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Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 16
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Pocket Books paperback ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 513 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ann Rule provides inside views of both headlined and little-known homicides and speaks for vulnerable victims who relied on the wrong people.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The corridor is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Journalist Jessica McDiarmid meticulously investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved ones left behind. The cases that are an embarrassment for park superintendents, rangers and law enforcement charged with Search & Rescue. The ones that baffle the volunteers who comb the mountains,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I--this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel"--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder Thy Neighbor," depicting a man's violent retaliation against a local who would protect property values; and "Murder IRL'" in which an isolated girl's social-media war upends the target of her misguided affections.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started. Then one night in the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 564 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a frequent music and culture contributor to The New Yorker, the mysterious, true story of the life of Connie Converse-a mid-century New York City singer/songwriter whose haunting music never found recognition-and the tale of one man's quest to uncover the truth"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, chronicles the 2000 disappearance, massive search, long investigation, and the even longer murder trial behind the gruesome murder case of Lucie Blackman in Japan.
Author
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of the North's most enduring missing persons cases. Missing persons. Double murder? Metis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Metis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady's success made politicians and clergy fear him; he had enemies everywhere. In 1967,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth... On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing,' printed in a bold, high-impact font, are two sepia-toned photographs of a man dressed in a bow tie and tux." Most people would keep walking. Maybe they'd pay a bit closer attention to the local news that evening. Mikita Brottman spent ten years sifting through the details of the missing man's life and disappearance, and his purported suicide by jumping...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the incredible true life story of Mrs. Grace Humiston, the New York lawyer and detective who solved the famous cold case of Ruth Cruger, an 18-year-old girl who disappeared in 1917. Grace was an amazing lawyer and traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing these professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. Grace became the first female U.S. District Attorney...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the events leading up to the 2016 disappearance of Justin Alexander Shetler, an adventure traveler who embarked on a "spiritual journey" to the Parvati Valley, a remote and sometimes dangerous area of the Indian Himalayas, from which he never returned.
16) Trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades later, however, she stumbles across a mystery that pulls...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
379 p.
Language
English
Description
When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared...
18) Searching for Savanna: the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring in-depth interviews, personal accounts, and trial analysis, this gripping account of the 2017 murder of twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind brings to light the overwhelming sexual and physical violence against Native American women and girls in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction.