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3,096 days
By Natascha Kampusch, Jill Kreuer. 2010
On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white…
van. Hours later she found herself in a dark cellar, wrapped in a blanket. When she emerged eight years later, her childhood had gone. In "3,096 Days" Natascha tells her story for the first time. Descriptions of violence. 2010.The Judas kiss: The Undercover Life Of Patrick Kelly
By Michael Harris. 1995
One week after his wife plunged to her death from a 17th-floor balcony, Patrick Kelly was vacationing in Hawaii with…
his lover. The author tells of how Kelly changed from an RCMP undercover drug agent to smuggler and suspected fraud artist. Kelly was eventually convicted of the murder of his wife. 1995.The prison book club
By Ann Walmsley. 2015
An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street, and shook her belief in the…
fundamental goodness of people. A few years later, when a friend asked her to participate in a bold new venture in a men's medium security prison, Ann had to weigh her curiosity and desire to be of service against her anxiety and fear. But she signed on, and for eighteen months went to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting a group of heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. There was no wine and cheese, no plush furnishings. But a book club on the inside of a prison proved to be a place to share ideas and regain a sense of humanity. 2015.My story
By Chris Stewart, Elizabeth Smart. 2013
On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in…
the middle of the night by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell and his wife. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise, sexually abused, and told she and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and worked to pick up the pieces of her life. She tells of the constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convince them to return to Utah, where she was rescued minutes after arriving. Bestseller. 2013.The Marriott cell: an epic journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to freedom
By Carol Shaben, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy. 2016
On the night of December 29, 2013, the Egyptian government's anti-terror forces led a dramatic raid on the Marriott Hotel,…
seizing Fahmy, Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief for the independent English Al Jazeera, and two fellow journalists in what quickly became an international cause célèbre condemned as a travesty of justice. Inside the maximum-security Scorpion Prison, Fahmy found himself with some of the most hardened Al Qaeda and ISIS extremists and Muslim Brotherhood leaders: he never stopped being a journalist, taking advantage of his unexpected proximity to "interview" them and gain insight into their goals, into the feuds between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE on the one hand, and Qatar and its allies, including Turkey, on the other, and surfacing shocking details of torture inside military camps. Thrown into the toxic mix was the complex geo-political power brokering of Western governments, which left three men, wrongly convicted of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood and "fabricating news," struggling in a terrifying web. 2016.Wolves among sheep: the true story of murder in a Jehovah's Witness community
By James Kostelniuk. 2000
The author retells the story of the shotgun murder of his first wife, Kim, and his two children at the…
hands of her estranged second husband. Jeff Anderson is a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and Kostelniuk discusses his belief that this organization hastened the acts of violence that killed Kim Anderson and her children. Some descriptions of violence. 2000.Without mercy: a woman's struggle against modern slavery
By Miriam Ali, Jana Wain. 1995
For Miriam, the turning point in her life came with the confirmation that her daughters, Zana and Nadia, aged only…
fifteen and fourteen respectively, had been taken from their home in Birmingham to be sold by their father to 'husbands' in Yemen. She finally took her remaining children and left, beginning the fight to bring Zana and Nadia back home. 1995.Where the bodies were buried: Whitey Bulger and the world that made him
By T. J English. 2015
For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger, the brother of influential Massachusetts senator Billy Bulger, was…
often romanticized as a Robin Hood-like thief and protector. While he was functioning as the de facto mob boss of New England, Bulger was also serving as a top-echelon informant for the FBI, covertly feeding local prosecutors information about other mob figures, while using their cover to cleverly eliminate his rivals, reinforce his own power, and protect himself from prosecution. In 2011 he was arrested in Southern California and returned to Boston, where he was tried and convicted of racketeering and murder. Offers a startlingly revisionist account of Bulger's story, and of the decades-long culture of collusion between the feds and the Irish and Italian mob factions that have ruled New England since the 1970s. 2015.We are all shipwrecks: a memoir
By Kelley Grey Carlisle. 2017
Kelly always knew her family was different. She knew that most children didn't live with their grandparents on a boat…
in the LA harbour, that most family businesses weren't adult video stores, and that drug addicts and johns weren't normal next-door neighbours. She also knew that most of her classmates knew more about their moms than their cause of death. What Kelly didn't know was if she would become part of the dysfunction that surrounded her. Would she end up selling porn and sinking into the depths of harbour life, or would she escape to live her own story somewhere else? As an adult, Kelly decides to discover how the place where she came from defined the person she ultimately became. To do this, she goes back to the beginning--to a mother she never knew, a thirty-year-old cold case, and two of Los Angeles's most notorious murderers. 2017.Very much a lady: the untold story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower
By Shana Alexander. 1983
Through a series of conversations with Harris before, during, and after the sensational trial in which Harris is convicted of…
Tarnower's death, Alexander compassionately reconstructs her life, career, and emotional obsession with Tarnower. Some strong language. 1983.Vancouver Blue: a life against crime
By Wayne Cope. 2015
Wayne Cope has TV to blame for starting him on his long career as an officer of the Vancouver Police…
Department. He grew up watching gunslingers like James Arness and Richard Boone, inspiring him to join up even before he finished college - and his real-life working career has turned out to be more exciting than he could have hoped. In his years on the force, Cope has seen practically everything on the ever-changing streets of Vancouver - he's worked as a jailer and a traffic cop, talked people down from bridges, worked on dog squads, gone undercover in pursuit of criminals and worked the historical unsolved homicide unit. And behind each assignment, there's a story, a joke or a revealing insight into the realities of police work. 2015.A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching…
the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power would feel like. He soon found out. At the age of seventeen, he became the youngest-ever member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club and spent the next five decades living a life for which he does not ask forgiveness, only that his story finally be told. Includes strong language and violence. c2013.Une partie rouge: autobiographie d'un procès (Feuilleton non-fiction)
By Maggie Nelson, Julia Deck. 2017
La poétesse raconte comment elle a vécu le procès, en 2004, du coupable présumé du meurtre de sa tante, Jane…
Mixer, assassinée en 1969 dans le Michigan. Elle propose une méditation sur les fantômes qui peuvent peupler la vie de chacun. 2017. Titre uniforme: The red parts.Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's story of life in the Mafia (Americana Ser.)
By Peter Maas. 1997
Memoir of life inside the Cosa Nostra by the highest-ranking Mafia defector thus far in history. Traces his mob career…
as a hit man, underboss for the powerful Gambino family, and, ultimately, the government witness whose testimony put "Teflon Don" John Gotti in prison for life. Strong language and violence. 1997.Two gentlemen to see you, sir: the autobiography of a villain
By Victor Carasov. 1971
True story: murder, memoir, mea culpa
By Michael Finkel. 2005
In 2002, Finkel, a rising star at the Times, was fired for fabricating a character in a story. Just as…
this was about to become public, he learned that a man named Christian Longo, arrested in Mexico for murder, had been living under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel of The New York Times. Sensing a story - and an opportunity for redemption - Finkel contacted Longo, initiating a relationship that would grow increasingly complex over the course of Longo's trial and conviction. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.Traitors of the tower (2010 Quick Reads Series)
By Alison Weir. 2010
More than four hundred years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of…
London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? This book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. 2010. (2010 Quick Reads Series)Through the glass
By Shannon Moroney. 2011
When Shannon Moroney married in October of 2005, she had no idea that one month after her wedding, a police…
officer would arrive at her door to tell her that her husband, Jason, had been arrested and charged in the brutal assault and kidnapping of two women. In the aftermath of these crimes, Shannon dealt with a heavy burden of grief, the stress and publicity of a major criminal investigation, and the painful stigma of guilt-by-association, all while attempting to understand what had made Jason turn to such violence. Descriptions of sex and violence. 2011.Three month fever: the Andrew Cunanan story
By Gary Indiana. 1999
In 1997, twenty-eight-year-old Andrew Cunanan killed four men, including designer Gianni Versace, before committing suicide. Using information from police and…
FBI reports, the author describes the killing spree and imagines what the young homosexual Cunanan was doing and thinking during that time. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. 1999.Italian Rocco Perri rose from the life of a petty criminal on the streets of Toronto to run the most…
prominent bootlegging operation of the Prohibition Era in central Canada, taking over Hamilton and leading one of the region’s most influential crime families. Perri was feared by his enemies and loved by the press, and following the murder of his first wife and business partner, Bessie Starkman, a crowd of 30,000 thronged the streets of Hamilton to watch her funeral. His businesses, which included alcohol, drugs, gambling and prostitution, kept Perri under constant police surveillance. Frank Zaneth, also Italian, joined the RCMP and became its first undercover operative. He was dogged in his pursuit of Rocco Perri and worked for his arrest until the day Perri was last seen, in 1944, when he disappeared without a trace. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Non-fiction Crime Book Award. 2017.