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The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter
by Mark Seal
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by Dean Jobb
Published May 2026
Read ReviewsIn this captivating Jazz Age true crime about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed celebrities and millionaires while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the 1920s.
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Published Apr 2026
Read ReviewsFrom the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London's glittering surface.
by Sarah Weinman
Published Feb 2023
Read ReviewsFrom the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him - including conservative thinker William F. Buckley - into helping set him free
by Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
Published Nov 2022
Read ReviewsThe world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters - exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio.
by John Carreyrou
Published Jan 2020
Read ReviewsThe full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.
by John Boyne
Published Aug 2019
Read ReviewsA seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success.
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse
by Piu Marie Eatwell
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsOne of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
by Joanna Scott
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsA gripping novel about a seemingly charmed marriage and a mysterious disappearance at sea.
by Amity Gaige
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsAttending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder - a first-generation East German immigrant - adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.
by David King
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsDeath 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.
by Pope Brock
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsA marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America that was ripe for the bamboozling.
by Martha Stout
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsA fascinating, important book about what makes good people good and bad people bad, and how good people can protect themselves from those others. Highly recommended.
by David Sinclair
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsThe bizarre tale of a 19th century land swindle by 'Sir Gregor MacGregor', who conned hundreds of people into buying land in a country that didn't exist; a fact they didn't discover until they'd traveled half way round the world to Central America to claim their property.
by Frank W. Abagnale
Published Aug 2000
Read ReviewsThe uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man - an irresistible tale of deceit.
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