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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorCrime Beat: Stories Of Cops And Killers
Michael Connelly · 304 pages
The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
David Grann · 352 pages
Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism. Whether he's reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed skiff with a scientist hunting the elusive giant squ
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen
Mark Shaw · 329 pages
Was journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Or was her death from an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, as reported? Shaw believes Kilgallen's death has always been suspect, and unfolds a list of suspects ranging from Frank Sinatra to a Mafia don, while speculating on the possibilities of reopening the case.
The Assassination Of Marilyn Monroe
Donald H. Wolfe · 528 pages
Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The Mysterious Death of an Icon
Ian Halperin, Max Wallace · 256 pages
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile
Dan Davies · 592 pages
Dan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death. In the course of his quest, he spent days and nights at a time quizzing Savile at his homes in Leeds and Scarborough, lunched with him at venues ranging from humble transport cafes to the Athenaeum club in London and, most memorably, joine
Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
Bernard Lefkowitz · 435 pages
In the idyllic suburb of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, four of the town's most popular high school athletes were accused of raping a retarded young woman while nine of their teammates watched. Everyone was riveted by the question: What went wrong in this seemingly flawless American town? Lefkowitz's sweeping narrative, informed by more than two hundred interviews and six years of research, recreates a
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
Edna Buchanan · 388 pages
This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for "The Miami Herald."
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor
Mark Seal · 323 pages
A probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious impostor, Christian Gerhartsreiter, and his "talented Mr. Ripley" story as Clark Rockefeller. The unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. Clark Rockefeller's story is a strange twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man--because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. Born in a small village in Germany, Chr
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
Sam Brower · 323 pages
From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a fac Œade of religion to further criminal activities and a madman's vision.
The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
T.J. English · 416 pages
Published in the UK for the first time in 2008.
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · 304 pages
The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases
Deborah Halber · 304 pages
The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement -- and one another -- at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizar
Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Raymond Bonner
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding
Sarah Burns · 240 pages
An in-depth account of one of New York City's most notorious crimes. On April 20, 1989, the body of a woman is discovered in Central Park, her skull badly smashed. Within days, five black and Latino teenagers confess to her rape and beating. The ensuing media frenzy and hysterical public reaction is extraordinary. The young men are tried and convicted as adults, despite the fact that the teens qui
Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach
Laurence Leamer · 376 pages
For a hundred years Palm Beach has been a fantasy land nurtured by, and maintained for, the megawealthy. Leave it to Laurence Leamer, the author known for getting the inside story on his elusive subjects, to take us behind the walls of America's most exclusive enclave. He tells a braided story involving a socialite determined to make it to the top of Palm Beach society, two infamous murders, and a
A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation
Tal McThenia, Margaret Dunbar Cutright · 464 pages
"A Case For Solomon is irresistable . It does what all rewarding non-fiction should do.: It takes the reader on a fascinating and informative journey. It also raises serious questions about the role of media in shaping public opinion. More importantly, it sets the record straight." --- Stephen Smith, August 2012, The Pinestraw Magazine
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
Scott Andrew Selby, Greg Campbell · 327 pages
The authors uncover how a group of thieves stole over $108 million dollars worth of diamonds from an allegedly airtight vault in the international diamond capital of Antwerp.
The Monster of Florence
Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi · 345 pages
Marshal Guarnaccia feels out of his league when he is assigned to help track down a serial killer, especially when he assigned to work under Simonetti, a man so dedicated to achieving a conviction that he is blinded to the consequences.
Murder in Mississippi
John Safran · 384 pages
WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME *'Say, John Safran,' he says. 'Yes?' I say. 'I can get you killed from right behind this door, man. Real talk.' 'You can get me killed from behind your door?' 'Real talk,' he says. 'I can get your ass killed from behind this door, if you playin'.* Taking us places only John Safran can, *Murder in Mississippi* paints an engrossing, revealing p
Hotel Kerobokan
Kathryn Bonella · 332 pages
Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for holiday Mecca Bali’s most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other it’s a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor. Hotel K has been home to a procession of the infamous and the tragic: Muslim terror bomb
Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein
James Patterson, John Connolly · 304 pages
Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers and for people, Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire -- especially a taste for young girls -- resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From E