Con Artists/ Hoaxes & Deceptions
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By: Michael Finkel
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
$28.00HardcoverRead moreNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, St?hane Breitwieser. – “The Art Thief, like… [more below]
- Author: Finkel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0525657320
- Language: English
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The Book of Unsolved Mysteries
$16.98HardcoverAdd to cartThe Book of Unsolved Mysteries features more than 230 fascinating true stories.
- Topics include unsolved deaths, unusual disappearances, haunted homes, unexplained phenomena, creepy creatures, ghostly
- Series: Book of
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 164558349X
- Language: English
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By: Alan Prendergast
Gangbuster: One Man’s Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan
$28.00HardcoverRead moreAs gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one rookie District Attorney, Philip Van Cise, against the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption a… [more below]
- Author: Prendergast, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542128
- Language: English
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By: Bishop, Michael
A Murder in Music City: Corruption, Scandal, and the Framing of an Innocent Man
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartNashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the grisly event. A few months later a judge’s son is convic… [more below]
- Author: Bishop, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1633883450
- Language: English
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By: Scott C. Johnson
The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius
$30.00HardcoverRead more“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a vigorous empathy that leaves Truman Capote in the dust. Scott Johnson’s courag
- Author: Johnson, Scott C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063036932
- Language: English
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By: Jennifer McAdam
Devil’s Coin: My Battle to Take Down the Notorious Onecoin Cryptoqueen
$28.99HardcoverRead more*A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK FOR AUGUST 2023*
“[An] exhilarating mix of memoir and true crime. . .” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The astonishing true story of the coal miner’s daughter
- Author: McAdam, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063219182
- Language: English
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By: Mitch Weiss
Broken Faith: Inside One of America’s Most Dangerous Cults
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cart*An NPR Best Book of the Year*
A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020 “I can’t imagine a more important book.”–Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author An explosive investigation into Word of F- Author: Weiss, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 06, 2021
- ISBN10: 1335266755
- Language: English
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Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartA darkly comic foray into the world of men and women who fake their own deaths, the consultants who help them disappear, and the private investigators who’ll stop at nothing to bring them back to life
- Author: Greenwood, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15, 2017
- ISBN10: 147673934X
- Language: English
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My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as an heiress in New York City
- Author: Deloache Williams, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 198211410X
- Language: English
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By: Reader's Digest
Reader’s Digest True Crime: Tales of Murder & Mayhem
$15.99PaperbackRead moreMore than two dozen gripping tales of murder, kidnapping, robbery, and much more from the Reader’s Digest archives.
For more than 90 years, Reader’s Digest has been telling the amazing true stories of- Series: Rd True Crime
- Author: Reader’s Digest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 22, 2019
- ISBN10: 1621454541
- Language: English
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By: Ann Rule
Lying in Wait and Other True Cases
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartAnn Rule presents a collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories–drawn from her real-life personal files–in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files se… [more below]
- Series: Ann Rule’s Crime Files
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1982138270
- Language: English
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By: Bradley Hope
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartNamed a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this “thrilling” (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a “modern Gatsby” swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sac
- Author: Hope, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 22, 2019
- ISBN10: 031643647X
- Language: English
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Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartWho or What is Behind the Cattle Mutilations?
The cattle mutilation phenomenon is an ongoing mystery that has endured for almost 50 years. What have we learned, if anything, from the countless reports… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1939149061
- Language: English
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By: Kurt Eichenwald
The Informant: A True Story
$26.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes a gripping account of one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America.
It was one of the- Author: Eichenwald, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0767903277
- Language: English









