DEPRAVED KIDNAPPERS, HORRIFIC ORDEALS, COURAGEOUS SURVIVORS True stories of twisted criminals who hold their victims in endless captivity to satisfy their perverse desires, Against Their Will is a comprehensive compendium of the most...
True crime stories
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Author:Cawthorne, NigelSummary: - Author:Bellett, GeraldSummary:
The acclaimed non-fiction international political thriller exposing the real reason for Watergate, the hidden death of Howard Hughes, and the illicit activities of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with the CIA's...
- Author:Macintyre, BenSummary:
In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke...
- Author:Hazelgrove, William ElliottSummary:
Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression-the story of Chicago fighting the hold that organized crime had on the city to be able to put on the 1933 World...
- Author:Binder, John J.Summary:
Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been-until now-a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John...
- Author:Woodward, Bob, Bernstein, CarlSummary:
The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it...
- Author:Patterson, James, Abramovich, Alex, Harvkey, MikeSummary:
Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground investigative reporting that gives readers...
- Author:Bilton, NickSummary:
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom-and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free...
- Author:O'Brien, DarcySummary:
Three "riveting" accounts of horrific crimes and the twisted minds behind them by an Edgar Award-winning author (Publishers Weekly). A father's ultimate betrayal, a savage killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles, and the brutal...
- Author:Callahan, MaureenSummary:
Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and...
- Author:Buford, BillSummary:
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known...
- Author:Yeebo, YepokaSummary:
New Yorker Best Book of the Year "A fascinating story brilliantly told."- The Boston Globe * "A non-fiction masterpiece." - Philadelphia Inquirer The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian...
- Author:Lawson, GuySummary:
The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach--one a ninth grade dropout, the other a...
- Author:Koldehoff, StefanSummary:
A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world. The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions...
- Author:Robin, MartinSummary:
In this book Martin Robin tells seven remarkable and fascinating stories of Canadian badmen. All were heroes--or villains--in their time, and they remain popular legends today.
The stories describe figures such as Bill Miner, the...
- Author:Carreyrou, JohnSummary:
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its...
- Author:Hunter, DouglasSummary:
In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining...
- Author:Boileau, JoséeSummary:
Fourteen young university students, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of the tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture. The victims of what became known as...
- Author:Sesay, IshaSummary:
The first definitive account of Boko Haram's abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, their years in captivity, and why this story still matters - by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay. The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by...
- Author:Johnson, Steven, McCoy, Heath, Muchnick, Irvin, Oliver, GregSummary:
In the wake of the horrific double-murder suicide, four noted wrestling writers grapple with the life and death of Chris Benoit in this book by Steven Johnson, Heath McCoy, Irvin Muchnick, and Greg Oliver, all respected investigative...
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