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Biography, True crime
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Part Cherokee, part white, Henry Starr boasted that he had robbed more banks than any man in America, yet blamed…
society for forcing him into a life of crime. Pictures conditions in the Indian territory following the Civil War
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Mysteries and crime stories, Police procedural fiction, Women sleuths, Suspense and thrillersTrue crime
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'This story has it all gripping twisty and addictive... It's so good' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐He's invited you in, but will…
you ever leave?After Cathy's boyfriend surprisingly ends things she is distraught. She also needs to move out of their flat and find a new place to live.When a friend tips her off about a room to rent it seems like her luck has suddenly changed.The house is on one of the city's most sought-after streets and the live-in landlord, whose son has just left home, is charming and kind. Best of all, it's affordable.Cathy's invited to make herself at home. But there is one rule: she can never go into the garden. Everything else seems so perfect she doesn't think twice.But she'll soon realise the deal she has made is too good to be true... and now it's far too late...A totally gripping and edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you up late into the night. Perfect for fans of The Housemaid, Lisa Jewell and T.M. Logan.Everyone is gripped by The Landlord:'I tore through this ripper of a book at breakneck pace... A story that never lets up. With characters that leap from the page and a cracking pace... Will keep you frantically turning the pages to the electrifying end!' Gill Perdue'A missing woman and a house of secrets: with tons of twists... Will keep you turning the pages'Catherine Kirwan'You are questioning the characters, the plot and yourself... This book kept me going right until the end' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Plenty of twists and turns and enough suspense and intrigue to make you think twice about your landlord if you rent a home' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Addictive "without walls" locked room mystery that will have you guessing, re-guessing then guessing again... Brilliant stuff!' Graham BartlettReaders love R.B. Egan:'OMIGOSH! SO riveting, action-packed, THRILLING and exciting!... So many TWISTS and turns!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This thriller is like jumping into a moving car and going full speed!... It's impossible to guess who was behind everything until the reveal, and then my jaw dropped! Whatever I expected, I didn't expect that! The twist took me totally unprepared!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Gripping and heart-pounding action thriller with a jaw-dropping twist!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An absolutely thrilling ride. An edge of the seat book' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Mysteries and crime stories, Police procedural fiction, Women sleuths, Suspense and thrillersTrue crime
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He's invited you in, but will you ever leave?After Cathy's boyfriend surprisingly ends things she is distraught. She also needs…
to move out of their flat and find a new place to live.When a friend tips her off about a room to rent it seems like her luck has suddenly changed.The house is on one of the city's most sought-after streets and the live-in landlord, whose son has just left home, is charming and kind. Best of all, it's affordable.Cathy's invited to make herself at home. But there is one rule: she can never go into the garden. Everything else seems so perfect she doesn't think twice.But she'll soon realise the deal she has made is too good to be true... and now it's far too late...
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True crime, History
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"On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man's body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County.…
The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Peters. Walter Ward, the handsome scion of the family that owned the largest chain of bread factories in the country, confessed to the crime as an act of self-defense against a violent gang of "shadow men," blackmailers who extorted their victims' moral weaknesses. From the start, one question defined the investigation: what scandalous secret could lead Ward to murder?" -- Provided by publisher
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Two young boys were kidnapped and brutally murdered for no apparent reason. When lawmen finally caught their man, he was…
no more than a child himself--a young man obsessed with death, unable to distinguish between pain and pleasure. Explicit descriptions of sex, strong language and violence. For adult readers
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Religion, True crime
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"In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's…
report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent cross-country journey of death--including that of his own son--have been prevented if just one person came forward with what they knew about the real Eli Stutzman? The questions haunted Gregg Olsen and Ida's brother Daniel Gingerich for decades. At Daniel's urging, Olsen now returns to Amish Country and to Eli's crimes first exposed in Olsen's Abandoned Prayers, one of which has remained a mystery until now. With the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, Olsen finally uncovers the disturbing truth--about Ida's murder and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for forty-five years" -- Provided by publisher
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True crime, Biography
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The true story of a woman from the Texas Panhandle who was convicted of her infant daughter's death. The author…
chronicles for the first time the dangerous form of child abuse, 'Munchausen syndrome by proxy'--as well as a courageous female prosecutor's race against time to uncover the secret of Tanya Reid's past. Strong language and violence
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United States history, True crime
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The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the modern age of America Adult
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United States history, True crime
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A vital exposé for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the…
Florida government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century. In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of his college accounting class by three police officers. In a motel room, blinds drawn, he sat in front of a state senator and the legal counsel for the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, nicknamed the &“Johns Committee.&” His crime? Being a suspected homosexual. And the government of Florida would use any tactic at their disposal—legal or not—to get Copleston to admit it. Using a secret trove of primary source documents that have been decoded and de-censored for the first time in history, journalist Robert Fieseler unravels the mystery of what actually happened behind the closed doors of an inquisition that held ordinary citizens ransom to its extraordinary powers. The state of Florida would prefer that this history remain buried. But for nearly a decade, the Florida Legislature founded, funded, and supported the Johns Committee—an organization using the cover of communism to viciously attack members of the NAACP and queer professors and students. Spearheaded by Charley Johns, a multi-term politician in a gerrymandered legislature, the Committee was determined to eliminate any threats to the state's white, conservative regime. Fieseler describes the heartbreaking ramifications for citizens of Florida whose lives were imperiled, profiling marginalized residents with compassion and a determination to bring their devasting experiences to light at last. A propulsive, human-centered drama, with fascinating insight into Florida politics, American Scare is a page-turning reckoning of our racist and homophobic past—and its chilling parallels to today.
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Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid is the haunting story of a young girl, Tanya Kach, lost in the cracks…
of the system, forced to spend more than a decade as the prisoner of her middle school's security guard. From her troubled childhood, through her captivity at the hands of a manipulative captor, and ultimately on her road to recovery, Tanya's story is one of pain but ultimately triumph. Her story is told by her advocate and confidant, Lawrence H. Fisher. For more than five years his impassioned advocacy helped Tanya as she has reintegrated into society. He successfully blends Tanya's story with his own insight into the legal issues surrounding the controversial case that followed Tanya's release. This multipronged approach gives the reader insight into Tanya's emotional state and the state of a criminal justice system that allowed her ordeal to happen. 2011. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Strong language. Violence
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Only steps from safety, before midnight on March 19, 1950, several startled bystanders watched two men force a screaming young…
woman into a car and drive away from Saint Joseph's Hospital in Vancouver. One of the men yelled out that she was his wife and was drunk. That was the last time anyone saw JoAnn Dewey alive. Her battered, naked body washed up on the banks of the Wind River seven days later. Suspicion quickly fell on two brothers, Turman and Utah Wilson, who fled town before police caught them in Sacramento. Their arrest and sensational trial captivated and divided the peaceful community. Author Pat Jollota uncovers the chilling details of this tragic story. Adult. Unrated
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True crime, Frontier and pioneer life, United States history
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Shortly after the nearby discovery of gold in 1862, outlaws and ruffians from all over began to congregate in newly…
platted Boise City. One of the city"s only recorded pistol duels settled a dispute between a covetous husband and the lover of a young damsel-both happened to be lawyers. After getting busted running a long con, the King of Boise"s Underworld was sent to the penitentiary. What could be called the area"s first mass shooting occurred when and Alaskan gold miner sought revenge against the young woman who stood him up. A local postmaster found himself in a notorious case of a love triangle gone wrong. And a death cult returned the mummy of one of its followers to Boise. Authors Mark Iverson and Jeff Wade go beyond the traditional histories to gain an appreciation for the lives often willfully removed from history"s pages and thus forgotten. Adult. Some violence
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General non-fiction, True crime, Anthologies, Social issues, Essays, Psychology, Law and crime
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Described as a horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish collection of gripping true crime mysteries about people whose obsessions propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances. Adult. Unrated
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United States history, True crime
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"The culmination of Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal…
exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories about the mafia in Sicily that allow him to follow the main characters to America, where most arrive as fugitives from Italian justice. Across the Atlantic, the storyline picks up in places like New York and New Orleans, where the clannish Sicilians quickly realize the importance of diversity as they forge new alliances with other recently arrived ethnic groups as the borgata becomes the premier organized criminal network in the country. After planting their flags in cities across America, the adolescent American mafia realizes how to corrupt America's police and political establishment, allowing them to extend their tentacles into every level of American society. In this first volume, Ferrante traces the mafia's phenomenal "rise of empire" through larger-than-life characters and legendary mobsters as they provide alcohol to the American public during Prohibition, penetrate industrial labor unions, practically take over the island of Cuba and, with extraordinary vision, create the gambling mecca of Las Vegas." -- WorldCat
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Law and crime biography, Journals and memoirs, Law and crime, Social issues, True crime
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“A riveting look at life inside a Mafia family.”—New York Times bestselling author George AnastasiaThe world called him a killer.…
She called him Dad . . .“We were always worried. Always looking over our shoulders . . .”Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet classmates avoided her; boys wouldn’t date her. Eventually she learned why: they were afraid of her father.A made man in the Colombo crime family, Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was a stone-cold killer nicknamed the “Grim Reaper.” But to Linda, he was also a loving, devoted father who played video games with her for hours. In riveting detail, she reveals what it was like to grow up in the violent world of the mob and to come to grips with the truth about her father and the devastation he wrought.“An amazing story of jealously, duplicity, hatred and betrayal.”—Sal Polisi, author of The Sinatra Club “Touching, shocking, revealing—Linda Scarpa’s memoir is more than a mob book; it’s a family book.”—John Alite, subject of Gotti’s Rules “An edge-of-your-seat page turner—jaw-dropping, raw, and real.”—Andrea Giovino, author of Divorced From the Mob INCLUDES 16 PAGES OF DRAMATIC PHOTOS[color photo inserts for ebook editions]
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United States history, Politics and government, True crime
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An incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country&’s largest police departments In 1979,…
the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of Suffolk County, New York. As the county hustled to bring the case to a dubious resolution, a wayward local teenager emerged with a convenient story to tell. For his cooperation, James Burke was rewarded with a job as a cop. Thus began Burke&’s unlikely ascent to the top of one of the country&’s largest law enforcement jurisdictions. He and a crew of likeminded allies utilized vengeance, gangster tactics, and political leverage to become the most powerful and feared figures in their suburban empire. In his quest to maintain that power, Burke botched -- intentionally or not -- dire investigations like that of the famed Gilgo Beach serial killings and the county's MS-13 gang scourge. Until a pilfered bag of sex toys brought it all crashing down.Jimmy the King is the story of the rise, reign, and paranoiac fall of a corrupt cop and his regime—a crime family with badges and guaranteed pensions. Novelistic in detail and piercing in its political insight, this book will leave you questioning who modern policing serves, who it protects, and who it preys upon and abandons.
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Social issues, Laws and statutes, General non-fiction, True crime
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On April 22, 2015, the sorority sisters at Ohio’s Muskingum University’s Delta house encountered a horrific scene: pools of blood…
and gore in the first-floor bathroom. No one knew exactly what had happened, but the sisters suspected it had something to do with Emile Weaver. Studious, athletic, and well-liked, Emile had recently started wearing bulky sweatsuits and hiding her midsection, as if she was covering up a sudden weight gain. Could Emile be pregnant? Emboldened by fear, the sorority sisters investigated. In the driveway next to the kitchen door, they found Emile’s newborn baby girl dead inside a garbage bag. Emile’s crime seemed senseless and left her family and friends with an aching question: what happened? American Infanticide situates Emile's tragic act in a long intellectual, social, and legal history, uncovering disturbing missing chapters in our national history that undercut myths that have shaped public reactions to so-called monster moms and dumpster babies since the colonial era. Ultimately, the book uncovers how bias and inconsistency dictate how women accused of infant homicide are perceived and punished and sheds new light on how and why our legal responses to infanticide are so deeply misguided.
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The mysterious murder of a woman in a historic neighborhood is shrouded in scandal, innuendo, police neglect, and media sensationalism…
in Depression-era Minnesota. Join author Roger Barr as he searches for answers to this unsolved case. Adult. Descriptions of sex. Strong language. Violence
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Law and crime biography, Journals and memoirs, European history, True crime
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A mother's fight to bring her daughter's killer, Christopher Halliwell, to justice'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what…
would have been my daughter's 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me my beautiful Becky was dead. Found buried in a shallow grave in a remote field, Becky had been brutally murdered.'When Becky Godden-Edwards was killed, her mother Karen awoke to a world where the truth was never guaranteed; where taxi driver Christopher Halliwell got away with murder and the police officer who found her daughter was punished instead. This is Karen's story. Despite unimaginable tragedy, her love for her daughter has been unbreakable: from her despair through Becky's troubled teenage years, to the agonising eight years when Becky was missing, and then the dramatic story of how a killer's confession led to a terrible discovery. The one constant has been Karen's determination to fight for Becky, tirelessly campaigning for the truth about what happened to be heard and for Halliwell to face the consequences of his evil actions. *The murders of Becky Godden-Edwards and Sian O'Callaghan will soon be the focus of major new ITV series A Confession starring Martin Freeman as Stephen Fulcher and Imelda Staunton as Karen Edwards*
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United States history, True crime
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A South Carolina police investigator&’s account of solving a thirty-seven-year-old murder—includes photos. For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder…
of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at the Walterboro Police Department. Investigators periodically revisited the case, but it remained the department&’s top cold case for thirty-seven years. However, Special Agent Lieutenant Rita Shuler worked on the case shortly after she joined the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), and she couldn't let it go, not even after her retirement in 2001. In May 2015, Lieutenant Shuler teamed up with new investigator Corporal Gean Johnson, and together they uncovered key evidence that had been overlooked. With new advancements in DNA and fingerprint technology, they brought the case to its end in just four months. In this book, Shuler herself details the gruesome history of this finally solved case.