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The ice man: confessions of a Mafia contract killer
By Philip Carlo. 2008
Top Mafia hit man and doting father - for 30 years Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life,…
becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighbourhood barbecues. John Gotti hired him to kill his neighbour and he was also intimately involved in the killing of Jimmy Hoffa. By his own estimate, he killed over 200 men, taking enormous pride in his cunning and the ferocity of his technique. 2008.The island of lost maps: a true story of cartographic crime
By Miles Harvey. 2000
Reconstructs the 1990s crime career of Gilbert Bland Jr., a master thief of rare, valuable maps from renowned libraries. Embellishes…
Bland's biography with the history of cartography; portrays a subculture of scholars, collectors, and dealers who are obsessed with antique maps. 2000.The I-5 Killer (True crime annals #3)
By Ann Rule. 1989
Randall Woodfield was perfect, with good looks as well as being a star athlete and an award-winning student. Working in…
the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had more than his share of women, but his appetite for unspeakable violent acts led him to cruise the I-5 highway through California to Washington, leaving a trail of victims along the way. As the list of the dead grew, the police mobilized to stop a twisted killer who had 44 known deaths to his name. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 1989.Hard road: Bernie Guindon and the rise and fall of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club
By Peter Edwards. 2018
You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's…
Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. His life wasn't all bikes and crime. He was also a medalist in boxing for Canada at the Pan Am Games. That tension between the very rough life he was born into and the possibility for success in the straight world (and how aspirations in each fed his success in the other) layer Guindon's story, one of the great untold stories in biker history. 2018.The tale of two Nazanins: a teenager on death row in Iran and the Canadian who vowed to save her
By Susan McClelland, Nazanin. 2012
Canadian Nazanin Afshin-Jam was on top of the world. In 2006 she was first runner-up in the Miss World contest,…
a sought-after fashion model, and an icon within the Iranian dissident community. Then she received an email that would change the course of her life. The subject of that email - a Kurdish girl named Nazanin Fatehi - was facing execution in Iran, as punishment for stabbing a man who had tried to rape her. Afshin-Jam quickly came to Fatehi's defence, striding into the world of international diplomacy and confronting the dark side of the country of her birth, with its honour killings, violence against women and state-sanctioned executions of children. While Fatehi languished in prison, experiencing conditions so deplorable she attempted suicide, Afshin-Jam worked desperately on the campaign to save her. 2013, c2012.You all grow up and leave me: a memoir of teenage obsession
By Piper Weiss. 2018
Piper Weiss was fourteen years old when her middle-aged tennis coach, Gary Wilensky, killed himself after a failed attempt to…
kidnap one of his teenage students. Now, twenty years later, Piper examines the event as both a teenage eyewitness and a dispassionate investigative reporter, hoping to understand and exorcise the childhood memories that haunt her to this day. 2018.Jackal: the complete story of the legendary terrorist, Carlos the Jackal
By John Follain. 1998
Biography of the international terrorist who eluded intelligence agencies and police for twenty years before his capture in Sudan in…
1994. Describes the "Jackal" as more bon vivant than committed ideologue and as a self-proclaimed "professional revolutionary" responsible for twenty-four deaths and 257 wounded during his career of violence. 1998.Never let them see you cry: more from Miami, America's hottest beat
By Edna Buchanan. 1992
Taking up where "The Corpse Had a Familiar Face" left off, Miami journalist Buchanan provides more anecdotes from her years…
on the newspaper police beat. A woman frames her toddler for murder, and elderly residents kill their longtime spouses. But Buchanan also writes of the happy endings when help from readers pours in after touching stories. Descriptions of violence. 1992.Gumshoe: reflections in a private eye
By Josiah Thompson. 1988
While on sabbatical, an assistant professor of philosophy worked as a private detective. His Sam Spade-emulations soon became an all-consuming…
interest, leading him to give up tenure and classrooms for investigations and disputes. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1988.Capone: the life and world of Al Capone
By John Kobler. 1971
A documented biography drawn from interviews and private papers of "Scarface" Al Capone, the legendary gangster of the 1920's. The…
Brooklyn born son of Italian immigrants, he became the overlord of the gangsters in prohibition days. 1971.The seekers: a bounty hunter's story
By Anthony Bruno, Joshua Armstrong. 2000
Personal narrative of an African American professional skip tracer (bail enforcement agent) who tracks suspects who have fled before trial.…
The book details Armstrong's experiences and profiles his bounty-hunter company, which operates on spiritual principles and has an 85 percent success rate. Strong language and some violence. 2000.In June 1986, Edward Lee Howard became the first CIA officer to defect to the Soviet Union. Howard became angry…
after being fired from his job with the CIA and decided to defect to Moscow, thus destroying the CIA's Moscow network. c1989.The trials of Israel Lipski: a true story of a Victorian murder in the East End of London
By M. L Friedland. 1984
The Donnellys must die (Laurentian library, 4)
By Orlo Miller. 1962
An experienced journalist traces the famous Black Donnelly feud from its origins in Ireland to the killings at Lucan, Ontario…
in 1880 and the subsequent trial. 1967, c1962. (Laurentian Library ; 4)Short pants to striped trousers: the life and times of a judge in skid road Vancouver
By Wallace Gilby Craig. 2003
The author recounts with warmth, humour, and insight, his journey from the family shack in Vancouver to a downtown law…
practice and twenty-six years on the bench of the Vancouver criminal division of the provincial court. He has observed the downward spiral of an area beset by drug trafficking, addiction, lawlessness, and murder. 2003.Ten true tales of outrageous trickery. Includes how a group of Germans perpetrated one of the biggest, most sophisticated banknote…
counterfeiting schemes ever seen; how the world was fooled for nearly a decade when a "lost tribe" was discovered in the Philippines; and how Donald Crowhurst almost won the first round-the-world yacht race without ever leaving the Atlantic Ocean. Some descriptions of violence. For junior and senior high school readers. Winner of the 2005 Red Maple Award. 2004.Shot in the heart
By Mikal Gilmore. 1994
A writer for Rolling Stone magazine, Mikal is also a younger brother of the late Gary Gilmore, who insisted on…
being executed after he killed two men. Now, when only Mikal and his oldest brother, Frank, remain, Mikal explains the true history of his family and "how its webwork of dark secrets and failed hopes helped create the legacy that, in part, became (his) brother's impetus to murder." Descriptions of sex, strong language, and some violence. 1994.Ritual abuse
By Kevin Marron. 1988
In 1985, in Hamilton, Ontario, two young sisters told their foster mother of sexual molestations by their father, their mother…
and her boyfriend. The trial, held to determine if the parents should have access to the children, lasted 18 months and brought forth other stories of cannibalism, pornography and murder. Strong language and violence. c1988.Burke and Hare
By Owen Dudley Edwards. 1993
The jigsaw man
By Paul W Britton. 1997
Forensic psychologist, Paul Britton, has an almost mythic status in the field of crime deduction because of his ability to…
detect the psychological characteristics of those who stalk, torture, rape, abduct and kill other human beings. In recent years he has been at the centre of more than a hundred headline-making investigations, from the murder of Jamie Bulger to the slaying of Rachel Nickell.