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Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach
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Include books by the same authorThe 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."
Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony
Jeff Ashton · 324 pages
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
American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
John Temple · 309 pages
The king of the pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic that served as a prototype for the rest. From a pristine former bank building, doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscle-heads ran security, greeting the morning rush of pill poppers with cries of Welcome to the dope hole! Stripp
Murder in Greenwich
Mark Fuhrman, Stephen Weeks · 432 pages
"The night of October 30, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned and stabbed ... The golf club that killed Martha came from the house of Thomas and Michael Skakel, two boys who had been with Martha the night she died. Wealthy and prominent in their own right, the Skakels were related to the Kennedys ... When the police started looking closely at the Skakels' involvement, the family re
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
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt · 393 pages
Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print. All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oa
Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History
Guy Lawson · 268 pages
The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach--one a ninth grade dropout, the other a licensed masseur--won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with h
Bully: a True Story of High School Revenge
Jim Schutze · 304 pages
Bobby Kent was a bullya steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs. . .and was never seen alive again. The tormentor had become the victim in a bizarre and br
Mommy's Little Girl
Diane Fanning · 349 pages
When news broke of three-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the nation. The search for Caylee made front-page headlines. But there was one huge question mark hanging over the case: the girl's mother. As the investigation continued and suspicions mounted, Casey became the prime suspect. In October, based on n
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
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
The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice
Joseph Hilldorfer, Robert Dugoni · 304 pages
Recounts the story of young Scott Dominquez, a promising former high school wrestler who was left brain damaged by the environmental malpractices of his employer, documenting the efforts of an EPA investigator to bring the employer to justice.
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
Stevie Cameron
Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
Jerry Bledsoe · 520 pages
NC writer Jerry Bledsoe masterfully writes about some horrific murders that happened with one family in KY and Winston-Salem, NC. Murder, incest and politics, this true crime story has it all.
Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell · 553 pages
Vain and charismatic, Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art--as well as extensive evidence--points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material--including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence, and a will with a myst
Justice
Dominick Dunne · 433 pages
Nearly a third of the book consists of his reporting on the O.J. Simpson trial. Also includes material on Vicki Morgan, Claus von Bulow, Edmund Safra, and the Martha Moxley/Michael Skakel cases.
Murder in Italy: Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher and the Murder Trial that Shocked the World
Candace Dempsey · 352 pages
Details the brutal murder of British college student Meredith Kercher, who was stabbed to death by her housemate, American honor student Amanda Knox, while both were studying in Perugia, Italy.
Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Amy Billig -- A Mother's Search for Justice
Greg Aunapu, Susan Billig · 352 pages
Blind Faith
Joe McGinniss · 448 pages
The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his stunningly beautiful wife and the perfect mom to their three great kids. Then one night Rob, his head bloodied, reported Maria had been brutally slain. Sympathy poured in—until disquieti