by John Grisham  
Powells.com Staff Pick An equally absorbing and troubling inquiry into a case of criminal injustice, Grisham's nonfiction debut equals the storytelling of his unparalleled fiction. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your Price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies 
by Kate Summerscale
Powells.com Staff Pick At once a mystery and a history of early mystery novels, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a page-turner. Summerscale picks apart a famous Victorian murder, the murder that sparked "detective fever" and inspired Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your Price $17.46 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by John Kroger Publisher Comments Convictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate and prosecute the... (read more) Your Price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Rene Denfeld
Publisher Comments James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. Rejoined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group — they called themselves a family — was... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Mary Roach
Publisher Comments Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bill Buford Publisher Comments They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Eliza Steelwater Publisher Comments Public executions were once commonplace American spectacles. In one instance, Puritan clergymen convicted and executed nineteen people for the "crime" of witchcraft. On the other side of the country many years later, San Francisco's city fathers held... (read more) Your Price $11.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by T. J. Parsell Publisher Comments When seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison. The first night of his term, four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him. When they were... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Laurence Bergreen Publisher Comments In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire. Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your Price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Friday May 16, 2008
by Peter Maas Publisher Comments Classic film tie-in edition. The shocking true story of a New York cop, by Peter Maas.... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Ann Rule
Publisher Comments If anything ever happens to me, promise me that you will see that there is an investigation....And find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story," Sheila Blackthorne Bellush told her sister after she divorced multimillionaire Allen Blackthorne. Now, in... (read more) Your Price $2.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Terri Cullen Publisher Comments It could happen when you make a routine withdrawal from an ATM, respond to an e-mail asking for information about an online account, or leave a new box of checks unattended in your mailbox. Identity theft is one of the easiest crimes to commit in... (read more) Your Price $13.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod Synopsis This encyclopedic dictionary presents 600 descriptive entries on colorful criminals and crime-stoppers from around the world.... (read more) Your Price $15.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Linda Spalding Publisher Comments Murder. Hawaii's beautiful Hanauma Bay. The suspects: two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Maryann Acker, a pretty young Mormon woman, is 18. William, just out of prison, is 28. The crime is robbery, ending in a killing. And before the spree is over,... (read more) Your Price $23.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Jon Krakauer
Powells.com Staff Pick "Under the Banner of Heaven is not a typical Krakauer book that takes you on an adventure into the wilderness. Instead, it delves into a world that is misunderstood by most of America, the world of Mormonism and Fundamental Mormonism... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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