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James, P. D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1987

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 JAM

Patterson, James

Summary: Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder of Innocence," in which a global effort captures a serial predator; and "A Murderous Affair," in which a rookie FBI agent is set up by his informant.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Jobb, Dean

Summary: "I the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Poison was his weapon of choice. Structured around the doctor's London murder trial in 1892, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to the medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JOB

Grann, David

Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017

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Grann, David

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Summary: Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Larson, Erik.

Summary: Dual stories of two disparate men, one a genius, and the other a killer. The geuius is Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless communication. The murderer is the notorious Englishman, Dr. H. H. Crippen. Their lives intersect during the criminal chase.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1523 LAR

Larson, Erik.

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. - goodreads

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 Lar

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Larson

Fleming, Candace

Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLE

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLE

Grann, David

4 holds on 12 copies

Summary: Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 976 GRA

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 GRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 976.6 GRA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 Gra

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur Grann

Jobb, Dean

Summary: "Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Grann, David

Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. David Grann revisits a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 976 GRA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 976.6 Gra

Summary: Based on a best-selling book, a five-part true crime docu-series investigates the unsolved murders of eight women whose bodies were discovered in drainage canals and on desolate back roads in and around Jennings, Louisiana. In examining the lives of the young victims the series uncovers secrets of the troubled town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MUR

Grann, David

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "This essential book introduces young readers to the Reign of Terror against the Osage people--one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6004 GRA

Grann, David

Summary: Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 976 GRA

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Summary: "In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 GOO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.09 GOO

Pollack, Jesse P.

Summary: True story of the tragic murder of Long Island teen Gary Lauwers by Ricky Kasso in 1984, called a "Satanic Sacrifice" by the international media. The effects of drugs, occultism, and violent crime on the teenagers involved caught the attention of the media, deeply affected the town, and changed the national War on Drugs in the United States. "A murder in a small Long Island town reveals the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 POL

Ervin, Kristine S.

Summary: "Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024

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Herold, Benjamin

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024

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Mark, Nikki

Summary: In April 2018, Nikki and Doug Mark's perfectly healthy twelve-year-old-son, Tommy, went to sleep one night and never woke up. They're still not exactly sure why. Devastated, Nikki embarked on an unconventional journey to create a legacy for Tommy and to heal her heart. She created a plan to transform neglected land in a Los Angeles public park into a state-of-the-art athletic field, honoring...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023

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Johnson, Kirk W.

Summary: On a cool June evening in 2009, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist grabbed hundreds of bird skins - some collected 150 years earlier - and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? This is the gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.16 JOH

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Johnson

Olsen, Gregg

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2024

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Miller, T. Christian

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Summary: August, 2008. Marie, a teenager, reported being raped in her Seattle apartment by a masked man. Confronted with inconsistencies, she was charged with false reporting and branded a liar. Years later Colorado detectives discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist. Miller and Armstrong follow the tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice-- and the long history of skepticism toward rape...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 MIL

Stauth, Cameron.

Summary: "An anonymous caller tells a detective in a small Oregon town that a woman has just bitten off a man's finger. But the man is not the victim, the caller says. The woman is. She's being held against her will by a group of faith-healing fanatics who are trying to cure her depression with violent exorcisms. The detective rescues her, but she is afraid to press charges against the people in her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2013

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

St. Clair, Chip.

Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007

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1 available in Local Author, Call number: 921 ST. CLAIR, CHIP ST. C

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StC

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