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Deadly Secrets

by M. William Phelps

Behind A Veil Of Tranquility. . .

In the lovely town of Pleasant Valley in upstate New York, the maple trees were ablaze with fall's blood-red color. The air was crisp. And a woman named Susan Fassett left her...

You Can Run But You Can't Hide

by Duane Dog Chapman

"Freeze!"

Duane "Dog" Chapman entertains and inspires millions on Dog the Bounty Hunter, his #1-rated show on A&E -- but there is more to his story. From troubled beginnings and tragedy to triumph and transformation,...

Green Fields

by Bob Cowser

A narrative reconstruction and reconsideration of the 1979 murder of Cary Ann Medlin, the author's third grade classmate, and the execution twenty years later of Robert Glen Coe, the man convicted of the crime,...

Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti: The Story of John Gotti

by Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci

John Gotti is terminally ill; when he passes on to that great Mafia in the sky, co-author Capeci will be in great demand for interviews and will the plug the book. As he battles terminal cancer in a federal...

Empty Promises

by Ann Rule

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...

The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds

by Katherine Ramsland

The bestselling author of The Forensic Science of C.S.I. examines the real-life cases behind the hit television series Criminal Minds

Week after week, the hit TV show Criminal Minds gives viewers a look inside...

Most Evil: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel

by Steve Hodel

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Dahlia Avenger

Former LAPD detective Steve Hodel compiles never-before-seen evidence that reveals his father as a serial killer who may have been responsible...

Deadly Angel

by Fred Rosen

An astonishing true story of bizarre love and lethal obsession in America's last frontier.

Mechele Hughes came to Wasilla, Alaska (pop. 4200), looking for a new life and easy money. As an exotic dancer at the...

Dead Reckoning

by Caitlin Rother

Good Couple

Happy and retired, Tom and Jackie Hawks lived a charmed life in sunny Southern California. They were delighted when former child star Skylar Deleon and his pregnant wife Jennifer offered cash to...

The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth

by Mark Mazzetti

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American...

The Murder of Helen Jewett

by Patricia Cline Cohen

In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes...

The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia

by Mike Dash

Before the notorious Five Families dominated U.S. organized crime, there was the one-fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello and his lethal coterie. Combining first-rate scholarship and pulse-quickening action,...

Cries in the Desert

by John Glatt

In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told...

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within...

Cheshire Murders

by Alan Hayhurst

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind the most notorious murders in Cheshire's history. Alan Hayhurst re-examines some of the crimes that shocked not only the county but Britain as a...

Lost Girls

by Caitlin Rother

Praise for Caitlin Rother and her true-life thrillers

"Will keep you on the edge of your seat."--Aphrodite Jones

"An exciting page-turner."--M. William Phelps

Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding...

Shannon: Betrayed from Birth

by Rose Martin

On February 19, 2008, Shannon Matthews disappeared while making her way home from a school swimming trip in the UK. The 999 call made by her mother, Karen, alerted the police to the nine-year-old's disappearance...

Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

by James St. James

Murder Was Never So Much Fun!

When Disco Bloodbath was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageously funny depiction of the hedonistic world...

Sleep In Heavenly Peace

by M. W. Phelps

If Looks Could Kill

by M. William Phelps