By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre--the largest murder-suicide in American history. In the 1950s,...
True crime stories
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Author:Guinn, JeffSummary: - Author:Berry, DaleenSummary:
New York Times Bestseller Journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller give you the little-known details behind one of the most horrific and shocking murders of our time. One hot July night, three popular, pretty girls snuck...
- Author:Marks, John D.Summary:
A "Manchurian Candidate" is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in...
- Author:Guillen, TomasSummary:
New York Times Bestseller: From the journalists who covered the story, the shocking crimes of Gary Ridgway, America's most prolific serial murderer. In the 1980s and 1990s, forty-nine women in the Seattle area were brutally...
- Author:Ginsburg, Philip E.Summary:
In the mid-1980s, someone stabbed six women to death in the Connecticut River Valley on the border between New Hampshire and Vermont. The murderer remains at large and the total number of his victims is unknown. In this brilliant work...
- Author:Whittaker, M. SheelaghSummary:
Two sisters conduct a modern-day investigation into a Victorian-era murder of a toddler and discover their grandmother was a key witness. While researching her ancestry on the Internet one gloomy evening, Penny is astonished by what she...
- Author:Johnson, YvetteSummary:
Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather Booker Wright and why he was murdered.
- Author:Enrich, DavidSummary:
In 2006, an oddball group of bankers and traders from some of the world's largest financial institutions made a startling realization: LIBOR--the London interbank offered rate, which determines the interest rates on trillions of dollars...
- Author:Denson, BryanSummary:
"A haunting book as fast paced and as exciting as the best spy novel... and it's all true."-Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the Snowman Investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Bryan Denson tells the riveting story of...
- Author:Hinton, Anthony RaySummary:
"An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu. This program includes a forward written and read by Bryan Stevenson, and a bonus author commentary from Anthony...
- Author:Alexander, KentSummary:
A gripping insider account of the terrorist bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games that captured the world's attention, and the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it allOn July 27, 1996, a hapless former cop turned...
- Author:Summerscale, KateSummary:
n June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the...
- Author:Osborne, RobertSummary:
Based on the provocative film documentary of the same name, The Third Dive investigates the shocking death of a world-renowned conservation activist. When experienced diver and award-winning filmmaker Rob Stewart (Sharkwater and...
- Author:Eisenberg, Emma CopleySummary:
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering, but never arrived. Using the past and the present, Eisenberg shows how...
- Author:Joyner, ChrisSummary:
The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit, and of Thurgood Marshall's battle against racism and the Communist Party to save him.
- Author:Taylor, FlintSummary:
With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Flint Taylor has argued landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political...
- Author:Krasnostein, SarahSummary:
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife, but as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the...
- Author:Dellinger, David T.Summary:
The classic account of one of the most infamous and entertaining trials in recent American history comes thrillingly to life in this multi-voiced presentation of the courtroom transcripts that inspired the Aaron Sorkin film, featuring a...
- Author:Bommersbach, JanaSummary:
If history is right, a 26 year-old beauty named Winnie Ruth Judd murdered her two best girlfriends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she hacked up their bodies, stuffed the pieces into a trunk, and took them by train to Los Angeles as...
- Author:Torre, Lillian de LaSummary:
Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of the female Norwegian immigrant who led a secret life as a serial killer in the early twentieth-century Midwest. On the morning of April 27, 1908, the farmhand on a lonely property outside La Porte...
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