The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion....
True crime stories
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Author:Ronald, SusanSummary: - Author:Schwarz, Ted.Summary:
Hollywood Confidential is the first truly in-depth look at the sexy, humorous, violent, and tragic history of the mob in Hollywood from the 1920s, when Joe Kennedy decided to buy a motion picture company, to the 1980s when the last...
- Author:Boucher, NormSummary:
In his first true crime memoir, undercover operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver's heroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence. It is 1983 and the War on Drugs is intensifying. From his...
- Author:Knelman, JoshSummary:
Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Nonfiction The Thomas Crown Affair meets The Devil in the White City in this fast-paced, character-driven story that breaks open the secrets of international art theft A major work of...
- Author:McDonald, GlenSummary:
Covers the highlights of 26 years in the career of Judge Glen McDonald, who was the colorful and often controversial Vancouver Coroner from 1954 to 1980 and supervisory coroner for the province of British Columbia from 1969 to 1980.
- Author:Williams-Thomas, MarkSummary:
Brought to you by Penguin. Death has a unique smell. I've been in the presence of people who have killed; I've been in rooms where people have been killed. I've seen the unspeakable things human beings are capable of....
- Author:Emeraux, EricSummary:
For years, a small unit of France's national police known as 'The Office in Charge of the Fight Against Crimes Against Humanity' has been discreetly chasing down war criminals. As the head of the thirty-person team,...
- Hype : how scammers, grifters, and con artists are taking over the internet--and why we're followingAuthor:Bluestone, GabrielleSummary:
Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem and pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season.
- Author:Prout, ChessySummary:
A young survivor tells her searing, visceral story of sexual assault, justice, and healing in this gutwrenching memoir. The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual...
- Author:Kirsch, AndrewSummary:
An ex-spy lifts the lid on life in the secret service. Andrew Kirsch didn't grow up watching spy movies or dreaming about being a real-life James Bond. He was hardly aware that Canada even had its own intelligence service—let alone...
- Author:Kenda, JoeSummary:
Are you horrified yet fascinated by abhorrent murders? Do you crave to know the gory details of these crimes, and do you seek comfort in the solving of the most gruesome? In this book, the star of Homicide Hunter, Lt. Joe Kenda, shares...
- Author:McNamara, MichelleSummary:
For more than 10 years, a mysterious and violent predator committed 50 sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated 10 sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces...
- Author:Arata, Michael J.Summary:
This book offers practical solutions to help you deter, detect and defend against identity theft. In 2008, 9.9 million Americans became victims of identity theft. The cost exceeded $48 billion in 2008. Consumers spend some $5 billion...
- Author:Latus, JanineSummary:
In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer: "Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways." That same...
- Author:Echols, PaulSummary:
Rookie police officer Paul Echols didn't know, on that cold April night, that twenty-three-year-old college coed Deborah Sheppard' s unsolved murder would haunt him and lead him on a twenty-five year chase for a serial killer...
- Author:Goldsmith, JackSummary:
As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by...
- Author:Cross, Kim.Summary:
Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Investigation, In Light of All Darkness embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation - the kidnapping of...
- Author:Dodek, Adam, Woolley, AliceSummary:
What options did Paul Bernardo’s lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn’t doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do...
- Author:Rule, AnnSummary:
When 32-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was found dead by gunshot, her mother Barb Thompson never believed the theory that she committed suicide--and neither did Detective Berry, a ballistics expert, or dozens of others.
- Author:Hellman, PeterSummary:
True crime pairs well with fine wine in the astonishing story of Rudy Kurniawan, perhaps the most notorious-and unlikely-wine forger in history Few gain entry to the privileged world of ultrafine wines, where billionaires flock to...
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