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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
243 p.
Language
English
Description
The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal organization known to law enforcement as “the real Sopranos”
Giovanni’s Ring is the story of “Giovanni Rocco,” a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as “Giovanni Gatto,” who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately...
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. This anthology pulls back the curtain on how crime itself is a by-product of America's...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Torrey House Press Edition.
Physical Desc
221 p.
Language
English
Description
Amid the current alarming rise in xenophobia, Ana Maria Spagna stumbled upon a story: one day in 1875, according to lore, on a high bluff over the Columbia River, a group of local Indigenous people murdered a large number of Chinese miners—perhaps as many as three hundred—and pushed their bodies over a cliff into the river. The little-known incident was dubbed the Chelan Falls Massacre. Despite having lived in the area for more than thirty years,...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Throughout his long and illustrious career, Mark Bowden has written about crime and was recognized in 2010 with a lifetime achievement award by the International Thriller Writers organization. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde collects six of his most riveting pieces-accounts spanning four decades of searing characters and unsettling tales to illustrate all manner of crimes and the ways technology has progressively altered criminal investigation. From...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially,...
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Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
x, 362 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Narcoland takes readers to the front lines of the "war on drugs," which has cost more than 60,000 lives in six years. The author explains in detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet.
Author
Physical Desc
xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence and new interviews, this gripping work of investigative journalism revisits the 1990 unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, revealing the dark secrets teens tell--and keep"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xv, 384 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former mafia associate and heist expert who spent eight years in prison for not incriminating his fellow Gambino family members presents the history of the mafia's first 100 years, from Sicily in the 1860s to America in the 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A shocking account of how Harvey Weinstein rose to become one of the most iconic figures in the world of movies, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all came crashing down, from the author who has covered the Hollywood power game for the New Yorker for three decades. Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote one of the iconic New Yorker profiles for which he is famous, of the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, then...
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Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
299 p.
Language
English
Description
No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis, cyber-sleuthing, and even DNA-based genetic genealogy are...
20) Zenith man
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
320 pages : 25-35 IMAGES FOR 16 PAGE INSER ; 23 cm
Language
English
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.