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Empire of Guns : The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
by Priya Satia
A prizewinning historian's reframing of the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire and the emergence of industrial capitalism presents them as inextricable from the gun trade and the story of disgraced Quaker gunmaker Samuel Galton, sharing insights into modern debates about gun control and the complex partnerships of government, the economy and the military.
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The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster
by Sarah Krasnostein
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his living room. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead--and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.
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Insane : America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
by Alisa Roth
An urgent exposé of the mental-health crisis in America's courts and prisons reveals that nearly half of the nation's inmates are actually afflicted by a psychiatric problem and that a high percentage of crimes are related to mental disorders, drawing on intimate stories that reveal how the criminal justice system worsens mental illness and could be improved through more humane approaches.
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Hell's Princess : The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
by Harold Schechter
The shocking true story of one of the twentieth century's most prolific female serial killers. Belle Gunness engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908 she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her La Porte, Indiana 'murder farm.' Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up, they hadn't merely been poisoned... they'd been butchered. Schechter profiles the killing spree of the woman who came to be known as Lady Bluebeard.
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With One Shot : Family Murder and a Search for Justice
by Dorothy Marcic
The brutal murder of LaVerne Stordock, a respected family man and former police detective, shocked his Wisconsin community. On the surface, the case seemed closed with the confession of Stordock’s wife, Suzanne. But the trail of secrets and lies that began with his death did not end with his widow’s insanity plea. Dorothy Marcic, a playwright, theatrical producer, and university professor, couldn’t put her doubts to rest. In 2014 she embarked on a two-year mission to uncover the truth. In the bestselling tradition of Ann Rule and M. William Phelps, With One Shot weaves a spellbinding tale of unmet justice and the truth behind a shocking family tragedy.
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Love and death in the Sunshine State : the story of a crime
by Cutter Wood
An award-winning writer who was a motel guest documents the story of a missing Gulf Coast motel owner and the efforts of local detectives to identify her assailant, offering additional insights into the psychological factors that motivate domestic crimes as based on firsthand interviews with the case's chief suspect.
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