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  • Framed

    Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

    by John Grisham, Jim McCloskey ...
    **In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.“Each of these stories is told with astonishing power. They are packed with human drama, with acts of shocking villainy and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • College Girl, Missing

    The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

    by Shawn Cohen ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**"This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads… Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again." —David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced LieShe visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there... until she was gone.College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Innocent Man

    Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

    by John Grisham ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment WeeklyJohn Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone terribly awry.In the Major League draft of 1971, the first ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Killer Across the Table

    Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

    by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker ...
    The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategies used to crack some of America’s most challenging cases.The FBI’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Triple Jeopardy. Nero Wolfe Mysteries. Illustrated

    by Rex Stout ...
    Triple Jeopardy is a collection of three novellas featuring Rex Stout's famous detective, Nero Wolfe, and his witty assistant, Archie Goodwin. As always, Wolfe uses his sharp intellect to solve complex mysteries, while rarely leaving the comfort of his luxurious brownstone. In "Home to Roost," Wolfe must untangle the mystery of a young man’s death, initially thought to be due to political motives. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Abandoned Prayers

    An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secrets

    by Gregg Olsen ...
    On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, was by all appearances a dedicated farmer and family man in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Witness

    For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson

    by Amber Frey ...
    1 corinthians 10:13, niv"No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."Amber Frey's life was full of blessings: an exciting new business, a beautiful home, and most of all, her infant daughter, Ayiana. But Amber had ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Deadly Path: How Operation Fast & Furious and Bad Lawyers Armed Mexican Cartels

    by Peter J. Forcelli, Keelin MacGregor, Stephen Murphy ...
    “In a raw and unflinching account that details his harrowing journey as whistleblower in the Fast and Furious federal scandal, Forcelli shows the public and personal cost of standing up for justice.”—Jonathan Green, author of Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and BetrayalPete Forcelli was a highly respected federal agent in New York City, where he made an impact on violent crime by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rat Bastards

    The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster, A Memoir

    by John "Red" Shea ...
    In this true crime memoir, a former member of the Irish mob under Whitey Bulger details his criminal exploits in 1980s and ‘90s Boston.An ice-cold enforcer with a red-hot temper, John “Red” Shea was already a top lieutenant in the South Boston Irish mob at the young age of twenty-one, a protégé of the notorious Irish godfather James “Whitey” Bulger. Brutal and ruthlessly ambitious—a loan shark, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Minnesota Mayhem

    A History of Calamitous Events, Horrific Accidents, Dastardly Crime & Dreadful Behavior in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes

    by Ben Welter ...
    This true crime history recounts more than a century of crime, deviousness, and disaster in the North Star State.In Minnesota Mayhem, local historian and author Ben Welter explores the best of the state's worst moments. Culled from the archives of the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers, these stories and photos range from the catastrophic to the chillingly curious and the simply ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • While Idaho Slept

    The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

    by J. Reuben Appelman ...
    The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the media’s seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations, while cultivating an intimate look into the minds and hearts of the victims and their suspected killer alike.Just ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Death at the Harbourview Cafe

    A True Crime Story

    by Fred Humber ...
    Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1958 In the midnight blackness of a cold November night mixed with rain in snow, three RCMP officers entered a restaurant by way of an upstairs window. Rumours around town had been rampant. The owner’s son had been missing for days. Father and son hated each other. He had been stabbed, or shot, and had been dumped somewhere, or he had been cut into pieces and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Killer With a Badge

    by Chuck Hustmyre ...
    New Orleans in the 1990s—dirty, corrupt, and violent, the murder capital of the United States, with a scandal-plagued police department that was collapsing under the weight of its own corruption. No one could imagine that things could get much worse for this once-great American city. Then Antoinette Frank joined the New Orleans Police Department, and things got much, much worse. Before long, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Too Late to Say Goodbye

    A True Story of Murder and Betrayal

    by Ann Rule ...
    From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the engrossing true story of two beautiful, loving women, and their murder by the man in their life—handsome, charming, rich, a man marked for unlimited success—but one who would never allow any woman to leave him, no matter what the provocation.Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a posh home in one ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    by John Berendt ...
    THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL COMING SOON TO BROADWAY • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review • 30th Anniversary Edition with a New ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Woman in White (Collins Classics)

    by Wilkie Collins ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.’One of the earliest works of ‘detective’ fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Crate

    A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice

    by Deborah Vadas Levison ...
    The multiple award-winning account of Holocaust survival and present-day murder. “Evocative, and inspiring . . . So much more than a true crime.”—Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling authorAfter surviving the horrors of the Holocaust—in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps—a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empire of Pain

    The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

    by Patrick Radden Keefe ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing."A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Unrepentant

    The Strange and (Sometimes) Terrible Life of Lorne Campbell, Satan's Choice and Hells Angels Biker

    by Peter Edwards ...
    In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only imagined it.A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Beast I Loved

    A Battered Woman's Desperate Struggle to Survive

    by Robert Davidson ...
    The disturbing true crime story about what drove an abused New Hampshire wife to kill her violent husband, and the chaos that followed.Before domestic violence hot lines and safe houses were widespread, June Briand shot four bullets into her husband’s head in 1987 and was sentenced to fifteen years to life. This is the shocking true story of survival—and the intense bond June shared with her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Innocent Die

    by M J Lee ...
    Series Book 4 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    Nowhere is safe. No one can be trusted.A bloodied body is found in a Manchester Immigrant Removal Centre. The investigating officer and the pathologist seem certain: a suicide. But for DI Ridpath something doesn’t add up.As the evidence starts to unravel, and with few leads, the pressure is on to find answers before the Inquest is closed. Caught between the police, the coroner and a system that ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Spy Alone

    For fans of Damascus Station and Slow Horses

    by Charles Beaumont ...
    'Five stars. One of the best books I've read in a very, very long time' James O'Brien, LBC'This is first class' The Times | 'Excellent' Spectator'Exceptional' David McCloskey, author of The Seventh Floor'A highly accomplished novel from a new writer of great promise' Financial Times'Everything a John le Carré fan could ever wish fo... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Say Nothing

    A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    by Patrick Radden Keefe ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • From the author of *Empire of Pain—*a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.One of The New York Times’s 20 Best Books of the 21st Century**"Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Cell Next Door

    by Dylan Tallman ...
    The author of this book served his time in prison, celled up side by side with Chris. The two grew close and were co authors at one point until recent complications. This book is basically a 7 month interview of Chris, a year after his conviction. The writer brings this famous true crime story from an angle never before told, which is first hand knowledge, directly from the source. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus