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SAY NOTHING - A TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND MEMORY IN NORTHERN IRELAND
Patrick Radden Keefe
- William collins
- 22 Août 2019
- 9780008159269
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019 TIME''s #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ''A must read'' Gillian Flynn One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of the brutal crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades.
Through the unsolved case of Jean McConville''s abduction, Patrick Radden Keefe tells the larger story of the Troubles, investigating Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA, who bombed the Old Bailey; Gerry Adams, the politician who helped end the fighting but denied his IRA past; and Brendan Hughes, an IRA commander who broke their code of silence. A gripping story forensically reported, Say Nothing explores the extremes people will go to for an ideal, and the way societies mend - or don''t - after long and bloody conflict.
''10 Best Books of 2019'' - The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Slate, NPR''s Fresh Air ''Best History Book of 2019'' - Amazon ''10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019'' - TIME ''10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade'' - Entertainment Weekly ''20 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade'' - Literary Hub ''10 Best True Crime Books of the Decade'' - CrimeReads
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FURIOUS HOURS - MURDER, FRAUD AND THE LAST TRIAL OF HARPER LEE
Casey Cep
- Windmill books
- 1 Octobre 2020
- 9780099510598
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth.' DAVID GRANN, author of Killers of the Flower Moon _____________________________ The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted - thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend.
As Alabama is consumed by these gripping events, it's not long until news of the case reaches Alabama's - and America's - most famous writer. Intrigued by the story, Harper Lee makes a journey back to her home state to witness the Reverend's killer face trial. Harper had the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research. Lee spent a year in town reporting on the Maxwell case and many more years trying to finish the book she called The Reverend.
Now Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country's most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity.
This is the story Harper Lee wanted to write. This is the story of why she couldn't.
_____________________________ 'Fascinating ... Cep has spliced together a Southern-gothic tale of multiple murder and the unhappy story of Lee's literary career, to produce a tale that is engrossing in its detail and deeply poignant... [Cep] spends the first third of Furious Hours following the jaw-dropping trail of murders ... Engrossing ... Cep writes about all this with great skill, sensitivity and attention to detail.' SUNDAY TIMES 'It's been a long time since I picked up a book so impossible to put down. Furious Hours made me forget dinner, ignore incoming calls, and stay up reading into the small hours. It's a work of literary and legal detection as gripping as a thriller. But it's also a meditation on motive and mystery, the curious workings of history, hope, and ambition, justice, and the darkest matters of life and death. Casey Cep's investigation into an infamous Southern murder trial and Harper Lee's quest to write about it is a beautiful, sobering, and sometimes chilling triumph.' HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk 'This story is just too good ... Furious Hours builds and builds until it collides with the writer who saw the power of Maxwell's story, but for some reason was unable to harness it. It lays bare the inner life of a woman who had a world-class gift for hiding ... [this] book makes a magical leap, and it goes from being a superbly written true-crime story to the sort of story that even Lee would have been proud to write.' MICHAEL LEWIS, author of Moneyball and The Big Short
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ROGUES - TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLERS, REBELS AND CROOKS
Patrick Radden Keefe
- Picador uk
- 13 Juillet 2023
- 9781035001767
''Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting . . . A preternaturally attentive reporter at work'' - The Observer ''A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you''ll be turning pages for hours . . . Highly entertaining'' - Los Angeles Times From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.
Patrick Radden Keefe''s work has been recognised by prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford in the UK, for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. As Keefe observes in his preface: ''They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.'' Keefe explores the intricacies of forging 150,000 vintage wines; examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist; spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain; chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant; and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the ''worst of the worst'', among other bravura works of literary journalism.
The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event; collected here for the first time readers can see how his work forms an always enthralling yet also deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up to them. -
UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN - A STORY OF VIOLENT FAITH
Jon Krakauer
- Picador uk
- 18 Août 2022
- 9781035014767
Now a major TV miniseries starring Andrew Garfield ''A provocative look at the twisted roots of American fundamentalism.'' Will Self, Evening Standard Books of the Year ''Excellent . . . a lucid, judicious, even sympathetic account not just of Mormon Fundamentalism but of the seductive power of fanaticism in general.'' Daily Telegraph ''Remarkable . . . for anyone interested in the wilder frontiers of spiritual conviction, this book is a must.'' Independent Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. In Under The Banner of Heaven , Jon Krakauer''s investigation is a meticulously researched, bone-chilling narrative of polygamy, savage violence and unyielding faith: an incisive look inside isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities in America, this gripping work of non-fiction illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behaviour.
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A TASTE FOR POISON - ELEVEN DEADLY SUBSTANCES AND THE KILLERS WHO USED THEM
Neil Bradbury
- Harper collins uk
- 15 Septembre 2022
- 9780008484583
''Indecently entertaining.'' A Daily Mail Book of the Week ''A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.'' - Kathy Reichs As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring - and popular - weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. But how exactly do these poisons work to break our bodies down, and what can we learn from the damage they inflict?
In a fascinating blend of popular science, medical history, and narrative crime nonfiction, Dr Neil Bradbury explores this most morbidly captivating method of murder from a cellular level. Alongside real-life accounts of murderers and their crimes -some notorious, some forgotten, some still unsolved - are the equally compelling stories of the poisons involved: eleven molecules of death that work their way through the human body and, paradoxically, illuminate the way in which our bodies function.
Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the fascinating tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals and political assassins, showing how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect through the use of poison. From the deadly origins of the gin & tonic cocktail to the arsenic-laced wallpaper in Napoleon''s bedroom, A Taste for Poison leads readers on a fascinating tour of the intricate, complex systems that keep us alive - or don''t. -
THE BESTSELLING TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES FBI Special Agent and expert in criminal profiling and behavioural science, John Douglas, is a man who has looked evil in the eye and made a vocation of understanding it. Now retired, Douglas can let us inside the FBI elite serial crime unit and into the disturbed minds of some of the most savage serial killers in the world.
The man who was the inspiration for Special Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs and who lent the film's makers his expertise explains how he invented and established the practice of criminal profiling; what it was like to submerge himself mentally in the world of serial killers to the point of 'becoming' both perpetrator and victim; and individual case histories including those of Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and the Atlanta child murders.
With the fierce page-turning power of a bestselling novel, yet terrifyingly true, Mindhunter is a true crime classic.
John Douglas knows more about serial killers than anybody in the world - Jonathan Demme, Director of The Silence of the Lambs A cracker of a book - Esquire
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Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a 'walking streak of sex'. These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed - and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired - in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is as bracing and intoxicating as half-a-dozen mint juleps.
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FILTHY RICH: THE BILLIONAIRE'S SEX SCANDAL - THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF JEFFREY
PATTERSON, JAMES
- Hachette us
- 31 Mars 2021
- 9781455542680
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A crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, Justin Fenton was part of the Pulitzer Prize finalist staff recognised for their coverage of the Baltimore riots that followed the death of Freddie Gray. We Own This City is his first book.
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THE GOOD NURSE - A TRUE STORY OF MEDICINE, MADNESS AND MURDER
Charles Graeber
- Atlantic books
- 6 Octobre 2022
- 9781838959470
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KILLER BY DESIGN (MURDERERS, MINDHUNTERS, AND MY QUEST TO DECIPHER THE CRIMINAL
BURGESS, ANN WOLBERT
- Welbeck
- 18 Août 2022
- 9781802792171
Dr Ann Burgess, DNSc., APRN, is a leading forensic and psychiatric nurse who worked with the FBI for over two decades. She is currently a professor at the Boston College Connell School of Nursing, and she lives in Boston, MA. Stev
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THE REAL LOLITA: A LOST GIRL, AN UNTHINKABLE CRIME AND A SCANDALOUS MASTERPIECE
WEINMAN, SARAH
- Orion publishing
- 31 Mars 2021
- 9781474605618
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ONE-ARMED JACK (UNCOVERING THE REAL JACK THE RIPPER)
HORTON, SARAH BAX
- Michael o'mara
- 31 Août 2023
- 9781789295368
Bringing a completely new analytical approach to the identity of the most notorious murderer in history, Sarah Bax Horton presents compelling evidence and names the real Jack the Ripper.
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THE FIVE - THE UNTOLD LIVES OF THE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPER
Hallie Rubenhold
- Black swan
- 30 Janvier 2020
- 9781784162344
____________________ THE Sunday Times BESTSELLER 'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming' Guardian 'GRIPPING' New York Times Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.
What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.
Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.
Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.
__________________ 'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth.' Mail on Sunday 'Devastatingly good. The Five will leave you in tears, of pity and of rage.' LUCY WORSLEY, author of bestselling Jane Austen at Home 'How fitting that in the year when we celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, dignity is finally returned to these unfortunate women.' PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK, author of bestselling All that Remains 'Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly deserve to be thought of as more than eviscerated bodies on an East London street. This haunting book does something to redress that balance' Sunday Times 'What a brilliant and necessary book' JO BAKER, author of Sunday Times bestselling Longbourn 'A Ripper narrative that gives voice to the women he silenced; I've been waiting for this book for years. Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart.' ERIN KELLY, Sunday Times bestselling author of He Said/She Said 'An outstanding work of history-from-below ... magnificent' The Spectator
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The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help justice to be done using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene or the faintest of human traces. Forensics draws on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking research and Val McDermid's own experience to lay bare the secrets of this fascinating science. And, along the way, she wonders at how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine time of death, how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist uncovered the victims of a genocide. In her novels, McDermid has been solving complex crimes and confronting unimaginable evil for years. Now, she's looking at the people who do it for real. It's a journey that will take her to war zones, fire scenes and autopsy suites, and bring her into contact with extraordinary bravery and wickedness, as she traces the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.
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THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW ''Fascinating'' - Sunday Times ''Masterful'' - Judith Flanders ''A page-turning read'' - Prof. David Wilson Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating portrait of the legal history of murder.
The stories and the people involved in the history of murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime fiction. There''s Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts to decisively outlaw a defence of necessity to murder. Dr Percy Bateman, the incompetent GP whose violent disregard for his patient changed the law on manslaughter. Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England in the 1950s, played a crucial role in changes to the law around provocation in murder cases. And Archibald Kinloch, the deranged Scottish aristocrat whose fratricidal frenzy paved the way for the defence of diminished responsibility. These, and many more, are the people - victims, killers, lawyers and judges, who unwittingly shaped the history of that most grisly and storied of laws.
Join lawyer and writer Kate Morgan on a dark and macabre journey as she explores the strange stories and mysterious cases that have contributed to UK murder law. The big corporate killers; the vengeful spouses; the sloppy doctors; the abused partners; the shoddy employers; each story a crime and each crime a precedent that has contributed to the law''s dark, murky and, at times, shocking standing. -
THE KILLER ACROSS THE TABLE: FROM THE AUTHORS OF MINDHUNTER
DOUGLAS, JOHN E.
- Harpercollins uk
- 31 Mars 2021
- 9780008338121
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SERIAL KILLERS: THE METHOD AND MADNESS OF MONSTERS
VRONSKY, PETER
- Penguin books usa
- 31 Mars 2021
- 9780425196403
A comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide--including information on Americas most prolific serial killers such as: Ted Bundy Co-ed Killer Ed Kemper The BTK Killer Highway Stalker Henry Lee Lucas Monte Ralph Rissell Shoe Fetish Slayer Jerry Brudos Night Stalker Richard Ramirez Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Ed Gein The Butcher of Plainfield Killer Clown John Wayne Gacy Andrew Cunanan And more... In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome through fifteenth-century France on to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, the BTK killer, Henry Lee Lucas, Monte Ralph Rissell, Jerry Brudos, Richard Ramirez, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and the emergence of what he classifies as the serial rampage killer such as Andrew Cunanan, who murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace. Vronsky not only offers sound theories on what makes a serial killer but also makes concrete suggestions on how to survive an encounter with one--from recognizing verbal warning signs to physical confrontational resistance. Exhaustively researched with transcripts of interviews with killers, and featuring up-to-date information on the apprehension and conviction of the Green River killer and the Beltway Snipers, Vronskys one-of-a-kind book covers every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true crime phenomenon. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
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HIGH: MY PRISON JOURNEY AS ONE OF THE INFAMOUS PERU TWO - NOW A MAJOR BBC THREE
MCCOLLUM, MICHAELLA
- John blake
- 24 Juin 2021
- 9781789462081
Michaella McCollum became known as one half of the infamous 'Peru Two' when she was arrested for drug smuggling in 2013. Caught with 11kg of Cocaine at Jorge Chavez International airport in Peru, McCollum and accomplice Melissa Reid quickly
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SERIAL KILLERS OF MEXICO (CHILLING STORIES OF EVIL BURIED BENEATH THE NARCO DRUG
CLARKSON, WENSLEY
- Welbeck
- 23 Juin 2022
- 9781802791273
Wensley Clarkson's books have been published across the world and sold more than two million copies. He is also a prolific screenwriter, having written both movies and TV dramas, as well as worked on numerous television documentaries
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GODMOTHER (MURDER, VENGEANCE, AND THE BLOODY STRUGGLE OF MAFIA WOMEN)
NADEAU, BARBIE LATZA
- Vintage uk
- 8 Septembre 2022
- 9781529113211
Barbie Latza Nadeau is an American journalist and author, who has lived in Italy since 1996. She has worked as the Rome bureau chief for Newsweek Magazine and currently holds that position for The Daily Beast. She is an on-air
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AMERICAN MURDER HOUSES (A COAST-TO-COAST TOUR MOST NOTORIOUS HOUSES OF HOMICIDE
LEHTO, STEVE
- Berkley books
- 1 Novembre 2022
- 9780593547878
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THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER - OR THE MURDER AT ROAD HILL HOUSE
SUMMERSCALE, KATE
- Bloomsbury uk
- 16 Janvier 2009
- 9780747596486
The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it