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The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter
Jason Kersten - Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged; Unabridged edition Format: Audio CD
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Art Williams was a precocious student with a bright future, but his dreams shattered when his father abandoned the family and his bipolar mother lost her wits. Living in one of Chicago’s worst housing projects, Williams was breaking open parking meters at age twelve and by his mid-teens... |
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Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Michael Cannell - Minotaur Books Format: Hardcover
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Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall -- for almost two decades, no place... |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Print book
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When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave... |
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Deal with the Devil: The FBI's Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer
Peter Lance - William Morrow; First Edition edition Format: Print book
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In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once secret FBI files - and exclusive new interviews - to tell the definitive story of Gregory Scarpa Sr., aka "The Grim Reaper;" a Mafia capo, who "stopped counting"... |
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Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler
Jessica Speart - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean comes Winged Obsession - a gripping, real-life thriller that exposes the seedy underbelly of illegal butterfly trading. An acclaimed mystery writer and respected journalist specializing in wildlife issues, author Jessica Speart tells... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer - William Morrow, 2016. Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
Roberto Saviano - Verso; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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The product of five years’ investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to its author, Anabel Hernández, Narcoland has been a publishing... |
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Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod
Maria Flook - Broadway; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A literary investigation by "one of the most powerful American writers at work today" [Annie Proulx] of a story that riveted the nation: how an accomplished, world-traveled fashion writer who had retreated to a simpler life as a single mother on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal,... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson - Simon & Schuster Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with... |
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The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court
Patricia L Barnes-Svarney - Visible Ink Press Format: Paperback
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Covering the fundamentals, science, history, and analysis of clues, The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court provides detailed information on crime scene investigations, techniques, laboratory finding, the latest research, and controversies.... |
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The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths
Pat Brown - Hyperion; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected the young man who was renting a room in her house, and quickly uncovered strong evidence that pointed to him--but the police dismissed her as merely a housewife with an overactive... |
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Daniel Okrent - Scribner; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of Americas most puzzling era, the years to , when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of Americas favorite pastimes drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that... |
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