True Crime
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King David and Boss Daley: The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley, and Chicago on the Edge
$36.95 Add to cartIn Chicago in mid-twentieth century amid the haze and smoke of urban renewal and the sounds of the wrecking balls and bulldozers, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one youn
- Author: Williams, Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633887863
- Language: English
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C.O.W.L. Volume 1: Principles of Power: A Massive-Verse Book
$12.99 Read more“A flawless execution and a damned good read.” – Booklist (Starred)
“The characters are rich and well-drawn, the story engaging and deeply layered.” — KIRKUS Welcome to the “Chicago Organized Workers- Series: C.O.W.L
- Author: Higgins, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1632151111
- Language: English
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
$21.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year – Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant f
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0345805976
- Language: English
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To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
$16.95 Read moreMexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused ove
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Gibler, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865177
- Language: English
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Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered
$16.99 Read moreIn a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award-winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own personal demons.
In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke
- Author: Leitner, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542039444
- Language: English
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Pain Hustlers: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally Published as the Hard Sell
$18.00 Read moreThe inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers–until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. – THE BASIS FOR THE… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0525566325
- Language: English
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The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written–Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom–landed at the heart of one of th… [more below]
- Author: Warner, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593135687
- Language: English
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True Crime Stories of Burlington, Vermont
$24.99 Read moreBurlington has long been known as the shining jewel in Vermont’s crown, but a current of darkness flows beneath this charming port on Lake Champlain.
There is a sordid side to the city that top-ten li
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Lewis, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154458
- Language: English
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Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered
$28.99 Read moreIn a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award-winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own personal demons.
In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke
- Author: Leitner, Tamara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542039452
- Language: English
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Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society
$20.00 Read moreThe compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal–some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth… [more below]
- Author: Christie, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593156706
- Language: English
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Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the Fbi’s Secret Wars
$30.00 Read moreA Foreign Policy Best Summer Reading Pick
A young American lost in Russia. An FBI-cover up. A mystery leading from Washington to the heart of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.When Billy Reilly vanished,
- Author: Forrest, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0316591610
- Language: English
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True Crime Biographies: Mafia Bosses, Murderers, Conmen and Crooks
$29.95 Add to cartIt’s time to meet some of the most interesting and awful people in the world: the criminal world, that is.
The world can be an arbitrary or tough place to live in. These people make it worse, from t
- Author: Stanton, T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0228105080
- Language: English
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal.
On December 10, 1
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063338068
- Language: English
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Darker Than Night: The True Story of a Brutal Double Homicide and an 18-Year Long Quest for Justice
$26.00 Add to cart- Author: Henderson, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 03 2006
- ISBN10: 1250369800
- Language: English
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Bring the Girl Home: Surviving Domestic Violence and an International Kidnapping
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Wilson, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330209835
- Language: English
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Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System–And Pocketed $40 Million
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions–who eventually loses everything that i… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Tanya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 031656916X
- Language: English
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Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan
$26.95 Read moreOn a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug deale… [more below]
- Author: Link, Mardi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0472051695
- Language: English
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
$32.00 Add to cartIn 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 M… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593866827
- Language: English
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Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
$21.95 Add to cartNew evidence in ‘Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control’ uncovers the origin of an organized group of racist terrorists committing nationwide acts of viol… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9798986614571
- Language: English
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South End Syndicate: How I Took Over the Genovese Springfield Crew
$27.48 Add to cart“The last days of the Roman Empire, if it were populated by snitches, gamblers, mobsters, lowlifes, and homicidal maniacs. In other words, this book is entertaining as hell. In chronicling one small, … [more below]
- Author: Arillotta, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1949590763
- Language: English
