crime is the ultimate collection of in-depth stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes and photos gruesome and interesting enough to make any crime buff shudder in horrified delight. Book Synopsis The perfect read for any true crime junkie!You've read all the stories...but can you match the mobster with the way he met his end? Do you know how they caught the Boston Strangler? Can you define chickens, a Shotaro complex or Colombian neckties?The Killer Book of True Crime is the ultimate collection of in-depth stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes and photos gruesome and interesting enough to make any crime buff shudder in horrified delight. Discover all the odd and intriguing facts and tidbits you've never heard, such as: John Wayne Gacy's favorite movies How America's most prolific burglar was captured Which city houses the world's largest red light district How a roach led to the capture of Albert Fish An eyewitness account of the murder of eight nurses Where Al Capone really got the scar on his faceThese and many more shocking tales and tidbits will have you double-checking your locks at night! From the Back Cover Hours of Nail-Biting True Crime You?ve read all the stories?but can you match the mobster with the way he met his end? Do you know how they caught the Boston Strangler? Can you define chickens, a Shotaro complex or Colombian neckties? The Killer Book of True Crime is the ultimate collection of in-depth stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes and photos gruesome and interesting enough to make any crime buff shudder in horrified delight. Discover all the odd and intriguing facts and tidbits you?ve never heard, such as: *??John Wayne Gacy's favorite movies*??How America's most prolific burglar was captured*??Which city houses the world's largest red light district*??How a roach led to the capture of Albert Fish*??An eyewitness account of the murder of eight nurses*??Where Al Capone really got the scar on his face These and many more shocking tales and tidbits will have you double-checking your locks at night! About the Author Tom Philbin and his brother Mike have been close to crime (and its consequences) for many years. Tom is a long-time freelance writer who has written nine cop novels. He lives in New York. Mike Philbin is a musician, and this is his first book. Mike lives in New Hampshire.

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Dimensions (Overall): 7.4 Inches (H) x 4.2 Inches (W) x 1.4 Inches (D)Weight: .65 PoundsNumber of Pages: 524Genre: Mystery + CrimeSub-Genre: SuspenseSeries Title: Jack ReacherFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Dell Pub CoAuthor: Lee ChildAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book Includes two bonuses from author, the Jack Reacher short story "Not a drill" (pages 461-505) and a preview excerpt of a Jack Reacher novel "Make me" (pages 509-524). Book Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Jack Reacher returns in another fast-moving, action-packed, suspenseful book from Lee Child. You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher--and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA. Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the cartnear was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott--an American marksman gone bad--is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he's out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin. If anyone can stop Kott, it's the man who beat him before: Reacher. And though he'd rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with Zoloft. But they're facing a rough road, full of ruthless mobsters, Serbian thugs, close calls, double-crosses--and no backup if they're caught. All the while Reacher can't stop thinking about the woman he once failed to save. But he won't let that that happen again. Not this time. Not Nice. Reacher never gets too close. But now a killer is making it personal. Praise for Personal "The best one yet."--Stephen King "Reacher is the stuff of myth, a great male fantasy. . . . One of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes . . . Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense."--The Washington Post "Yet another satisfying page-turner."--Entertainment Weekly "Reacher is always up for a good fight, most entertainingly when he goes mano a mano with a seven-foot, 300-pound monster of a mobster named Little Joey. But it's Reacher the Teacher who wows here."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times "Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears."--Ken Follett "Reacher's just one of fiction's great mysterious strangers."--Maxim "If you like fast-moving thrillers, you'll want to take a look at this one."--John Sandford "Fans won't be disappointed by this suspense-filled, riveting thriller."--Library Journal (starred review) "Child is the alpha dog of thriller writers, each new book zooming to the top of best-seller lists with the velocity of a Reacher head butt."--Booklist "Every Reacher novel delivers a jolt to the nervous system."--Kirkus Reviews Review Quotes "The best one yet."--Stephen King "Reacher is the stuff of myth, a great male fantasy. . . . One of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes . . . [Lee] Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense."--The Washington Post "Yet another satisfying page-turner."--Entertainment Weekly "Reacher is always up for a good fight, most entertainingly when he goes mano a mano with a seven-foot, 300-pound monster of a mobster named Little Joey. But it's Reacher the Teacher who wows here."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times "Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears."--Ken Follett "Reacher's just one of fiction's great mysterious strangers."--Maxim "If you like fast-moving thrillers, you'll want to take a look at this one."--John Sandford "Fans won't be disappointed by this suspense-filled, riveting thriller."--Library Journal (starred review) "Child is the alpha dog of thriller writers, each new book zooming to the top of best-seller lists with the velocity of a Reacher head butt."--Booklist "Every Reacher novel delivers a jolt to the nervous system."--Kirkus Reviews About The Author Lee Child is the author of nineteen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, ten of which have reached the #1 position. All have been optioned for major motion pictures; the first, Jack Reacher, was based on One Shot. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in almost a hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City.

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Number of Pages: 226Genre: Social ScienceSub-Genre: CriminologyFormat: PaperbackPublisher: New PressAge Range: AdultAuthor: Eric HobsbawmLanguage: English About the Book First published in 1969, "Bandits" inspired a new field of historical study. In this updated edition, Hobsbawm continues his study of famous bandits, from Robin Hood to Jesse James, and sets these folk heroes against the ballads and legends they inspired. Photos and illustrations. Book Synopsis First published in 1969, this now-classic book inspired a whole new field of historical study and brought its author popular acclaim. Bandits transcend the label of criminals; they are robbers and outlaws elevated to the status of avengers and champions of social justice. Some, like Robin Hood, Rob Roy, and Jesse James, are famous throughout the world, the stuff of story and myth. Others, like Balkan haiduks, Indian dacoits, and Brazilian congaceiros, are known only to their own countrymen. In his celebrated study of these fascinating figures, Eric Hobsbawm, one of the few genuinely great historians of our century (The New Republic), spans four hundred years and four continents, setting these historical figures against the ballads, legends, and films they have inspired. The result is a dazzling historical squib, fizzling with ideas and strange stories (The Guardian). For this new edition Hobsbawm has substantially extended and revised his original text. It appears at a time when the disintegration of state power is once again introducing fertile conditions for banditry to flourish in many parts of the world. Review Quotes An utterly fascinating book. --THE NEW YORKER A wise as well as exciting book; a very valuable addition to the history of mentalities and to that of popular protest... This is human history at its very best. --THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT [London] A dazzling historical squib, fizzing with ideas and strange stories. --THE GUARDIAN In an age of narrow specialists, Eric Hobsbawm remains the supreme generalist... For sheer intelligence he has no superior in the historical profession. --SIR KEITH THOMAS About the Author Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Austria, Germany and England. He taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and then at the New School for Social Research in New York. In addition to "The Age of Revolution," "The Age of Capital," "The Age of Empire" and "The Age of Extremes," his books include "Bandits," "Revolutionaries," "Uncommon People," and his memoir "Interesting Times." Eric Hobsbawm died in 2012.

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But Louise soon discovers something more disturbing: Lisemette had a twin, and both girls were issued death certificates more than thirty years ago. Aided by her friend journalist Camilla Lind, Louise finds that the investigation takes a surprising and unsettling turn when it brings her closer to her childhood home. And as she uncovers more crimes that were committed -- and hidden -- in the forest, she is forced to confront a terrible link to her own past that has been carefully concealed." -- Page [4] of cover. Book Synopsis The Forgotten Girls The body of an unidentified woman has been discovered in a remote forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should make the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. Louise Rick, the new commander of the Missing Persons Department, waits four long days before pulling off a risky move: releasing a photo of the victim to the media, jeopardizing the integrity of the investigation in hopes of finding anyone who knew her. The gamble pays off when a woman recognizes the victim as Lisemette, a child she cared for in the state mental institution many years ago. Lisemette was a "forgotten girl", abandoned by her family and left behind in the institution. But Louise soon discovers something even more disturbing: Lisemette had a twin, and both girls were issued death certificates more than thirty years ago. Louise's investigation takes a surprising when it brings her closer to her childhood home. And as she uncovers more crimes that were committed--and hidden--in the forest, she is forced to confront a terrible link to her own past that has been carefully concealed. Set against a moody and atmospheric landscape, The Forgotten Girls is twisty, suspenseful, emotionally intense novel that secures Sara Blaedel's place in the pantheon of great thriller writers. Review Quotes "[THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS] is gripping when it depicts some horrific crimes...[An] uncompromising realism...distinguishes this novel at its best."--Washington Post "A sharp protagonist who wrestles with her own failings and fears, in a skillfully toldstory that is typically dark in the manner of Nordic crime fiction."--Booklist "Already an international best seller, this outing by Denmark's "Queen of Crime" offers trademark Scandinavian crime fiction with a tough detective and a very grim mystery. Blaedel is incredibly talented at keeping one reading even as one wants to look away from the graphic scenes. Recommend to fans of Camilla Läckberg and Liza Marklund."--Library Journal "Chilling...[a] swiftly moving plot and engaging core characters."--Publishers Weekly "For readers who gorge on captivating characters and chilling suspense, THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS is a tantalizing treat. Enjoy yourself, America." --Sandra Brown "Tautly suspenseful and sociologically fascinating, THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS demonstrates yet again that the finest contemporary suspense fiction emanates from Europe's snowbound North."--BookPage "This is a standout book that will only solidify the author's well-respected standing in crime fiction. Blaedel drops clues that will leave readers guessing right up to the reveal. Each new lead opens an array of possibilities, and putting the book down became a feat this reviewer was unable to achieve. Based on the history of treating the disabled, the story is both horrifying and all-to-real. Even the villains have nuanced and sympathetic motives."--RT Times - Top Pick **Nominated for a Reviewer's Choice Award** "Tightly knit."--Kirkus Reviews "Sara Blædel is at the top of her game. Louise Rick is a character who will have readers coming back for more."--Camilla Läckberg "THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS is without doubt the best the author has delivered so far...strikingly well done....the chances are good that THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS will become your favorite crime novel for a long time to come."--Børsen (Denmark) "Crackling with suspense, atmosphere, and drama, THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS is simply stellar crime fiction. I loved spending time with the tough, smart, and all-too-human heroine Louise Rick--and I can't wait to see her again."--Lisa Unger "One of the best I've come across."--Michael Connelly "Sara Blaedel is a force to be reckoned with. Everyone keeps talking about the 'trend' in crime writers--Scandinavian, German, Russian. Blaedel is no trend. She's a remarkable crime writer who time and again delivers a solid, engaging story that any reader in the world can enjoy."--Karin Slaughter "Sara Blaedel's THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS is an emotionally complex police-procedural thriller set in Denmark. With a gripping premise, fast-paced narrative and well-developed characters, THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS is an incredible read."--FreshFiction.com "THE FORGOTTEN GIRLS has it all. At its heart, it is a puzzling, intricate mystery whose solution packs a horrific double-punch...Once you start, you will have no choice but to finish it."--BookReporter About The Author Sara Blaedel is the author of the #1 international bestselling series featuring Detective Louise Rick. Her books are published in thirty-eight countries. In 2014 Sara was voted Denmark's most popular novelist for the fourth time. She is also a recipient of the Golden Laurel, Denmark's most prestigious literary award. She lives in New York City.

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Number of Pages: 276Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: Organized CrimeFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Jebwizard PublishingAge Range: AdultAuthor: Robert Walason & Joe BroadmeadowLanguage: English About the Book A mobster's life ends in limited ways: death, prison, Witness Protection, or vanished. Walason defied the odds, walked away from the life, and lived to tell the tale. Book Synopsis With Foreword by Zac Stuart-Pontier, producer of CrimetownFor Bobby Walason, the turning point in his life began when he was thrown out of his house at age twelve. It was also the best moment in his short life. Forced to survive on his own, with no friends or family to turn to, his determination drives him without the benefit of a moral compass. Finding shelter in the basement of a Providence, Rhode Island inner city housing project, sleeping in an abandoned cardboard box, he tries to stay hidden from the world. Finding solace in the Olneyville Boys Club, he learns to box, discovers a physical strength beyond his age, and hones an ability to fight. His ability to absorb punishment, forged under the fists of his brutal father, earns him a reputation for toughness. A toughness which built a powerful street reputation, enhanced in prison, drawing the attention of organized crime. This the story of the horrific life of a 12-year-old boy, enduring abuse no child should ever face, the lure of organized crime, descent into the brutal and violent world of a feared mob enforcer, and the power of resilience. Bobby Walason unmasks the false patina of Organized Crime, finding a way to leave the life; alive, without spending life in prison, and without disappearing into the invisibility of the witness protection program. Turning from a life of brutality to the world of business, Bobby builds a successful life as an entrepreneur. This story casts a light onto the ebb and flow of the dark side of American society; a look at the forces that play havoc with the lives that go adrift on the streets of all our cities. And how one man found a way out against staggering odds.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.1 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)Weight: .75 PoundsNumber of Pages: 384Genre: Mystery + CrimeSub-Genre: Women, Mystery + CrimeSeries Title: Bell Elkins NovelsFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Minotaur BooksAuthor: Julia KellerAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book From the night-black depths of a coalmine to the sun-struck peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, from a riveting murder mystery to a poignant meditation on the meaning of love and family, the latest novel in the critically acclaimed series strikes out for new territory: the sorrow and outrage that spring from a real-life chapter in West Virginia history. Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents-and one hundred and twenty-three other souls-died in the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster. He was only two years old when he was ripped from his mother's arms. But now Dillard, who lives off the grid with only a passel of dogs for company, is fighting for his life one more time: He's on trial for murder. Prosecutor Bell Elkins faces her toughest challenge yet in this haunting story of vengeance, greed and the fierce struggle for social justice. Richly imagined, vividly written and deeply felt, Last Ragged Breath is set in West Virginia, but it really takes place in a land we all know: the country called home. Book Synopsis From the night-black depths of a coalmine to the sun-struck peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, from a riveting murder mystery to a poignant meditation on the meaning of love and family, the latest novel in the critically acclaimed series strikes out for new territory: the sorrow and outrage that spring from a real-life chapter in West Virginia history. Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents - and one hundred and twenty-three other souls - died in the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster. He was only two years old when he was ripped from his mother's arms. But now, Dillard, who lives off the grid with only a passel of dogs for company, is fighting for his life one more time; he's on trial for murder. Prosecutor Bell Elkins faces her toughest challenge yet in this haunting story of vengeance, greed, and the fierce struggle for social justice. Richly imagined, vividly written, and deeply felt, Julia Keller's Last Ragged Breath is set in West Virginia, but it really takes place in a land we all know: the country called home. About The Author JULIA KELLER spent twelve years as a reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune, where she won a Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, she was born in West Viriginia and lives in Chicago and Ohio.

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Number of Pages: 304Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderSeries Title: Id True CrimeFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Grand Central PublishingAge Range: AdultBook theme: Serial KillersAuthor: James PattersonLanguage: English About the Book "As seen on Investigation Discovery's Murder is forever." Book Synopsis As seen on the Discovery ID TV series Murder is Forever, these two true-crime thrillers follow a lawyer struggling to stop a killer and a detective angling to solve a double homicide.Home Sweet Murder (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the evening, two people will be shot, stabbed, and tortured. And two others will fare worse . . . Murder on the Run (with Scott Slaven): The middle-aged housekeeper found dead with a knife in her throat was bad. But the little boy was worse. After a bloody double homicide that puts Omaha, Nebraska, on the map, Detective Derek Mois promises the boy's parents he will catch the killer, no matter how long or far he runs . . . Review Quotes "Behind all the noise and numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what James Patterson has, in spades."--Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series"Every once in a while a writer comes along and fundamentally changes the way people read. He or she is so bright, innovative, so industrious that what they envision and create becomes the measure by which all others are judged. In 1993 one such writer - James Patterson - began to do just that. Now...with his mission still unfolding, James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged."--Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series About the Author James Patterson received the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at the 2015 National Book Awards. Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers. His books have sold more than 355 million copies worldwide. He has donated more than one million books to students and soldiers and has over four hundred Teacher Education Scholarships at twenty-four colleges and universities. He has also donated millions to independent bookstores and school libraries.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.1 Inches (H) x 5 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)Weight: .5 PoundsNumber of Pages: 299Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: GeneralFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Berkley Pub. GroupAuthor: Matt BirkbeckAge Range: AdultLanguage: English Book Synopsis Even as he awaits trial, accused murderer Robert Durst can't seem to stay out of the headlines. The subject of the HBO documentary The Jinx and the upcoming Lifetime movie The Lost Wife of Robert Durst, his story is as captivating as it is horrifying. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst's NYPD files, is the authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey--the very book found in Durst's own apartment when it was searched by police. When medical student Kathie Durst vanished in 1982, she was married to Robert Durst, son of a New York real estate magnate. Kathie's friends had reason to implicate her husband. They told police that Kathie lived in terror of Robert, and that she had uncovered incriminating financial evidence about him. But Durst's secrets went even deeper. For decades, Kathie's disappearance remained a mystery. Then in 2001, Durst, an heir to an empire valued at two billion dollars, was arrested for shoplifting in Pennsylvania. When the police brought him in, they discovered that he was a suspect in the murder of Texas drifter Morris Black, whose dismembered remains were found floating in Galveston Bay, and that Durst was also wanted for questioning in the killing of his friend, Susan Burman, in Los Angeles. Based on interviews with family, friends, and acquaintances of Durst, law enforcement, and others involved in the case, A Deadly Secret is a cross-country odyssey of stolen IDs and multiple identities that raises baffling questions about one of the country's most prominent families--and one of its most elusive suspected killers. Includes additional material not in the original Berkley edition and eight pages of photographs Review Quotes Praise for A Deadly Secret "A startling inside look at the politics of police work."--Westchester County Times "Provocative."--CourtTV.com Praise for the work of Matt Birkbeck "Sensational."--The New York Times "Epic."--The Los Angeles Times "A stunning work of investigative journalism.--Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy "A beautiful masterpiece."--TrueCrimeBookReviews.com About The Author Matt Birkbeck is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of The Quiet Don, Deconstructing Sammy, and A Beautiful Child. His work has been featured in a host of publications including Reader's Digest, Playboy, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and People magazine. He has appeared on a variety of network and cable news programs, including CNN, ABC's 20/20, NBC, CBS, and Investigation Discovery, among others, and was celebrated by the New York Times Book Review for his "killer leads, gripping kickers, and sensational descriptions."

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Number of Pages: 560Genre: True CrimeSub-Genre: MurderFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Harper PerennialAge Range: AdultBook theme: GeneralAuthor: Simon BaatzLanguage: English About the Book In the tradition of "The Devil in the White City" comes a riveting recreation of one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century--the scandalous Leopold-Loeb murder case that shocked Chicago. Photos throughout. Book Synopsis It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals--too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows. But the families of the confessed murderers hired Clarence Darrow, entrusting the lives of their sons to the most famous lawyer in America in what would be one of the most sensational criminal trials in the history of American justice.Set against the backdrop of the 1920s--a time of prosperity, self-indulgence, and hedonistic excess in a lawless city on the brink of anarchy--For the Thrill of It draws the reader into a world of speakeasies and flappers, of gangsters and gin parties, with a spellbinding narrative of Jazz Age murder and mystery. Review Quotes Exhaustively researched and rivetingly presented. . . . One of the best true-crime books of this or any other season.--Booklist (starred review)"[Baatz] breaks his fascinating narrative into two distinct Law and Order-type sections. . . . While it might be easy to dismiss the murderers--Nathan "Babe" Leopold Jr. and Richard "Dickie" Loeb--as bored rich kids, Baatz shows that there was much more to this story."--Library Journal"A riveting non-fiction thriller that will turn you into an activity-hostile recluse who shouts, "Go away and let me read!"... What makes Thrill of It so exceptional is the way Baatz balances all the elements: the killers, the crime, the police, the media and the trial's impact."--USA Today"Altogether absorbing. . . . Mr. Baatz, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, has done meticulous research, and he writes extremely well. . . . His book on the Leopold and Loeb case is the best we'll have for a long, long time."--New York Times"Baatz lucidly lays out the complicated courtroom maneuvers and also provides a fascinating, skillful analysis of two different legal philosophies.... A solid true-crime thriller that's also a masterly analysis of postwar shifts in society's ideas about crime and personality."--Kirkus Reviews"Simon Baatz's For the Thrill of It is likely to be the definitive work on this infamous crime and the dramatic trial of its perpetrators. It is impressive in its research, even-handed in its tone and immensely readable. . . . [An] excellent book."--Wall Street Journal"This story never fails to astonish."--Chicago TribuneMeticulous and thorough, and it puts the case in historical perspective as a clash between two conflicting views of criminals and crime, one espoused by...Clarence Darrow...the most famous American lawyer of his day, perhaps indeed of any day.--Washington Post Book World"The pages read like the very best crime fiction. . . . Reading Baatz's compelling, definitive book brings it all back to life."--Open Letters Monthly"The story of the Jazz Age thrill-killers Leopold and Loeb has never been told in so gripping a style. A significant work of historical scholarship that reads like a page-turning thriller, Simon Baatz's masterly book now stands as the definitive account of this legendary case."--Harold Schechter, author of The Devil's Gentleman

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