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The New York Times–bestselling author's "haunting, compassionate, and terrifyingly true" story of a man breaking free from his notorious past (Gregg Olson, New York Times–bestselling author of Starvation Heights). From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott...
The cold case that put Speedway, Indiana, on the map. "What may be the definitive public accounting of the murder mystery that still resonates today." —Fox59 The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the...
She was his second wife—to die. . . Coming off a failed marriage, a beautiful woman named Toni joined an online dating site, hoping to find true and lasting love. Harold Henthorn seemed like her dream come true—a handsome man who said he had "a heart for others." Only...
Bestselling author of Broken Ground "offers fascinating glimpses" into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day (The Boston Globe). The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and,...
This collection by a New York Times journalist gathers three horrifying true accounts of crimes of passion, ambition, and fear. Author Joe Sharkey delivers three gripping accounts of betrayal and murder in this compelling American true crime collection. Above...
In this "first-rate blending of true-crime, character-study and history" a 19th-century love con leads to murder and a sensational double trial (Susan Isaacs, New York Times–bestselling author of Compromising Positions). In 1831 Lucretia Winslow Chapman was a wife and...
The shocking 1997 murder that exposed a devoted Philadelphia husband as a cold-hearted killer, from the author of A Family Business and Hot Blood."[Engalde is] one of the most astute observers of America's wild side." —Jack Olsen, New York Times–bestselling...
A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.After more than a...
A horrific account of the murders, investigation, and trial of the serial killer doctor known as the "Creighton Killer." "A powerful and compelling story."—The Haunted Reading Room Detective Derek Mois wasn't sure what he was dealing with when in March 2008 he walked...
The definitive account of one of Britain's most notorious killer couples, who loved, tortured, and slayed together as husband and wife—from the Senior Producer of Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story, now on Netflix.Updated with a new afterword from the author...
