Ann Rule brings her brilliantly informed understanding of the sociopath to this riveting true crime collection. Only Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy-America's most notorious serial killer-could lend her razor-sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member or a helpful stranger who is ...
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil") comes a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy, presented by a "New York Times"-bestselling author.
From Americas #1 true crime writer and "New York Times" bestselling author comes her most engrossing book ever: a 14-year saga of treachery, jealousy, and murder, about two women who learned the truth too late about Dr. Bart Corbin of Atlanta.
In his first work of nonfiction, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author John Grisham pens an exploration of small-town justice gone terribly awry, in a book that reads like one of his fictional, page-turning legal thrillers. A gritty, harrowing true-crime story.--"Time."
Truman Capote's masterpiece, IN COLD BLOOD, a sterling early example of the New Journalism, was part of an evolving genre that filtered events both big and small through the writer's own experiences and feelings. IN COLD BLOOD is the intensely researched story of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who brutally murdered them on ...
Ex-Seattle police officer and critically acclaimed bestselling true crime author Ann Rule covers a hometown case: the hunt for the notorious Green River killer. Gary Ridgway killed dozens of young women in the Seattle area in the early eighties, and remained at large for nearly 20 years before DNA evidence definitively identified him and led to ...
Known as the source for police supervision, this book offers complete coverage of leadership training of supervisors in law enforcement and allied fields. From proven leadership strategies to methods for maintaining high morale, this book discusses individual and group management techniques and how to carry out the various responsibilities of the ...
Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting. Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner' - handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a ...
In 1997, Sheila Bellush was murdered in her kitchen while her four toddlers (quadruplets) looked on. Eventually, her ex-husband, a Texas millionaire, was convicted of hiring Bellush's killer. In her latest true-crime saga, Rule delves into this harrowing story.
In the bestselling tradition of In Cold Blood, The Stranger Beside Me, and Fatal Vision, comes Small Sacrifices, the harrowing, headline-breaking story of Diane Downs, a woman so desperate for love and attention that she would attempt to murder her three children to please a man who wanted none. "A work of resonance and revelation with breath ...
In 1982, a Roman Catholic nun became the spiritual advisor to a condemned murderer who was soon executed. Powerfully and persuasively, with a compassion that embraces not only the terrified killer but the families of his victims and the men who executed him, Prejean narrates Patrick Sonnier's walk to the electric chair.
The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.
In this shocking investigation, centered in a world of successful politicians, best-selling true crime author Anne Rule details the adulterous love affair between a governor's beautiful secretary and the acclaimed attorney who was convicted of murdering her.
More and more companies and individuals are realising that to compete effectively abroad, they need to address the problems of spoken and written language/culture barriers. The existence of such problems is an indication of market opportunities - or threats. There has also been a proliferation of providers promising to meet the language-training ...
Krakauer shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief in this true story of an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers who insist God commanded them to kill.
The story of Homer and Langley Collyer--sons of a doctor, graduates of Columbia--is bizarre indeed. Found at their once-elegant Harlem home after Homer's death was a lifetime of hoarding, 140 tons' worth of rusty metal, old machines, auto parts, broken appliances, pieces of musical instruments, newspapers, and plain junk--everything, in fact, that ...
Those who wish that Truman Capote had written more true crime can console themselves with the next best thing, Dominick Dunne. Dunne, America's foremost chronicler of scandal and depravity amongst the rich and famous, offers this juicy compendium of his Vanity Fair articles on O.J., the Menendez brothers, Claus von Bülow, and other high-profile ...
Originally published under the pseudonym Andy Stack, this is the story of Harvey Louis Carignan, one of the most brilliant and savage sex-killers of our time. Here, complete with victim and police testimonies, is one of the most shattering of current crime stories, including 8 pages of photos.
Explores the relationship between FBI agent John Connolly and Irish mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, chronicling a corrupt arrangement of information, racketeering, and murder.
In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims families brought civil cases against Simpson, and he was found liable for ...
Tyson sheds a new light on the struggle for racial justice as he weaves together childhood memories with the realities of present-day Oxford, NC--his hometown--where a young black man was killed in the town square by a Klansmen in 1970 and acquitted by an all-white jury.
On an October night in 1993, at one of the campgrounds dotting Florida's Gulf Coast, ex-con Eddie Lee Sexton told his daughter Pixie to silence her crying baby. Incredibly, the young mother smothered the helpless infant, stuffed its tiny corpse into a gym bag, and then buried it in a shallow grave, less than a moth later, Eddie Lee ordered his son ...
The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The psychological cost for soldiers, as witnessed by the increase in post-traumatic stress, is devastating. The ...
An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely enemy, who plotted their demise from behind bars...A sexual predator hides behind multiple fake identities, eluding police for years while his past victims live in fear that he will hunt them down...A modest preacher's wife confesses to shooting her husband after an argument -- but there's ...
Bugliosi, brilliant prosecutor and bestselling author, is perhaps the only man in America capable of "prosecuting" Lee Harvey Oswald for the murder of John F. Kennedy. His book is a narrative compendium of fact, ballistic evidence, and, above all, common sense.
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