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Ann Rule became America’s queen of true crime by doing what few writers could: stepping past headlines, police reports, and courtroom drama to ask the deeper question. Why? In First Lady of Murder, acclaimed true crime author Cathy Scott turns that same investigative eye on Rule herself, revealing the complicated, driven, fiercely human woman behind The Stranger Beside Me, Small Sacrifices, and a body of work that changed crime writing forever.

Nella notte tra il 30 aprile e il primo maggio 2021, una ragazza di diciotto anni esce di casa nelle campagne di Novellara, paese nel cuore della Bassa reggiana. Si chiama Saman Abbas. La famiglia è pakistana: e ad accompagnarla, in quella strana passeggiata, ci sono proprio i genitori. Da quel momento Saman viene inghiottita dal buio della notte. Il suo corpo sarà ritrovato dopo lunghissime ricerche solo il 18 novembre 2022, a pochi metri dalla sua abitazione.

One Man. One Mission. Justice. In the Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer. Rodney K. Harrison’s life could have gone the way of the drug dealers he grew up with in South Jamaica, Queens. Instead, a twist of fate and relentless drive led him to become the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer and, later, Police Commissioner of Suffolk County on Long Island—where he engineered the arrest of the elusive Gilgo Beach serial killer. Harrison survived a false arrest as a teenager and later dodged bullets as an undercover in Brooklyn.

Investigative journalist Mary Neiswender shares for the first time what it was like to be the only reporter Charles Manson communicated with during his famous 1970 murder trial.

Gerichtsreporterin und Bestsellerautorin Christine Brand erzählt wahre Verbrechen, begangen von Menschen, die unsere Nachbarn sein könnten. Ein unauffälliges Ehepaar wird zum tödlichen Duo – mit einem absurden Motiv. Ein Mann gesteht den Mord an seiner Frau und wird doch freigesprochen. Ein kleines Dorf wird von einer unvorstellbaren Tat erschüttert.

Hank Idsinga, whose grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust, became the country’s leading homicide detective; he shares his insights into tracking down murderers and serial killers over his colourful and decorated thirty-year career. From the age of ten, Hank Idsinga knew he wanted to become...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘An absolutely captivating memoir’ - Shari Franke, Sunday Times bestselling author of The House of My Mother Eva Benefield, the daughter of the victim of the viral ‘Black Swan Murder’ trial, tells her story about coming of age amid grief, violence...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Eva Benefield, the daughter of the victim of the viral “Black Swan Murder,” describes coming of age amid grief, violence, and a true-crime spectacle, in a poignant memoir "relatable to anyone who’s experienced grief or witnessed evil up close. Eva tells...

An unforgettable account of the mass suicide of the followers of the Rev. Jim Jones in the jungles of Guyana—an overlooked masterpiece of modern reportage. First published in 1980, Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy is Shiva Naipaul’s deeply unsettling investigation into the forces that...

This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America. Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack...

A history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious man behind it--detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. The year is 1888 and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to capture...

The ultimate rags to riches story, rising to become an international kingpin earning more money annullay than Chrysler or GM. This unassuming family man with fantastic Southern charm who came from humble beginnings, would build his empire with an iron fist and brute force if needed. While some...

Some of them hid behind a name that wasn't theirs. Others hid behind a uniform, a reputation, a famous last name, or a job so ordinary no one thought to look twice. The twelve cases in this volume share one unsettling thread: the distance between who these people appeared to be and what they did when they were certain no one was watching. A few held that distance open for years. Some held it for decades. One died before anyone ever closed it.

How does a man shake the hand of the First Lady of the United States in May, then drive home and bury a teenage boy under his linen cupboard before midnight? How does a Polish picnic organiser, a precinct captain, a children's hospital clown, run twenty seven young men into the dirt beneath his own kitchen floor across six straight years on a quiet suburban street, while his neighbours bring round Christmas hampers and the postman calls him by his first name?

Er war attraktiv, eloquent und politisch ambitioniert. Er engagierte sich ehrenamtlich bei einer Telefonseelsorge zur Suizidprävention, studierte Jura und hatte eine Freundin, die ihn vergötterte. Er ermordete außerdem mindestens dreißig Frauen in sieben US-Bundesstaaten und kehrte immer wieder zu ihren Überresten zurück, lange nachdem sie tot waren.

Er tötete zwei Menschen. Nur zwei. Und dennoch hat der Name Ed Gein Serienmörder überdauert, die Dutzende Opfer auf dem Gewissen hatten. Er inspirierte Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre und Das Schweigen der Lämmer. Er veränderte die Art, wie Amerika über das Grauen denkt. Nicht wegen dessen, was er tat, sondern wegen dessen, was er war. Dies ist keine weitere Biografie. Sie werden hier keine trockene Chronologie aus Daten und Gerichtsprotokollen finden.

Dahmer Entschlüsselt: Im finsteren Verstand von Amerikas meistgefürchtetem RaubmörderJeffrey Dahmer. Sie haben die Netflix-Serie gesehen. Sie kennen den Namen. Sie wissen von der Wohnung, den Fotografien, den Dingen im Gefrierfach. Sie wissen genug, um zu schaudern, wenn Milwaukee fällt, und genug, um das Thema zu wechseln, wenn es zu konkret wird. Aber Sie wissen nicht, warum. Niemand weiß es. Das ist das Problem. Drei Jahrzehnte Dokumentationen, Podcasts und Taschenbücher haben Dahmer in eine Marke verwandelt. In ein Halloween-Kostüm. In einen Bezugspunkt ohne Bedeutung.

Marie Madeleine Dreux d'Aubray, marquise de Brinvilliers, née le 2 juillet 1630, rendue célèbre par l'Affaire des poisons, fut jugée le 16 juillet 1676 et exécutée le lendemain pour empoisonnement. Ce n'est qu'après son procès, dans l'attente de son exécution, qu'elle accepte enfin de se confier à son confesseur, l'abbé Pirot. Son procès, sa condamnation et son exécution sont rapportés dans la correspondance de Madame de Sévigné ainsi que dans les Crimes Célèbres d'Alexandre Dumas.

Moments when loss, trauma, and shock alter the meaning of ordinary existence. There’s Still Hope is the true story of a woman whose life was shaped by extraordinary adversity, from severe visual impairment and childhood struggles to profound personal tragedy, abuse, grief, and unimaginable loss.

A Casual Temptation - a suspenseful real-life Financial Crime thriller with plenty of plot twists. A Casual Temptation: what would you do? What would you do if you were confronted with having to make a choice? A choice between doing what´s right and what´s wrong? Choosing to do what´s right...