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21) Zenith man
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Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Part true crime, part courtroom drama, this moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men recounts the case of Alvin Ridley, an autistic Zenith TV repair man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had, and the lawyer who believe in--and proved--his innocence.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and Lana's daughter, Cheryl, witnessed her mother's bruises...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
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An aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history.
Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro's revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Amazon's Best Nonfiction Book of the Month for June 2023
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The Skimm’s “17 of Our Favorite Books Coming Out This Summer”
Glamour’s “15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far”
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Series
Murder she wrote volume Volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"Bea Fletcher never met a cold case she didn't want to solve. So when she finds herself staying with family near Lake Paloma, she's torn. Sure, she's not thrilled to be bunking with her moody, taciturn uncle and his wife while her father's out of town. Being away from Cabot Cove means less time for Bea to work on her true crime blog, visit her great-aunt Jessica, and spend time with new friends Leisl, Leif, and Carlos and the mysterious underground...
27) The blackening
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain₂t no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a horror movie is Black, who dies first?
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Publisher
Mango Media
Pub. Date
2023
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Infamous Criminals Caught in True Crime Cases
"A fascinating read that will haunt you, that will keep you up at night.” ―Aphrodite Jones, author of Cruel Sacrifice and host of the ID series, True Crime with Aphrodite Jones
#1 New Release in Mass Murder Biographies & Memoirs
Actors, musicians, TV personalities, and other public figures in the spotlight
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"This lavishly illustrated book by Lisa Perrin introduces more than 25 infamous women poisoners, exploring the circumstances and skill sets that led them to lives of crime. Learn about popular poisons throughout history and their deadly effects, and explore the common motives that drove these women to commit their dastardly deeds. You might find yourself rooting for some of them-like Sally Bassett, who helped poison her granddaughter's enslavers in...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Absolute Power: Luther Whitney was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
True Crime: Boozer. Skirt chaser. Careless father. Fault-ridden veteran reporter Steve Everett must beat the clock when he realizes a death row...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, presents the jaw-dropping discovery of a vast Egyptian tomb containing dozens of sealed burial chambers, as well as recounting tales of pirate treasure, mysterious deaths, archaeological mysteries, and more…
What’s it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that’s been sealed for thousands of years? Where might...
What’s it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that’s been sealed for thousands of years? Where might...
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Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Coal Country Killing: A Culture, A Union, And The Murders That Changed It All, revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America "reform candidate" Jock Yablonski, and murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse. But driving the story are the extraordinary efforts of a tenacious special prosecutor and his "army" of investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders, and...
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Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2023
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On a cold morning in December 1960, 60-year-old Laura Mutch was found strangled behind a house in downtown Erie.
At a time when the Gem City was at its peak, including a triumphant run for the coveted 'All-American City' award, the murder created a pandemonium. As the investigation progressed, attacks on women in and around the city of Erie continued, sending citizens - and seasoned investigators - to the brink of total chaos. Infamous attacks such...
34) Burke & Hare
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Publisher
Birlinn Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In a boarding house in West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William Burke, fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr. Robert Knox, an ambitious Edinburgh anatomist.
35) Convicting the Moors Murderers: The Arrest, Trial and Imprisonment of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
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Publisher
Pen and Sword
Pub. Date
2023
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Description
The second book published in this series carries on from where The Moors Murderers left off and continues the horrific story of the crimes perpetrated by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and tells of what happened at their trial in 1966.
We see how Brady and Hindley turned on David Smith, the 17-year-old who witnessed them murder Edward Evans and shopped them to the police the following day, by attempting to implicate him in their murders. This...
We see how Brady and Hindley turned on David Smith, the 17-year-old who witnessed them murder Edward Evans and shopped them to the police the following day, by attempting to implicate him in their murders. This...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
2019
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Description
A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF EVILRevisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow violence and serious psychopathology expert, here provide even more detail, using dozens of cases to exemplify the categories along the continuum. The New Evil also presents compelling...
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Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
2012
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After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world.
The collision between Selby's scientists
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Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2023
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Description
A new true-crime book from the acclaimed author of TRUE CRIME ADDICT and creator/host of the podcasts True Crime This Week and The Philosophy of Crime! James Renner explores the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the real-life town of the bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere in a painstakingly researched account of a senseless and heartbreaking tragedy and the people who were pulled into its aftermath....
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"The thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of the great gang of outlaws. The Dalton Gang consisted of four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James Gang. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves,...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A law professor and computer expert's take on how hacks happen and how the Internet can be made more secure"--
It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used, and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott J. Shapiro draws on his popular Yale University class about hacking to expose the...
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