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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books about true crimes
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Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
by David King
Hardcover: 20 Sep 2011
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| Death in the City of Light is a brilliant evocation of Nazi-Occupied Paris and a harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions. |
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Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem
by Harold Schechter (editor), Kurt Brown (editor)
Hardcover: 6 Sep 2011
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| A spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. |
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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter
by Mark Seal
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 29 May 2012
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| A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. |
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
by Howard Blum
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 6 Oct 2009
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| Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can’t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction. |
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My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
by Mahvish Khan
Hardcover: Jun 2008
Paperback: 22 Jun 2009
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| Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, Mahvish Khan volunteered to translate for the prisoners. Her story is a challenging, brave, and essential test of who she is —and who we are. |
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Young Stalin
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 14 Oct 2008
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| A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil. |
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If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
by Janine Latus
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: 15 Apr 2008
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| In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, it read, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If I am missing or dead this obviously has not protected me... |
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham
Hardcover: Oct 2006
Paperback: 20 Nov 2007
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John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.
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