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True crime stories
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Author:Glenny, MishaSummary: - Author:Rule, AnnSummary:
In Dead by Sunset, Rule uncovers the truth behind Brad Cunningham, a man who conned the women he was supposed to have loved the most. After police find his estranged wife murdered, Cunningham's charms begin to fade and reveal a man with...
- Author:Daniels, Frank J.Summary:
When neophyte hunter John Bruce Dodson heads up beautiful, remote Snip Mountain in the mesa country of Colorado with Janice, his wife of three months, he expects to play pupil to her teacher, for she is an experienced big game hunter...
- Author:MacKinnon, J.B.Summary:
On June 22, 1965, a soldier in the Dominican Republic reported that he had just shot two policemen and an outspoken Canadian priest. It was the opening scene in a mystery that compels the author to visit the island nation for himself,...
- Author:McClymont, KateSummary:
We all know Sydney is full of corruption and crime, but none of us expected to read about a Sydney businessman being shot in the back of his head, in his driveway, in front of his nine-year-old son, in Cremorne. Nor that the order would...
- Author:Cragg, CarysSummary:
The author writes of her experiences corresponding with and ultimately meeting the man who murdered her father.
- Author:Sullivan, RandallSummary:
In 2002, acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan's groundbreaking book LAbyrinth ignited a firestorm with its startling disclosures about corruption in the LAPD. It told the story of Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective, who...
- Author:Seifert, Nick, Seifert, Joe, McCarn, Matthias, Seifert, EmmaSummary:
Danny Seifert was murdered when he tried to leave the Chicago Mob. As they grow into men, Danny's sons, Joe and Nick, take it upon themselves to find the man responsible for their father's death and make him pay.
- Author:Gunn, BrendaSummary:
To Brenda Gunn, a hardworking medical professional, it seems like a fairytale come true. The quiet, handsome man who sweeps her off her feet wants to marry her. At first, Brenda's life is idyllic. The newlyweds settle into a new...
- Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:
Quiet pleasant communities, sparkling under the clear blue skies of Alberta, have witnessed bloody murders and violent mayhem. From a wide variety of accounts, Babara Smith has selected eight intriguing stories that will astound and...
- Author:Sharkey, JoeSummary:
The horrifying account of the Charles Stuart case, in which ambition drove a man to murder his pregnant wife-and blame a fictitious African-American killer. On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911...
- Author:Barthel, JoanSummary:
Three true crime classics of love, murder, and the mob by a Pulitzer Prize finalist who writes with "honest and gritty realism" (Phoenix Gazette). Award-winning author Joan Barthel uncovers the dark secrets behind some of the...
- Author:Parker, FranSummary:
The future looks bright for 23-year-old Ivrin Bolden Jr. The promising premed student at Northeast Louisiana University is engaged to classmate Joel Tillis, a member of the NLU women's basketball team. Bolden, though, is an...
- Author:Wright, Leif M.Summary:
Sean Goff was a dynamic Pentecostal minister who was already running his own church by the age of twenty-two. He had wed a pliable teenager and bent her to his will, eventually convincing her to agree to his secretly taking a second...
- Author:Wuornos, AileenSummary:
Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury had little sympathy....
- Author:Humber, FredSummary:
Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1958
In the midnight blackness of a cold November night mixed with rain in snow, three RCMP officers entered a restaurant by way of an upstairs window. Rumours around town had been rampant. The...
- Author:Flora, Kate ClarkSummary:
When the hunters become the hunted, life for law enforcement officials and their families in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada, turns upside-down. It takes a months-long investigation by police, search and rescue dogs and their handlers...
- Author:Brode, PatrickSummary:
A single gunshot on Saturday night, October 6, 1894, shattered Toronto’s prevailing sense of peace and security. That gunshot took the life of Frank Westwood, a respectable young man from one of the city’s most prominent families. This...
- Author:Fleming, E. J.Summary:
The tragic death of thirteen-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for twenty years until the Boston abuse scandal-a string of assaults taking place within the Catholic Church-exploded in the early 2000s....
- Author:Sharkey, Joe.Summary:
The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion-and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years. Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey City...
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