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The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 Otto Penzler,Jonathan Kellerman,Thomas H. Cook Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reportin… OL13752042W
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 The Best American Crime Writing 2005 Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook,James Ellroy The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slave… OL14963822W
The Best American Crime Writing 2006 The Best American Crime Writing 2006 Otto Penzler,Mark Bowden,Thomas H. Cook A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys in… OL15105769W
Don't shoot Don't shoot David M. Kennedy "Gang- and drug-related violence is the defining crime problem in our country, and has been for decades. The statistics are alarming and the toll incalculable, and despite countless initiatives from … OL15920917W
Sudden terror Sudden terror Larry Crompton This book is based on the actual case of the East Area Rapist, later also known as the Original Night Stalker, a masked man who terrorized California communities for ten years; 1976 through 1986, and… OL16539894W
The Many Colors of Crime The Many Colors of Crime John Hagan,Ruth D. Peterson In this authoritative volume, race and ethnicity are themselves considered as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. The contributors argue th… OL16799422W
The deeds of my fathers The deeds of my fathers Paul David Pope "Intense rivalry and Borgia-like cunning made the Pope family one of America's wealthiest and most influential--now a descendent of the two Pope patriarchs chronicles a family that embodied the Ameri… OL16930342W
The Dangerous Divide The Dangerous Divide Peter Eichstaedt 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm OL17564372W
The last gun The last gun Tom Diaz Explores how the gun industry has changed and how the nature of gun violence has changed in step with industry trends, and argues that a renewed political effort is necessary. Explores how the gun i… OL17673995W
Gangster squad Gangster squad Paul Lieberman Recounts the history of the Gangster Squad, the eight man unit created by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1946, that launched a war against organized crime and planned to wipe out the notorious … OL17697634W
Love her to death Love her to death M. William Phelps Describes how Jan Roseboro was savagely beaten and strangled before her body was tossed in her backyard pool and how her husband Michael was eventually convicted of the crime after his pregnant mistr… OL17826312W
Justice for Bonnie Justice for Bonnie Karen Foster Details a mother's harrowing quest for the truth surrounding the suspicious death of her daughter, Bonnie, which was ruled a hiking accident, in an investigation that seemed it would go forever unsol… OL18438863W
Public Enemies Public Enemies Bryan Burrough In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoovers FBI to tell the full storyfor the first timeof the most spectacular crime wave in… OL1975258W
Criminal minds Criminal minds Jeff Mariotte "The book covers the criminals behind nearly every show through the first half of the fifth season. The book will be published along with the release of season five on DVD as well as the launch of an… OL19950483W
My story My story Elizabeth Smart "For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime On June… OL19969779W
Broke, not broken Broke, not broken Broadus A. Spivey "A Homeric hero in an epic foreclosure battle Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire, and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas ho… OL19992230W
Executions in America Executions in America Frederick Drimmer "From the first Pilgrim hanged in 1630 right up to Ted Bundy in 1989, legal execution has been a facet of the American justice system. Now, for the first time ever, the dramatic history of the men an… OL23201543W
Blood Relation Blood Relation Eric Konigsberg Growing up in a household that seemed "as generic as midwestern Jews get," Eric Konigsberg never imagined there was anything remotely mysterious about his family—until he learned from an ex-cop groun… OL272842W
Rat Bastards Rat Bastards John "red" Shea John "Red" Shea, 40, was a top lieutenant in the South Boston Irish mob run, led by James "Whitey" Bulger. An ice–cold enforcer with a red–hot temper, Shea was a legend among his peers in the 1990s S… OL278351W
Sleep, my child, forever Sleep, my child, forever John Coston This book tells the story of Ellen Boehm, a St. Louis, Missouri divorced mother of three, who, within a two year time frame, cold-bloodedly snuffed out the life of her two little boys and botched an … OL3128352W
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