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  • Homicide

    A Year on the Killing Streets

    by David Simon ...
    From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television showThe scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Bitter Harvest

    A Womans Fury A Mothers Sacrifice

    by Ann Rule ...
    True crime icon Ann Rule presents a “must-read” (People) New York Times bestseller—and inspiration behind the Lifetime movie A House on Fire—following a woman whose apparent perfect life hides a harrowing and deadly madness.Debora Green, a doctor and mother in a picturesque and exclusive Kansas town, seems to have the perfect life with her own medical practice, a handsome physician husband, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

    Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

    by Karen Abbott ...
    Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women—a socialite, a farmgirl, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Spy Who Knew Too Much

    An Ex-CIA Officer's Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal

    by Howard Blum ...
    “Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers.”—New York TimesA retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case—and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career—in this compulsive true-life tale of vindication and redemption, filled with drama, intrigue, and mystery from the New York Times bestselling ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Snake Eyes

    Murder in A Southern Town

    By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after a girl was found dead on a nearby ranch. The ranch owner claimed it ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Preppy Murder Trial

    by Bryna Taubman ...
    Bryna Taubman's The Preppy Murder Trial recreates firsthand the case of Robert Chambers--more sensational than any novel.Taubman follows the 16-month headline-making investigation to the jarring plea bargain that ended a trial marred by accusations of foul play, sexism, and a crumbling jury. Intricate and fascinating, this true crime account explores every facet of Chambers's case--from the real ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • I Don't Like Mondays

    The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting

    by N. Leigh Hunt ...
    An in-depth look into America’s first modern school shooting, featuring interviews with witnesses, local reporters, and the killer herself.In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She receives a rifle for Christmas and a month later ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Say Nothing

    A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be an FX limited series streaming on HULU • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions."Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book—as finely paced as a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Adnan's Story

    The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial

    by Rabia Chaudry ...
    After more than twenty years in prison, Adnan Syed’s murder conviction was overturned, and he was finally set free. Rabia Chaudry’s New York Times bestseller and award-winner Adnan’s Story reveals how the case was mishandled and became the subject of Sarah Koenig’s Peabody Award-winning podcast Serial.In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Who Really Killed Kennedy?

    50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About the JFK Assassination

    by Jerome Corsi ...
    Almost nothing gives rise to more national intrigue than the murder of an American president. And on November 22, 2013, the nation remembered the 50th anniversary of one of the most traumatic events in modern American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.From day one, the truth behind JFK’s assassination has been mired in controversy and dispute. The Warren Commission, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Murder & Mayhem in Seattle

    Series series Murder & Mayhem
    Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state's deadliest mass homicide. Some of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Under the Trestle

    The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial.

    “Under The Trestle” is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on a Saturday night. She was never seen again. Her abandoned car was found parked beneath a railroad trestle bridging the New River, with blood in the trunk. The investigation led police to a secluded ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • People Who Eat Darkness

    The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

    Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered Lucie's disappearance and followed the massive search for her, the long investigation, and the even longer trial. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Boston Strong

    A City's Triumph over Tragedy

    Veteran journalists Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge have written the definitive inside look at the Boston Marathon bombings with a unique, Boston-based account of the events that riveted the world. From the Tsarnaev brothers’ years leading up to the act of terror to the bomb scene itself (which both authors witnessed first-hand within minutes of the blast), from the terrifying police shootout with ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pain Hustlers

    Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally published as The Hard Sell

    by Evan Hughes ...
    The inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers—until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. • THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PAIN HUSTLERS STARRING EMILY BLUNT AND CHRIS EVANS"Unfolds with the velocity and verve of a Scorsese film…A tour de force."—Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Death's Acre

    Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales

    “Fans of the forensics-oriented novels of such mystery writers as Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell...not to mention television series like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, will make an eager audience for this one.”—BooklistOn a patch of land in the Tennessee hills, human corpses decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria, and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. This is Bill ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Betrayal In Blood

    Her Cheating Heart"Mommy...won't be with us anymore." That's what attorney Kevin C. Bryant, 45, told his two young sons in the spring of 2003. At the time, blonde, pretty, 26-year-old Tabatha Bryant was alive and well in an upscale suburb of Rochester, New York. But that was about to change--because Bryant knew his wife was cheating--and he intended to end the affair by ending her life. On June 14 ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Big Con

    The Story of the Confidence Man

    by David Maurer ...
    The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.”“Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,” wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well-researched, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Virginia Giuffre

    The Extraordinary Life Story of the 'Playtoy' who Pursued and Ended the Crimes of Millionaires Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein

    'Forensic' Daily MailVirginia (Roberts) Giuffre had nothing. Her all-American childhood came to an abrupt end by sexual abuse when she was 7. Finally, aged 14, her luck seemed to turn with a summer job as spa attendant at Donald Trump's exclusive Mar-a-Lago in Florida. It was here that the young girl was hunted by elegant jet-setter Ghislaine Maxwell who said her millionaire partner Jeffrey ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trace Evidence

    The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer

    The #1 New York Times bestselling true crime author presents “a solid, compelling account of that most vicious of criminals, the random serial killer” (Library Journal).Through the 1970s and 80s, a dangerous serial killer stalked Northern California along Interstate 5. Dubbed the I-5 Strangler, Roger Kibbe was incredibly skilled at staying ahead of investigators as his victim count rose. Even ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chase Darkness with Me

    How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

    by Billy Jensen ...
    ***With an exclusive behind-the-scenes conversation between Billy Jensen and retired detective Paul Holes on the Golden State Killer, their favorite cold cases, and more***Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect?Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • My Mother, a Serial Killer

    by Hazel Baron ...
    A gripping and shocking story of a serial killer mother, and the brave daughter who brought her to justice.Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kindand caring. The officers at the local police station found Dulcie witty and charming, and looked forward to the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Murder in California: Rage and Revenge Murders

    Murder in California: Rage and Revenge Murders profiles some of California’s most infamous murder cases. The edition photographically transports you to actual murder sites along with images related to the case and perpetrator(s). The images and accompanying profiles offer a descriptive account and follow-up aftermath providing an important understanding into the far-reaching effects of each crime ... Read more

    $5.98 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abandoned Prayers

    An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secrets

    by Gregg Olsen ...
    On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, was by all appearances a dedicated farmer and family man in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD