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An Aussie father’s relentless quest of justice after his daughter’s mysterious death in Mozambique exposes a web of silence, failure, and enduring love. When 20-year-old Elly Warren was found dead in a coastal village in Mozambique, her devastated father, Paul Warren, was thrust into a...

In February 1890, in a remote swamp in rural southwestern Ontario, two woodsmen discovered the frozen body of a well-dressed young stranger killed by two bullets to the back of the head. Before long, police laid a murder charge on Reginald Birchall, a handsome young gentleman from London just arrived in Canada to conduct an emigration scam. Although accused of the cold-blooded murder, Birchall charmed everyone he met and delighted in the attention lavished by the press of Canada, the United States, and Britain.

Read by the author. Was there more than one killer? Had the crime scene been cleaned and sanitized before the police arrived? Was furniture staged to throw off detectives? In one of the most extraordinary true crime stories ever published, Broken Plea questions what really happened in the house...

For decades, a father in the Bay Area made his living taking people’s portraits, but he harbored a monstrous secret. When one woman vanished in 1976, the only clue police had was that she’d gone to a restaurant to meet a photographer about a modeling job. Other women who’d gone to get their pictures taken were found murdered in the woods in Marin County. This disconnected series of homicides and disappearances remained stubbornly unsolved. But then in 2010, a probation officer caught a lucky break.

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Paul French's Midnight in Peking, a gripping, true murder mystery story read by the actor Crawford Logan. Who killed Pamela Werner? On a frozen night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted...

A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publisher's Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing"...

Trust is the deadliest weapon. The killers in this book weren't strangers. They were husbands and wives, neighbors with friendly dogs, family members who sat across the dinner table. They spent years building the relationships they would eventually destroy. From suburban homes to isolated citrus groves, these twelve cases reveal what happens when ordinary people decide that the lives around them are simply obstacles to be removed.

La vicenda del Mostro di Firenze costituisce la più lunga inchiesta giudiziaria del nostro Paese: una serie di duplici delitti dal 1968 al 1985, una sentenza finale che lascia casi irrisolti e non convince nemmeno gli stessi magistrati. La prima parte è dedicata al racconto delle circostanze di tutti gli otto duplici omicidi del Mostro di Firenze, e alla ricostruzione, quasi sempre controversa, della loro dinamica. La seconda parte è un excursus nella ramificata gamma di teorie, con i loro pro e i loro contro, sull'identità del (o dei) "serial killer delle coppiette".

A Russian predator who bound victims with homemade garrotes while police struggled to connect the dots across jurisdictions. A midnight attack on teenage campers in a Finnish forest—three dead, one survivor, zero arrests. An Ohio butcher so surgically precise that even legendary lawman Eliot Ness couldn't stop them. A 450-mile Canadian highway where dozens vanished while authorities looked the other way. A Nigerian forest where urban legend became horrifying reality.

A society wife shoots her husband on a crowded street, shouting 'I did it!' Then she pleads Not Guilty. The courtroom becomes a battleground as two of Melbourne's fiercest legal minds face off: the principled prosecutor who plays for justice, and the flamboyant showman who plays to the crowd. Newspapers howl. The city takes sides. And at the centre stands Mrs Kathleen Fraser: volatile, defiant, and impossible to ignore.

Buckle up and prepare to dive into the adrenaline-charged world of an extraordinary FBI agent whose career redefined the battle against crime. This gripping narrative takes you behind the badge and into the heart of covert operations where split-second decisions and high-stakes missions determined the fate of hundreds.

On October 7, 1964, Debra Miller's life turns upside down when her mother is arrested for the murder of her father. At only 14 years old, Debra becomes a ward of the court, grappling with the unfathomable trauma of watching her mother's trial and conviction—a devastation that is only amplified when her family's tragedy is splashed across headlines and featured in Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Desperate to escape the notoriety of her family and ill equipped to face the world, Debra spends her young adulthood sinking into mental illness, toxic relationships, and substance abuse.

Was it murder, or suicide? The Nan Patterson Case is a gripping true crime narrative that revisits one of the most sensational court cases of early 20th-century America. In 1904, Nan Patterson, a former chorus girl in the tour troupe of the hit Broadway show Florodora was the lover of gambler and bookmaker Caesar Young. Married, and crowded by both women, Young was to leave for Europe the day when he was shot (or shot himself) while riding with Nan in a New York City hansom cab.

The unbelievable account of life as a hitman from a man who has been doing it for decades. Hitmen commit heinous crimes virtually every day of the week and, in most instances, we don't even realise. I've been a killer for hire for more than twenty years now, but life as a fulltime professional...

An unflinching memoir that reframes a national tragedy and demands we reckon with the cost of ignoring intimate partner violence. On April 18, 2020, Lisa Banfield's life shattered. After nineteen years in a controlling and often abusive relationship, she escaped a violent assault by her partner, Gabriel Wortman–unaware he was about to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history.

Con la sua prosa intensa e incalzante, Stefano Nazzi ripercorre quei decenni bui, portandoci nelle menti di alcuni dei più spaventosi serial killer americani. Accanto a loro, ci sono le storie delle donne e degli uomini che li hanno inseguiti, studiati, catalogati. Negli scantinati di Quantico, due agenti dell'FBI, Robert Ressler e John Douglas, iniziarono ad analizzare i profili degli assassini seriali e poi a parlare con loro. Da quelle conversazioni nacque il profiling, l'idea che dietro l'apparente caos ci fosse un metodo e che dunque si potessero prevedere azioni imprevedibili.

Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer. Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense of...

New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule brings several riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out in this installment of her Crime Files. Ann Rule dives into one of Seattle’s most infamous crimes: a city bus ride that...

From New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule comes a riveting true crime story of Florida highway patrolman Tim Harris and his chilling crimes. In You Belong to Me, Ann Rule fixes her unsparing professional gaze on one of Florida's most shocking criminal cases—that of Tim Harris, a...

MORE THAN 20 MILLION COPIES OFANN RULE'S BOOKS IN PRINT! In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly analyzing a...