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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.Indian summer: a good man in Asia
By Will Randall. 2004
Learning as much as he is teaching in the Indian city of Poona, Will finds his life transformed by his…
remarkable class of orphans: Dulabesh, the joker; Prakash, who learnt self-sufficiency by scavenging in skips; the nutty yet charming Tanushri. When the slum barons threaten to level the school, Will hits upon a fund-raising plan. 2004.India Britannica
By Geoffrey Moorhouse. 1984
A social history of the British rule in India and the men who went there: poets, painters and politicians. This…
complex edifice brought out the best - and worst - in these temporary landowners. The author covers a wide span from the tuckshop greed of the seventeenth century nabobs to the departure of the last soldier in February 1948. 1984.The explorer and travel writer chronicles his horseback trip across Mongolia, retracing the twelfth-century route of Genghis Khan and his…
horde. Severin describes the wild, untamed expanses of Mongolia that, despite the years of Communist rule, have changed little since the time of Genghis Khan. Historical anecdotes as well as descriptions of nomadic herders, exotic traditions, and austere people pepper the narrative. 1992.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
All monsters must die: an excursion to North Korea
By Saskia Vogel, Magnus Bärtås, Fredrik Ekman. 2015
The authors have created a mosaic of North Korea, past and present: from the Japanese occupation to the demarcation of…
the border at the 38th parallel and the Korean War, the development of North Korean Juche ideology, the establishment of the Kim dynasty's cult of personality, and the aggressive manufacturing of political propaganda, which motivated the kidnapping of South Korea's most famous film couple. Intelligent and shocking, this book offers a rare and fascinating window into the “hermit kingdom.” 2015. Uniform title: Alla monster måste dö.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.Beyond the sky and the earth: a journey into Bhutan
By Jamie Zeppa. 1999
In 1989 Jamie Zeppa decided to try something completely different from anything she had ever done before. She signed on…
as a teacher for two years in the Far East country of Bhutan. Once she arrived there she discovered the difficulties in bridging cultural divides, and the rewards that come from immersing oneself in a completely different culture. 1999.Days and nights on the Grand Trunk Road: Calcutta to Khyber
By Anthony Weller. 1997
The highway adventures of an American journalist traveling the fifteen hundred miles of the Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta across…
northern India and Pakistan to the Khyber Pass. Weller recounts the region's religious and political history; describes the cities, countryside, and people he encounters; and conveys his joy at traveling in an area he has read much about. c1997.Dancing in the no-fly zone: a woman's journey through Iraq
By Hadani Ditmars. 2005
When Ditmars first went to Iraq in 1997, she found art, and beauty, amidst the misery and suffering. She travelled…
to Iraq again and again, and in 2003, she returned to Baghdad to find the people she had met over the years and see what had become of them since the US "liberation". Ditmars portrays the full depth of the humanity of the Iraqi people. 2005.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.Death sentence: the true story of Velma Barfield's life, crimes and execution
By Jerry Bledsoe, Velma Barfield. 2016
A shocking true story of a double life exposed by a horrible crime. Velma Barfield was overcome with grief when…
a sudden illness took the life of her fiance, North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor. Taylor's family grieved with her until traces of arsenic poisoning were revealed in the autopsy. Velma's own son turned her over to authorities. More revelations stunned her family and community--this wasn't the first time Velma, a born-again Christian and devout Sunday school teacher, had murdered in cold blood. Tried by the "world's deadliest prosecutor," Velma was sentenced to death. She gained worldwide attention as she turned her life around after the sentencing. 2016.Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed : a memoir of the Cleveland kidnappings
By Michelle Knight, Michelle Burford. 2014
Knight explains how troubled her life was even before her kidnapping in 2002 at age twenty-one by Cleveland school bus…
driver Ariel Castro. Details the ordeal she endured with two others, their escape in 2013, and their lives since then. Bestseller. 2014.Cartel wives: a true story of deadly decisions, steadfast love, and bringing down El Chapo
By Mia Flores, Olivia Flores. 2017
Olivia and Mia Flores are married to the highest level drug traffickers ever to become US informants. Their husbands worked…
with--and then brought down--El Chapo, as well as dozens of high-level members of the Mexican cartels. They had everything money could buy: luxury cars, huge houses, and expensive jewelry--but they chose to give it all up when they cooperated with the US government. 2017.