Category: True Crime

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: Berendt, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House : January 1994

Seller ID: 71893

ISBN-13: 9780679429227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder...
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: Berendt, John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Random House : January 1994

Seller ID: 49813

ISBN-13: 9780679429227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder...
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story

By: Berendt, John

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Vintage : June 1999

Seller ID: 47836

ISBN-13: 9780679751526

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder...
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The City of Falling Angels

By: Berendt, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: The Penguin Press : September 2005

Seller ID: 92669

ISBN-13: 9781594200588

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after a decade to offer, in his inimitable style, an intimate look at the magic, mystery, and decadence of the city of Venice and its inhabitants.
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The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

By: Bernstein, Jake

Price: $6.00

Publisher: WH Allen : September 2019

Seller ID: 90172

ISBN-13: 9780753553992

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Last Job: 'The Bad Grandpas' and the Hatton Garden Heist

By: Bilefsky, Dan

Price: $7.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : April 2019

Seller ID: 61925

ISBN-13: 9780393609516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Over Easter weekend 2015, a motley crew of six English thieves, several in their sixties and seventies, couldn't resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist. Their target: the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit, in the heart of London's medieval diamond district. "The Firm" included Brian Reader, ringleader and legend in his own mind; Terry Perkins, a tough-as-nails career criminal but also a frail diabetic; Danny Jones, a fitness freak, crime enthusiast, and fabulist; Carl Wood, an extra pair of hands, and definitely more brawn than brains; John "Kenny" Collins, getaway driver, ...
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The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno: The Final Secrets of a Life in the Mafia

By: Bonanno, Bill,Abromovitz, Gary B

Price: $4.00

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : September 2011

Seller ID: 94419

ISBN-13: 9780061992025

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An eye-opening look at life--and death--inside the Mafia, The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno is a stunning document written by the son of notorious crime boss Joe Bonanno. Published at the author's request after his death, The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno provides highly confidential secrets about the inner workings of La Cosa Nostra--offering a behind-closed-doors look at the secret Commission meetings of the '30s through '60s and clandestine details of the Mafia's most venerable rituals, techniques, and indoctrination ceremonies...plus pages of never-before-seen photos. Bonanno's Last Test...
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And the Sea Will Tell

By: Bugliosi, Vincent,Henderson, Bruce B.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : January 1991

Seller ID: 79350

ISBN-13: 9780393029192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence

By: Canada, Geoffrey

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Beacon Press : September 2010

Seller ID: 30187

ISBN-13: 9780807044612

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children's Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work--from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama--long before he became known for his talk show appearances, Members Project spots, and documentaries like Waiting for "Superman", Geoffrey Canada was a small boy growing up scared on the mean streets of the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where "sidewalk boys" learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Then the streets changed, ...
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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

By: Cooper, Becky

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : September 2021

Seller ID: 79501

ISBN-13: 9781538746851

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

By: Cooper, Becky

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : November 2020

Seller ID: 89777

ISBN-13: 9781538746837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

FINALIST FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named One of The Best Books of 2020 by NPR's Fresh Air * Publishers Weekly * Marie Claire * Redbook * Vogue * Kirkus Reviews * Book Riot * Bustle A Recommended Book by The New York Times * The Washington Post * Booklist * The Boston Globe * Amazon * Goodreads * Buzzfeed * Town & Country * Refinery29 * BookRiot * CrimeReads * Glamour * Popsugar * PureWow * Shondaland Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative...
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons : November 2002

Seller ID: 94414

ISBN-13: 9780399149320

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The number-one "New York Times"-bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell is known the world over for her brilliant storytelling, the courage of her characters, and the state-of-the-art forensic methods they employ. In this headline-making new work of nonfiction, Cornwell turns her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise on one of the most chilling cases of serial murder in the history of crime-the slayings of Jack the Ripper that terrorized 1880s London. With the masterful intuition into the criminal mind that has informed her novels, Cornwell digs deeper into the case...
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Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

By: Corona, Martin,Rafael, Tony

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dutton : July 2017

Seller ID: 75213

ISBN-13: 9781101984628

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's most vicious drug cartel, and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal life. Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life at twelve and worked for a crew run by the Arellano brothers, founders of the the Tijuana drug cartel that dominated the Southern California drug trade and much bloody gang warfare for decades. Corona's crew would cross into the United States from their lux...
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The Mafia: A Cultural History

By: Dainotto, Roberto M.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Reaktion Books : March 2019

Seller ID: 67022

ISBN-13: 9781780239934

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What is it about Tony Soprano that makes him so amiable? For that matter, how is it that many of us secretly want Scarface to succeed or see Michael Corleone as, ultimately, a hero? What draws us into the otherwise horrifically violent world of the mafia? In The Mafia, Roberto M. Dainotto explores the irresistible appeal of this particular brand of organized crime, its history, and the mythology we have developed around it. Dainotto traces the development of the mafia from its rural beginnings in Western Sicily to its growth into a global crime organization alongside a parallel examination of...
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In Contempt

By: Darden, Christopher A.,Walter, Jess

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harpercollins : January 1996

Seller ID: 77221

ISBN-13: 9780060391836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Offers a personal perspective on the O.J. Simpson trial and shares the author's observations on legal strategy, racial issues, and the principal lawyers, officials, and witnesses involved in the case.
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Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners

By: Emmins, Alan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books : January 2008

Seller ID: 78881

ISBN-13: 9780312532741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Neal Smither doesn't hide his work. The side of his van reads: "Crime Scene Cleaners: Homicides, Suicides and Accidental Death." Whenever a hotel guest permanently checks out, the cops finish an investigation, or an accidental death is reported, Smither's crew pick up the pieces after the police cruisers and ambulances have left. Alan Emmins offers a glimpse at this little-known aspect of America's most gruesome deaths. Filled with details as fascinating as they are gory, "Mop Men "examines not just the public fascination with murder but also how a self-made success like Smither can make a for...
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The House of Gucci [Movie Tie-in]: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

By: Forden, Sara Gay

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Custom House : October 2021

Seller ID: 88422

ISBN-13: 9780063159983

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Named one of the best books of the year by the Economist, House Of Gucci tells the remarkable story of the power of the Gucci Dynasty and their famed luxury goods house. While the business was achieving unprecedented success, the family found itself shrouded in personal tragedy. In 1993, Gucci's financial partner, InvestCorp, forced Maurizio Gucci, the last of the Gucci family to run the Gucci Corporation, out for draining company coffers with extravagant business practices. However, on March 27, 1995, the Gucci heir was slain as he approached his office buil...
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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

By: Glenny, Misha

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Vintage : April 2009

Seller ID: 16225

ISBN-13: 9781400095124

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade acco...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By: Grann, David

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Doubleday : April 2017

Seller ID: 86751

ISBN-13: 9780385534246

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul. --Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review SHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017 Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR's Maureen Corrigan, NPR's On Point, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub's Ultimate Best Books, Library Journal, Paste, Kirkus, Slate.com and Book BrowseFrom New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling...
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Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

By: Grillo, Ioan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Press : January 2017

Seller ID: 89262

ISBN-13: 9781620403815

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Without this testimony, we simply cannot grasp what is going on . . . Americans would do well to read Gangster Warlords]. --The New York Times Book Review On a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner leaves five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southwest Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: a hybrid of CEO, terrorist, and part rock star,...
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

By: Grisham, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Doubleday : October 2006

Seller ID: 61651

ISBN-13: 9780385517232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits--drinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day...
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

By: Grisham, John

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Bantam : November 2007

Seller ID: 1137

ISBN-13: 9780385340915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham's first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES "Both an American tragedy and Grisham's] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true."--Entertainment Weekly In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron's home, a young...
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

By: Grisham, John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam : November 2007

Seller ID: 28906

ISBN-13: 9780385340915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham's first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES "Both an American tragedy and Grisham's] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true."--Entertainment Weekly In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron's home, a young...
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A Civil Action

By: Harr, Jonathan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage : August 1996

Seller ID: 74170

ISBN-13: 9780679772675

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This true story of an epic courtroom showdown, where two of the nation's largest corporations were accused of causing the deaths of children from water contamination, was a #1 national bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Described as "a page-turner filled with greed, duplicity, heartache, and bare-knuckle legal brinksmanship by The New York Times, A Civil Action is the searing, compelling tale of a legal system gone awry--one in which greed and power fight an unending struggle against justice. Yet it is also the story of how one man can ultimately make a differenc...
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Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits

By: Haskell, David,Spoelman, Colin,Distillery, Kings County

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Abrams Image : May 2016

Seller ID: 89265

ISBN-13: 9781419720215

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Founders and award-winning distillers of Kings County Distillery Colin Spoelman and David Haskell follow up their successful Guide to Urban Moonshining with an extensive history of the figures who distilled American spirits. The book presents 50 fascinating--and sometimes morbid--biographies from this historic trade's bygone days, including farmers, scientists, oligarchs, criminals, and the occasional US president. Readers may be surprised to find the names George Washington, Henry Frick, or Andrew Mellon alongside the usual suspects long associated with booze--Jasper "Jack" Daniel, Jim Beam,...
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The Commissioner: A True Story of Deceit, Dishonor, and Death

By: Keith, Bill

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Pelican : March 2009

Seller ID: 80382

ISBN-13: 9781589806559

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With a true journalistic tone, Keith delivers an unparalleled account of the murder of Louisiana's political advertiser Jim Leslie and the case against Shreveport's corrupt police commissioner George D'Artois. Keith, who covered the crimes as a reporter for the Shreveport Times, recalls firsthand the tumultuous investigation of D'Artois and his plan to bring mob boss Carlos Marcello's organized crime to Shreveport. The Commissioner is a gripping description of Keith's personal experiences involving Leslie's assassination and the five courageous lawmen who struggled to stop D'Artois' tyranny....
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

By: King, Gilbert

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books : April 2018

Seller ID: 89264

ISBN-13: 9780399183386

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential read. --Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove, the gripping true story of a small town with a big secret. In December 1957, the wife of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her home whil...
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Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings

By: Klarevas, Louis

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Prometheus : August 2016

Seller ID: 73087

ISBN-13: 9781633880665

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets for deadly rampages? What can we do to curb the carnage of this disturbing form of firearm violence? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the author shows that gun possession often prods aggrieved, mentally unstable individuals to go on shooting sprees; these attacks largely occur in places where guns are not pro...
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

By: Krakauer, Jon

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Anchor : January 2016

Seller ID: 44692

ISBN-13: 9780804170567

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical.In these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent throughout the ...
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

By: Krakauer, Jon

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor : January 2016

Seller ID: 37823

ISBN-13: 9780804170567

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical.In these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent throughout the ...
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Category: True Crime