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Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia Publisher Comments Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness — and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases by Michael Capuzzo Staff Pick 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Staff Pick 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote Publisher Comments On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments Based on new interviews with previously undiscovered relatives and filled with revelations and unpublished photographs, this is the most authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson. After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16 by Ann Rule Publisher Comments 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) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated by Voice Of Witness Pro Publisher Comments Collecting the voices and stories of the exonerees for whom life is forever framed by extraordinary injustice, this first title in the Voice of Witness Project series of oral narratives is a joint project between "McSweeney's" and the University of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Son of a Gun by Justin St Germain Review Advance praise for Son of a Gun “A great, momentous undertaking . . . This book is brave, honest, savage, and tender all at once. It broke my heart, and I’m so grateful I’ve read it.”—Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award&ndash... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Publisher Comments Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and... (read more) Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon Publisher Comments "Remarkable . . . a true crime classic . . . a journalistic masterpiece. . . . (A) saga of a brutal, bloody, bewildering year in the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. . . . This is interior reporting at its finest".--"Associated Press". An... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide by Athan Theoharis Publisher Comments Every aspect of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is covered in this invaluable resource, from its inception and role in society to its notable cases and depiction in popular culture. 75 photos.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T J English Publisher Comments To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob—with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wealthy Men Only: The True Story of a Lonely Millionaire, a Gorgeous Younger Woman, and the Love Triangle That Ended in Murder by Stella Sands Publisher Comments Wealthy Men Only Stella Sands Nanette Johnstons personal ad made it clear: “I know how to take care of my man if he knows how to take care of me.” Newport Beach millionaire Bill MacLaughlin made the fatal mistake of responding. ... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann Publisher Comments “Horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish. . . . These straightforward tales grip you as unrelentingly as the suckered appendages of the giant squid Grann attempts to track down in ‘The Squid Hunter.’” —Entertainment Weekly (... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olsen Publisher Comments In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary "fasting treatment" of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Mafia Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra by Phil Leonetti Publisher Comments Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history Little” Nicky Scarfos reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980swritten by Scarfos underboss and nephew, Crazy” Phil... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Last Dance, Last Chance: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 8 by Ann Rule Publisher Comments "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files -- and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences. LAST... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America by Gregg Barak Publisher Comments A decade after its first publication, Class, Race, Gender, and Crime remains the only non-edited book to systematically address the impact of class, race, and gender on criminological theory and all phases of the administration of criminal justice... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Internal Combustion: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City by Joyce Maynard Publisher Comments On Mother's Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth-grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of thirty-two years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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