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Le corps d'Agnès Le Roux: récit
By Patrick Besson. 2008
Née en 1948, Agnès Le Roux aurait aujourd'hui soixante ans. Ou faut-il dire a ? Elle a disparu : meurtre…
ou exil volontaire loin, très loin de la promenade des Anglais ? L'une des plus fameuses énigmes de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle met en scène Mme Le Roux mère, Renée, copropriétaire du Palais de la Méditerranée, le célèbre casino niçois sur lequel Jean-Dominique Fratoni entend mettre la main. L'amant d'Agnès, Maurice Agnelet, va favoriser l'opération en aidant la fille à voter contre sa mère au conseil d'administration, renversant la majorité et chassant Renée Le Roux de son poste de P-DG. Le récit est l'évocation, par un romancier, d'un fait divers mêlant des éléments amplement divulgués par les médias à des aperçus et interprétations propres à l'auteur. 2008.Lazarus and the Hurricane: the untold story of the freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
By Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton. 1991
Lesra Martin was a Brooklyn youth adopted by a group of Canadians, including the authors of this book. Through Lesra,…
the group became involved in the legal battle to free former boxing contender Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who served 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Strong language. 1991.Breakfast with the devil: the story of a professional jail breaker
By L. Wayne Carlson. 2001
In 1960, 18-year-old Wayne Carlson began his eventual three-decade stay in prisons across Canada and the U.S., managing to escape…
a record 13 times. Since his release he has become a respected activist for prison reform. These memoirs of the man known as "Houdini" are both a wild ride with an outlaw, and a firsthand look at life behind bars in North America. Frequent strong language and violence. 2001.Just another Indian: a serial killer and Canada's indifference
By Warren Goulding. 2001
John Martin Crawford was convicted for brutally murdering three Native Canadian women and is a suspect in the killing of…
at least one other. Crawford has staked his claim as one of the nation's most prolific sex killers, despite the fact that his deeds are virtually forgotten. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.Killing Pablo: the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw
By Mark Bowden. 2001
The author of "Black Hawk down" chronicles the crimes of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, his Medellín cocaine cartel, and…
his influence on his country. Describes Escobar's imprisonment, escape, enemies, and the American involvement with death squads that sought revenge. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2001.Justice, not vengeance
By Simon Wiesenthal, Ewald Osers. 1989
A former prisoner in the Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal has spent years searching out and exposing those responsible for the…
murders of millions. He describes the discovery, capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann as well as the search for Dr. Josef Mengele. 1989. Uniform title: Recht, nicht Rache.Judging Bertha Wilson: law as large as life (Osgoode Society For Canadian Legal History Ser.)
By Ellen Anderson. 2002
Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an influential and controversial figure…
in Canadian legal and political history. Wilson's contributions to the areas of human rights law and equality jurisprudence are many and well-known. Lesser known are her early days in Scotland and her work as a minister's wife, or her post-judicial work on gender equality for the Canadian Bar Association and her contributions to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. 2002.Gentle Johnny Ramensky: the extraordinary true story of the safe blower who became a war hero
By Robert Jeffrey. 2010
“Gentle Johnny Ramensky” is the astonishing tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one…
of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than 40 years in jail. But he served his country with exceptional bravery and skill in the Second World War. Back in civvy street he could not resist a return to the excitement of roaming darkened rooftops and breaking open the toughest of safes. 2010.Jack the Ripper: murder, mystery and intrigue in London's East End (Amazing stories)
By Susan McNicoll. 2005
In the 1880s, the East End of London became the staging place for a series of bloodcurdling murders that caused…
outrage and widespread panic throughout the nation. Although many criminologists have speculated as to the identity of the killer, to this day the murderer is known only as Jack the Ripper. Some descriptions of violence. 2005.I will find you: solving killer cases from my life fighting crime
By Joe Kenda. 2017
Are you horrified yet fascinated by abhorrent murders? Do you crave to know the gory details of these crimes, and…
do you seek comfort in the solving of the most gruesome? In this book, the star of Homicide Hunter, Lt. Joe Kenda, shares his deepest, darkest, and never-before-revealed case files from his two decades as a homicide detective, and reminds us that crimes like these are very real and can happen even in our own backyards. 2017.If it weren't for sex-- I'd have to get a job: confessions of a private dick
By James Burke, Arnold Manweiler. 1984
I shot daddy: She Killed Her Father To Protect Her Sister
By Stacey Lannert. 2011
It was a time of unregulated madness, and nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the…
roaring 1920s. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and yellow journalism only contributed to the excesses. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million in phantom timberland and non-existent oil wells in Panama. When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished and the Chicago State's Attorney began an international manhunt that lasted almost a year. When finally apprehended, Leo was living a life of luxury in Nova Scotia under an assumed identity. His mysterious death in a Chicago prison topped anything in his almost-too-bizarre-to-believe life. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 Arthur Ellis Best Non-fiction Crime Book Award. 2015.Burnt out and despairing, middle-aged Leah reluctantly agrees to visit 94-year-old Adele once a week in her nursing home, and…
learns that resilient, independent and enthusiastic Adele is, in many ways, younger than she is. She finds the enduring importance of friendship from Adele and her retirement home companions. 1999.Chicken soup for the golden soul: heartwarming stories about people 60 and over
By Jack Canfield. 2000
Divided into chapters on letting go, giving, learning, the lighter side, across the generations, overcoming obstacles, perspective, believing, living your…
dream, reminiscing and ageless wisdom, this book celebrates the myriad joys of living and the wisdom that comes from having lived. 2000.Dead reckoning: how I came to meet the man who murdered my father
By Carys Cragg. 2017
A powerful and emotional memoir about a woman whose father was brutally murdered at home by an intruder. Twenty years…
later, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and learns startling new information about the crime. "Dead Reckoning" follows the author’s determination to confront the man who destroyed her world in order to find peace. 2017.All-American murder: the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
By James Patterson, Alex Abramovich, Mike Harvkey. 2018
Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until…
he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground investigative reporting that gives readers a front row seat to Hernandez's tumultuous downward spiral, this biography reveals the truth behind the troubled star, with first-person accounts and untold stories. Bestseller. 2018.Goodbye, sweet girl: a story of domestic violence and survival
By Kelly Sundberg. 2018
In this memoir, Kelly Sundberg chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse--examining…
the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship, why she endured years of pain, and how she eventually broke free. 2018.In 1908, a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home. The police found a convenient suspect in Oscar…
Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp, who, despite his obvious innocence, was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor in a brutal Scottish prison. Conan Doyle, already world famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Using the methods of his most famous character, he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and eyewitness statements, meticulously noting myriad holes, inconsistencies, and outright fabrications by police and prosecutors. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom. Fox immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in the history of forensics, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method. 2018.Can you ever forgive me?: memoirs of a literary forger
By Lee Israel. 2018
Before turning to her life of crime, running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich…
Village bar and even dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she'd received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats. Between 1990 and 1991, she wrote more than three hundred letters in the voices of, among others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, and Noel Coward, and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and autograph dealers. 2018.