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...
TRUE CRIME / General
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Author:Krasnostein, SarahSummary: -
Author:Glazer, CraigSummary:He started out as a crook-and ended up busting them. A true "high-flying, adrenaline-filled story with the feel of the movie The Sting" (Booklist). Craig Glazer's unlikely story begins back when he was in college and...
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Author:Bonner, BetsySummary:Betsy Bonner unravels the mystery of her sister and what happened in the final months before her disappearance, alleged overdose, and death.
- Author:Wright, JenniferSummary:
Residing squarely in the middle of a Venn diagram of feminism and true crime, this is a powerful collection of stories about forty women who murdered out of necessity, fear, revenge, or even pleasure.
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Author:Wells, JaneSummary:Jane Wells was trapped in a nightmare. The man she married was an abusive, philandering maniac. The courts knew this, but because of a Kentucky law that forbids pregnant women to divorce, she was forced to endure a living hell. After...
- Author:Kenda, JoeSummary:
Joe Kenda, star of Discovery's Homicide Hunter, reflects on past homicide cases and examines the triggers of what led to the crime.
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Author:Brand, ChristiannaSummary:The chilling true account of the Sandyford murder case and the sensational nineteenth-century trial that forever changed how homicides are investigated. Jessie M'Lachlan was one of the countless thousands who lived in the tenements...
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Author:Egger, AndreaSummary:When beautiful, voluptuous Monica Dunn dies from a shotgun wound, her much-decorated police officer husband, Paul, immediately comes under suspicion. He insists he watched helplessly as his wife shot herself. Monica's politically...
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Author:Dartt, Rebecca CoferSummary:When the Harris family was found brutally murdered three days before Christmas, it plunged the sleepy upstate New York community of Ithaca into shock. The town clamored for justice and breathed a collective sigh of relief when the...
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Author:Bowden, MarkSummary:Told in riveting, novelistic detail by the author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down, Finders Keepers is the widely acclaimed true story of an incredible week in the life of Joey Coyle, a down-and-out longshoreman from working-class...
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Author:Bowden, MarkSummary:Doctor Dealer is the story of Larry Lavin, a bright, charismatic young man who rose from his working-class upbringing to win a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, earn Ivy League college and dental degrees, and buy his family...
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Author:Eatwell, PiuSummary:The gruesome murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short, in the noir-tinged Los Angeles of 1947, has a permanent place in American lore as one of the most inscrutable of true-crime mysteries. Now, Piu Eatwell-relentless legal sleuth and...
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Author:Baker, Scott, Philbin, TomSummary:In the tradition of Leland Gregory's bestselling Stupid collections, retired N.Y.P.D. officer Scott Baker and author Tom Philbin present A Lighter Shade of Blue. With authentic tales of life behind the badge, A Lighter Shade of Blue...
