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The Monster of Florence [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Douglas Preston
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 In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Florence, Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more. This is the true story of their search for--and identification of--the man they believe committed the crimes, and... more info>>
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Serial Murder 101 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Bridget DiCosmo
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 The shocking true account of a man who learned everything there was to know about getting away with murder.Thirty years ago, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, became the hunting ground for a predator. Women were being brutally raped and murdered in a series of savage?and seemingly unconnected?crimes.Not until 2007 would the truth come to light, when DNA evidence pointed the finger at Timothy Krajcir, a convicted sex offender who'd never even appeared on a suspect list. He was a man who had pursued a deg... more info>>
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Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Ann Rule
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America's #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim's desperate plea--with this shattering New York Times Bestseller. "If anything ever happens to me ... find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story." In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush--a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power--A Dispatch from the Beach [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Gerald Posner
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 Here, in all its neon-colored, cocaine-fueled glory, is the never-before-told story of the making of Miami Beach. Gerald Posner, author of the groundbreaking investigations Case Closed and Why America Slept, has uncovered the hair-raising political-financial-criminal history of the Beach and reveals a tale that, in the words of one character, "makes Scarface look like a documentary." From its beginnings in the 1890s, the Beach has been a place made by visionaries and hustlers. During Prohibition... more info>>
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The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Jeffrey Toobin
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 Thieves, liars, and killers--it's a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year's best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre, The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 brings together the mysteries and missteps of an eclectic and unforgettable set of criminals. Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant, this latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker staff writer, CNN senior legal analyst, an... more info>>
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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Jake Adelstein
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From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime ... crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and c... more info>>
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Without Pity: Ann Rules Most Dangerous Killers [Taken from Crime Files Volumes 1-8] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Ann Rule
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They kill without conscience. Ann rule portrays their shattering crimes without pity. In eight stunning Case Files volumes, from A Rose for Her Grave to the #1 blockbuster Last Dance, Last Chance, Ann Rule reigns as "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews). Now, she updates the most astonishing cases from that acclaimed series--and presents shocking, all-new true-crime accounts--in one riveting anthology. In every explosive chapter of Without Pity, Ann Rule deepens her unrelenting exp... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Ann Rule's Crime Files: Empty Promises [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Ann Rule
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It seemed to be the perfect marriage: a beautiful young wife, a rising star in America's top-ranked computer corporation, and a prosperous husband, the soon of a family building business. With an adorable son and a gorgeous home, this couple seemed to have it all. But a furtive evil permeated their days and nights, dragging them into a murky world of drugs, sordid sex, and con operations--and sudden, violent death brought their charade of a fairy-tale romance to a tragic end. Empty Promises reco... more info>>
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Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Shiya Ribowsky, Tom Shachtman
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A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die. For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City's medical examiner's office--the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Utilizing his background in medicine, he led the investigations of more than eight thousand individual deaths, becoming a key figure in some of New York's most bizarre death cases and eventually taking charge of the largest forensic investigation e... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson
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In this memoir, Bass, a premier forensic anthropologist, recounts how a life spent studying dead bodies led to the creation of "The Anthropolgy Research Facility" (aka the Body Farm), a plot of land near the University of Tennessee Medical Center where Bass and his colleagues monitor the decomposition of human corpses in various environments. The book is structured around the 1981 creation of the Body Farm, and the early chapters focus on some of Bass's trickier cases to demonstrate his need for... more info>>
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Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ann Rule
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In the most extraordinary book Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty-nine young women. The quest to discover the most prolific serial killer in American history has been an intimate part of Ann Rule's life, with some of the corpses found only a mile or so from where she lived and raised her own daughters. She did not know the killer, but he apparently knew her and ... more info>>
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Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Joaquin Garcia
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"Petey Chops wasn't kicking up. And if he didn't start soon, he was going to get whacked." So begins Making Jack Falcone, the extraordinary true story of an undercover FBI agent's years-long investigation of the Gambinos, which resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized crime family. But long before Joaquin "Jack" Garcia found himself wearing a wire with some of the Mafia's top capos, he was one of the FBI's unlikeliest recruits. A Cuban-born American, Jack graduated from Quanti... more info>>
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Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Dennis O. Flynn
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If One L is the book to read before law school, Relentless Pursuit is the book to read after--a real-life legal thriller that shows, from the inside, a prosecutor's quest to deliver justice to a family devastated by murder. What happened to Diane Hawkins and her daughter Katrina--a brutal double murder in which the girl's heart was cut from her body--devastated a Washington, D.C., community and left its mark on everyone involved in the subsequent investigation. Especially moved was federal homic... more info>>
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Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Kent Walker
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In 1988 a troubled young man and his flamboyant mother were arrested for murdering a wealthy widow in her New York City mansion. Suddenly, America was transfixed by a pair of real-life film noir characters. The media couldn't get enough of the twisted relationship between Sante Kimes and her twenty-three-year-old son Kenny. But the most chilling story of all was never told--until now. Kent Walker, Sante's elder son, reveals how he survived forty years of "the Dragon Lady's" very special brand of... more info>>
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Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ann Rule
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Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a posh home in one of the upscale suburbs of Atlanta, expensive cars, a plush houseboat, and a husband--Dr. Bart Corbin, a successful dentist--who was tall, handsome, and brilliant. But gradually their seemingly idyllic life together began to crumble. There was talk of seeing a marriage counselor. Bart was distraught; Jenn seemed disenchanted. She needed to reach out to someone she could confide in--be... more info>>
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Under and Alone [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by William Queen
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In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a "confidential informant" made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern California, and one of the most dangerous gangs in America), Queen jumped at the chance, not realizing that he was kicking-starting the most extensive undercover... more info>>
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Jon Krakauer
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Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In Under the Banner of Heaven, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously ... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Worth More Dead: And Other True Cases [Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 10] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ann Rule
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A cold case reopened--and solved--with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes of passion and greed from Ann Rule's Crime Files. Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife's love--it wasn't supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later, he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife in 1988, though his alleged excuse for why a monstro... more info>>
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A Slaying in the Suburbs: The Tara Grant Murder [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Steve Miller
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The true story of the Tara Grant murder. To their suburban Detroit neighbors, Stephen and Tara Grant were happy as could be. But their marriage, plagued by resentment and extramarital affairs, was held together only by their children. Until the night Stephen snapped, strangled and dismembered his wife, then disposed of her body piece by piece in the very park his children played in
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Ann Rule's Crime Files: Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder: And Other True Cases [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ann Rule
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Includes Ann Rule's insider commentary on the Mary Winkler murder case.... REAL-LIFE MURDER ... REAL-LIFE MYSTERY. In some murder cases, the truth behind the most tragic of crimes crystallizes with relative ease. Not so with these fascinating accounts drawn from the personal files of Ann Rule, America's #1 bestselling true-crime writer. What happens when the case itself becomes an intractable puzzle, when clues are shrouded in smoke and mirrors, and when criminals skillfully evade law enforcemen... more info>>
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Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by John Douglas, Stephen Singular
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John Douglas--the Bestselling Author of Mindhunter and the Undisputed Master Profiler of Serial Criminals--Tells the Chilling True Story of John Robinson, the Internet's First Serial Murderer. In Olathe, Kansas, a balding, pudgy father of four sits in prison convicted on three counts of homicide--two of capital murder--and suspected in at least five other disappearances. During the last half of the 1990s, John Robinson exploited the Internet's active world of sadomasochism with horrific results.... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson
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There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition--three acres of land on a hillside in Tennessee where human bodies are left to the elements. His research at "the Body Farm" has revolutionized forensic science, helping police crack cold cases and pinpoint time of death. But during a forensics career that spans half a century, Bass and his work have ranged far beyond t... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Bitter Harvest: A Womans Fury A Mothers Sacrifice [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Ann Rule
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Debora Green had a genius IQ, her own medical practice, a handsome
husband, three children, and an opulent home. A raging fire destroyed
that home and took two lives. Clues led investigators to a stunning
conclusion. Beneath a placid Midwestern facade was a troubled marriage,
infidelity, desperation, and revenge--a shattering modern tragedy. (Published: 2001)
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Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Bill Bonanno
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No one can tell the true story of the Mafia in America better than Bill Bonanno. He was there. He lived it. Bill Bonanno was born into a world of respect, tradition, and honor. The son of legendary mafioso Joe Bonanno, Bill was a "made" member of the Mafia by the time he was in his early twenties. He was rumored to be the model for The Godfather's Michael Corleone, and was the subject of Gay Talese's best-selling Honor Thy Father. Now retired, Bill is finally ready to give an eyewitness account ... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Kevin Weeks
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I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy. Jimmy and I, we were unstoppable. We took what we wanted. And we made people disappear--permanently. We made millions. And if someone ratted us out, we killed him. We were not nice guys. I found out that Jimmy had been an FBI informant in 1999, and my life was never the same. When the feds finally got me, I was faced with something Jimmy would have killed me for-... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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