• The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, “I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that’s the case, I’ve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later.” Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Hollywood production. Spanning the extremes of human behavior, The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 features characters that must make desperate choices: an imaginative bank-robbing couple, a vengeful high school shooter, a lovesick heiress who will ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0544526759
    • ASIN: 0544526759
    • ISBN: 9780544526754
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Newsday • Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punisha... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01DHWACVY
    • ASIN: B01DHWACVY
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

  • Best Amer Mysteries 08 Pa (The Best American Series ®)

    “A must-read for anyone who cares about crime stories.”—BooklistThe award-winning author and Emmy-nominated television writer George Pelecanos serves as editor of the twelfth installment of this genre-expanding anthology, featuring twenty of the past year’s most enthralling, suspenseful, and slyly illuminating mystery stories.A cut-and-dried case for a wily crime-scene reconstructionist is turned on its head in Michael Connelly’s “Mulholland Dive.” A terrible secret shared between two childhood friends resurfaces decades later as one of them lies on her deathbed in Alice Munro’... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0618812679
    • UPC: 046442812672
    • ASIN: 0618812679
    • ISBN: 0618812679
    • Manufacturer: Best American

  • The Best American Noir of the Century (The Best American Series ®)


    • ASIN: B005LVR786
    • ASIN: B005LVR786
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

    A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review   “Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” —USA Today   “A tense and timely love story . . . Packed with brave questi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01NCUXEFR
    • ASIN: B01NCUXEFR
    • Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

  • True Crime: An American Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication

    Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime writing became a dominant genre in American writing. True Crime: An American Anthology offers the first comprehensive look at the many ways in which American writers have explored crime in a multitude of aspects: the dark motives that spur it, the shock of its impact on society, the effort to make sense of the violent extremes of human behavior. Here is the full spectrum of the true crime genre, including accounts of some of the most notorious crimin... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1598530313
    • ASIN: 1598530313
    • ISBN: 1598530313
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

  • American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it   In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye.   It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone—not just teenagers and weed dealers b... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0143129023
    • ASIN: 0143129023
    • ISBN: 0143129023
    • Manufacturer: Portfolio

  • Redemption (Memory Man series Book 5)


    • ASIN: B07G76M5LD
    • ASIN: B07G76M5LD
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

  • The Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime

    Lawrence Block, Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey, and Donald Westlake describe how they would commit the perfect murder

    • ASIN: 0060163402
    • ASIN: 0060163402
    • ISBN: 0060163402
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

  • The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia (True Crime)

    In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the "castle in the woods" in the Trion forest after Scudder left his position as professor at Loyola. He brought with him twelve thousand doses of LSD. Rumors of drug use and Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the estate. The murders set the stage for a trial vibrant with local lore. Author Amy Petulla uncovers the curious case that left ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1467119008
    • ASIN: 1467119008
    • ISBN: 1467119008
    • Brand: History Press
    • Manufacturer: The History Press

  • The Kite Runner


    • ASIN: B000OCXGZA
    • ASIN: B000OCXGZA
    • Brand: Riverhead Books
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

    From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'hig... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0521136067
    • ASIN: 0521136067
    • ISBN: 0521136067
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

  • Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer

    Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community’s diverse fabric. In Shallow Graves, investigative reporter Maureen Boyle tells the story of a case that has haunted New England for thirty years. The Crimes: The skeletal remains of nine of the women, aged nineteen to thirty-six, were discovered near highways around New Bedford. Some had clearly been strangled, others were so b... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1512600741
    • ASIN: 1512600741
    • ISBN: 1512600741
    • Brand: ForeEdge
    • Manufacturer: ForeEdge

  • The Best American Crime Reporting 2008

    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 Reporting 2008 brings together the murderers and the master­minds, the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true-crime genre. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jonathan Kellerman, bestselling author of more than twenty crime novels, most recently Compulsion and the forthcoming Bones.

    • ASIN: B002KE497Y
    • ASIN: B002KE497Y
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

  • Instinct (previously published as Murder Games)

    A criminal behavior expert teams up with an NYPD detective to track down a criminal in the novel that inspired the hit CBS TV series starring Alan Cumming.Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally: he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene-along with a threatening message from the killer-it looks like someone has been taking notes.Elizabeth Needham is the headstrong and brilliant NYPD Detective in charge of the case who recruits Dylan to help investigate another souvenir left at the scene: ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01M0CDHMG
    • ASIN: B01M0CDHMG
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • Bloody Scotland : New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers

    Twelve of Scotland's most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country's architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and

    • UPC: 295463383
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Bloody Scotland: New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers - eBook

    Twelve of Scotland’s most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country’s architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and redemptive.Scotland has often been depicted as a land of haunting, misty

    • UPC: 929869163
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Manhattan Mayhem : New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America

    From Wall Street to Harlem, the borough of Manhattan is the setting for all-new stories of mystery, murder, and suspense, presented by best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark and featuring an exclusive Jack Reacher story by

    • UPC: 49118659
    • Rating: 3.833

  • Selections from The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 - eBook

    The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 is yet another must read for the true crime aficionado—an eye-opening compendium of the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant crime stories of the year by the masters of the

    • UPC: 944792225
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Best American Crime Reporting

    Edited by Jeffrey Toobin, CNN s senior legal analyst and New York Times "bestselling author of The Nine," The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 is a must-have for the true crime reader, complete with the

    • UPC: 10991465
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 - eBook

    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 Reporting 2008 brings together the

    • UPC: 493810582
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 - eBook

    Edited by Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s senior legal analyst and New York Times bestselling author of The Nine, The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 is a must-have for the true crime reader, complete with the most

    • UPC: 462503266
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition - eBook

    This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable

    • UPC: 664945513
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Best American Crime Writing 2006 - eBook

    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 into a world of felons and their

    • UPC: 667036354
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Barack Obama Books: Barack Obama Adult Coloring Book: One of the Best American Presidents of All Time and Chill Politician, Acclaimed Lawyer and Legendary Writer Inspired Adult Coloring Book (Paperbac

    Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the

    • UPC: 779864209

  • Top Five Crime Novels

    What's your all-time favourite crime novel?

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