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The cases that haunt us: from Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds new light on the mysteries that won't go away
By Mark Olshaker, John E Douglas. 2016
Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed…
JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizing questions and more. With unique analysis, the authors reexamine and reinterpret the accepted facts, evidence, and victimology of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime, including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Zodiac Killer, and the Whitechapel murders. Utilizing techniques developed by Douglas himself, they give detailed profiles and reveal chief suspects in pursuit of what really happened in each case. 2016.The cadaver king and the country dentist: a true story of injustice in the American South
By Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington. 2018
In this account of two tragedies, Dr. Steven Hayne was a medical examiner in Mississippi and Dr. Michael West a…
dentist and self-styled "bite-mark specialist." The second tragedy is of two black men wrongly convicted by Hayne's and West's reports. The authors reveal how this tragedy happened and how to prevent its happening again. 2018.The case of Valentine Shortis: a true story of crime and politics in Canada
By M. L Friedland. 1986
Two men were shot and killed at the Montreal Cotton Company in 1895. This is the dramatic story of the…
trial of Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant who was accused of the murders. 1986.The broken circle: a true story of murder and magic in Indian country
By Rodney Barker. 1992
Journalist Rodney Barker was passing through Farmington, New Mexico, in 1974 when he got swept up in a protest. Navajos…
were angry with the light sentence given to three white teenagers who tortured and killed three of their tribesmen. Years later, Barker retraces the events surrounding the murders and describes how the Navajo people exacted their own kind of justice. Includes strong language and violence. c1992.Sous le soleil de Toscane: une maison en Italie
By Frances Mayes, Jean-Luc Piningre. 1998
Superbement écrit, ce livre raconte une aventure : vivre en Toscane, tomber amoureux d'une maison, la restaurer, s'adonner aux plaisirs…
de la cuisine italienne et découvrir les liens entre les plats et la culture.Taupes: infiltrations, mensonges et trahisons
By Fabrice De Pierrebourg, Vincent Larouche. 2014
" Les taupes sont la hantise des services de renseignement et des corps policiers. Certaines sont parachutées pour infiltrer un…
pays, dérober des secrets et recruter d'autres taupes. D'autres trahissent l'organisation qui les emploie et offrent leurs services à l'ennemi par vengeance, pour flatter leur ego ou par appât du gain. Leurs aventures rocambolesques fascinent ou choquent et les ravages qu'elles causent avant d'être détectées leur valent ce surnom bien mérité! De Montréal à Moscou, ces enquêtes captivantes apportent un éclairage nouveau sur des cas marquants de l'actualité canadienne, entre autres ceux de Benoît Roberge, enquêteur-vedette sur le crime organisé, Jeffrey Delisle, officier reconnu coupable d'espionnage, et Donald Heathfield et Tracey Ann Foley, le célèbre couple d' illégaux du KGB. " -- 4e de couv.Terrorisme: quand tout peut devenir une cible
By Pierre Richard. 2016
Le 13 novembre 2015, la France, ébahie, apprenait qu'elle était en guerre. Un nouveau terrorisme était né. Si les cibles…
visées avaient, jusqu'alors, généralement valeur de symbole commissariats de police, mosquées, synagogues, journaux ou officines gouvernementales, dorénavant, on visait la rue. Personne n'était à l'abri. Un terrorisme mondialisé. Si la France venait d'être touchée (et allait encore l'être), ce n'était pas le seul pays figurant sur la liste de l'ennemi maintenant déclaré: Daesh ou le groupe État islamique. New York avait été frappée, de même que Londres, Madrid, Moscou, Istamboul, Casablanca, ou encore Bamako Et la liste ne manquerait pas de s'allonger. Un terrorisme né des politiques occidentales. Car Daesh n'est que l'héritier du système mis en place par Washington, au début des années 1980, pour contrer l'Armée rouge en Afghanistan. Ce sont ces moudjahidines, entraînés et formés au Pakistan par la CIA, qui constituent aujourd'hui la pire menace visant l'Occident! Pour la première fois de l'histoire moderne, une organisation rebelle vouée à la lutte aux infidèles de toutes sortes, occupe un territoire grand comme la moitié de la France, lourdement armée non seulement d'un arsenal traditionnel, mais aussi de technologies des plus sophistiquées. Pire encore: le danger vient maintenant de l'intérieur des pays occidentaux et le nombre de terroristes potentiels ne cesse de croître Dans cet ouvrage fort bien documenté, l'auteur offre un portrait saisissant de ce nouveau terrorisme: ses origines, son histoire, son évolution, ses armes de propagande et ses forces obscures. Un ouvrage essentiel, d'une terrible actualité. 2016.Sœurs volées: enquête sur un féminicide au Canada
By Emmanuelle Walter. 2014
" Depuis 1980, près de 1 200 Amérindiennes canadiennes ont été assassinées ou ont disparu dans une indifférence quasi totale.…
Proportionnellement, ce chiffre officiel et scandaleux équivaut à 55 000 femmes françaises ou 7 000 Québécoises. Dans ce récit bouleversant écrit au terme d'une longue enquête, Emmanuelle Walter donne chair aux statistiques et raconte l'histoire de deux adolescentes, Maisy Odjick et Shannon Alexander. Originaires de l'ouest du Québec, elles sont portées disparues depuis septembre 2008. " 4e de couv.Former Los Angeles prosecutor asserts that U.S. Supreme Court justices Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor, and Kennedy "did not act impartially…
in the case of Bush v. Gore" when they stopped the recount of contested Florida votes during the 2000 presidential election. Developed from an article that originally appeared in the Nation. Bestseller. 2001.The biker who shot me: recollections of a crime reporter
By Michel Auger, Jean-Paul Murray. 2001
As a journalist, Auger has observed and reported upon the growth of the biker gangs and their increasing involvement in…
organized crime. He has written a number of articles that exposed the Hells Angels' links to the Mafia; articles that he knows enraged the bikers enough to have him killed. This is an account of his life as a crime reporter, with particular attention to his brush with death when he was shot in the back six times with a pistol equipped with a silencer, and the events that followed. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.The Barlinnie story: riots, death, retribution and redemption in Scotland's infamous prison
By Robert Jeffrey. 2009
Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world, and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow's…
toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets. Ten men died on its gallows in the infamous Hanging Shed, including serial killer Peter Manuel. It has sparked rooftop protests and cell-block riots. It has been home to godfathers of crime like Arthur Thompson, Sr. and Walter Norval. 2009.The Aran Islands (Classics library)
By Frank McCourt, J. M Synge. 1997
An unforgettable look at a land that holds Ireland's ancestral language, culture and uncorrupted heart. Synge's lyrical glimpses into the…
past, coupled with Donal Donnelly's rich, lilting voice, transport listeners to these tiny Emerald Islands. 1997.The Baltimore case: a trial of politics, science, and character
By Daniel J Kevles. 1998
Examines a case involving scientific accountability, government funding of research, and the civil rights of scientists. Explains the origins of…
an accusation of fraud against DNA researcher Thereza Imanishi-Kari; the defence of her integrity by her co-author, Nobel Prizewinner David Baltimore; and their persecution in the 1980s and restitution in the 1990s. 1998.Terrorism: the new world war
By David Harding, Lloyd Pettiford. 2003
This text offers an examination of the complex phenomenon of terrorism and the role it plays in modern society. The…
book includes comprehensive biographies of major terrorist groups and individuals. It discusses in detail the most infamous acts of terror penetrated, from the kidnapping and murder of Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, to the US-Iranian hostage crisis of 1979. In the light of recent events it also provides a startling look at the possible future of terrorism and its impact on the Western world. 2003.Police detective Lori Shenher describes her role in Vancouver’s infamous Missing and Murdered Women Investigation and her years-long struggle with…
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of her work on the case. From her first assignment in 1998 to explore an increase in the number of missing women to the harrowing 2002 interrogation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, Shenher tells a story of massive police failure. 2015.The 57 bus: a true story of two teenagers and the crime that changed their lives
By Dashka Slater. 2017
One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If…
it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.The airman and the carpenter: the Lindberg kidnapping
By Ludovic Kennedy. 1985
The airman is Charles Lindbergh, famous for his historic flight from New York to Paris in 1927; the carpenter a…
German immigrant, Richard Hauptmann. The tragic link between the two names is the kidnap and death of Lindbergh's baby son. The author investigates the justice or otherwise of the case. 1985.Seule fille de mon village
By Sugan Kanwar, Célia Mercier. 2014
" Petite, Sugan Kanwar adore passer ses vacances dans son village natal, au coeur du désert qui entoure sa ville…
fortifiée de Jaisalmer au Rajasthan. Au fil des ans, elle s'étonne de n'avoir aucune autre petite fille pour jouer avec elle. "Les femmes n'accouchent que de garçons au village, c'est à cause de l'eau de notre puits", lui explique sa grand-mère. C'est lors d'un mariage que Sugan apprend par hasard la vérité : dans sa caste hindoue, on ne "garde pas les filles". Elles sont tuées par leurs propres mères, peu après l'accouchement, et enterrées dans l'enceinte des maisons, une tradition qui se poursuit dans l'indifférence générale. Sugan comprend alors qu'elle est une exception : son père a pris la décision de la "garder ". Elle prouvera à tout le village qu'il a eu raison. Un témoignage bouleversant qui lève le voile sur le drame de l'infanticide en Inde. " -- 4e de couv.Sur les chemins noirs
By Sylvain Tesson. 2016
Après une mauvaise chute qui a failli lui coûter la vie et causé de multiples fractures, le narrateur se retrouve…
à l'hôpital pendant plusieurs mois. Sur son lit, il se promet que s'il est rétabli, il traversera la France à pied. Une fois sorti, il entreprend un voyage de quatre mois à travers les chemins de campagne, à la reconquête de lui-même, depuis Tende (Alpes-Maritimes) jusqu'au Cotentin. 2016.Tarnished brass: crime and corruption in the Canadian military
By Scott Taylor, Brian Nolan. 1996
An examination of the controversy surrounding the Canadian military after the death of Shidane Arone in Somalia. The authors argue…
that Arone's death was not an isolated incident, but rather a symptom of a growing problem within the army. They believe that this and many other problems are rooted in a failure of leadership and professionalism at the highest level of command. 1996.