Winner of the Edgar Award. A New York Times Bestseller.Between 1978 and 1981, a rapist prowled the South Hill neighborhood of Spokane, Washington. He targeted women jogging alone, waiting for buses, walking home after dark. His signature was unmistakable and terrifying: a gloved fist rammed into his victim's mouth to silence her screams. By the time police made an arrest, more than forty women had been attacked.The suspect was clean-cut, conservative, and c...

On the night of July 18, 1969, a black Oldsmobile plunged off a narrow one-lane bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. By morning, the car had been found submerged. Inside was the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, twenty-eight years old, a former campaign worker for Robert Kennedy. The next morning, Senator Ted Kennedy walked into the Edgartown police station and identified himself as the driver.What happened in those hours has never been fully explained. Kennedy himself said his ...

The prize-winning, bestselling journalist provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of "The Happy Face Killer" in the serial murderer's own words . . .In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested John Sosnovke and Laverne Pavlinac for the vicious rape and murder of Taunja Bennet, a troubled twenty-three-year-old barfly who had a mild intellectual disability since birth. There was just one problem. They had the wrong people.And the real killer wasn't abou...

The mass murder of almost thirty young boys in Houston may well have been the most heinous crime of the century. How could such a series of murders go undetected for almost three years before being exposed? The Man with the Candy is a brilliant investigative journalist’s story of the crime and the answer to that question.The night David Hilligiest didn't come home was both like and unlike other nights when other Houston boys disappeared between the years 1...

A Harrowing True Story of Survival on the Eiger's Deadly North FaceThe Germans call it the Mordwand. The Murder Wall. The north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps is a vertical mile of unstable limestone, perpetual avalanches, and weather that can turn lethal without warning. Eighteen climbers had already died attempting it. In August 1957, four more went up.They started as two separate teams. Claudio Corti and Stefano Longhi were Italians from Lecco, rely...

New York Times bestselling author Jack Olsen spent his career telling other people's stories. The Pitcher's Kid is his own, a memoir of his first eighteen years, finished just before his death in 2002 and never lived to see published.Born in Indianapolis in June 1925, Jack Olsen grew up chasing his father across a Depression-era America of unpaid bills, midnight departures, and furnished rooms abandoned in the dark. Ole "Swede" Olsen was a man of spectacular invention, a charmer, a...

"A jaw-dropping true account" of a female PI's hunt for the infamous Tene family, a nomadic Romany-American clan who preyed on the rich and vulnerable ( The New York Times Book Review ).They were a notorious Roma family known as the Tene Bimbos, who seeped into their victims' lives like a deadly cancer. And they couldn't be stopped—until one courageous woman took on the cases no one else would touch . . .THE VICTIM...

In 1968, Jack Olsen wrote what Sports Illustrated would later call the most significant series of stories in the magazine's history.Published across five consecutive issues beginning July 1, 1968, "The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story" shattered the comfortable myth that American sport was a level playing field, a rare arena where race didn't matter and Black athletes had found true equality. Olsen proved it was a lie.Black collegiate athletes were recruited for their speed ...

Every city has a Sweet Street. You know it when you see it: the neon signs, the strip clubs, the honky-tonk bars, the sidewalks that come alive after midnight. Most people hurry past. Jack Olsen went in.In the early 1970s, Olsen embedded himself in the bars and strip clubs of San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, spending months among the hustlers, pimps, strippers, waitresses, bartenders, bouncers, junkies, cops, and club owners who inhabited this shadow economy. He listened t...

In the early 1970s, Jack Olsen gained access to fifteen women working at one of New York City's most prestigious corporations. They were single, educated, well-paid, and by every external measure living the dream. He sat down with each of them and asked them to tell the truth.What they told him was not what anyone expected.Olsen steps back entirely in this book, letting the women speak without interruption, in their own words. What emerges is a portrait of lives lived under...

"A giggle, a crunch of gravel, a single wave of a grimy hand, and her only child was gone."One cool April day, Mike Pritcher visits the home of his estranged wife, Lael, and takes their five-year-old son, Ace, for an overnight outing. He doesn't bring him back. When Lael calls the police, they tell her it's a domestic matter. When she calls her lawyer, he tells her she has the right to snatch Ace back. That's about it.So that's what she sets out to do.What follows i...

Fire 5 is no ordinary fire company. It's a special roving unit, dispatched wherever trouble is worst across the city. And the men of Fire 5 are no ordinary crew.Narrator Charly Sprockett introduces them one by one: the veterans and the probies, the brawlers and the philosophers, the men swapping funny stories and marital woes between calls. There's the unit's first female firefighter, Lulu Ann Tompkins, whose arrival upends the station's carefully maintained chaos. And there's the ...