Crime

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice?from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poo...

Marriage can be a real killer.One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work draws you in and keeps you reading with the ...

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as h...

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, ...

Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that 'The Devil in the White City' is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for...

The Girl in the Spider?s Web, the new book in the Millennium Series, is available now!Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her a...

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In the afternoon or early evening of June 25, 1980, two young women, Vicki Durian and Nancy Santomero, were killed in an isolated clearing in rural Pocahontas County West Virginia. They were hitchhiking to an outdoor peace festival known as the Rainbow Gathering, but never arrived. Their killings have been called _x0093_The Rainbow Murders._x0094_For thirteen ...

Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year Shaken by a recent scrape with death, bigcity detective Joe Cashin is posted to a quiet town in on the Australian coast. But soon the whole community is thrown into unrest by the murder of a local philanthropist, a man with some very disturbing secrets. The Broken...

The psychologists would call it folie a deux ...'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and a...

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that...

Voted by the British Crime Writers Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time"Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christies ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailin...

THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6PART 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 Choi...

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trai...

Devil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hardboiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect....

Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski's specialty. Her client says he's the prominent banker, John Thayer. Turns out he's not. He says his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill, is missing. Turns out that's not her real name. V.I.'s search turns up someone soon e...

"Astonishing . . . original, daring, brilliant." Philadelphia InquirerIn 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirtysix years running fr...

Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner An ECONOMIST TOP FICTION TITLE OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER OF THE YEARA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR_x0093_A soulful, humane, and sparklingly funny novel. Spend some time with Sheldon and company in the Scandinavian wildernes...

_x0093_A brave and marvelous book. A pageturner that will rip your heart out._x0094__x0097_Jon KrakauerIn the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. "I_x0092_m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle. . . . It should be difficult to get lost forever": These were the haunting last words legendary advent...

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain _x0097_ a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown Grant seeks what kind of man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower....

_x0093_Delicious and addictive._x0094__x0097_Salon.com _x0093_Reads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel._x0094__x0097_CNN _x0093_What would you get if that punkish dragon girl Lisbeth Salander met up with Jim Sallis_x0092_s Lew Griffin walking the back streets of New Orleans Or Sue Grafton_x0092_s Kinsey Millhone transformed herself into a tattooed magnolia driving a 4x4 Clare...

The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean_x0092_s tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower_x0097_the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii_x0097_a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America_x0092_s strange flowerselling subculture, through Florida_x0092_s swamps and beyond, along with the S...

The story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiositiesbeakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of bookssat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his fortyyear career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes,"...

America_x0092_s first female serial killer was not always a killer. America_x0092_s First Female Serial Killer novelizes the true story of firstgeneration IrishAmerican nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Although all the facts are intact, books about her life and her crimes are all facts and no story. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did ...

New York Times BestsellerSoon to be a Netflix film.The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer. Now updated, with a new afterword by the author. ?Rich, tragic...monumental...truecrime reporting at its best.??Washington PostOne late spring evening in 2010, Sh...

It should have been just a midlife fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morningafter visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their piedàterre still heady ...

A brilliant anthology of modern truecrime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the awardwinning author of The Real Lolita. The appeal of truecrime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I_x0092_ll Be Gone in the Dark ...

On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would become known as the _x0093_Mississippi Burning_x0094_ case and even though the killers_x0092_ identities, including the sheriff_x0092_s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed. It took fortyone years before the mast...

In June of 1860 threeyearold Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The suspicion that fell upon the grieving family and their servants horrified the public; the thought of what might go on behind the closed doors of respectable middleclass Victorian homes scheming governesses, rebellious children, insan...

In 1979, Jane Whaley, a fiery preacher with a thick Southern drawl, attracted a small group of followerstwentytwo men and women drawn in by her passion, and promise that through prayer and deliverance, they could turn their lives around.In the years since, Whaley's following has expanded to include thousands of congregants across three continent...

Murder Was Never So Much Fun! When Disco Bloodbath was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageously funny depiction of the hedonistic world of the New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré including murder. Nominated for the Edgar Award for best truecrime book of ...

Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's alltoohuman, allconsuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of h...

Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prizewinning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in a brandnew edition.Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold ...

The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victim's best friend, Dr. Mortimer, is convinced that the strike was due to a supernatural creature, which haunts the moor in the shape of a...

Thirteen yearold Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since bir...

The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal massmurderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting . . . TED BUNDY was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner' handsome, charming, brilliant in law sc...

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the coldblooded TateLaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his ...

After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle_x0092_s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, deg...

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty_x0097_even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain....