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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Using sensational crimes committed in America, Britain, and France, this dramatic narrative takes madness and passion into the courts and puts these provocative themes on trial" --
"A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts,...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
The co-hosts of the smash hit true crime podcast Redhanded dissect the stories of killers in a way that challenges perceptions and asks the hard questions about society, gender, poverty, culture and even our politics to find out what makes a killer tick.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What drives someone to commit an act of terrible violence? Drawing from her thirty years' experience in working with people who have committed serious offenses, Dr. Gwen Adshead provides fresh and surprising insights into violence and the mind. Through a collaboration with coauthor Eileen Horne, Dr. Adshead brings her extraordinary career to life in a series of unflinching portraits. In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Riley Hunt--a beautiful, smart, popular student at Easton College in Manhattan--is brutally murdered, it becomes a big story for TV newswoman Clare Carlson. After days of intense media coverage, a suspect is caught: a troubled Afghanistan war veteran with a history of violent and unstable behavior. The suspect's mother, however, comes to Clare with new evidence that might prove her son's innocence. As Clare digs deeper into the puzzling case,...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Vuelve el maestro del True Crime, David Grann, tras el x̌ito de Z, la ciudad perdida. Entre estas incre̕bles historias de cr̕menes reales, destaca ±El viejo y la pistola?, l͠tima pel̕cula protagonizada por Robert Redford. La incre̕ble historia del ladr̤n de bancos Forrest Tucker da t̕tulo a esta colecci̤n de cr̕menes reales, tres relatos en los que el periodista David Grann demuestra por qǔ es considerado el mejor escritor de no-ficci̤n...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Some monsters are figments of our imagination. Others are as real as flesh and blood: humans who may look like us, who may walk among us, often unnoticed, occasionally even admired-but whose evil deeds and secret lives, once revealed, mark them as something utterly wicked. In this illustrated volume from the host of the hit podcast Lore, you'll find tales of infamous characters whose veins ran with ice water and whose crimes remind us that truth...
Publisher
ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by some of the most exciting journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, this collection showcases true crime writing across the broadest possible spectrum and reflects on why crime stories are so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader" -- from publisher.
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