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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
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An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more)

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Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit
Catch Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit
by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding
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Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.  In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's... (read more)

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Breaking Blue
Breaking Blue
by Timothy Egan
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On the night of September 4, 1935, during a season of unsolved robberies, the town marshal of Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington was shot to death. Here is the story of how one man's hunt through a half century of police cover-ups unlocked... (read more)

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El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
by Molly Molloy
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In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante... (read more)

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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham
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In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Rons home, a young... (read more)

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Crime Beat: a Decade of Covering Cops and Killers (07 Edition)
Crime Beat: a Decade of Covering Cops and Killers (07 Edition)
by Michael Connelly
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From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prize-winning crime reporter — the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives... (read more)

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Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
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A vivid portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled the country with his mistress to build a new life in America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless... (read more)

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The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
by Michael Capuzzo
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The Murder Room is an absolutely riveting story about the history of the Vidocq Society, a group of forensic scientists, cops, FBI agents, etc., that come together to solve unsolvable crimes. I'm not usually a fan of true crime, but The Murder Room is... (read more)

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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
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Jon Krakauers literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated... (read more)

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3,096 Days in Captivity
3,096 Days in Captivity
by Natascha Kampusch
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On March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she never... (read more)

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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
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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Rage To Kill & Other True Cases Fil Volume 6
Rage To Kill & Other True Cases Fil Volume 6
by Ann Rule
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Acclaimed for her "devastatingly accurate insight" (The New York Times Book Review) into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her bestselling Crime Files series. For this sixth stunning collection, Rule has... (read more)

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Joey the Hitman: The Autobiography of a Mafia Killer (Adrenaline Classics)
Joey the Hitman: The Autobiography of a Mafia Killer (Adrenaline Classics)
by Joey
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Following up on the success of the Adrenaline title Mob: Stories of Death and Betrayal from Organized Crime, Adrenaline Classics brings back the New York Times bestseller (originally published as Killer) that helped pave the way for the latest generation... (read more)

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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
by J Thompson Cannino
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A New York Times BestsellerJennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken--... (read more)

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The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
by Charles Graeber
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THE GOOD NURSE tells the true story of one of the most accomplished serial killers in recent history. Charles Cullen, RN, had a hand in the deaths of as many as 300 hospital patients, over a sixteen-year period, working his lethal mischief in different... (read more)

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The End of the Dream: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 5
The End of the Dream: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 5
by Ann Rule
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AS SEEN ON 48 HOURS -- AN EXPLOSIVE ACCOUNT OF LETHAL GREED AND TWISTED DESIRE, FROM THE FILES OF AMERICA'S #1 TRUE CRIME WRITER, ANN RULE They were best friends, four talented and charismatic young men who lived charmed lives among the evergreens of... (read more)

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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
by Richard Lloyd Parry
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Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.  Richard... (read more)

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Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
by Natalie Robins
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A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune; his beautiful wife, Barbara; and their handsome, gentle son, Tony, who destroyed the whole family in a... (read more)

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Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business: Shocking Declassified Details from the FBI's Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of the Fall of th
Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business: Shocking Declassified Details from the FBI's Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of the Fall of th
by Joe Pistone
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When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began a “six-month” operation infiltrating New Yorks Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen. Posing as jewel thief “Donnie Brasco,” Pistone spent the next six years... (read more)

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Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16
by Ann Rule
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TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Its a chilling reality that homicide investigators know all too well: the last face most murder victims see is not that of a stranger, but of someone familiar. Whether only an acquaintance or a trusted intimate, such killers share a... (read more)

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