Kate Winkler Dawson - G.P. Putnam's Sons Format: Hardcover
Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called "too intelligent to be killed"—and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced...
In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself “B.T.K.”...
Derf Backderf - Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition Format: Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2013
ALA/YALSA Alex Award 2014
Revelation Award at Angoulme 2015
You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public,...
A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Cole Merrell and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it.
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk...
Barbara Rae-Venter - Ballantine Books Format: Book
The amateur DNA sleuth who cracked the most infamous cold case in American history—that of the Golden State Killer—tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have changed the course of criminal investigations forever.
A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams-by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.
From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic...
The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spreeA silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise...
A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system and its devastating effect on innocent lives.
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement...