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Bitter Blood
Bitter Blood
by Jerry Bledsoe
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In this unrelenting real-life drama of three wealthy families connected by marriage and murder, Bledsoe recounts the shocking events, obsessive love, and bitter custody battles that led toward the bloody climax that took nine lives. Reissued to coincide... (read more)

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The Aleppo Codex
The Aleppo Codex
by Matti Friedman
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In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a thrilling story about a book that meant everything. This true-life detective story unveils the journey of a sacred text--the tenth-century annotated bible known as the Aleppo Codex--from its... (read more)

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Without Pity: Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers
Without Pity: Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers
by Ann Rule
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THEY KILL WITHOUT CONSCIENCE. ANN RULE PORTRAYS THEIR SHATTERING CRIMES WITHOUT PITY. In eight stunning Case Files volumes, from A Rose for Her Grave to the #1 blockbuster Last Dance, Last Chance, Ann Rule reigns as "America's best true-crime writer... (read more)

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Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
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In this remarkable follow-up to his hit thriller Devil in the White City, Erik Larson applies his considerable skill to craft a story of invention and murder. A tightly written page-turner.... (read more)

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Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France
Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France
by Gayle K. Brunelle
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"On May 16, 1937, Laetitia Toureaux, a 29-year-old Italian-born factory worker, was murdered in an otherwise empty first-class compartment on a Paris mtro train. The case has never been solved, and the case files were ordered sealed for 101 years. In... (read more)

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Five Families : Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires (05 Edition)
Five Families : Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires (05 Edition)
by Selwyn Raab
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This text is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's premier dons from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and more. It brings the reader right up to the possible resurgence of the Mafia as the FBI and local law enforcement agencies... (read more)

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Death Trap
Death Trap
by M W Phelps
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Phelps relates the horrifying true story of Jeff McCord, a police officer who uses his expertise to plot with his wife and carry out the murder of her ex-husband in order to secure permanent custody of their two children. Original.... (read more)

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Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death
Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death
by Ann Rule
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An idyllic Hawaiian wedding held the promise of a wonderful future for handsome, athletic Chris Northon, an airline pilot, a confirmed bachelor-turned-devoted family man; and Liysa, an acclaimed surf photographer, loving mother, and aspiring Hollywood... (read more)

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Red Market (11 Edition)
Red Market (11 Edition)
by Scott Carney
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An in-depth report that takes readers on a shocking tour through a macabre global underworld where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market Investigative journalist Scott Carney has spent five years on the ground tracing the... (read more)

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The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
by Pete Earley
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From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley—the strange but true story of how a young mans devastating brain injury gave him the unique ability to connect with the worlds most terrifying criminals. Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had... (read more)

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El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
by Ioan Grillo
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The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in... (read more)

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Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
by Peter Maas
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In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime... (read more)

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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
by Helen Prejean
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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman... (read more)

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Labyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
Labyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
by Randall Sullivan
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Who killed Tupac and Biggie? Randall Sullivan has the answer in this compelling true tale of political corruption and gangsta rap. Labyrinth follows Detective Russell Poole as he uncovers the dark morass within the LAPD and its connection to the death of... (read more)

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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by Kate Summerscale
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The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying,... (read more)

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Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct
Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct
by Tom Walker
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OVER THIRTY YEARS AFTER its publication, Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct remains the definitive account of the vicious cycle of violence that has griped urban America over the past century. A swollen head floating down the Bronx River, a... (read more)

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Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony (11 Edition)
Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony (11 Edition)
by Jeff Ashton
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Filled with explosive new information, this is the definitive inside story of the case that captivated the nation and the verdict that no one saw coming It was the trial that stunned America, the verdict that shocked us all. On July 5, 2011, nearly... (read more)

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Ten Men Dead : the Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (87 Edition)
Ten Men Dead : the Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (87 Edition)
by David Beresford
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In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make... (read more)

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Blow
Blow
by Bruce Porter
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BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of... (read more)

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The Silent Don: The Criminal World of Santo Trafficante Jr.
The Silent Don: The Criminal World of Santo Trafficante Jr.
by Scott Deitche
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The Silent Don exposes the life and ruthless times of one of America's most powerful and feared mob bosses. With a criminal empire that stretched from the Gulf Coast throughout the Caribbean, Trafficante was linked to drug trafficking, plots to kill... (read more)

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