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HarperCollins Evil Beside Her
Book SynopsisSleeping with a monsterAt first, Linda Bergstrom''s marriage to her husband James was idyllic. They were young and in love; he was about to enter the Navy and she was eager to start a family. But it wasn''t long before the dream exploded. James became abusive and violent, prone to sudden bursts of anger, long silences, and unexplained disappearances. But Linda vowed to hold on, despite the pain and fear . . . and her disturbing suspicions about her husband''s secret life.Then, not long after their move to Houston, Texas, she made a terrifying discovery: James''s hidden cache containing duct tape, a ski mask, and handcuffs. No longer could Linda Bergstrom deny the hideous truth.The man she lived with, the man she married for love, was a dangerous psychopath. And there was no escape and nowhere to run. Because no one—not her friends, the Navy, or the police—would believe her.
£8.54
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Havana Nocturne
Book SynopsisIn modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T.J. English offers a multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution & international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the Mob in Havana & the event that would overshadow it, the Cuban Revolution.As the Cuban people labored under a violently repressive regime throughout the 50s, Mob leaders Meyer Lansky & Charles Lucky Luciano turned their eye to Havana. To them, Cuba was the ultimate dream, the greatest hope for the future of the US Mob in the post-Prohibition years of intensified government crackdowns. But when it came time to make their move, it was Lansky, the brilliant Jewish mobster, who reigned supreme. Having cultivated strong ties with the Cuban
£999.99
HarperCollins Deadly Angel
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£6.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mossad
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HarperCollins Deliver Us Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I45Texas Killing Fields
Trade Review"A true crime classic! A chilling study where both the victim and the stalker are bizarre and inscrutable...by one of the best in the true crime genre." -- Ann Rule
£6.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ill Be Gone in the Dark
Book SynopsisTHE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO DOCUMENTARY SERIES#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Washington Post Maureen Corrigan, NPR Paste Seattle Times Entertainment Weekly Esquire Slate Buzzfeed Jezebel Philadelphia Inquirer Publishers Weekly Kirkus Reviews Library Journal Bustle Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for Nonfiction Anthony Award Winner SCIBA Book Award Winner Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceThe haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terro
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Clinton Cash
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HarperCollins By the Fire We Carry
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Trump Indictments
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A bracing presentation and a valuable record for history....Velshi makes a strong case that Americans need to understand these documents and keep them close as the various trials proceed in the coming months and years." — Washington Post
£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Cave Mountain
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£19.68
Penguin Publishing Group Honor Killing
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Oxford University Press The Politics of Drug Violence
Book SynopsisOver the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the result of brutality. Rather, they stem from structural conditions that vary from country to country and from era to era. In The Politics of Drug Violence, Angelica Durán-Martínez shows how variation in drug violence results from the complex relationship between state power and criminal competition. Drawing on remarkably extensive fieldwork, this book compares five cities that have been home to major trafficking organizations for the past four decades: Cali and Medellín in Colombia, and Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, and Tijuana in Mexico. She shows that violence escalates when trafficking organizatTrade ReviewThe book...serve[s] as a solid foundation for scholars to build on and, with any hope, encourage a set of public policies capable of securing a more just and peaceful future for Latin America. * Juan Albarracín, Universidad Icesi, Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables, and Maps Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. States, Trafficking, and Violence 2. Conceptualizing Drug Violence 3. Democratization and State Capacity to Control Violence 4. Medellín: From Extreme Wars to Unstable Pacification 5. Cali and Culiacán: Hidden Violence and State-Criminal Collusion 6. Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana: Beyond a Border Tale of Violence Conclusion Appendix: Coding Protocol for Drug-Violence Events Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£33.72
Headline Publishing Group Poison
Book SynopsisPoison documents the tales of the users and victims of these mysterious substances. Profiles of the most commonly used toxins of each era reveal how poisoners have harnessed these natural killers to achieve their ends.Table of ContentsPoison – a Recurring Story. Poisons of the Ancient World. Medieval and Renaissance Poisons. 17th and 18th Century Poisons. 19th Century Poisons. 20th Century Poisons. 21st Century Poisons.
£20.00
Hachette Books Retail Gangster
Book SynopsisA biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as Crazy Eddie, whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all timeBack in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar, Crazy Eddie as he was known to millions of people, the man behind the successful chain of electronic stores and one of the most iconic ad campaigns in history. Few things evoke the New York of a particular era the way Crazy Eddie! His prices are insaaaaane! does. The journalist Herb Greenberg called his death the end of an era and that couldn''t be more true. What''s insane is that his story has never been told.Before Enron, before Madoff, before The Wolf of Wall Street, Eddie Antar''s corruption was second to none. The difference was that it was a street franchise, a local place that was in the blood stream of everyone''s daily life in the 1970s and early ''80s. And Eddie pulled it off with a certain style, an in your face blue collar chutzpah. Despite the fact that then U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff called him the Darth Vader of capitalism after the extent of the fraud was revealed, one of the largest SEC frauds in American history after Crazy Eddie''s stores went public in 1984, Eddie was talked about fondly by the people who worked for him. They still do--there are myriads of ex-Crazy Eddie employee web pages that still attract fans, and the Crazy Eddie fraud scheme is now taught in every business school across the United States. Many years have passed since the franchise went down in spectacular fashion but Crazy Eddie''s moment has endured the way that iconic brands and characters do--one only need Google the media outpouring that accompanied his death. Maybe it''s because it crystallized everything about 1970s New York almost perfectly, the merchandise and rise of consumer electronics (stereos!), the ads (cheesy!), the money (cash!). In Retail Gangster, investigative journalist Gary Weiss takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most unbelievable business scam stories of all time, a story spanning continents and generations, reaffirming the old adage that the truth is often stranger than fiction.
£15.19
Penguin Random House LLC American Lightning
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£16.12
Random House USA Inc Agent Zigzag
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Random House USA Inc The Gangs of New York
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Crown Skyjack The Hunt for D B Cooper
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true, unsolved story of D. B. Cooper’s 1971 airplane hijacking, one of the greatest cold cases of the twentieth century, by an author featured in D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!, now streaming on Netflix “Here is writing and storytelling that is vivid and fresh—a delectable adventure.”—Gay Talese“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.” That was the note handed to flight attendant Florence Schaffner by a mild-mannered passenger now known as D. B. Cooper on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was also the start of one of the most astonishing aviation whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline before parachuting into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, never to be seen again.The case of D. B. Cooper is a modern legend that has obsessed and curs
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Random House USA Inc Priceless
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Crown The Fatal Gift of Beauty
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Crown The Skies Belong to Us Love and Terror in the
Book SynopsisThe true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history.In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom—a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history.More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait
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St Martins Press Group Ed Gein Psycho
£12.19
St. Martins Press-3PL Purgatory
£11.39
St Martin's Press The Missing Girls
Book SynopsisAshley Pond was only twelve years old when she vanished from a school bus stop in a town south of Portland, Oregon. As a shocked community came together and police began a frantic search, another tragedy was just about to take place.Miranda Gaddis was Ashley''s best friend. Just two months after Ashley''s disappearance, Miranda was on her way to school when she, too, was abducted. Nobody knew the scandalous, unspeakable secret that the two girls sharedexcept for one man who lived just one block away.The police and FBI managed to overlook the girls'' neighbor whose daughter was a friend of Miranda and Ashley''sand who had a catalog of sexual-assault allegations behind him. Author Linda O''Neal was a private investigator intimately involved in this shocking case. Now, she and her co-authorsalso participants in the casetell the chilling story of one town''s devastating lossand how the murderer was finally found.
£10.44
St. Martin's Publishing Group House of Evil
Book SynopsisIn the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's, through a twist of fate and fortune, a young girl came to live with a mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens' parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come.
£9.89
St Martin's Press Such Good Boys
Book SynopsisAN ABUSIVE MOTHERRaised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother''s verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him a beating that sent him to the emergency room. His fifteen-year-old half brother Matthew Montejo also was a victim to Jane Bautista''s dark mood swings and erratic behavior, but for some reason, Jason received the brunt of the abuseuntil he decided he''d had enoughA SON''S REVENGEOn the night of January 14, 2003, Jason strangled his mother. To keep authorities from identifying her body, he chopped off her head and hands, an idea he claimed he got from watching an episode of the hit TV series The Sopranos. Matthew would later testify in court that he sat in another room in the house with the TV volume turned up while Jason murdered their mother. He also testifi
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ABC-CLIO The Last Murder
Book SynopsisThis eye-opening book uses the case of Ted Bundy to show how a case against a serial killer is investigated, how problems common to such cases are overcome, and how the prosecution team marshals and presents the evidence at trial.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Abbreviations 1 The Cold and Rainy Day 2 On the Road with Ted Bundy 3 A Tale of Two Cities, Part I: Tallahassee 4 A Tale of Two Cities, Part II: Lake City 5 Much Ado about Something 6 The Searchers 7 Crime Scene Investigation 8 Building a Case 9 The Grand Jury 10 Bundy's Dream Team 11 Bundy for the Defense, Part I 12 Marshaling the Evidence 13 Bundy for the Defense, Part II 14 Motion Sickness 15 Try, Try, Again 16 The Trial 17 Death Sentence to Death Chamber Epilogue Notes Index
£43.00
Little Brown and Company Crime Beat
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Little, Brown & Company ghostinthewiresmyadventuresastheworldsmostwantedha
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Little, Brown & Company We Are Anonymous
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Hachette Books The Third Rainbow Girl
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£16.99
Little Brown and Company Catch and Kill
Book Synopsis One of the Best Books of the Year Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal In this newly updated edition of the meticulous and devastating (Associated Press) account of violence and espionage that spent months on the New York Times Bestsellers list, Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost - from Hollywood to Washington and beyond. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood''s most powerful producers was a predat
£34.89
Back Bay Books Catch and Kill
Book Synopsis Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max. One of the Best Books of the Year Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal In this newly updated edition of the 'meticulous and devastating' (Associated Press) account of violence and espionage that spent months on the New York Times Bestsellers list, Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost - from Hollywood to Washington and beyond. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to a story only whispered about
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Little Brown and Company American Reich
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£21.09
Pan Macmillan Forensic Casebook of Crime
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£34.73
Pan Macmillan Outlaws Inc.
Book SynopsisMatt Potter is a journalist, editor and broadcaster. He has reported for BBC Radio from Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia and his writing has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Maxim, Esquire, the Irish Examiner and Q. He lives in London.
£16.14
Random House Publishing Group Storming Las Vegas
Book SynopsisOn September 20, 1998, Jose Vigoa, a child of Fidel Castro’s revolution, launched what would be the most audacious and ruthless series of high-profile casino and armored car robberies that Las Vegas had ever seen. In a brazen sixteen-month reign of terror, he and his crew would hit the crème de la crème of Vegas hotels: the MGM, the Desert Inn, the New York—New York, the Mandalay Bay, and the Bellagio. The robberies were well planned and executed, and the police-“the stupids,” as Vigoa contemptuously referred to them-were all but helpless to stop them. But Lt. John Alamshaw, the twenty-three-year veteran in charge of robbery detectives, was not giving up so easily. For him, Vigoa’s rampage was a personal affront. And he would do whatever it took, even risk his badge, to bring Vigoa down.
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Random House USA Inc The Billion Dollar Spy
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story of intrigue in the final years of the Cold War. It was the height of the Cold War, and a dangerous time to be stationed in the Soviet Union. One evening, while the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station was filling his gas tank, a stranger approached and dropped a note into the car. The chief, suspicious of a KGB trap, ignored the overture. But the man had made up his mind. His attempts to establish contact with the CIA would be rebuffed four times before he thrust upon them an envelope whose contents would stun U.S. intelligence. In the years that followed, that man, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the most valuable spies ever for the U.S. But these activities posed an enorm
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Flying Blind
Book SynopsisAn exhilarating memoir by a daughter uncovering the secret of her father's rags-to-riches story, from poor farm boy to international drug smuggler, and the many mysteries surrounding his sudden death by plane crash. Nothing seemed awry the morning that five-year-old Artis Chester climbed into her father's plane: this was simply their usual Saturday bonding. But moments after they take off into the crystal blue sky, the plane plummets to the ground, leaving Artis with a broken body--and without a father. This tragedy would be enough to shape any young life, but Artis's world is further turned upside down when, shortly thereafter, the IRS arrives to seize all her family's possessions. Lamar Chester had always had an air of mystery about him, but now her mother won't say a word. He'd been a dashing commercial pilot, settling his family in a palatial estate in Georgia, amassing a collection of boats, cars, a private plane and even a group of islands in the Bahamas. But Artis, as a youn
£20.90
Lulu.com My Move
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£20.73
Lulu.com Murder Madness and Mayhem on the Iowa Illinois Frontier
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Lulu.com My Move
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Lulu.com My Move
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ReadHowYouWant JFK An American Coup The Truth Behind the Kennedy Assassination 16pt Large Print Edition
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ReadHowYouWant Guns and Gangs
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Empire of Orgasm
£24.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Murder in the Dollhouse
£23.20
HarperCollins Bully
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