One glorious autumn day in 1894, a drifter attacked thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith so violently that people thought Jack the Ripper must be loose in rural Ontario. To solve the crime, the government called in Detective John Wilson...
True crime stories
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Author:Goddard, JohnSummary: - Author:Klages, GregorySummary:
A National Post Bestseller! How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water...
- Author:Keyes, EdwardSummary:
Edgar Award Finalist: The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized midwestern town, and the serial killer who could have lived next door In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary...
- Author:Daubs, KatieSummary:
In December 1919, Ambrose Small, the mercurial owner of the Grand Opera House in Toronto, closed a deal to sell his network of Ontario theatres, deposited a million-dollar cheque in his bank account, and was never seen again. As weeks...
- Author:Partington, JohnSummary:
When U.S. Marshal John Partington suddenly found himself protecting the family of renowned mobster Joe "The Animal" Barboza, he made up the rules as he went along. Among Partington's diverse activities: managing a rotating crew of U.S....
- Author:Andra-Warner, ElleSummary:
Since 1873, the Mounties have brought the law to the furthest reaches of the Canadian frontier. Sam Steele, the "Lion of the North," was involved in almost every significant event in the Canadian West; James Macleod and James Walsh...
- Author:Cooper, WyllisSummary:
Sidney Patterson's body has been found in a burning building. But, he was shot in the back! Mr. Patterson then turns out to be Duncan Frazier! The teeth tell the story.
- Author:Patterson, James, Dugard, MartinSummary:
James Patterson and Martin Dugard chronicle their quest to find out what happened to the boy-king. They comb through the evidence and scavenge for overlooked data to piece together the details of his life and death. The result is a true...
- Author:Malarek, VictorSummary:
The buying and selling of human beings for the worldwide sex industry is organized crime’s fastest-growing business with up to two million people globally—mostly women and children—being trafficked into the sex trade every year.
... - Author:Urbina, Ian.Summary:
A riveting, adrenaline-fueled journey through some of the most dangerous regions of the earth-the high seas, where lawlessness and physical risk prevail. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. Perhaps the wildest, and least...
- Author:Porter, BryanSummary:
Alexandria Assassin: The Parable of the Knocker is a nonfiction book about the investigation, prosecution, and trial of a notorious serial killer, Charles Severance. Severance committed his crimes in the City of Alexandria, Virginia, an...
- Author:Petersen, Myrna L.Summary:
Dr. McGill was one of Canada's first female pathologist and served as Director of the Saskatchewan Laboratories for many years. Noted for her work in forensic medicine, she lectured at Regina's RCMP Training Depot and in 1946 was named...
- Author:Wilson, Leslie, LeBaron, AnnaSummary:
Anna LeBaron's father was wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his radical polygamist cult. Anna escaped when she was thirteen, but the nightmare was not over. This true story of murder, fear, and betrayal is...
- Author:Byrne, AndrewSummary:
This is the story of Christopher Wilder: the surf-loving son of a decorated naval war hero born in the suburbs of Sydney, who became the most wanted man in America - a psychopathic serial killer who slaughtered more than sixteen young...
- Author:Walmsley, AnnSummary:
For eighteen months, Ann accompanied Carol to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting with heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. Unlike the book clubs she participated in outside of...
- Author:Hardin, Chet, Natalie, ToniSummary:
Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada and elsewhere, to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to...
- Author:Weinman, SarahSummary:
Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the...
- Author:Conradi, PeterSummary:
The shocking true story of the Russian serial who brutally murdered more than fifty victims-and evaded capture for over a decade. By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than...
- Author:Shaw, MarkSummary:
Was Dorothy Kilgallen, television star, media icon, investigative reporter, and journalist, murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Through discovery of never-before-seen videotaped eyewitness interviews with...
- Author:Dolnick, EdwardSummary:
Traces the theft of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" from Oslo's National Gallery in 1994, recounting the efforts of art detective Charley Hill to recover the painting in an investigation ranging from the estates of...
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