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In the sleep room: the story of the CIA brainwashing experiments in Canada
By Anne Collins. 1988
In the 1950s and 1960s, an eminent Canadian psychiatrist was funded by the CIA to use his patients in brainwashing…
experiments. In 1977, when his work was exposed, nine Canadians sued the CIA. A story of misuse of medical power, unchecked ambition and undercover skulduggery. Winner of the 1988 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1988.In the name of love: And Other True Cases (Ann Rule's crime files. #4.)
By Ann Rule. 1998
After falling in love and marrying wealthy California businessman Jerry Harris, Susan is devastated when he doesn't return home one…
night in 1987. The title story of her lengthy search for him and four other true crime cases make up this sequel to "A Fever in the Heart." Some violence. 1998. (Ann Rule's crime files ; 4)In the realm of hungry ghosts: close encounters with addiction
By Gabor Maté. 2008
Maté describes his patients while looking to the root causes of addiction, applying a clinical and psychological view to the…
physical manifestation and offering some answers for why people inflict such catastrophe on themselves. He takes aim at the ineffectual War on Drugs, and shows how measures such as safe injection sites are more successful at reducing drug-related crime and the spread of disease than anything most governments are doing. 2008.Illusion of justice: inside making a murderer and America's broken system
By Jerome F Buting. 2017
Not since The Thin Blue Line has there been a true crime saga as engrossing as Making A Murderer. Captivating…
audiences across demographic lines, it made Steven Avery a household name and thrust defense attorney Jerome F. Buting--and his fight against America's dysfunctional criminal justice system--into the spotlight. Buting uses the Avery case as a springboard to examine the shaky integrity of our law enforcement and legal systems, which he has witnessed firsthand for nearly four decades. From his early career as a public defender to his success overturning wrongful convictions, his story provides a compelling insider's view into the high-stakes world of criminal defense, and suggests that while in principle the law presumes innocence, in practice it more often than not presumes guilt. Combining narrative reportage with critical commentary and personal reflection, Buting explores his professional motivations, the high-profile cases that defined his career, and the path to much-needed criminal justice reform. 2017.Honour on trial: the Shafia murders and the culture of honour killings
By Paul Schliesmann. 2012
A black car is pulled from the Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ontario, containing the bodies of three girls - sisters…
Zainab, Sahar, and Geeti Shafia - along with their presumed aunt, Rona Amir Mohammad. Later in the day, after family members report the women missing, Kingston police become suspicious - the stories told by parents Tooba Mohammad Yahya and Mohammad Shafia, and their eldest son, Hamed, don't match up with the rapidly gathering evidence. An extensive investigation unfolds, revealing a troubling story of physical and emotional abuse in the Shafia home, including threats of murder. Includes strong language and violence. 2012.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