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The Hamlet Fire : a tragic story of cheap food, cheap government, and cheap lives
by Bryant Simon
After spending several years talking to the survivors of the 1991 Imperial Foods fire, an industrial disaster in North Carolina, an award-winning historian presents a gripping social autopsy of this place and time that shows how cheap labor, cheap government and cheap food came together in a way that was bound for tragedy.
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I can't breathe : a killing on Bay Street
by Matt Taibbi
The best-selling author of The Divide presents an exploration into the roots and aftermath of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the police in 2014, sharing insights into the ensuing nationwide series of protests that reinforced the "Black Lives Matter" movement and transformed American politics.
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A murder in Music City : corruption, scandal, and the framing of an innocent man
by Michael Bishop
When a private citizen stumbles upon a secret file related to the murder of an 18-year-old babysitter in 1964, the unsolved case is reopened and, with the help of the world’s top forensic experts, the real killer is finally brought to justice, in a shocking true crime story that changed Nashville history forever.
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Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong : inside the mind of a female serial killer
by Jerry Clark
In Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella examine female serial killers by focusing on the fascinating and tragic life of one woman. This book also explores mental illness and forensic psychology and provides a history of how American jurisprudence has grappled with such complex and controversial issues as the insanity defense and mental competency to stand trial. The authors’ account shows why Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was unlike any other criminal – man or woman – in American history. Accounts of Diehl-Armstrong’s travails – her difficult childhood, her murder trials, her hoarding – are interpolated with chapters about mental disorders and the law.
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A Crime in the Family
by Sacha Batthyany
Told partly through the surviving journals of others from the author’s family and the vanished world of Hitler’s heartland, a moving and revelatory memoir recounts the brutal massacre of 180 enslaved Jewish laborers in 1945 on the Austrian-Hungarian border during a party at the mansion of the author’s great aunt, Countess Margit Batthyany.
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The last Chicago boss : my life with the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club
by Peter James
Through never-before-revealed interviews, police files, wiretaps, recordings and trial transcripts, the “Godfather” of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club provides a startling and unprecedented exposé into the inner workings of the Outlaw Nation from the unique perspective of its renowned leader.
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We are all shipwrecks : a memoir
by Kelly Grey Carlisle
A woman raised by an eccentric grandfather, who owned a porn store and lived on a boat, tries to uncover the sad story of her mother’s death, a 30-year-old cold-case that is one of Los Angeles’ most notorious murders.
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The search for the Green River killer
by Carlton Smith
Updated to contain new information on the apprehended suspect and his conviction, this gripping look at the Green River Killer, who has claimed the lives of forty-nine women in Washington State, details the frustrating investigation, providing a glimpse into the mind of a mass murderer.
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Dangerous ground
by M. William Phelps
The author recalls the relationship he established with a serial murderer code named Raven when he sought the convict's services as a consultant for a television program on serial killers, revealing the true identity of Raven and the unsettling connection the two shared
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Killing Season : The Unsolved Case of New England's Deadliest Serial Killer
by Carlton Smith
Over the course of seven months in 1988, eleven women disappeared off the streets of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a gloomy, drug-addled coastal town that was once the whaling capital of the world. Nine turned up dead. Two were never found. And the perpetrator remains unknown to this day.
How could such a thing happen? How, in what was once one of America's richest cities, could the authorities let their most vulnerable citizens down this badly? As Carlton Smith, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his coverage of the Green River Killer case, demonstrates in this riveting account, it was the inability of police officers and politicians alike to set aside their personal agendas that let a psychopath off the hook.
In Killing Season, Smith takes readers into a close-knit community of working-class men and women, an underworld of prostitution and drug abuse, and the halls of New England law enforcement to tell the story of an epic failure of justice.
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