True crime Books
Walker & Co The Suspicions of Mr Whicher A Shocking Murder
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£16.15
Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. The Manson Women and Me
Book SynopsisA stunning and insightful look at one of the most notorious murders of the 20th Century: the Manson Murders.
£14.39
Kensington Publishing Chin
Book SynopsisVINCENT “CHIN” GIGANTE He started out as a professional boxer—until he found his true calling as a ruthless contract killer. Hand-picked by Vito Genovese to run the Genovese Family when Vito was sent to prison, Chin raked in more than $100 million for the Genovese family and routinely ordered the murders of mobsters who violated the Mafia code—including John Gotti. At the height of his power, he controlled an underworld empire of close to three hundred made men, making the Genovese Family the most powerful in the U.S. And yet Vincent “Chin” Gigante was, to all outside appearances, certifiably crazy. He wandered the streets of Greenwich Village in a ratty bathrobe and slippers. He urinated in public, played pinochle in storefronts, and hid a second family from his wife. On twenty-two occasions, he admitted himself to a mental hospital—evading criminal prosecution while insuring his continued re
£14.36
Kensington Publishing A Tangled Web
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£20.80
Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. Losing Jon
Book SynopsisThe true story of a teen's murder made to look like suicide, the police cover up, and a community's fight for justice.
£14.39
Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. Death on Ocean Boulevard
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£14.39
Kensington The Deadly Don
Book SynopsisPulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author Anthony M. DeStefano presents the definitive book on Vito Genovese, the namesake of a crime family which is still considered one of the most viable and dangerous in the U.S. today. From enforcer to Godfather, Vito Genovese rose through the ranks of La Cosa Nostra to head of one of the wealthiest and most dangerous crime families in American history.THE BOSS OF BOSSES The first comprehensive biography of the legendary Mafioso Vito Genovese —from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan’s mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of an illegal narcotics empire. As a member of Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Mas
£15.15
Kensington Publishing Gangsters vs. Nazis
Book SynopsisThe stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the years leading to WWII—and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back. With an intense cinematic style, acclaimed nonfiction crime author Michael Benson reveals the thrilling role of Jewish mobsters like Bugsy Siegel in stomping out the terrifying tide of Nazi sympathizers during the 1930s and 1940s. Goodreads Top Nonfiction of 2022“[A] masterpiece. One of the most rivetingly relevant reads I’ve ever encountered.” —Jon Land, Providence JournalAs Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one-hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United States. Few Americans dared to speak out or fight back—until an organized resistance of notorious mobst
£21.60
Beacon Press Ghosts of Crook County
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£20.92
Beacon Press Ghosts of Crook County
£18.27
Louisiana State University Press Inquisition for Blood
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£26.59
Random House USA Inc Two Truths and a Lie
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£16.14
The University Press of Kentucky Taking Shergar Thoroughbred Racings Most Famous
Book SynopsisThis riveting account of the most notorious unsolved crime in the history of horse racing will captivate serious racing fans and aficionados as well as entertain a new generation of horse racing enthusiasts.
£27.62
The University Press of Kentucky Kentucky Moonshine
Book SynopsisA tongue-in-cheek but realistic look at the Kentucky moonshining industry.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Let's Make Moonshine The History of Moonshining The Production of Whiskey The Geography of Moonshining Money, Materials, and Equipment Moonshining as an Industry Law Enforcement The Argot of the Craft Glossary
£16.00
The University Press of Kentucky Kentucky Moonshine
Book SynopsisA glossary of moonshiner argot sheds light on such colorful terms as puker, slop, and weed-monkey.With a new foreword by author Wes Berry, David Maurer's classic history of this subject is tongue-in-cheek, but nevertheless a realistic look at the Kentucky moonshiner and the moonshining industry.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Let's Make Moonshine The History of Moonshining The Production of Whiskey The Geography of Moonshining Money, Materials, and Equipment Moonshining as an Industry Law Enforcement The Argot of the Craft Glossary
£25.00
The University Press of Kentucky Met Her on the Mountain
Book SynopsisAn exhaustive piece of investigative journalism in search of the truth.
£25.65
The University Press of Kentucky Met Her on the Mountain
Book SynopsisIn June of 1970, the body of 24-year-old Nancy Morgan was found inside a government-owned car in Madison County, North Carolina. It had been four days since anyone had heard from the bubbly, hard-working brunette who had moved to the Appalachian community less than a year prior as an organizer for Volunteers in Service to America. At the time of her death, her tenure in the Tar Heel State was just weeks from ending, her intentions set on New York and nursing school and a new life that she would never see. The initial investigation was thwarted by inept police work, jurisdictional confusion, and the influence of local corruption. Fourteen years would pass before an arrest in the case would be made, but even then, a pall would be cast over the veracity of the evidence. Met Her on the Mountain is the culmination of former Los Angeles Times staff writer Mark Pinsky''s efforts to solve the 40-year-old mystery once and for all. An exhaustive piece of investigative journalism, Pinsky dissects
£999.99
The University Press of Kentucky Who Killed Betty Gail Brown
Book SynopsisAn invaluable record of one of Kentucky's most famous cold cases.Table of ContentsThe Murder of Betty Gail Brown The Initial Investigation Cooling Down of a Hot Case Arrival of a Real Suspect Events Preceding Trial The Trial
£23.00
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. The Future of American Intelligence Hoover
Book SynopsisThese essays from a diverse group of distinguished contributors deepen our understanding of the new security threats posed by terrorism, by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and by the spread of Islamic extremism. They examine the obstacles to making U.S. intelligence more capable and offer recommendations for effective reform.
£14.36
Beaufort Books Killer Girlfriend
Book SynopsisOn January 2, 2013, the murder trial of Jodi Arias began, setting off a national obsession with Jodi's story of sex, lies, and murder. Jodi Arias became a household name overnight when she was charged with the heinous murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander. Travis was found dead in his shower, with approximately thirty stab wounds, his throat slit, and a bullet hole in his forehead. From nightly news specials covering every moment of the trial to CNN Headline News featuring daily updates on the case, the media circus only fueled the hunger of the public to learn more about this twisted tale. Associated Pressreporters BrianSkoloffand JoshHoffnerwere there covering every moment of the court case.Killer Girlfriendprovides the first comprehensive account of the case, from the moment Jodi and Travis met, through the killing, her arrest, the four-month trial, and ending, finally, with the verdict.
£9.89
Beaufort Books Buried Memories A Vulnerable Girl and Her Story
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKatie Beers will be part of a round table of "women [who] are all survivors of their own infamous abductions, assaults and attacks and for the first time, are coming together with Elizabeth to help provide valuable insight to Jayme's story." https://www.aenetworks.com/article/lifetime-greenlights-special-smart-justice-the-jayme-closs-case-with-missing-persons-advocate-elizabeth-smart-to-premiere-april-27
£15.29
Wisconsin Historical Society Press Damn the Old Tinderbox
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£17.95
WW Norton & Co Blood Will Out
Book SynopsisA Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, and BookPage Best Book of 2014 A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014 An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer.Trade Review"Kirn is such a good writer and Gerhartsreiter such a baroquely, demonically colorful subject, you could imagine this being a fine read had they no personal connection. That they did, however, elevates Blood Will Out to another level: Kirn lards his story with detail while reviewing his own psyche, in an attempt to discover how he—a journalist!—could have been so fooled. The irony? With all due respect to Kirn's skills as a novelist, it is hard to conceive of any fictionalized version of 'Clark Rockefeller' being as compelling as the real thing." -- Clark Collis - Entertainment Weekly"[A] tight, gripping book…This bit of noir, from Mr. Kirn about Clark Rockefeller, is just right." -- Janet Maslin - New York Times Book Review"In this smart, real-life psychological thriller, the fake Rockefeller is a zombie Gatsby and Kirn the post-apocalyptic Fitzgerald." -- Nina Burleigh - New York Times Book Review"This stunning book dissects psychopathy, the perverse manners of the Internet generation, art, money, and the very nature of belief. At its core, it brilliantly portrays one man's journey through fraudulence to a point of stern resolve. It's tabloid tell-all journalism and Old Testament rebuke. It is of a piece with Roethke: it tells us that the abyss is just a step down the stair." -- James Ellroy"In this smart, real-life psychological thriller, the fake Rockefeller is a zombie Gatsby and Kirn the post-apocalyptic Fitzgerald." -- Nina Burleigh - The New York Times Book Review"In Blood Will Out Walter Kirn brilliantly and with remarkable eloquence dissects one of the great impostors—and along the way delves into the fraudulence within that made him so susceptible to the other man's lies. A gripping performance!" -- Edmund White"Though Blood Will Out is written with Walter Kirn's usual stylistic verve, insight, and imagination it is actually a disturbing account of a one-sided, naively misguided 'friendship' with a dangerous sociopath. Here is a memoir in the guise of a 'true crime story'—a double portrait of writer and subject in which the subject is partially erased even as the writer evokes the considerable tools of his imagination to reconstruct him and his own motive in the bizarre relationship." -- Joyce Carol Oates"A Hitchcockian psychological thriller and one of the most honest and affecting memoirs I've read. It is superbly written, each sentence a wonder, each page deepening my appreciation of Kirn’s precise observation of human nature." -- Amy Tan"Blood Will Out is a deep meditation on wealth and class and anybody's self-destructive ability to get conned by a blackbelt liar. A must-read." -- Mary Karr"This scorching account of a friendship with a man who overturned the author's faith in his own judgment owes its strength to the author's deep understanding of 'the fathomless human genius for credulity, wishful thinking, and self deception,' starting with his own. Kirn parses the ways in which a highly intelligent writer got caught up with a character more compelling than any he could create, such that this book has the power and insight and raw energy of an instant classic." -- Amy Hempel"There is no finer guide to the American berserk than Walter Kirn." -- Gary Shteyngart"The parallels with Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley are not lost on Kirn, who spends as much time trying to understand how he and others fell under Gerhartstreiter’s spell as he does relating the primary tale of the criminal himself. Kirn’s candor, ear for dialogue, and crisp prose make for a masterful true crime narrative that is impossible to put down. The book deserves to become a classic." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"This fascinating account from the perspective of a victim should appeal to readers of memoirs and true crime titles." -- Deirdre Bray - Library Journal"Kirn bravely lays bare his own vanities and follies in this heart-pounding true tale; he examines the hold of fiction on the human imagination—how we live for it and occasionally die for it, too." -- Judith Newman - More Magazine"The story of Blood Will Out is one of cosmic ironies and jaw-dropping reversals… What makes Blood Will Out so absorbing is its teller more than its subject. Kirn’s persona is captivating—funny, pissed off, highly literate, and self-searching. He’s also an elegant, classic writer… Add the highly readable, intricately told Blood Will Out to the list of great books about the dizzying tensions of the writing life and the maddening difficulty of getting at the truth." -- Amity Gaige - Slate"[A] fascinating account of the imposter he considered his friend for 10 years… Blood Will Out is an exploration of a hoaxer from the point of view of a mark, and of a relationship based on interlocking deceptions and self-deceptions. The result is a moral tale about the dangers of social climbing on a rickety ladder—for both those trying to scramble up the rungs and those trying to hold it steady below." -- Heller McAlpin - The Washington Post"Riveting and disturbing, Blood Will Out is a mélange of memoir, stranger-than-fiction crime reporting and cultural critique. The literary markers run the gamut from James Ellroy’s My Dark Places, and Fyodor Doestoevsky’s Crime and Punishment to Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley trilogy and Strangers on a Train. Kirn’s self-lacerating meditations on class, art, vanity, ambition, betrayal and delusion elevate the material beyond its pulpy core… Kirn’s belated acceptance of reality provides the most fascinating and frustrating element of this engaging, self-flagellating memoir." -- Larry Lebowitz - Miami Herald"One of the most honest, compelling and strangest books about the relationship between a writer and his subject ever penned by an American scribe… Each new revelation comes subtly, and each adds to the pathetic and creepy portrait of Clark Rockefeller as a vacuous manipulator… The ending of Blood Will Out is at once deeply ambiguous and deeply satisfying. By then, Kirn has looked into the eyes of a cruel, empty man—and learned a lot about himself in the process." -- Hector Tobar - Los Angeles Times"Kirn's voice throughout is witty and sharp. His canny, deceptively casual organization of the narrative heightens suspense, and the words and images in his flowing prose cut like laser beams… For its devastating, unsettling psychological insights and its rich, polished writing, Blood Will Out equals Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as a nonfiction novel of crime." -- Gerald Bartell - San Francisco Chronicle"Blood Will Out…makes the darkness visible. Kirn’s account of his friendship with this strange and terrible man cuts through the frippery of Gerhartsreiter’s outrageous affectations to reveal the Lovecraftian nightmare hiding beneath the J. Press blazer. Blood Will Out is a wise, deeply frightening, and potentially sleep-disrupting read… In the end, Kirn manages to transform his personal account of one of this century’s most aberrant personalities into a vessel bearing universal truths about narrative, evil, and the American Dream itself." -- Eugenia Williamson - Boston Globe"Absorbing… If there’s anything rarer than a con man with Clark’s gift for the game, it’s a writer of Kirn’s quicksilver accomplishment… To have someone of Kirn’s ability write about the case from the inside promises exceptional insight into the way such tricksters operate and the even greater enigma of what motivates them." -- Laura Miller - Salon.com"One of the most honest, compelling and strangest books about the relationship between a writer and his subject ever penned by an American scribe— Each new revelation comes subtly, and each adds to the pathetic and creepy portrait of Clark Rockefeller as a vacuous manipulator— The ending of Blood Will Out is at once deeply ambiguous and deeply satisfying. By then, Kirn has looked into the eyes of a cruel, empty man—and learned a lot about himself in the process." -- Hector Tobar - Los Angeles Times"Engrossing… A haunting, pained and terrifically engaging self-interrogation… That's what makes great memoirs—which this one is—so interesting: They're at once authentic and performative. They're not all that different in that respect from the act of an impostor and murderer such as Gerhartsreiter, missing only the essential ingredient of madness… It's a major step forward as a writer." -- Charles Finch - Chicago Tribune"A nod to a different canon of con men and tricksters: the protagonist of Melville’s The Confidence-Man, the prep-school clones of Leopold and Loeb of Hitchcock’s Rope, and Highsmith’s highbrow hucksters—all crossed with the shadows of film noir." -- Eric Banks - Bookforum
£19.94
Mercer University Press The Columbus Stocking Strangler
Book SynopsisDuring an eight-month period in 1977 and 1978, the city of Columbus, Georgia, was terrorized by a mysterious serial killer. This convoluted tale of crime and punishment is punctuated by unexpected twists and turns including issues of race, alleged conspiracy and misconduct, a second serial killer, the Ku Klux Klan, and errors in DNA analysis.
£22.46
Academy Chicago Publishers An Accidental Anarchist
Book SynopsisA sober analysis of a case, now little more than a historical footnote, that came to be known as the Averbuch Affair.
£15.26
Chicago Review Press The Trial of Levi Weeks
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£17.99
Chicago Review Press The Axeman of New Orleans
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fantastically detailed, thoroughly documented, frightening and fascinating. Ms. Davis's account of the Axeman is likely to be the final word on the subject." Keven McQueen, author of Gothic and Strange True Tales of the South
£999.99
Chicago Review Press Special Agent Man
Book SynopsisTrade Review"If you've ever wished you had a best friend who spent a lifetime in the FBI and could regale with stories...now you do. Steve Moore is one of the good guys. He's been there and you'll believe you were right there with him during every adventure." --Bob Hamer, veteran undercover FBI agent and the author of Targets Down"Special Agent Man by Steve Moore is an utterly fascinating, thrilling, and at times humorous memoir of the life and adventures of a top FBI agent. This book is the real deal and I highly recommend it." --Douglas Preston, New York Times best-selling author, and co-author of The Monster of Florence"If you ever wondered 'what it would be like to be FBI,' this is your book."-- Library Journal"A love letter to a dangerous career" --Kirkus Reviews"Fascinating insights...an unpretentious account of a proud career in service to public safety." --Kirkus Reviews"Bolstered by its striking true-life storyline, his memoir is a gripping read." -- South China Morning Post
£17.84
Titletown Publishing, LLC The Last Meal
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£14.20
Twin Feather Publishing I a Squealer
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£17.05
Changing Lives Press In Bed with the Badge
Book SynopsisIn Bed with the Badge is this generation's Burning Bed. Ms. Joyce and her brother, Raymond, tell the bloodcurdling story of how their father, Ray Sheehan, a retired NYPD detective, turned wife-beating into an art form by utilizing the very tactics he was taught in the police force.
£19.76
Peasenhal Press Reflexion Revised Edition
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£23.70
Titletown Publishing, LLC SLAVE
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£15.26
Vintage Books Canada Wish You Were Here
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER As compelling as Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark or James Ellroy's My Dark Places, this is the story of a brother's lifelong determination to find the truth about his sister's death, a police force that was ignoring the cases of missing and murdered women, and, to the surprise of everyone involved, a previously undiscovered serial killer.In the fall of 1978 teenager Theresa Allore went missing near Sherbrooke, Quebec. She wasn't seen again until the spring thaw revealed her body in a creek only a few kilometers away. Shrugging off her death as a result of 1970s drug culture, police didn't investigate. Patricia Pearson started dating Theresa's brother John during the aftermath of Theresa's death. Though the two teens would go their separate ways, the family's grief, obsession with justice and desire for the truth never left Patricia. Little did she know, the shockwaves of Theresa's death would retu
£14.36
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£19.54
BookBaby Heavens Drop
£23.19
Random House USA Inc A Brotherhood of Spies
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£15.30
Random House USA Inc The Districts
Book SynopsisJohnny Dwyer examines the New York crimes we’ve seen in the news, in movies, and on television—drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism, corruption, and white-collar crime—while weaving in the nuances that rarely make it into headlines. “Told in the kind of pointillist detail that can only come from years of hanging around the courthouse and doing old-school shoe-leather reporting.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing The Rosenbergs, Rudy Giuliani, Bernie Madoff, James Comey, John Gotti, Preet Bharara, and El Chapo are just a few of the figures to have appeared before the courts in the Southern and Eastern District of New York—the two federal courts tasked with maintaining order in New York City. These two epicenters of power in our justice system have become proving grounds for ambitious prosecutors who turn their service in government into power, position
£15.26
Random House USA Inc A Very Expensive Poison The Assassination of
Book SynopsisA true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by The Guardian’s former Moscow bureau chief and author of The Snowden Files and CollusionOn November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium—a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination story—complete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters. He shows how Litvinenko’s murder foreshadowed the killings of other Kremlin critics, from Washington, DC, to Moscow, and how these are tied to Russia’s current misadventures in Ukraine and Syria. In doing so, he becomes a target himself and unearths a chain of corruption and death leading straight to Vladimir Putin. From his investigations of the downing of flight MH17 to the Panama Papers, Harding sheds a terrifying
£16.20
Random House USA Inc How America Lost Its Secrets Edward Snowden the
Book SynopsisA powerful exposé that calls into question Edward Snowden's hero status and uncovers how vulenerable our national security systems have become.Edward Snowden. Hero, traitor, whistleblower, or spy? In the wake of his 2013 NSA leak, public opinion has been divided over the former IT analyst. In How America Lost Its Secrets, Edward Jay Epstein draws on his extensive journalistic experience and investigative acumen to investigate the Snowden scandal--why, and how, it happened, and what the implications will be. This is a crucial book for anyone hoping to understand national security in the digital age, and what Snowden's revelations mean for America (and Putin's Russia).
£15.30
St Martin's Press American Demon
Book Synopsis"New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Nes."--Trade Review"The combination of a baffling unsolved crime with a nuanced portrayal of an American icon adds up to another winner for this talented author." -Publishers Weekly (starred) "[Stashower] deftly sets Ness' battles against institutional antagonists against an engagingly told, suspenseful account of the search for a notorious killer...riveting and illuminating." -Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Edgar Award-winner Stashower (The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War) approaches this material with a pit bull's tenacity, and he writes with the steeliness of an old-school journalist, suiting the book's place and time... a thrillingly bedeviling true crime story interlaced with a nuanced character study--not of the criminal but of his flawed pursuer." -Shelf Awareness "Daniel Stashower has a gift for peering into the dark, shadowy corners of American history and unearthing its most chilling and fascinating tales. American Demon is a twisting, true-life murder mystery about a serial killer who terrified a nation in the throes of the Great Depression--and his nemesis, famed lawman Eliot Ness, who was battling demons of his own. Stashower deftly fuses meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling to give this narrative history all the thrills of the best crime fiction." --Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author (as Karen Abbott) of The Ghosts of Eden Park The legendary Eliot Ness on the trail of a diabolical serial killer--a Hannibal Lecter running loose at the height of the Great Depression. And it's all true. When it comes to historical crime nonfiction, Stashower is untouchable." --Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Win "Dan Stashower brings both the novelist's pen and the historian's eye to throw new light on one of history's most baffling cold cases." -Donna Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of Murder Most Fowl "Iconic lawman Eliot Ness is well known for his first act: helping to bust Al Capone, together with his intrepid band of Untouchables. With American Demon, Daniel Stashower takes a deep and fascinating dive into Ness's even more intriguing second act: as Depression era safety commissioner of Cleveland, where he battled rampant corruption and led the hunt for a bizarre and baffling serial killer. Bringing the character and times to vivid life, Stashower once again makes an important contribution to the annals of American crime." --Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter, The Cases That Haunt Us, and The Killer Across the Table "American Demon is a swirl of today's obsessions in a story of our yesterdays. The book has it all: Serial killers. American hero cops. Media frenzies. Politics. Romance. And it's all character-driven by the real life legendary figure of Eliot Ness from TV and book fame on the track of a monster. American Demon goes beyond a fascinating true crime story to a suspenseful revelation of our American realities." --James Grady, creator of Condor and author of This Train Praise for The Hour of Peril, a New York Times bestseller, Agatha Award winner, and Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime: "This account of the little-known Baltimore-based plot to assassinate Lincoln... hurtles across a landscape of conspirators, heroes and politicos in hotel suites, ladies' parlors and railway depots." --New York Times Book Review History that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller. --Harlan Coben Reads like a first-class detective novel...Pinkerton's tireless energy prevented a tragedy that might have destroyed the republic. --James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom "Reads like the best political thriller...The story of a charismatic detective trying to convince Lincoln of an assassination plot and a man adapting to lead the country that was dividing proves to be a great addition for fans of great books of history." --Associated Press
£999.99
St. Martin's Griffin Dead Run
Book SynopsisEvoking Into the Wild and The Monkey Wrench Gang, Dead Run is the extraordinary true story of three desperado survivalists, a dangerous plot, a brutal murder, and a treacherous manhunt.On a sunny May morning in 1998, three friends in a stolen truck passed through Cortez, Colorado on their way to commit sabotage of unspeakable proportions. Evidence suggests their mission was to blow up the Glen Canyon dam. Had they succeeded, the structure''s collapse would have unleashed a 500-foot-high inland tsunami, surging across the American Southwest and pulverizing everything in its pathcrashing through the Grand Canyon, overflowing Hoover Dam, washing away downstream communities and crippling the water supply of Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, and San Diego.Instead, the truck was pulled over by an unsuspecting small town cop and the outlaws opened fire. After shooting him twenty times, they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and
£16.19
St. Martin's Griffin Deliver Us from Evil A New York City Cop
Book SynopsisDemonic possession. Exorcism. Haunted Houses. Satanic Rituals.For most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superstition. For New York City police Sergeant Ralph Sarchie, it''s as realand dangerousas midnight patrol . . .A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York''s South Bronx. But it is his other job that he calls the Work: investigating cases of demonic possession and assisting in the exorcisms of humanity''s most ancientand most dangerousfoes. Now he discloses for the first time his investigations into incredible true crimes and inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood except by Sarchie and his partner. Schooled in the rituals of exorcism, and an eyewitness to the reality of demonic possession, Ralph Sarchie has documented a riveting chronicle of the inexplicable that gives a new shape to the shadows in the dark.In Deliver Us from Evil, he
£17.09
Flatiron Books The Fact of a Body
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£16.99
Picador USA Gomorrah
Book SynopsisThe basis of the Sundance TV series Gomorrah A New York Times Notable Book of the YearGomorrah is a bold and important work of investigative writing that holds global significance, one heroic young man''s impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization. A groundbreaking, unprecedented bestseller in Italy, Roberto Saviano''s insider account traces the decline of the city of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network more powerful and violent than the Mafia. The Camorra is an elaborate, international system dealing in drugs, high fashion, construction, and toxic waste, and its influence has entirely transformed life in Campania, the province surrounding Naples. Since seeing his first murder victim, at thirteen, Roberto Saviano has watched the changes in his home city. For Gomorrah, he disappeared into the Camorra and witnessed up close the drug cartel''s audacious, sop
£16.20
Picador USA City of Devils The Two Men Who Ruled the
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St. Martin's True Crime At Any Cost
Book SynopsisAt 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
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