Best Crimes In History - April 2024

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

• ASIN: 0385521316
• ASIN: 0385521316
• ISBN: 0385521316
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town

A mother’s search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying secrets in a Minnesota town in this “masterfully depicted true-crime tale” (Publishers Weekly). In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him—only to discover he had died before his fourth birthday. The immediate cause was peritonitis, but the coroner had never decided the mode of death, writing “deferred” rather than indicate accident, natural causes, or homicide. This he did even though the autopsy photos showed Dennis covered from head to toe in ugly... [Read More]

• ASIN: B075FJWH6Q
• ASIN: B075FJWH6Q
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Life We Bury

A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1616149981
• ASIN: 1616149981
• ISBN: 1616149981
• Brand: Seventh Street Books
• Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

• ASIN: 152473165X
• ASIN: 152473165X
• ISBN: 152473165X
• Brand: Knopf
• Manufacturer: Knopf

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

Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

Edgar Award Finalist: The “sensational” true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.   On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MTU86Z7
• ASIN: B01MTU86Z7
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Crime And Punishment In American History

In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.

• ASIN: 0465014879
• ASIN: 0465014879
• ISBN: 0465014879
• Manufacturer: Basic Books

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.

• ASIN: 0375725601
• UPC: 884510967318
• ASIN: 0375725601
• ISBN: 0375725601
• Brand: Erik Larson
• Manufacturer: Vintage

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973

As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when many young women don't even know that there was a period when abortion was a crime, this work offers chilling and vital lessons of importance to everyone.The linking of the words "abortion" and "crime" emphasizes the difficult and painful history that is the focus of Leslie J. Reagan's important b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0520216571
• ASIN: 0520216571
• ISBN: 0520216571
• Manufacturer: University of California Press

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   -  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable BookNamed a best book of the year by Amazon, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub, and SlateFrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history            In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world wer... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307742482
• ASIN: 0307742482
• ISBN: 0307742482
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

In Cold Blood

• ASIN: 0679745580
• ASIN: 0679745580
• ISBN: 9780679745587
• Brand: Truman Capote
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews esc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1503943372
• ASIN: 1503943372
• ISBN: 1503943372
• Brand: Lake Union Publishing
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1595586431
• UPC: 634109382776
• ASIN: 1595586431
• ISBN: 1595586431
• Brand: Baker and Taylor
• Manufacturer: The New Press

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉThe celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal an... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0782X9PFP
• ASIN: B0782X9PFP
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival)

A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller! — What happened that night on Dead Mountain?The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the mountain climbing incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1452140030
• ASIN: 1452140030
• ISBN: 1452140030
• Brand: Chronicle
• Size: N/A
• Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

True Stories of Law & Order: Svu: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show (Paperback)

The incredible real-life cases behind TV's hit crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, including photos. The crimes, the suspects, the trials--as they really went down. True Stories of Law & Order: Special Victims

• UPC: 6451798
• Rating: 4.0

The Law Restated : The Roots of the Law, Where They Are Found and Best Illustrated in Both the Old and the Latest Cases, the Great Maxims, General Principles and Leading Cases: The Six Leading Subjects in Miniature, Equity, Procedure, Contract, Crime, ...

The Law Restated: The Roots of the Law, Where They Are Found and Best Illustrated in Both the Old and the Latest Cases, the Great

• UPC: 451349412

The Law Restated : The Roots of the Law, Where They Are Found and Best Illustrated in Both the Old and the Latest Cases, the Great Maxims, General Principles and Leading Cases: The Six Leading Subjects in Miniature, Equity, Procedure, Contract, Crime, to

The Law Restated: The Roots of the Law, Where They Are Found and Best Illustrated in Both the Old and the Latest Cases, the Great

• UPC: 123904134

Finks : How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers

What if the CIA, in its Cold War infancy, reached as far as one literary magazine--and went on to shape American literature as we know it? In Finks, Joel Whitney details the CIA's intimate ties

• UPC: 56116073

The Law Restated : The Roots of the Law, Where They Are Found and Best Illustrated in Both the Old and the Latest Cases, the Great Maxims, General Principles and Leading Cases: The Six Leading Subjects in Miniature, Equity, Procedure, Contract, Crime, to

The Law Restated: The Roots of the Law, Where They Are Found and Best Illustrated in Both the Old and the Latest Cases, the Great

• UPC: 361901182

Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War (Audiobook)

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies-CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko-and their improbable friendship at a time when they should have been anything but. In 1978, CIA maverick Jack

• UPC: 461563200

Best Crime Thriller: DICKY, RICHARD, AND I ~ A Story of Madness in the Making

• UPC: 113410105740
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 16 USD

NEW YORK IN DANGER By DORA GOMORY Thrilling Crime Book Murder Story Best Seller

• UPC: 183260225913
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 14 GBP