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In this thought-provoking, literary chronicle of a small-town murder investigation, the author recounts the brutal killings of four University of Idaho students, exploring our societal fascination with true crime, the media's involvement and the future of homicide investigations as he humanizes the four victims, examining the richness of their lives.
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English
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"In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity-but it was an unimaginable tragedy...
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English
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"It all started when journalist Jillian Lauren asked LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts about which case Roberts was most proud of closing. "Samuel Little," Roberts answered. The now 79-year-old Little had murdered approximately 90 women over six decades and repeatedly got away with the murders due to lack of evidence (or jurisdiction); Roberts finally brought him to justice by tying him to the murders of three Los Angeles women. Surprised she...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxi, 353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and giving birth in modern America, recounting the ups and downs, fears, joys and everyday moments of each woman's pregnancy and postpartum journey and discussing the rising popularity of midwifery.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
483 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can't escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago's North Shore,...
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. This anthology pulls back the curtain on how crime itself is a by-product of America's...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 274 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the forces of social media and capitalism collide, and individualism becomes more important than ever across a wide array of industries, "branding ourselves" or actively defining our selves for others has become the norm. Yet, this phenomenon is not new. In Self-Made, Tara Isabella Burton shows us how we arrived at this moment of fervent personal branding. Through a series of chronological biographical essays on famous (and infamous) "self-creators"...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murder in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm MacArthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his inheritance had dwindled to almost nothing, a desperate...
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English
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In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy's home. The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked accusations, theories, and rumors among Lisa's friends and peers. Together they wove a damning narrative that circled back to a likely suspect: "weird" high...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes during the night and headlines around the world wonder if it was an accident, suicide, or murder. After rising from an impoverished European childhood,...
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Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 315 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this first narrative history of Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder from 1844-1846, a constitutional lawyer and crime historian shows how dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen and shameless hucksters turned her casein America's formative tabloid trial.
14) Hearts of darkness: serial killers, the behavioral science unit, and my life as a woman in the FBI
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Language
English
Description
An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her incredible story for the first time.
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