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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
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Jeff Ashton · 324 pages
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
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
A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger · 288 pages
In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim's house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of the
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
Michael Finkel · 336 pages
In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
James Renner · 304 pages
The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Claudia Rowe · 288 pages
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
Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Amy Billig -- A Mother's Search for Justice
Greg Aunapu, Susan Billig · 352 pages
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
Monica Hesse · 263 pages
"The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist se
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.
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Walter Kirn · 272 pages
In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
James McManus · 427 pages
A chronicle of life in Las Vegas investigates the murder of poker player Ted Binion, revealing a secret world of kinky sex, black magic, and science lurking at the heart of gambling's World Series of Poker.
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Casey Cep · 314 pages
He Killed Them All: Robert Durst and My Quest For Justice
Jeanine Pirro · 330 pages
"Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro offers the transfixing true story of her tireless fifteen-year investigation into accused murderer Robert Durst for the disappearance of his wife Kathleen Durst"--
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Jake Adelstein · 335 pages
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Caroline Fraser · 480 pages
I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
Joanna Connors · 272 pages
Setting out to uncover the story of her attacker, Connors embarked on a journey to find out who he was, where he came from, who his friends were and what his life was like. What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man's story and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about strength and survival with one about rape culture and violence in America.
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Helen Prejean · 278 pages
Sister Helen Prejean's poignant account of her experiences ministering to two Death Row inmates.
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
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
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
Ann Rule · 512 pages
There are actually two stories here: one describes the gradual disintegration of a seemingly normal, affable, brilliant man into a sexual psychopath so evil, so methodical in his vicious killings, that one wonders if he was at all human. The other story is that of Ann Rule herself, a decent, hard-working, middle-aged mother of four who meets and befriends a nice young man working beside her in a c