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A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes--both infamous and little-known--that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the...
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"You’ve heard of Pablo Escobar, Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, and Rafael Caro Quintero. Their names conjure ghoulish images of bloody streets, white powder, bundles of weed, and a particular flavor of machismo unique to ruthless druglords. But what of the drugladies, las narcas? For the first time, investigative reporter Deborah Bonello takes you behind the curtain to introduce the women at the helm of organized crime south of the US-Mexico border....
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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First edition.
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English
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"True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. This anthology pulls back the curtain on how crime itself is a by-product of America's...
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"From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murder in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm MacArthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his inheritance had dwindled to almost nothing, a desperate...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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English
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"When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a murder, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of 'Greek life' lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives,...
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A skilled assassin eager to escape his profession and the hold of his handler, The Doctor, Kabuto, when The Doctor agrees to let him pay his way out of his contract, finds his final assignment putting him and his family—who have no idea about his double life—in danger.
7) Tombstone
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Llewelyn Pritchard
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Tombstone[The British Government's Cover-Up]Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada [Part 3/3]Series Title: Port Hope Simpson Mysteries [Vol 5c]Copyright 2012 by Llewelyn PritchardSmashwords EditionWhat was really going on behind the scenes?For the first time, declassified official British Government papers shine new light on amongst other things, Government mismanagement as knowledge hidden by an incongruous granite tombstone in Port...
8) Hero
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After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.
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Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"A great true crime story . . . . Readers will feel the effects of Phelps' skill from beginning to end. --Stephen Singular Big and brash, Jeff Zack didn't hide his rough lifestyle. And when he died, it was in plain sight: executed in the parking lot of a BJ's Wholesale Club in Akron, Ohio, by a motorcycle-riding assassin dressed in black. "Phelps uses a unique combination of investigative skills and narrative insight to give readers an exclusive,...
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Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Drawing on research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence and new interviews, this gripping work of investigative journalism revisits the 1990 unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, revealing the dark secrets teens tell--and keep"--
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Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Brittney left her house unexpectedly in May 2012 in rural Alabama. She was never seen or heard from again. Her mother has campaigned for years to continue the search after the police gave up. Told emotionally by the family and captivating plot twists at the end of each episode, we discover the horrific truth Brittney’s entire family was hiding. Almost all her relatives were implicated in Alabama’s largest child sex ring, and in May 2012, young...
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Debate
Pub. Date
2024.
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Primera edición.
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Español
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El increíble relato en primera persona de Carlos Lehder sobre su vida como narcotraficante y sobre la creación y la evolución del cartel de Medellín. Por más de treinta años se han tejido todo tipo de leyendas en torno al afamado narcotraficante Carlos Lehder. Por primera vez, los lectores podrán leer su versión en primera persona, que abarca desde sus inicios en el delito hasta su extradición a los Estados Unidos, y que cubre con especial...
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A truly pioneering film, Morris’s breakthrough changed the world of documentary forever. Through expressionistic reenactments, provocative interviews and a memorable score by Philip Glass, it tells the fascinating, controversial true story of the arrest and trial of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976—and the film itself proved instrumental in overturning Adams’s death-row conviction. Endlessly influential, “the first...
14) Cocaine Coast
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"A TRUE STORY and expose on Drug Trafficking in Europe! Now a hit Netflix show! In Cocaine Coast, journalist Nacho Carretero and Luis Bustos tell the incredible true story of how a sleepy, unassuming corner of Spain became the cocaine gateway into Europe from Colombia, exposing a new generation of criminals, cartels and corrupt officials, more efficient and ruthless than any who came before. A docu-graphic novel, with lots of action and adventure,...
15) Case Sensitive
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BBC Studios
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English
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When Ruth Blacksmith's new partner, Aidan, reveals that he once hurt a woman called Mary Trelease, Ruth is deeply worried. She raises her concerns with Detective Sergeant Charlie Zailer who is intrigued. But when Charlie decides to call in at Ruth's house, she finds a disturbing scene. Ruth's ex-husband, Jason Blacksmith, has been murdered. Charlie and Detective Simon Waterhouse investigate the case and find themselves divided over motives and suspects....
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2022
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When a hacker known as God-of-Internet hijacks millions of computers to do the bidding of an Islamic jihadist group, their first act is to disrupt the water treatment systems in Boston, Dallas and Los Angeles.
Then the power grids go down.
Is this the start of a digital world war?
The only thing standing between, the terrorists and their goal to weaponize the internet is a small band of white hat hackers, including cybersecurity guru Mahaz Al-Dossari...
17) I Am Evidence
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Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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I AM EVIDENCE exposes the shocking number of untested rape kits in the United States today. Despite the power of DNA to solve and prevent crimes, hundreds of thousands of kits containing potentially crucial DNA evidence languish untested in police evidence storage rooms across the country. Behind each of these kits lies an individual’s unresolved sexual assault case. Produced by Mariska Hargitay, I AM EVIDENCE follows stories of survivors who have...
18) The Syndrome
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Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The explosive documentary THE SYNDROME follows the crusade of a group of doctors, scientists, and legal scholars who have uncovered that “Shaken Baby Syndrome,” a child abuse theory used in hundreds of U.S. prosecutions each year, is not scientifically valid. In fact, they say it doesn’t exist. Filmmaker Meryl Goldsmith and national award-winning investigative reporter Susan Goldsmith document the unimaginable nightmare for those accused and...
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Brought up in the East End of London, son of a policeman, John was already dabbling in crime by his early teens, ending up in a young offenders institute and then a borstal. He'd left home at 15 and the only occupation he knew was theft. He landed a job doing security at concerts for stars such as Simply Red, Queen and Bruce Springsteen and was lured deeper into the world of drugs and crime. By his 20s he was well-acquainted with the capital's criminal...
20) Criminal
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Ever get the feeling you're being played? After a veteran hustler steps in to rescue a small-time grifter who's been caught red-handed, the pair teams up for a series of lucrative cons. But their big break comes when an aging swindler asks the pair to broker the sale of a forged stamp—the Nine Queens—to a desperate millionaire about to be deported. Now, as the scent of money attracts thieves, mobsters and murderers, has the pair really stumbled...
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