Joe Kenda, star of Discovery's Homicide Hunter, reflects on past homicide cases and examines the triggers of what led to the crime.
True crime stories
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Author:Kenda, JoeSummary: - Author:Grann, DavidSummary:
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were...
- Author:Grann, DavidSummary:
This New York times bestseller, now adapted for young readers, recounts the Reign of Terror against the Osage people and the creation of the FBI, which took the case and exposed one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history...
- Author:Bowden, MarkSummary:
Killing Pablo is the story of the fifteen-month manhunt for Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose escape from his lavish, mansionlike jail drove a nation to the brink of chaos. In a gripping, up-close account, acclaimed...
- Author:Smith, CarltonSummary:
A New York Times-bestselling journalist traces a string of unsolved murders-and the botched investigation that let the New Bedford Highway Killer walk away. Over the course of seven months in 1988, eleven women disappeared off the...
- Author:Bower, Tom.Summary:
The true story of one of Hitler's most feared and brutal killers: his life and crimes, postwar atrocities, and forty-year evasion of justice. During World War II, SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie earned a...
- Author:Marchand, Charles-AndréSummary:
Dans les années vingt, la pègre juive s'impose à Montréal. La ville est profondément corrompue, de l'hôtel de ville jusqu'aux quartiers généraux de la police. Les bordels foisonnent, les maisons de jeux, les trafiquants...
- Author:Telfer, ToriSummary:
Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column "Lady Killers," this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages. When you think of serial killers throughout...
- Author:Green, ElonSummary:
"In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a...
- Author:Green, ValerieSummary:
Throughout history some people have pushed the limit of what is acceptable to society. Those featured here lived in an era when smuggling was rife, liquor was plentiful, and murder was rampant. Many become legends in their own lifetimes...
- Author:Fox, AmaryllisSummary:
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while marrying and giving birth to a...
- Author:Rivera Garza, CristinaSummary:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister's murderer to justice years after the fact" (The Boston Globe), from "one of Mexico's...
- Author:Behn, NoelSummary:
Edgar Award Finalist: This "sensational" and "absolutely compelling" true crime tale finally answers the question: Who really killed the Lindbergh baby' (San Francisco Chronicle). On the night of March 1, 1932,...
- Author:Wood, LanaSummary:
In this memoir, Lana Wood investigates the mysterious drowning of her sister, the actress Natalie Wood, and clears up the myths and misconceptions behind one of the most notorious celebrity deaths of our time. On the night of November...
- Author:Bolan, KimSummary:
When Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri walked out of a Vancouver courtroom as free men in March 2005, the nation gasped in disbelief. The prime suspects for the murder of 331 people in the 1985 Air India bombings had been...
- Author:Rustad, HarleySummary:
In 2016, after quitting his job to explore the world, Justin Alexander Shetler made his way into India's Parvati Valley. Setting off on a spiritual journey to a holy lake, Justin was never seen again.
- Author:Jobb, DeanSummary:
This book introduces larger-the-life characters from Nova Scotia's past who broke the law and defied authority. These true tales of crimes are drawn from almost two centuries of Nova Scotia's history, from the province's...
- Author:Finckenauer, James O.Summary:
Ruthless, cruel, and irresistibly cool: the Mafia has always appealed to the darker side of the imagination. But just what is the Mafia, how does it operate, and what can be done to combat it' James Finckenauer debunks the romantic...
- Author:Cédilot, AndréSummary:
Ce livre dévoile comment les chefs mafieux montréalais Nicoló et Vito Rizzuto ont bâti, par la force et la corruption, un empire devenu à coups d'alliances et de compromis l'une des grandes puissances du crime organisé en...
- Author:Murphy, SteveSummary:
The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. PeNa. In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier PeNa and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and...
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