10 Most Brilliant Criminals In History

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

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

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

    • ASIN: B075FJWH6Q
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    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 immediat... [Read More]

  • The Life We Bury

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

    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 ... [Read More]

  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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

  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    • ASIN: B01DHWACVY
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

    #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 • N... [Read More]

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

    • ASIN: B01MTU86Z7
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    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 tech... [Read More]

  • Crime And Punishment In American History

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

    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.

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

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

    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 th... [Read More]

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

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

    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 ... [Read More]

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

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

    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 t... [Read More]

  • In Cold Blood

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

  • Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

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

    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 wi... [Read More]

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

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

    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 dazzli... [Read More]

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

    • ASIN: B0782X9PFP
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    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 ... [Read More]

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

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

    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... [Read More]

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story

    • ASIN: 0679751521
    • ISBN: 0679751521
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders

    • ASIN: 0062363506
    • ISBN: 0062363506
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER. On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County Courthouse. Two months later, a massacre. The day before Easter, the couple slept. Bunnies, eggs, a flower centerpiece gracing the table. Death rang their doorbell and ... [Read More]

  • Licensed to Lie

    • ASIN: 1732767602
    • ISBN: 1732767602
    • Brand: Sidney Powell
    • Manufacturer: Sidney Powell

    This true legal thriller debunks everything the media and the government told us about the Department of Justice’s destruction and prosecution of the venerable accounting firm Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch executives who did one business transaction with Enron,  Alaska Senator Ted Steven’s,  and more. The common thread through it all is a c... [Read More]

  • Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

    • ASIN: 1101947861
    • ISBN: 1101947861
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

  • Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series)

    • ASIN: 1250165547
    • ISBN: 1250165547
    • Brand: Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
    • Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

    The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018)Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the... [Read More]

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