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Duped!: true stories of the world's best swindlers (It actually happened series ; #1)
By Andreas Schroeder. 2011
Schroeder uncovers the facts behind eight of the most outrageous scams of all time. Read about a Stone Age tribe…
discovered in the jungles of the Philippines, lost documents written by Shakespeare, and a 1938 radio broadcast that reported that something strange has crashed into a field in New Jersey – and that hostile Martians then started attacking! Grades 4-7. c2011. (It actually happened series ; 1)Hot art: chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art
By Joshua Knelman, Trena White. 2011
Knelman spent four years immersing himself in the mysterious world of international art theft, travelling from Cairo to New York,…
London, Montreal and Los Angeles. He befriends the slippery Paul, a master art thief; and meets Donald Hrycyk, a detective working on a shoestring budget to recover stolen art. His investigation finds there are only a handful of detectives, FBI agents and lawyers fighting a global battle against the thriving black market of international art theft, estimated to be one of the largest in the world. Includes strong language. c2011.Crimes of passion: an unblinking look at murderous love
By Howard Engel. 2001
From France and England to Canada and the United States, Engel explores more than twenty-five classic, infamous and still unresolved…
cases of passion and murder. As he discovers, le crime passionnel, a concept originating in France, has a special place in many legal codes around the world. Someone who has suddenly or unexpectedly been betrayed by a loved and trusted partner, even in an illicit relationship, is rarely treated as a common murderer. 2001.Ballad of the anarchist bandits: the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
By John M Merriman. 2017
Home sweet murder (Murder is forever. #2.)
By James Patterson. 2018
Here are two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder Is Forever TV series. In Home Sweet Murder, a lawyer…
and his wife are tortured and killed by a man claiming to be an SEC agent, while two others will fare worse. In Murder on the Run, a housekeeper and a little boy are victims of a bloody double homicide in Omaha, Nebraska, where a detective promises the boy's parents he will catch the killer, no matter how long or far he runs. Sequel to "Murder, interrupted", followed by "Murder beyond the grave". 2018. Home sweet murder-- Murder on the run.Chappaquiddick: power, privilege, and the Ted Kennedy cover-up
By Leo Damore. 2018
All the dreams we've dreamed: a story of hoops and handguns on Chicago's west side
By Rus Bradburd. 2018
Marshall High School coach Shawn Harrington's career comes crashing to a halt when he is caught in a drive-by shooting.…
Using his body to shield his daughter from gunfire, Harrington is struck and paralyzed. Shawn Harrington's story of senseless gun violence and racial assumptions is also a story of the nature of friendship, of communities, and of hope. 2018.Blood justice: the story of multiple murder and a family's revenge
By Tom Henderson. 2018
In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel. The next morning she was found gagged, raped,…
and tortured, her throat slit. In 1985, Margarette Eby met the same grisly death. A cunning sting operation yielded irrefutable DNA evidence, and authorities were led to the home of respected navy veteran Jeffrey Gorton. But his cold-blooded secrets were only beginning to come to light, leaving fears that there were more victims yet to be found. 2018.Valentine's Day, 2007. Stephen Grant filed a missing person's report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two…
was beside himself with despair. But key elements in Stephen's story weren't adding up. Then, the police made a gruesome discovery. Parts of Tara Grant's body started turning up around the woods near the Grant's home. The truth was finally coming to light and, after a two-day manhunt, Stephen admitted to having killed Tara. 2018.The story of George Jung's journey from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel--…
the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. 2017.Bloodlines: the true story of a drug cartel, the FBI, and the battle for a horse-racing dynasty
By Melissa Del Bosque. 2017
Journalist Melissa del Bosque follows FBI rookie Scott Lawson and Agent Alma Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle cartel leader Miguel…
Treviño's American racing dynasty--a dynasty built on extortion and blood money. With extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players, del Bosque delivers a riveting and suspenseful narrative about greed and corruption. 2017.Dance with the devil: a memoir of murder and loss
By David Bagby. 2017
In November 2001, the body of Andrew Bagby was discovered outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds in his face, chest,…
buttocks, and the back of the head. For parents Dave and Kate, Andrew's murder was only the first in a string of tragic events. 2017.American fire: love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
By Monica Hesse. 2017
Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack…
County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his girlfriend Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the dangerous shift that happened in their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants, who had already been decimated by a punishing economy before they were terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, "American Fire" re-creates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames, mesmerizingly evoking a microcosm of rural America - a land half gutted before the fires even began. 2017.Forever and five days: an account of obsessive love and murder that rocked Grand Rapids, Michigan
By Lowell Cauffiel. 2016
Bitter blood: a true story of southern family pride, madness, and multiple murder
By Jerry Bledsoe. 2016
Marriage connected three wealthy Southern families until multiple murders severed their ties. The police were convinced at first that the…
killings were professional, but suspicion settled on the family members as a total of nine murders took its deadly toll. This true story is based on newspaper articles written by Bledsoe. 2016.Cowboys and gangsters: stories of an untamed Southwest (Those Jensen boys!)
By Samuel K Dolan. 2016
Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, this book tells the story of the untamed Wild West of the…
Prohibition era (1920s-1930s) and introduces a gallery of Western gunfighters and lawmen. 2016.Get ready to say goodbye: a mother's story of senseless violence, tragedy, and triumph
By Ted Schwarz, LaVonne McKee. 1994
LaVonne McKee's adolescent son, Dwayne, was shot in the neck by his best friend, Jeff, who told Dwayne to "get…
ready to say goodbye." McKee describes the family's reactions when Jeff escapes punishment although Dwayne is paralyzed, and when Dwayne regains partial use of his limbs despite his doctors' predictions. Violence and some strong language. 1994.Gotham unbound: how New York City was liberated from the grip of organized crime (Fast Track Bks.)
By James B Jacobs, Coleen Friel, Robert Radick. 1999
An in-depth account of the impact of the Cosa Nostra on business, labour, and politics in New York City in…
the twentieth century. Describes mob infiltration of the garment, construction, and other major industries; chronicles law enforcement initiatives to drive the mob out of the metropolis since 1980. c1999.Hot money and the politics of debt
By R. T Naylor. 1987
Honour thy mother: the search for Jeannine Durand
By Rick Boychuk. 1994
In 1968, Raymond "Frenchy" Durand murdered his wife Jeannine and hid her body near Houston, Texas. More than two decades…
later, the case of the woman known as Jane Doe was finally solved, owing to the perseverance of the victim's son and daughter, who were schoolchildren when their mother disappeared. Boychuk tells of how these children lost their mother under mysterious circumstances, then had to depend on a father they could not trust. Some strong language and some violence. 1994.