True Crime / Espionage
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Toxic Exposure: The True Story Behind the Monsanto Trials and the Search for Justice
$29.95 Read moreA behind-the-scenes look inside three key trials involving Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup, cancer, and the search for justice–written by an expert witness medical oncologist who lived it all.
For year
- Author: Nabhan, Chadi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1421445352
- Language: English
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No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System
$27.00 Read moreA deeply disturbing and human look at the American prison system’s practice of lifelong solitary confinement, and the two killers who changed modern day corrections. No Human Contact by the New York T… [more below]
- Author: Earley, Pete
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0806541881
- Language: English
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Jukebox Empire: The Mob and the Dark Side of the American Dream
$24.95 Read moreAn aspiring tycoon partners with a racketeer to build a jukebox that makes millions, then takes the fall for the largest money laundering scheme in history.
Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plo
- Author: Rabinovitch, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1538172593
- Language: English
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King David and Boss Daley: The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley, and Chicago on the Edge
$36.95 Add to cartIn Chicago in mid-twentieth century amid the haze and smoke of urban renewal and the sounds of the wrecking balls and bulldozers, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one youn
- Author: Williams, Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633887863
- Language: English
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
$21.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year – Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant f
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0345805976
- Language: English
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Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered
$16.99 Read moreIn a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award-winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own personal demons.
In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke
- Author: Leitner, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542039444
- Language: English
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Pain Hustlers: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup Originally Published as the Hard Sell
$18.00 Read moreThe inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillers–until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark criminal trial. – THE BASIS FOR THE… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0525566325
- Language: English
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The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written–Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom–landed at the heart of one of th… [more below]
- Author: Warner, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593135687
- Language: English
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Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered
$28.99 Read moreIn a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award-winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own personal demons.
In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke
- Author: Leitner, Tamara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542039452
- Language: English
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Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan
$26.95 Read moreOn a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug deale… [more below]
- Author: Link, Mardi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0472051695
- Language: English
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
$18.00 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR – The Sunday Times – The New Statesman – The Times – The Spectator – The Telegraph
Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize * A New York Times Book Review Ed- Author: Summerscale, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0525557946
- Language: English
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Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition
$25.00 Add to cartAlthough much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been–until now–a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire … [more below]
- Author: Binder, John J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1633882853
- Language: English
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“Complex and challenging… push[es] the boundaries of writing about trauma.” —The New York Times
“A True Crime Masterpiece” – Vogue
Entertainment Weekly “Must” List and Best Books of the Year So Far
R- Author: Marzano-Lesnevich, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 125008055X
- Language: English
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Gangsters, Outlaws and Mobsters: A Missouri History of Twentieth Century Crimes and Criminals
$29.95 Add to cartWhen people think of organized crime, the cities of Chicago, Las Vegas, and New York come to mind, but the state of Missouri has produced a long list of high profile criminals known across the nation…. [more below]
- Author: True, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1948901870
- Language: English
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Secret Witness: The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan
$22.95 Read moreEvery small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town’s notions of itself and its people. For citizens of Marshall, Michigan, that moment came August 18, 1967. Nola
- Author: Pardoe, Blaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0472035029
- Language: English
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
$18.99 Add to cartThe new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago-a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. Now featuring a new preface, plus 115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago.
A Chicago Public L
- Author: Collins, Max Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062441957
- Language: English
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The Angel
$19.99 Add to cartA NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE
THE BEST INTELLIGENCE BOOK for 2017 by The American Association of Former Intelligence Officers
A gripping feat of reportage that exposes–for the first time in English–the se
- Author: Bar-Joseph, Uri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062420135
- Language: English
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Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America’s Bloodiest Asian Gang
$18.99 Add to cartThroughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York’s Chinatown. They were the lost children of the Vietnam War, severed from their families b
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0061782386
- Language: English
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Little Sister: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
$17.99 Read moreIn this memoir, Lana Wood investigates the mysterious drowning of her sister, the actress Natalie Wood, and clears up the myths and misconceptions behind one of the most notorious celebrity deaths of
- Author: Wood, Lana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063081636
- Language: English
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Tales of the Tungsten Mine
$19.99 Add to cartThis is the sweet and bitter story of the Tungsten Mine. The story takes in the amazing life of Frank Arnold, the long-time caretaker who made the Tungsten Mine his home for twenty years. He wandered
- Author: Henderson, G. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1643180398
- Language: English
