Bowden, Mark

Summary: "In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 BOW

Wright, Jennifer

Summary: "A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered--for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure--rife with historical details that will have any true crime junkie on the edge of their seat"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 WRI

Katwala, Amit

Summary: Summer, 1922. Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. Was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who had conspired with bandits to have her murdered? San Francisco police turned to a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley. The inventors, John Larson, Gus Vollmer and Leonarde Keeler, hoped the lie detector would make the justice...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 KAT

Masters, Nathan

Summary: "The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 MAS

Jonusas, Susan

Summary: "In 1873 the people of Labette County in Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried on a homestead seven miles south of the town of Cherryvale, in a bloodied cellar and under frost-covered soil, were countless bodies in varying states of decay. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for over two decades, and the land on which the crimes took...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 JON

Montillo, Roseanne

Summary: Describes how author Truman Capote became obsessed with the true crime story of a Manhattan socialite who shot her banking heir husband in 1955, and discusses how publication of his book led to her suicide and his own scandalous downfall.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MON

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Zimmerman, James M.

Summary: "In 1923 Shanghai, native and foreign travelers alike are enthralled by the establishment of a new railway line to distant Peking. With this new line comes the Peking Express, a luxurious express train on the cutting edge of China's continental transportation. Among those drawn to the train are oil heiress Lucy Aldrich, journalist John Benjamin Powell, and vacationing Army Majors Roland Pinger...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 ZIM

Bonello, Deborah

Summary: "Drug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists. VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth exploration of the hidden power women wield in Latin American drug cartels"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 BON

Wels, Susan

Summary: "It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place -- especially the women, with their queer cropped hair...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.77 WEI