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While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family
by Kathryn Harrison Publisher Comments Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and...
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The Monster of Florence: A True Story
by Douglas J. Preston and Mario Spezi Publisher Comments In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) and Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills...
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Heartless: The True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Brutal Murder of His Wife and Child (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
by Michelle Mcphee Publisher Comments A LOVING FAMILY Neil seemed like a dream come true for Rachel: a handsome, impeccably mannered, success-oriented Englishman, the fairytale husband she had dreamed of meeting. By the time Neil and Rachel Entwistle were husband and wife, living the good...
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When Mothers Kill: Interviews from Prison
by Cheryl L. Meyer Publisher Comments Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don't write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling. In a clear, direct fashion the authors recount what...
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The King of Sting: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw
by Craig Glazer Publisher Comments A true crime story as riveting and exciting as Blow or Catch Me If You Can, Craig Glazer's story began in 1971 in a student apartment where, as a freshman at Arizona State University, he got ripped off trying to buy marijuana. Fueled by fantasies drawn...
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Deadly Dose: The Untold Story of a Homicide Investigator's Crusade for Truth and Justice
by Amanda Lamb Publisher Comments To love, honorand poisonthe true story of a wife brought to justice. For four months, arsenic consumed the body of promising young pediatric AIDS researcher Eric Miller. No one thought that his wife could be capable of such a horrible crimeexcept for...
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King of the Godfathers: "Big Joey" Massino and the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family
by Anthony M. Destefano Synopsis Previously published as "The Last Godfather," this account by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter tells the story of the brutal mob war that made Joseph Big Joey Massino head of the Bonanno family and the most powerful gangster in America. photos....
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My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
by Mahvish Rukhsana Khan Publisher Comments Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their language, understood their customs,...
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Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family
by Karen Tintori Publisher Comments “Nearly every family has a skeleton in its closet, an ancestor who "sins" against custom and tradition and pays a double price. Karen Tintori refused to allow the truth to remain forgotten. This is a book for anyone who shares the conviction that...
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It's Not about the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered
by Don Yaeger Publisher Comments Mike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs,...
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FBI Agent (Cool Careers: Helping Careers)
by Geoffrey M. Horn Publisher Comments - Quick fact box on salaries, education and training, career prospects - High-interest topic to motivate reluctant readers and spark interest in career exploration - Written at a level accessible to struggling readers - Reviewed by a reading specialist -...
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After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction
by Mary Louise (edt) Frampton Publisher Comments Since the 1970s, Americans have witnessed a Pyrrhic war on crime, with sobering numbers at once chilling and cautionary. Our imprisoned population has increased five-fold, with a commensurate spike in fiscal costs that many now see as unsupportable into...
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After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction
by Mary Louise (edt) Frampton Publisher Comments Since the 1970s, Americans have witnessed a Pyrrhic war on crime, with sobering numbers at once chilling and cautionary. Our imprisoned population has increased five-fold, with a commensurate spike in fiscal costs that many now see as unsupportable into...
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
by Herbert Asbury Publisher Comments The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, from legend, memory, police records, the self...
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Beating the Devil's Game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation
by Katherine Ramsland Publisher Comments First time in paperbackessential reading for the millions of fans of CSI and Cold Case Files. Katherine Ramsland, a renowned expert in criminology, traces the story of the evolution of forensic science &&from thirteenth-century Chinese studies of...
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Out in the Storm: Drug-Addicted Women Living as Shoplifters and Sex Workers (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)
by Gail A. (na) Caputo Publisher Comments Based on interview material and life histories that create a vivid narrative, this remarkable volume is the culmination of three years of ethnographic research examining thirty-eight women with drug addictions in the Philadelphia area who took up...
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Crime
by Alix Lambert Publisher Comments How much do criminal acts and their representation in cinema, literature and music really have in common? Is the execution of crime in everyday life as appealing or as inspired as creative artists have made it seem since, say, Arthur Conan Doyle's...
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Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door
by Roy Wenzl Publisher Comments For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named "BTK"—for "bind them, torture them, kill them"—he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades...
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Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison
by Megan Comfort Publisher Comments By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the...
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FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics
by Federal Bureau Of Investigation Publisher Comments The authoritative guide to navigating crime scenesfor professionals and anyone fascinated by the world of CSI. The FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics is the official procedural guide for law enforcement agencies, attorneys, and tribunals...
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