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A death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: murder, money, and an epic power struggle in China
By Wenguang Huang, Pin Ho, Pin He. 2013
Journalists recount the 2011 murder of British business consultant Neil Heywood in China and the subsequent investigation that revealed scandals…
and power struggles within the Communist Party. They contend that unwanted international media attention directly influences Chinese politics. 2013A Life Stolen: The inspiration behind the new TV drama Four Lives
By Sarah Sak. 2022
Sarah Sak's son, Anthony Walgate, was murdered by gay serial killer Stephen Port after they met on dating app Grindr.…
Stephen Port was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey in November 2016. The case received extensive press coverage not only because of the horrific nature of the crimes but also because the police refused to investigate Anthony's death despite three more bodies being found in near identical circumstances. It was not until Scotland Yard's crime squad took over that Stephen Port was arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sarah Sak's courage and perseverance helped to achieve justice for her much-loved son and now she campaigns for better policing, to recognise and link crimes, support families, counter homophobia and raise greater public awareness of the dangers of dating sites/apps, to prevent further deaths. She wants to tell the story of the murder of son and the other men who died in an attempt to understand how this could have happened and the role that social media played in their death.A LIFE STOLEN is a powerful, searing account of love, loss and a mother's relentless fight for justice.At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice
By Rebecca Rosenberg, Selim Algar. 2021
At Any Cost unravels the twisted story of Rod Covlin, whose unrepentant greed drove him to an unspeakable act of…
murder and betrayal that rocked New York City.Wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, Shele Danishefsky had fulfillment at her fingertips. Having conquered Wall Street, she was eager to build a family with her much younger husband, promising Ivy League graduate Rod Covlin. But when his hidden vices surfaced, marital harmony gave way to a merciless divorce. Rod had long depended on Shele's income to fund his tastes for high stakes backgammon and infidelity--and she finally vowed to sever him from her will. In late December 2009, Shele made an appointment with her lawyer to block him from her millions. She would never make it to that meeting.Two days later, on New Year’s Eve, Shele was found dead in the bathtub of her Upper West Side apartment. Police ruled it an accident, and Shele’s deeply Orthodox Jewish family quickly buried her without an autopsy on religious grounds. Rod had a clear path to his ex-wife's fortune, but suspicions about her death lingered. As the two families warred over custody of Shele’s children—and their inheritance— Rod concocted a series of increasingly demented schemes, even plotting to kill his own parents, to secure the treasure. And as investigators closed in, Rod committed a final, desperate act to frame his own daughter for her mother’s death.Journalists Rebecca Rosenberg and Selim Algar reconstruct the ten years that passed between the day Shele was found dead and the day her killer faced justice in this riveting account of how one man’s irrepressible greed devolved into obsession, manipulation, and murder.A Life Stolen: The inspiration behind the new TV drama Four Lives
By Sarah Sak. 2022
Sarah Sak's son, Anthony Walgate, was murdered by gay serial killer Stephen Port after they met on dating app Grindr.…
Stephen Port was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey in November 2016. The case received extensive press coverage not only because of the horrific nature of the crimes but also because the police refused to investigate Anthony's death despite three more bodies being found in near identical circumstances. It was not until Scotland Yard's crime squad took over that Stephen Port was arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sarah Sak's courage and perseverance helped to achieve justice for her much-loved son and now she campaigns for better policing, to recognise and link crimes, support families, counter homophobia and raise greater public awareness of the dangers of dating sites/apps, to prevent further deaths. She wants to tell the story of the murder of son and the other men who died in an attempt to understand how this could have happened and the role that social media played in their death.A LIFE STOLEN is a powerful, searing account of love, loss and a mother's relentless fight for justice.The Esperanza fire: arson, murder, and the agony of Engine 57
By John N. Maclean. 2013
The author of The Thirtymile Fire (DB 66035) investigates the October 2006 wildfire in Southern California that killed five U.S.…
Forest Service firefighters. Follows the trial of a local man that resulted in the first-ever murder conviction for setting a wildland fire. Some strong language. 2013Saving Italy: the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis
By Robert M. Edsel. 2013
In this companion to The Monuments Men (DB 74650), the author discusses the efforts to keep cultural treasures from Italian…
museums and the Vatican from being plundered by the Nazis or destroyed by Allied air raids during World War II. 2013Pablo Escobar: el patrón del mal (La parabola De Pablo Ser.)
By Alonso Salazar, Alonso Salazar J.. 2012
Biografía del notorio narcotraficante colombiano Pablo Escobar Gaviria, cuyo gran imperio criminal lo convirtió en uno de los más ricos,…
y más temidos, hombres en el mundo. Narra su encarcelamiento y escape de La Catedral, su lujosa prisión privada, y su muerte en 1993 en los tejados de Medellín. Violencia y lenguaje injuriosoThe skies belong to us: love and terror in the golden age of hijacking
By Brendan I. Koerner. 2013
Chronicles the epidemic of airline hijackings in the United States from 1961-1973. Focuses on the June 1972 flight that Vietnam…
veteran Roger Holder and his hippie girlfriend Cathy Kerkow forced to detour to Algiers. Strong language. 2013Anne Perry and the murder of the century
By Peter Graham. 2013
Describes the notorious 1954 New Zealand matricide committed by teenage friends Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, who later became bestselling…
mystery writer Anne Perry. Discusses the girls' plans to run away and become writers, their trial and prison terms, and their lives since their release. Some violence. 2013Collapse of dignity: the story of a mining tragedy and the fight against greed and corruption in Mexico
By Napoleon Gomez, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. 2013
Mexican union leader exiled in Canada describes the 2006 coal-mine explosion in Coahuila that trapped sixty-five workers. Recounts the government's…
decision to suspend the rescue effort after five days--allegedly in order to bury evidence of unsafe working conditions--and the legal battles that followed. Bestseller. 2013Lost girls: an unsolved American mystery
By Robert Kolker. 2013
New York magazine writer fleshes out the lives of five suspected victims of a serial killer--all escorts who advertised online--whose…
bodies were found on the barrier islands of Long Island in 2010 and 2011. Describes investigators' efforts to solve the murders. Violence and strong language. 2013Exposed: the secret life of Jodi Arias
By Jane Velez-Mitchell. 2013
Broadcast journalist recaps the trial of Jodi Arias, convicted of the June 2008 murder of her off-and-on lover Travis Alexander…
in Mesa, Arizona. Details the investigation and the often-graphic testimony of detectives, friends, and Arias herself. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2013Orange is the new black: my year in a women's prison
By Piper Kerman. 2013
Upper-middle-class author chronicles her conviction and incarceration in 2003 for drug smuggling and money laundering--crimes she committed ten years earlier…
after graduating from Smith College. Kerman relates her immersion into prison culture at a minimum-security facility in Connecticut. Basis for the Netflix original series. Strong language. Bestseller. 2010Manson: the life and times of Charles Manson
By Jeff Guinn. 2013
Biography of the petty criminal and failed musician who directed his cult followers to commit the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders in…
Los Angeles. Describes Manson's childhood. Chronicles the killings and his trial, and places Manson in the context of the era's social upheavals. Violence and some strong language. 2013Pilgrim's wilderness: a true story of faith and madness on the Alaska Frontier
By Tom Kizzia. 2013
Journalist chronicles the life of Robert "Papa Pilgrim" Hale, a Christian fundamentalist, who moved his wife and fifteen children to…
Alaska in 2002. Discusses Hale's run-ins with neighbors and officials and federal agents' discoveries of abuse in the Hale household. Some violence and some strong language. 2013Five days at Memorial: life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital
By Sheri Fink. 2013
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reports on the aftermath of 2005's Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. Reconstructs the…
five days it took to rescue the hospital's staff and patients and examines the life-and-death decisions made and the lawsuits that followed. 2013The inheritor's powder: a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science
By Sandra Hempel. 2013
Medical journalist relates the 1833 poisoning of the Bodle family patriarch George in Kent, England. Describes the trial of George's…
grandson Young John for murder and the development of a new test for the presence of arsenic. 2013Witness X
By Se Moorhead. 2019
From one of the most original new voices in fiction comes a startling vision of a world where hero Kyra…
must fight the past to save our future. She's the only one who can access the truth...Fourteen years ago, the police caged a notorious serial killer who abducted and butchered two victims every February. He was safe behind bars. Wasn't he? But then another body is discovered, and soon enough, the race is on to catch the real killer. Neuropsychologist Kyra Sullivan fights to use a new technology that accesses the minds of the witnesses, working with the police to uncover the truth. Will Kyra discover the person behind the murders, and if so, at what cost? And how far will she go to ensure justice is served?Washington Post reporter dissects the March 2011 murder of a young saleswoman by her coworker in an upscale yoga-apparel boutique…
in Bethesda, Maryland--a killing overheard but ignored by employees in the Apple Store next door. Violence and some strong language. 2013