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"The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family's teenage son Paul, they began to uncover a web of mysteries surrounding the deaths of the Murdaughs' long-time housekeeper and a young man found slain years earlier on a backcountry road. Just as their investigations were unfolding,...
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2022.
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"From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America's toughest cold cases and the rewards--and toll--of a life solving crime. People always ask how I am able to detach from the horrors of my work. Part of it is an innate capacity to compartmentalize; the rest is experience and exposure, and I've had plenty of both. But I had always taken pride in the fact that I can keep my feelings locked up to get the job done....
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2023.
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Bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking murder of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh, that brought dark secrets to light, resulting in the much-publicized downfall of this Southern legal dynasty.
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"Twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time, Patrick Radden Keefe. ROGUES brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain,...
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2023.
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On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, on September 3, 2016, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy's remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob Wetterling, told by his mother, Patty. With her trademark candor and down-to-earth honesty, she details the investigation as it unfolds, discusses her family's struggles,...
10) Trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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2023.
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When three young men vanish from the Pacific Crest Trail, a former park ranger launches an investigation with an eclectic team of amateurs who are determined to solve cases by land and by screen and find their hardships bearing strange fruits—ones that lead them to places and people they never saw coming.
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Follows journalist Jillian Lauren’s journey to uncover the confessions and motivations of serial killer Samuel Little, who killed approximately 90 women over six decades, while balancing the gruesome details of his murders and giving voice to the lives of his victims.
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2022.
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"An account of the unsolved murder of two women in Shenandoah National Park, by a journalist with unprecedented access to all key elements of the case, and a story that reveals the challenges of wilderness forensics and the failures of our justice system"--
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2022.
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In this part memoir, part literary true crime, the author becomes consumed by a sexual assault investigation that grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case, and, when everything around her implodes, she must figure out how to win the case without losing herself.
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2021.
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Instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller!
In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob.
Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million
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2018.
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Presents a detailed account of the Aaron Hernandez case, drawing on investigative reports, first-person accounts, and previously untold stories to share insights into the youth, fame, imprisonment, and suicide of the NFL star-turned-convicted murderer.
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Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870's developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you notice the macabre details. Lee developed a system that used the dioramas to train law enforcement officers to investigate violent crimes, and her methods are still used today.
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2015.
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The Lost Girls tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and repeatedly raped and beaten in a Cleveland house for over a decade by Ariel Castro, and their amazing escape in May 2013, which made headlines all over the world. The book has an exclusive interview of Ariel Castro's secret fiance;, who spent many romantic nights in his house of horror, without realizing he had bound...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2020.
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Traces the author's remarkable counterintuitive healing journey in the aftermath of trauma, relating how she survived a violent abduction only to endure her family's denial, an abandonment that compelled her to learn her imprisoned attacker's story.
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