Frank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and step-daughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Aside from being dead, Frank is in perf...
The Devil I Know: My Haunting Journey...
Jackie BarrettIn November 1974, 23-year-old Ronnie DeFeo was convicted of murdering his entire family. Decades later, he was haunted by a terrifying demon from his past. But no one wanted to listen. Except one woman. For years, as the legend of the...
Identity Crisis: The Murder, the Myst...
Jefferson BassRenowned forensic anthropologist Bill Bass—founder of the Body Farm—tackles one of his most baffling cases ever in this real-life spellbinder In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never see...
Brilliant linguist, charming professor, and renowned writer Tom Murray had a way with words. He used them to seduce. And he used them to get away with murder.Erudite Kansas City professor Tom Murray seduced, then married his starry-ey...
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption ...
Nate BlakesleeIn the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperati...
Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement, during which time he has gained a fearsome reputation as one of the world's toughest and most dangerous convicts. He has been locked in dungeons, in iron boxes...
"Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America." —Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewParkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and definitive narrative of th...
The First Family: Terror, Extortion, ...
Mike DashBefore the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello–known as "The Clutch Hand"–and his lethal coterie of associates...
Running with the Devil: The True Stor...
Kerrie DrobanThe infamous Sonny Barger once declared that the Hells Angels would never be infiltrated. Running with the Devil chronicles the story of the ATF sting and the two undercover agents who risked their lives to prove him wrong. For two ye...
From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . .It was one of the FBI's...
The Pastor's Wife: The True Story of ...
Diane FanningWhen Pastor Matthew Winkler was found dead at his Fourth Street Church of Christ parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee, both police investigators and parishioners were shaken and mystified: How could evil strike this cradle of faith? Meanwhi...
Dead in the Water: My Forty-Year Sear...
Penny FarmerTHE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PODCAST "PARADISE"In this shocking true-crime drama, a forty-year-old double murder brings together a grieving family and two brothers―just kids when they witnessed thei...
Toxic Rage: A Tale Of Murder In Tucso...
A. J. FlickBrian Stidham fell in love with Tucson, Ariz., the minute he came to town. A young and talented eye surgeon, he accepted a job with an established eye surgeon to take over his pediatric patients. "It's a beautiful place," St...
Justice for Bonnie: An Alaskan Teenag...
Karen FosterWhen Karen Foster was told that something had happened to her eighteen-year-old daughter, Bonnie Craig, she knew what it meant. The Alaska State Troopers investigating the scene ruled it a hiking accident, but for Karen, the pieces ...
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of...
Paul FrenchA riveting true-crime tale that presents the thrilling account of a murder in 1937 China that caused an international media sensation Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal ...
Family Affair: Greed, Treachery, and ...
Sam GiancanaThe true story of the vicious Chicago underworld from a New York Times bestselling author. With a contract out on his life, Nicholas "Nicky Breeze" Calabrese turned government witness and revealed the truth about the murder...
The True American: Murder and Mercy i...
Anand Giridharadas"Remarkable…a richly detailed, affecting account…Giridharadas seeks less to uplift than illuminate…Which of these men is the ''true American'' of the title? That there is no simple answer to that question is Giridharadas's ...
The Mafia and the Machine: The Story ...
Frank HaydeThe story of the American Mafia is not complete without a chapter on Kansas City. The City of Fountains has appeared in the The Godfather, Casino, and The Sopranos, but many Midwesterners are not aware that Kansas City has affected th...
Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirat...
Mike HolgateThe true scandals, crimes, and murders that inspired the works of the Queen of Crime, and affected those around her Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of events that either influenced the works of the world's...
Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Gre...
Arianna HuffingtonWho filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American strugg...
A brutal murder that shocked residents of Missouri—and a killer it took 25 years to bring to justice... On June 17, 1985, twenty-year-old beauty pageant winner Jackie Johns's car was found abandoned, the interior drenched in blood. ...
All-American Murder: The True Story o...
Amber HuntYeardley Love was a star athlete and student with her whole life ahead of her. Born into a world of privilege, Yeardley was exceptionally modest and generous. She was adored by many, especially the members of her lacrosse team at the ...
The Man from the Train: Discovering A...
Bill JamesAn Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer B...
The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies
Jon E. LewisThe Mammoth Book of Conspiracies uncovers 100 cover-ups "they" really don't want you to know about. This collection delves into some of the biggest lies in history.
Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Kille...
Stephen G. MichaudIn a series of death row interviews done shortly before his execution, infamous serial killer Ted Bundy gave a third-person "confession" of his many murders. This definitive book on Bundy was recently made into a Netflix doc...
If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, He...
Gregg OlsenA DEVOTED MOTHER GOES MISSINGEvery once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the public's eyes…Such is the tragic case of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden. When the pretty Utah mother went m...
"Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience." — Suspense Magazine Sheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she m...
In Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone tells the story of working so deep undercover in the Mafia that the truth of his identity became blurry even for him. For six years, Pistone posed as jewel thief Donnie Brasco in order to ...
Haunted Crime Scenes: Paranormal Evid...
Katherine RamslandThe second book in the "Haunted Crime Scenes" series. The series is based on the premise that by working together, Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) and Paranormal Forensic Investigators (PFIs) may someday solve crimes and re...
Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of t...
Eric Raynaud and Sergei KostineVladimir Ippolitovich Vetrov was a brilliant student, great athlete, model husband and father; in short, he had all to make a success of his life. Once recruited by the KGB, he was first sent to France, then Canada, before being assi...