A New York Times BestsellerDetroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion.
For nearly three decades, a series of rapes and murders occurred around Western New York by a nameless, faceless man dubbed ';The Bike Path Rapist' by local media.
Die Gestirne im achten Haus verraten, wie du stirbst …An einem Maiabend im Jahr 1948 verschwindet die neunjährige Birgitta Sivander zwischen den Bäumen eines schwedischen Waldes und kehrt nicht mehr zurück.
Un policía colombiano, graduado con honores y nombrado en 1993 como mejor policía en Medellín Antioquia, se ve envuelto en una serie de crímenes, en principio motivado por el asesinato de uno de sus compañeros, por órdenes del capo, Pablo Escobar Gaviria.
'Ground-breaking' - Daily Mail'In explaining the rise to power of Kim Yo Jong, Lee displays his deep knowledge and understanding of North Korea's extreme, ruthless and self-obsessed dynastic autocracy, the creators and rulers of a de-facto nuclear weapon state.
Someone You Know takes you into dangerous territorybehind closed doors where family, friendship and love can ultimately turn fatal Someone You Know is an anthology of twelve unforgettable Canadian true-crime stories by Story Hunter podcast producer, host and writer Catherine Fogarty.
This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a vigorous empathy that leaves Truman Capote in the dust.
A lo largo de los últimos doscientos años, Nueva York ha sido escenario de miles de delitos y crímenes de todo tipo: asesinatos fríamente calculados, robos espectaculares, matanzas mafiosas, atentados devastadores, casos memorables que contribuyeron a mejorar la metodología policial, psicópatas desatados.
In 2011 a 24-year-old man pled guilty to falsifying his application to Harvard University, bilking the world's most prestigious university out of more than $45,000 in prizes and scholarships.
The Devils Right Hand chroniclesthe legacy of death and destruction in the gunmaking Colt family during the nineteenth century, a legacy largely remembered for a lurid murder case that inspired Edgar Allan Poe's story ';The Oblong Box'but one that encompassed much more.
Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen.
A vain man of good looks but no family ties to the Mob, Vincent ';Vinny Gorgeous' Basciano worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to prison in 2003.
Well documented by public records, actual court reports, and newspaper accounts, this book is a true story of greed, ambition and murder in the first degree.
An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.
Touted in his time as one of the ';great men of the West,' Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fortune.
Some of the law officers who served the West during the last half of the nineteenth century drifted from one side of the law to the other and sold their talents to whichever side offered the most advantage.
