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"A tour de force of storytelling." -Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series"Jobb's excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read." -The New York Times Book Review "When a doctor does go wrong,...

The accusations. The suspicions. The devastating impact. This is the true story of the Devils of the Bassa Modenese-the most notorious Satanic Panic investigation in the history of Italy. In 1997 a six-year-old boy questioned by authorities relayed...

There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers. No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911273936Author Tracy I'AnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Mango BooksPublisher Mango Books

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The CIA, Dallas, and the hard details of the JFK assassination.Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy, how the murder was carried out, and why Kennedy was assassinated. Through...

'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An...

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Buoyed by the runaway success of his bestselling A General History of the Pirates (1724), Captain Charles Johnson went on to publish a much-expanded edition of the work to include a further 80 accounts of some of the most extraordinary British criminals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316427715Author Dan SlaterFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Eisner Awards 1999.Book InformationISBN 9781506730257Author Brian Michael BendisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312571641Author Frank LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.

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Discover 50 fascinating tales of female pirates, fraudsters, gamblers, bootleggers, serial killers, madams, and outlaws in this illustrated book of lawbreaking and legendary women throughout the ages.Many of us are familiar with the popular slogan...

The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California-a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy. Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was...

Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She...

The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable questions that...

Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency services who tried to save the day. It is never forgotten by the relatives of those who never came home.Britain's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612438979Author Christopher Berry-DeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only woman to pull off a major art heist.In the world of crime, there exists an unusual commonality between those who steal art and those who...

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Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland's...

A true crime classic about Daisy de Melker in ragtime Joburg - a city of murder, mayhem and gold. Ted Botha takes the reader into the underbelly of Johannesburg in the 1920s and 1930s as he traces the fascinating story of the mysterious Daisy de...

"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age...

Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award * Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book"You have taken our civil rights-we want our human rights." On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807021392Author Russell CobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm * 23mm

Follow a trial lawyer's career through the demanding, often controversial, and suspenseful world of jury trials, tension-filled appeals and the different worlds of courtrooms, jail cells, corporate boardrooms, and law firms. Each of the cases in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330505630Author Eliza HawthorneFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Cordova ConsultingPublisher Cordova ConsultingWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330502578Author Eliza HawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Cordova ConsultingPublisher Cordova ConsultingWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456662592Author Brittany WeinbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Ebookit.comPublisher Ebookit.comWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal. On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the...