It began as rumours. Whispers at dinner parties. Warnings about bad dates with a Canadian celebrity. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, superstar CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi revealed his interest in "rough sex" in a long Facebook post,...
True crime stories
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Author:Donovan, KevinSummary: - Author:Hersha, CherylSummary:
As children, two sisters became pawns in a top secret government program to train guerrilla leaders, assassins and information couriers: secret weapons for American intelligence services. Years passed; the sisters grew up, married and...
- Author:Layton, DeborahSummary:
A former high-level member of the Peoples Temple--the Jim Jones-led group that made headlines with a mass suicide in Guyana in 1978--tells the riveting story of how she was seduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory....
- Author:Cawthorne, NigelSummary:
SHOCKING TRUE STORIES OF THE WORLD'S MOST BARBARIC CRIMINALS Revealing portraits of the most notorious killers of our time: -Jeffrey Dahmer -The Zodiac Killer -Dr. Harold Shipman -Son of Sam -The Columbine Killers -Charles Manson -The...
- Author:Berry-Dee, ChristopherSummary:
COMBINES HORRIFIC ACCOUNTS OF THE MOST VICIOUS MURDERS EVER COMMITTED WITH THE SHOCKING WORDS OF THE KILLERS THEMSELVES "The bloodstains... that happened when I stored one of the guys upsidedown... it usually ran out of his nose or...
- Author:Thompson, ThomasSummary:
New York Times Bestseller: The nightmare odyssey of a charismatic serial killer and a trail of terror stretching halfway around the world. There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were...
- Author:Mezrich, BenSummary:
In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks....
- Author:MacKinnon, Bobbi-JeanSummary:
A national bestseller, now updated, expanded, and revised to tell an even bigger story. On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewing family, was bludgeoned to death in his Saint John office. In a shocking turn, the...
- Author:Franscell, RonSummary:
The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was...
- Author:Croll, RieSummary:
Shaped by Silence brings together the powerful and devastating stories of five women from Ireland, Canada, and Australia whose lives were shaped by forced confinement in Magdalene laundries and related reform "schools" operated by the...
- Author:King, GregSummary:
The first comprehensive biography of Sharon Tate: Hollywood star, wife of Roman Polanski, victim of Charles Manson, and symbol of the death of the 1960s. It began as a home invasion by the "Manson family" in the early hours of...
- Author:Wright, JenniferSummary:
Residing squarely in the middle of a Venn diagram of feminism and true crime, this is a powerful collection of stories about forty women who murdered out of necessity, fear, revenge, or even pleasure.
- Author:Kantor, JodiSummary:
From the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its...
- Author:Dalby, J. ThomasSummary:
Shrunk: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful stories by international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about the many complex mental health issues they face and the care involved in dealing with...
- Author:Cusack, Ann, Cusack, Joe, Lee, JoanneSummary:
For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the remains of three newborn babies hidden in her wardrobe. For the first time since exposing her mother's crimes, Joanne breaks her silence over her family's horrific ordeal....
- Author:Symington-Fedy, EmeliaSummary:
A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 90s rape culture. Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia...
- Author:Coston, JohnSummary:
The dark double life of Ellen Boehm, the St. Louis, Missouri, mother who murdered her two sons-and nearly killed her daughter. Ellen Boehm, a single mom from St. Louis, Missouri, appeared devoted to her children. But in reality, she was...
- Author:Levin, Daniel BarbanSummary:
A stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates "Chilling . . . eloquent . . . a powerful portrayal of a young man's ability to emerge whole...
- Author:Antonson, Rick, Antonson, BrianSummary:
Slumach’s Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada’s greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man’s hanging for murder in 1891 and tracks the intriguing legend about him that grew after his death. It was a...
- Author:Neering, RosemarySummary:
Do you think the smuggling of drugs and people is a new phenomenon in Canada’s west? Think again! Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, many daring smugglers carried contraband goods and people into western Canada across the US–...
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