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New For You - True Crime - March 2024 - Christchurch City Libraries

What's new? Our selectors have hand-picked the top new additions to the Christchurch City Libraries collection for espionage, crime, murder, and everything in between.

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  • Someone You Know

    An Unforgettable Collection of Canadian True Crime Stories

    Fogarty, Catherine
    An anthology of twelve unforgettable Canadian true-crime stories. Each story reveals the haunting truth and statistical reality that a person is more likely to be murdered by someone they know than by a stranger. And while "stranger…
    BookToronto : Collins, [2023] — 364.1523 FOG
  • Life Inside

    the Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes to Survive

    Calvey, Linda, 1948-
    Linda Calvey spent the first half of her life running with the UK's top gangsters, robbing banks and rubbing shoulders with the Kray twins. That is, until, in 1990, her lover Robbie Cook was murdered at point-blank, and she found herself…
    BookLondon : Welbeck, 2024. — 365.43 CAL
  • The Sullivanians

    Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of An American Commune

    Stille, Alexander, 1957-
    Explores the devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult.
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — 307.77 STI
  • The Angel Makers

    the True Story of the Most Astonishing Murder Ring in History

    McCracken, Patricia Nell
    Tells the story of a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men.
    BookLondon : Mudlark, 2023. — 364.1523 MCC
  • The Many Lives of Mama Love

    a Prison Journey : to Hell and Back

    Hardin, Lara Love
    Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, inspiring, no-holds-barred memoir
    BookLondon : Endeavour, 2023. — 365.6 HAR
  • With dry wit and biting insight, journalist Benedict Collins takes us inside the evolution of meth in New Zealand. From ram raids for pseudoephedrine to our own cooks and gangs 'breaking bad', a visit to the Golden Triangle of meth…
    BookAuckland, New Zealand : HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand), 2023. — 362.299 COL
  • An award-winning poet presents this unforgettable memoir in which he recounts being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents until he finally discovers the truth, allowing him to finally reunite with…
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2023. — 811.6 MCC
  • When she was four years old, Shanelle Dawson's mother, Lynette, disappeared. Shanelle's father, Chris Dawson, claimed that his wife just needed to get away. But Lyn never returned home. Her side of the bed was immediately filled by…
    BookSydney : Hachette Australia, 2023. — 362.88 DAW
  • Blending years of deep reporting with distinctive, powerful prose, this unique true crime narrative recounts the exploits of a psychopathic con artist and gender-bending criminal mastermind who swept through the entertainment industry,…
    BookNew York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — 364.163 TAH
  • Cult of GT-R

    a True Story of Crime, Obsession and the World's Most Coveted Car

    Zummallen, Ryan K.
    This is the true story of a giant-killer: the Nissan Skyline GT-R. Its sleek silhouette and delicate balance joined a powerhouse engine and clever technology, capable of smoking high-priced rivals. The Nissan Skyline GT-R dominated on the…
    Book[Long Beach, California] : Carrara Media, [2023]. — 629.2222 NIS
  • Genealogy of a Murder

    Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

    Belkin, Lisa, 1960-
    The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer.
    BookNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023] — 364.1523 BEL
  • Evidence of Things Seen

    True Crime in An Era of Reckoning

    Fourteen of the innovative crime writers cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society: a lynching left unsolved for decades by an indifferent police force and a family's quest for answers; the thousands of women in…
    BookNew York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — 364 EVI