Category: True Crime

Shots 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 oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder...
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Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob

By: Blum, Howard

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Poseidon Pr : November 1993

Seller ID: 518297

ISBN-13: 9780671687588

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno

By: Bonanno, Joseph

Price: $4.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks : January 2003

Seller ID: 527868

ISBN-13: 9780312979232

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Friendships, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience-this was the 'glue' that held us together."These were the principles that the greatest Mafia "Boss if Bosses," Joseph Bonnano, lived by. Born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Bonnano found his future amid the whiskey-running, riotous streets of Prohibition America in 1924, when he illegally entered the United States to pursue his dreams. By the age of only twenty-six, Bonnano became a Don. He would eventually take over the New York underworld, igniting the "Castellammarese War," one of the bloodiest Family battles ever to hit...
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The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft

By: Boser, Ulrich

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks : March 2010

Seller ID: 559224

ISBN-13: 9780061451843

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads--and a $5 million reward--none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case. Exploring Smith's unfinishe...
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A Shadow In The City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior

By: Bowden, Charles

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks : July 2006

Seller ID: 530806

ISBN-13: 9780156032537

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Joey O'Shay is a cop with a genius for the drug bust. But after more than two decades undercover, he's no longer so certain who the heroes of the drug war are, or what the fight is for. Still, he never feels so alive as when he's doing a deal. So this time he sets out to test himself against the elite of the drug business, the Colombians and their fine, pure heroin. Maybe he'll finally meet his match. Charles Bowden, author of the critically acclaimed Down by the River, follows O'Shay as he sets the deal in motion. A Shadow in the City confirms Bowden's reputation as a bold, genre-bending chro...
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And the Sea Will Tell

By: Bugliosi, Vincent,Henderson, Bruce

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : April 2006

Seller ID: 555359

ISBN-13: 9780393327960

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A shocking true story of murder on a South Sea island--Cover.
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And the Sea Will Tell

By: Bugliosi, Vincent,Henderson, Bruce B.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : January 1991

Seller ID: 561821

ISBN-13: 9780393029192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In Cold Blood

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics : February 2000

Seller ID: 560671

ISBN-13: 9780141182575

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. In this title, the author's study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved.
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In Cold Blood

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Berkley : January 1967

Seller ID: 567470

ISBN-13: 9780451121981

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence....
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The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

By: Carlo, Philip

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Pinnacle : March 2000

Seller ID: 562758

ISBN-13: 9780786013623

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Based on Death Row interviews with Ramirez, an account of his murderous crime spree follows his criminal odyssey from his first brush with the law, to his Los Angeles murders, to the investigation that brought him to justice. Reissue.
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The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century

By: Carr, Howie

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : November 2006

Seller ID: 329261

ISBN-13: 9780446618885

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The riveting New York Times bestseller by award-winning columnist Howie Carr--now with a stunning new afterword detailing Whitey Bulger's capture. For years their familiar story was of two siblings who took different paths out of South Boston: William "Billy" Bulger, former president of the Massachusetts State Senate; and his brother James "Whitey" Bulger, a vicious criminal who became the FBI's second most-wanted man after Osama Bin Laden. While Billy cavorted with the state's blue bloods to become a powerful political force, Whitey blazed a murderous trail to the top rung of organized crime...
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The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception

By: Carr¨re, Emmanuel

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Picador : January 2002

Seller ID: 499994

ISBN-13: 9780312420604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome)

Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carr re, whose fiction John Updike described as stunning (The New Yorker) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.

At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal

By: Coleman, Jonathan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Atheneum : June 1985

Seller ID: 564604

ISBN-13: 9780689115479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Lost Love: A True Story of Passion, Murder, and Justice in Old New York

By: Cooper, George

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Pantheon : March 1994

Seller ID: 549457

ISBN-13: 9780679433989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath

By: Cummins, Jeanine

Price: $6.95

Publisher: NAL Trade : June 2004

Seller ID: 561621

ISBN-13: 9780451210531

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book--the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins' story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over. He ...
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In Contempt

By: Darden, Christopher A., Walter, Jess

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harpercollins : April 1996

Seller ID: 482065

ISBN-13: 9780060391836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Offers a personal perspective on the O.J. Simpson trial and shares the author's observations on legal strategy, racial issues, and the principal lawyers, officials, and witnesses involved in the case.
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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

By: Dawson, Kate Winkler

Price: $5.95

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons : February 2021

Seller ID: 568274

ISBN-13: 9780525539568

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A gripping historical true crime narrative that reads like the best of Conan Doyle himself (Karen Abbott, author of The Ghosts of Eden Park), American Sherlock recounts the riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation. Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the American Sherlock Holmes, Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, ...
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Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer

By: Edward Jay Epstein

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Random House : October 1996

Seller ID: 355519

ISBN-13: 9780679448020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Examines the late entrepreneur's dealings with the Soviet Union and his role in the BCCI scandal.
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Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family

By: Garcia, Joaquin 'Jack '

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Touchstone : October 2008

Seller ID: 564655

ISBN-13: 9781416551638

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Petey Chops wasn't kicking up. And if he didn't start soon, he was going to get whacked." So begins "Making Jack Falcone, " the extraordinary true story of an undercover FBI agent's years-long investigation of the Gambinos, which resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized crime family.But long before Joaquin "Jack" Garcia found himself wearing a wire with some of the Mafia's top capos, he was one of the FBI's unlikeliest recruits. A Cuban-born American, Jack graduated from Quantico standing six-foot-four and weighing 300 pounds -- not your typical G-man. Jack's stature soon p...
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Category: True Crime