This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California. One teenager in a skirt. One...
True crime stories
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Author:Slater, DashkaSummary: - Author:Dial, RomanSummary:
"A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out."--Jon KrakauerIn the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. I'm planning on...
- Author:Mould, PhilipSummary:
What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or...
- Author:Finkel, MichaelSummary:
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius,...
- Author:Komar, DebraSummary:
Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. On a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disembowelled his...
- Author:Komar, DebraSummary:
Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fiction. Is it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years...
- Author:Ryan, ChrisSummary:
The Mounties don’t always get their man.
There is a folk legend living in Bay Bulls, on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland, by the name of Leo Crockwell. He ranks up there with legends like D. B. Cooper and Albert Johnson, the...
- Author:Rosen, FredSummary:
The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique's ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of...
- Author:Szereto, MitziSummary:
Serial killers can be anywhere and anyone. These accounts of serial killers--from contemporary to the historic--come from award-winning crime writers, journalists, and experts in the field of dark crimes.
- Author:Rose, DavidSummary:
Over eight bloody months in the mid-1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven affluent, elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African...
- Author:McSherry, PeterSummary:
Short-listed for the 2000 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Norman "Red" Ryan was a notorious bank robber, safecracker, and killer. He escaped from Kingston Penitentiary twice - first by force, and then years later by...
- Author:Cherry, PaulSummary:
The Quebec-chartered “Nomad” chapter of the Hells Angels had two specific goals: to monopolize the Quebec drug trade; and to expand that trade across other parts of Canada. Their war against rival dealer gangs escalated to a boiling...
- Author:Donovan, KevinSummary:
A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime.
Billionaires, philanthropists, socialites . . . victims. Barry and Honey Sherman appeared to lead charmed lives. But the world was shocked in...
- Author:Hendley, NateSummary:
The gruesome saga of the Black Donnellys has been heavily mythologized. A thick layer of rumour, legend, and hearsay has built up around the facts of the case. But one thing is clear: no one who reads this book will ever forget the...
- Author:Talty, StephanSummary:
The gripping true story of the origins of the mafia in America-and the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it *Film rights optioned by Paramount Studios, starring Leonardo DiCaprio* Beginning in the summer of 1903...
- Author:Denton, SallySummary:
When Kentucky blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985-carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocaine-the gruesome end of his startling life blew open a scandal that reached to the most secret circles of...
- Author:Bonner, BetsySummary:
Betsy Bonner unravels the mystery of her sister and what happened in the final months before her disappearance, alleged overdose, and death.
- Author:Glasgow, MichaelSummary:
Her Murder was Brutal and Savage, and the Nicaraguan People want Someone to Pay! In 2005, Eric Volz moved to Nicaragua to pursue his dreams. By 2006, he was living the worst nightmare of his life. Twenty-five year old Eric Volz moved to...
- Author:Vise, David A.Summary:
Called "a first-rate spy story" (Entertainment Weekly), The Bureau and the Mole is the sensational New York Times best-seller that tells the inside story of FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Philip Hanssen, a seemingly all-...
- Author:Coffey, JosephSummary:
A true crime account of the old-school New York Police Department from the detective who helped catch the Son of Sam and waged a one-man war against the Mafia. In 1978, a gang war erupted in New York City, and the five boroughs ran red...
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