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No one to tell: breaking my silence on life in the RCMP
By Janet Merlo, Leslie Vryenhoek. 2013
Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP officers to publicly allege she had experienced sexual harassment and gender discrimination…
while serving in Canada`s national police force. The women kept silent for so long, she says, because there was no one to tell. Janet recalls how her love of policing was soured by covert and overt sexism within the ranks and by an institutional culture that valued toughness and silence over ethics and accountability. Tracing her twenty years in uniform, Merlo’s story details the highs and lows of her career in the RCMP – while her mental health and personal life disintegrated. 2013.Nasty business: one biker gang's bloody war against the Hells Angels
By Peter Paradis. 2002
The 1990s biker war on the streets of Montreal pitted the established Hells Angels against upstarts the Rock Machine in…
a battle for the drug trade. After being shot by a Hells hit squad, Rock Machine boss Peter Paradis watched as the police closed in and the Hells begin winning the war, spurring a penniless and ostracized Paradis to turn informant. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2002.My father and Atticus Finch: a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama (ITK audio)
By Joseph Madison Beck. 2016
A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of…
raping a white woman calls to mind "To Kill a Mockingbird". 2016.My fair junkie: a memoir of getting dirty and staying clean
By Amy Dresner. 2017
In 2011 Amy Dresner was high on OxyContin, stupidly pulled a knife on her then-husband, and was promptly arrested. Within…
months, she found herself in a psych ward, penniless, and looking at 240 hours of community service. For the next two years she would sweep up syringes on Hollywood Boulevard as she bounced from rehabs to halfway houses, all while struggling with sobriety and starting life over in her forties. 2017.My discovery of America
By Farley Mowat. 1985
In 1985, when Mowat tried to enter the United States for a book promotion tour, he was barred by the…
McCarran Act, a 1952 law enacted during the McCarthy era. This book, told with outraged but good humour, describes Mowat's fight against the ban. 1985.Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those…
professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. The first female U.S. District Attorney, she made groundbreaking investigations into modern-day slavery, and the papers gave her the nickname of fiction's famous sleuth. One of her greatest accomplishments was solving the cold case of a missing eighteen-year-old girl, Ruth Cruger. Her work changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls, but it came with a price: she learned all too well what happens when one woman upstages the entire NYPD. 2018.Murder without borders: dying for the story in the world's most dangerous places
By Terry Gould. 2009
Over four years, Terry Gould has travelled to Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia and Iraq - the countries in which…
journalists are most likely to be murdered on the job. Through conversations with their colleagues, their families and in some cases their murderers, he uncovers the lives of local reporters and broadcasters who stayed on a story to the point of death, and discovers the complex reasons for their bravery. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Mort ou vif: les chasses à l'homme les plus extraordinaires
By Pierre Bellemare, Jean-François Nahmias. 2007
Missing Sarah: a Vancouver woman remembers her vanished sister
By Maggie De Vries. 2003
Sarah de Vries disappeared in April of 1998. Her sister Maggie searches for clues and answers by reading Sarah's poetry…
and piecing together the collective memory of everyone who knew her. 2003.Monster: A Rapist Father, A Captive Daughter, A Secret Dungeon
By Allan Hall. 2008
Getting to the heart of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever recorded, Allan Hall reconstructs the…
monstrous personality of Josef Fritzl from interviews with psychologists, neighbours, colleagues and friends. Includes strong language. 2008.Les juges, quand éclatent les mythes: une radiographie de la crise (Collection Partis Pris Actuels #Vol. 3)
By Rodolphe Morissette. 1994
Un reporter judiciaire livre ici une analyse pénétrante de la crise qui secoue la magistrature au Québec. Jamais a-t-on vu,…
au cours de la dernière décennie, autant de mythes entourant la magistrature tomber les uns après les autres. Une suite d'affaires récentes touchant les juges et la gestion des tribunaux a provoqué de vives réactions dans l'opinion publique. Quel rôle jouent les médias dans ce phénomène? "La saison de la chasse aux juges est ouverte" s'exclamait l'honorable André Brossard. Qui sont donc nos juges? De quels groupes d'intérêts sont-ils issus? Comment sont-ils désignés? Quel régime de sanctions encadre leur conduite? Voilà autant de questions auxquelles l'auteur fournit des explications sobres. 1994.Jack l'Éventreur, affaire classée: portrait d'un tueur
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Jean Esch. 2003
Milena Di Maulo: fille et femme de mafiosi
By Maria Mourani. 2018
Je m'appelle Milena Di Maulo. Avant son assassinat en 2012, mon père, Joseph Joe Di Maulo, était l'un des mafiosi…
les plus influents du Québec. Le père de mes deux enfants se nomme Francesco Frankie Cotroni; il est le fils de Frank Cotroni, l'ancien dirigeant du clan calabrais, qui se trouve être également mon parrain. Quant au frère de ma mère, mon oncle Raynald Desjardins, on l'a reconnu coupable de complot dans l'affaire de l'assassinat du mafioso new-yorkais Salvatore Montagna, et il est actuellement en prison. Croyez-moi, mon nom n'est pas facile à porter. 2018.Me Jean-Pierre Rancourt: les confessions d'un criminaliste
By Bernard Tétrault. 2015
" Avocat criminaliste. Un métier dur et controversé. Pour le commun des mortels, défendre des criminels choque. Me Jean-Pierre Rancourt…
est un avocat populiste qui a plaidé dans d'innombrables procès ayant fait les manchettes. Criminaliste original l'un des plus médiatisés du Québec et plaideur coriace depuis quarante ans, il est parfaitement au fait des polémiques que suscitent ses clients. Sur un ton de confidences biographiques, avec la collaboration du journaliste Bernard Tétrault, il raconte sa vie de criminaliste et les dossiers qui l'ont marqué. Il ne se gêne pas pour décrire les coulisses de notre système judiciaire avec ses travers et son cadre rigide, dont l'application ne manquera pas d'étonner d'une page à l'autre. Une véritable incursion dans le monde d'un avocat réputé qui rêvait de devenir une vedette de la LNH, mais qui a opté pour le droit. " -- 4e de couv.Member of the family: my story of Charles Manson, life inside his cult, and the darkness that ended the sixties
By Dianne Lake, Deborah Herman. 2017
At age fourteen Dianne Lake became one of "Charlie's girls." Over the course of two years, the teenager endured manipulation,…
psychological control, and physical abuse as the harsh realities of Charles Manson's true nature were revealed. This account from an actual Family member recreates in vivid detail one of the most horrifying and fascinating chapters in modern American history. 2017.Memoirs of a radical lawyer
By Michael Mansfield, Yvette Vanson. 2010
Michael Mansfield, QC, is Britain's most high-profile defense lawyer, whose unparalleled commitment to his clients and radical approach to forensics,…
evidence and disclosure have made him a scourge of the establishment and a champion of the individual in many miscarriages of justice cases. Passionate about unveiling corruption and unafraid to challenge received wisdom, he has taken on many of the most controversial cases of our times, including the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, and Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana. Dissecting these cases he offers a fascinating insight into the idiosyncrasies of the English legal system and how it has changed from the late 1960s to the present. Includes strong language. 2010.Matthew Baillie Begbie (The Canadians)
By David R Williams. 1980
Master detective: The Life And Crimes Of Ellis Parker, America's Real-life Sherlock Holmes
By John Reisinger. 2006
The panic and chaos surrounding the Lindbergh kidnapping case, as well as tactics of crime fighting from the early twentieth…
century through the Depression, are depicted in this biography of Ellis Parker, the first chief detective of Burlington County, New Jersey. Parker was known for his uncanny ability to reconstruct crimes through psychology and deduction. 2006.Life after darkness: finding healing and happiness after the Cleveland kidnappings
By Michelle Knight. 2018
Michelle Knight and two fellow kidnapping victims were found and freed after being held for more than a decade by…
notorious Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. But what happened after her escape? How do you re-enter society after years of abuse and isolation? In this memoir, published on the fifth anniversary of her liberation, Knight describes how she healed the wounds to her body, mind, and soul. This inspiring story is for anyone who has dared to hope after suffering. 2018.‘Line Screw’ is jargon for prison guard, the job Yates had for 12 years in British Columbia. Having the proper…
balance of common sense and toughness that makes a good prison guard, Yates seems to have got a kick out of his work, riding herd on the genuine villains, protecting the poor souls, and schmoozing with the more savvy cons. He describes the language, the life and the routines that make up doing time in Canada. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. c1993.