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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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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....
4) 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...
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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
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[2023]
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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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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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First edition.
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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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John Blake
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2022
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The stuff of nightmares. . . A man alone in an apartment with a young woman friend, who suddenly unleashes a deadly onslaught, without warning or reason. The stabs don't hurt. They seem more like punches. Then he realizes that the red liquid pumping out of his body and on to the floor is his blood. He doesn't realize, as he drifts into unconsciousness before death supervenes, that he'll never wake up again. . . In March 2013, Joanne Dennehy stabbed...
9) Deliberate Evil : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader
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Chicago Review Press
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2023
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"This is true crime at its most enthralling—prepare to be transported." —Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic
The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered that two of the conspirators came from Salem's influential Crowninshield family: a clan of millionaire shipowners, cabinet secretaries, and congressmen.
A prosecution team...
10) Broken Doll
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Kensington Publishing Corp.
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2022
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"Near Miss In May, 1988, in Everett, Washington, four-year-old Feather Rahier disappeared while playing outside after dinner. Her frantic cries drew Feather's mother to the dark garage that was home to Richard Matthew Clark. Clark had stolen the child, bound and gagged her, and begun to undress her. Only at the last instant was the little girl saved by her mother's desperate intervention. The next victim wouldn't be so fortunate. Without A Trace...
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Kay Duncan
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Child Killer A True Story into the mind & motives of a teenage shooter for parents, educators and law enforcement. The authors are experts in shooters. They have identified and termed shooters that shoot victims with unprecedented accuracy as "Shooting Gallery Shooters". Their work is used to train law enforcement in recognizing a potential shooter before a shooting takes place. --Provided by publisher.
12) Body Count
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Kensington Publishing Corp.
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2022
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"He Seemed So Normal . . . By day, Robert Lee Yates, Jr., was a respected father of five, a skilled helicopter pilot who served in Desert Storm and the National Guard, and a man no one suspected of a deadly hidden life. By night he prowled the streets where prostitutes gathered, gaining their trust before betraying them with a bullet to the head. On August 26, 1997, the decomposed bodies of two young women were discovered in Spokane, Washington. Within...
13) Death Angel
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Kensington Publishing Corp.
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2022
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English
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"Hospital HorrorGaunt and ghostlike, Charles Cullen was a lifelong misfit who quietly became one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. Over the course of sixteen years, he walked the hallways of hospitals and nursing homes in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where he worked as a nurse, "ministering" to the elderly and other gravely ill patients in critical care units. The self-appointed grim reaper played a cruel game, deciding which of...
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal organization known to law enforcement as "the real Sopranos"
Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten...
15) Evil Eyes
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Kensington Publishing Corp.
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2022
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"Serial Thrill-Killer In Houston, Texas, on the morning of May 23, 1982, Coral Eugene Watts, 28, trapped two young women in their apartment. Only hours before, he'd killed another woman by drowning her in her bathtub. As Watts attempted to do the same to 20-year-old Lori Lister, her roommate Melinda Aguilar, 18, made a daring escape, leading to Watts's arrest. Justice Deferred Watts was a sadistic slayer with a lust for killing in a variety of ways:...
16) Love Me To Death
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Kensington Publishing Corp.
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2022
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"Welcome To My Mortuary!"Those were the words of William Lee "Cody" Neal, 43, to Angela Fite on July 5, 1998, after luring the pretty 28-year-old to the Denver, Colorado townhouse he'd turned into a den of torture and slaughter. With twisted pleasure, he showed her two dead female bodies on the floor and a third, live one--naked, gagged and bound, and spread-eagled on a mattress."Anybody Stupid Enough To Believe Me Deserves To Get Screwed!"Neal who...
17) Human Harvest
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Garrett County Press
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2022
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Dorothea Gray Johanson Montalvo Puente was a female serial killer, an extremely rare phenomenon in the annals of American crime. She took advantage of a flaw in the Social Security laws to carve a lifelong career out of exploiting elderly, ill, often-helpless people. She established herself in positions of trust in order to steal these people's only source of income, then drugged them to expedite her chicanery and, finally, murdered them. Dorothea...
18) Body Hunter
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Kensington Publishing Corp.
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2022
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English
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"The Sex Killer Next DoorTo the people of Olney, Texas, 39-year-old Faryion Wardrip was an upright citizen--a happily married man, a valued employee, and a respected Sunday school teacher. But everyone in Olney would soon learn the chilling truth about the man they thought they knew.His Brutal Rape-Murder SpreeIn January, 1999, investigators reviewing the files of three unsolved murders dating back 15 years came across information linking Wardrip...
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had never met either victim—as the monster responsible. In Pennsylvania's first use of mitochondrial DNA in a criminal...
20) Dennis Nilsen
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John Blake
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2022
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In February 1983, civil servant Dennis Nilsen was arrested after body parts were found to be blocking drains at the house where he lived. As the squad car drove him away, he confessed he had strangled 15 young men. But it wasn't just the crimes that stunned the police, but the way Nilsen spoke. He said he loved the young men he killed. When newspapers carried stories of how the 37-year-old lured men back to his flat and why, the nation was shocked...
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