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Throughout history some people have pushed the limit of what is acceptable to society. Those featured here lived in an…
era when smuggling was rife, liquor was plentiful, and murder was rampant. Many become legends in their own lifetimes and, although often feared and loathed, are remembered as colourful characters who were products of the times in which they lived. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.By Peter Hammerschmidt, Danièle Darneau, Aurélie Duthod. 2016
Capitaine SS et chef de la Gestapo à Lyon pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Klaus Barbie se rend célèbre par…
sa cruauté et son efficacité dans la lutte contre les résistants et la persécution des juifs. En 1943, il arrête Jean Moulin et démantèle la quasi-totalité de la résistance régionale. À la Libération, Barbie se met au service des Américains qui, dans l'Allemagne occupée, n'hésitent pas à recruter parmi les anciens nazis des spécialistes de la lutte anticommuniste. C'est le début de la guerre froide et l'ennemi d'hier devient un précieux allié contre l'URSS. En 1951, désormais compromettant, il est exfiltré en Bolivie sous le nom de Klaus Altmann. Une fois sa vie reconstruite, il conseille activement les dictateurs boliviens et travaille aussi pour la CIA, et même pour les services secrets allemands ! Traqué notamment par Serge et Beate Klarsfeld, il faudra attendre 1983 pour que ses protections le lâchent et qu'il soit enfin extradé en France afin d'y être jugé. Le 4 juillet 1987, la cour d'assises du Rhône reconnaît Klaus Barbie coupable de dix-sept crimes contre l'humanité et le condamne à la prison à perpétuité. 2016.By Gisèle Halimi. 2002
Avocate tunisienne d'origine israélite, connue pour son engagement en faveur du FLN pendant la guerre d'Algérie et pour son féminisme,…
l'auteure raconte quelques-uns des procès auxquels elle a pris part et, à travers ces récits, l'ardente conception de la justice qui l'habite. 2002.By Natalie Zemon Davis, Jean-Claude Carrière, Daniel Vigne. 1982
L'aventure de Martin Guerre, qui quitta son village du Languedoc, jeune marie, pour réapparaitre une douzaine d'années âpres, alors qu'un…
autre avait pris son identité. Cette aventure donna lieu en 1560, à Toulouse, à un des procès les plus célèbres du 16e siècle. 1982.By Maude Julien, Ursula Gauthier. 2014
" Plus de cinquante ans après, Maude Julien se souvient encore du bruit du verrou, quand la grille s'est refermée…
sur elle. Son père venait d'acheter une bâtisse lugubre, flanquée d'un parc, dans la région de Saint-Omer. Maude, alors âgée de trois ans, y vivra cloôtrée, sans jamais aller à l'école, sans jamais avoir d'amis. Enfermée mentalement aussi, car le patriarche veut faire de sa fille une supra-humaine. Elle doit apprendre à surmonter la peur, les privations, la douleur, la solitude pour être capable de réaliser la mission à laquelle il la destine. Longtemps plus tard, elle comprendra que son père, haut dignitaire d'une obédience maçonnique ésotérique, avait échafaudé un projet vertigineux dans lequel elle tenait le rôle central. Comment se défaire d'une emprise aussi extrême ? Où trouver la force d'échapper à un tel embrigadement ? À dix-huit ans, Maude a réussi à quitter la prison de son enfance. Puis, au terme d'un long travail, à conquérir sa liberté. " -- 4e de couv.By Patrick Besson. 2008
Née en 1948, Agnès Le Roux aurait aujourd'hui soixante ans. Ou faut-il dire a ? Elle a disparu : meurtre…
ou exil volontaire loin, très loin de la promenade des Anglais ? L'une des plus fameuses énigmes de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle met en scène Mme Le Roux mère, Renée, copropriétaire du Palais de la Méditerranée, le célèbre casino niçois sur lequel Jean-Dominique Fratoni entend mettre la main. L'amant d'Agnès, Maurice Agnelet, va favoriser l'opération en aidant la fille à voter contre sa mère au conseil d'administration, renversant la majorité et chassant Renée Le Roux de son poste de P-DG. Le récit est l'évocation, par un romancier, d'un fait divers mêlant des éléments amplement divulgués par les médias à des aperçus et interprétations propres à l'auteur. 2008.By Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton. 1991
Lesra Martin was a Brooklyn youth adopted by a group of Canadians, including the authors of this book. Through Lesra,…
the group became involved in the legal battle to free former boxing contender Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who served 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Strong language. 1991.By L. Wayne Carlson. 2001
In 1960, 18-year-old Wayne Carlson began his eventual three-decade stay in prisons across Canada and the U.S., managing to escape…
a record 13 times. Since his release he has become a respected activist for prison reform. These memoirs of the man known as "Houdini" are both a wild ride with an outlaw, and a firsthand look at life behind bars in North America. Frequent strong language and violence. 2001.By Warren Goulding. 2001
John Martin Crawford was convicted for brutally murdering three Native Canadian women and is a suspect in the killing of…
at least one other. Crawford has staked his claim as one of the nation's most prolific sex killers, despite the fact that his deeds are virtually forgotten. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.By Mark Bowden. 2001
The author of "Black Hawk down" chronicles the crimes of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, his Medellín cocaine cartel, and…
his influence on his country. Describes Escobar's imprisonment, escape, enemies, and the American involvement with death squads that sought revenge. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2001.By Simon Wiesenthal, Ewald Osers. 1989
A former prisoner in the Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal has spent years searching out and exposing those responsible for the…
murders of millions. He describes the discovery, capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann as well as the search for Dr. Josef Mengele. 1989. Uniform title: Recht, nicht Rache.By Ellen Anderson. 2002
Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an influential and controversial figure…
in Canadian legal and political history. Wilson's contributions to the areas of human rights law and equality jurisprudence are many and well-known. Lesser known are her early days in Scotland and her work as a minister's wife, or her post-judicial work on gender equality for the Canadian Bar Association and her contributions to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. 2002.By Robert Jeffrey. 2010
“Gentle Johnny Ramensky” is the astonishing tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one…
of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than 40 years in jail. But he served his country with exceptional bravery and skill in the Second World War. Back in civvy street he could not resist a return to the excitement of roaming darkened rooftops and breaking open the toughest of safes. 2010.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.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.By James Burke, Arnold Manweiler. 1984
By Stacey Lannert. 2011
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.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.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.