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Depraved
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Harold Schechter |
Even as a child in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Herman Mudgett was considered a lad with a future, a boy who professed filial devotion while secretly fantasizing his parents' deaths. By age eleven he wa… |
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The First Family
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Mike Dash |
Before 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 l… |
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Mob daughter
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Karen Gravano |
Based on a true live story from karen Gravano a star from reality show based in Staten Island.reveals memories of her mafia childhood,which pro-trays how love ans family values come hand in hand with… |
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Diary of a Motor City Hit Man
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Christian Cipollini |
February 1975...
A winding suburban road. A near collision. One patrolman and one sinister Detroit man. Then, a case would unfold like the Motor City and nearby burbs had never imagined. The tal… |
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The Best American Crime Reporting 2009
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Otto Penzler,Jeffrey Toobin,Thomas H. Cook |
"Thieves, liars, and killers -- it's a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year's best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre, The Best A… |
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Caught in the act
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Jeannie McDonough |
Describes how Jeannie and Kevin McDonough become heroes after saving their daughter from Adam Leroy Lane, a long-haul trucker and serial killer, and how they vowed to make sure that Lane's other vict… |
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Gangster squad
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Paul Lieberman |
A harrowing narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels. Lieberman chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Micke… |
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Mob boss
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Jerry Capeci,Tom Robbins (journalist) |
"Reminiscent of Wiseguy, this compelling biography from two prominent mob experts recounts the life and times of the first acting boss of an American Mafia family to turn government witness As top bo… |
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Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
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Ben Blum,Ben Blum |
Documents the story of an aspiring U.S. Army Ranger who inexplicably participated in an armed robbery hours before being deployed to Iraq, investigating the influence of the young man's superior and … |
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Public Enemies
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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… |
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Murderer with a badge
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Edward Humes |
The explosive true story of a killer cop. Pulitzer Prize-winner Humes, the first to break the story, conducted exclusive jail-cell interviews with convicted LAPD officer Bill Leasure to give an enthr… |
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White devil
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Bob Halloran |
"In 2013, "Bac Guai" John Willis, aka White Devil, was sentenced for drug trafficking and money laundering ... was "leader of a vast conspiracy." Journalist Bob Halloran tells the tale of the only wh… |
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The road to Jonestown
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Jeff Guinn |
In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was active in the civil rights movement. Jones… |
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Wicked Taos
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Ellen Dornan |
"Uncover the sordid side of Taos, New Mexico history"--
"A lively history of the criminals and transgressors of Taos, New Mexico's past"-- |
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Gangsters and organized crime in Jewish Chicago
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Alex Garel-Frantzen |
"Al Capone. The Untouchables. The Valentine's Day massacre. You may think you know everything about the Roaring Twenties in the Windy City, but in the early twentieth century, the harsh environment o… |
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Rat Bastards
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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… |
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Ashes to ashes
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Lyn Riddle |
On a November afternoon in 1992, 24-year-old Bobby Coulson murdered his parents, two sisters, and a brother-in-law. He bound and gagged his first victim, his mother, and set her on fire. When Bobby w… |
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The mysterious Montague
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Leigh Montville |
He was a 1930s golf legend and Hollywood trickster who adamantly refused to be photographed. He never played professionally, yet sports-writing legend Grantland Rice still heralded him as "the greate… |
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Brutal
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Kevin Weeks,Phyllis Karas |
I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy.Jimmy and I, we were unstoppable. We took what we wanted. And we … |
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A rose for her grave
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Ann Rule |
Ann Rule's Crime Files books have delivered the very best in true crime reading since A Rose for Her Grave, first in the acclaimed series, made its debut. Distinguished by the former Seattle policewo… |
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