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• All That Glitters

  a Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art

  Whitfield, Orlando

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  Describes the rise and fall of former best friends Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick, one an art gallery owner and the other an art dealer who navigated success, financial ruin and finally, betrayal resulting in imprisonment for art…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lasting Harm

  Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

  Osborne-Crowley, Lucia

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  In December 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted, and is now serving 20 years in prison for the role she played in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of four girls. Lucia Osborne-Crowley was one of only four reporters allowed into the courtroom…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  a Savannah Story

  Berendt, John, 1939-

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  New copies of this classic true crime tale. It tells the story of the murder of the local bad boy in the opulent mansion of a gay antiques dealer in charming Old South Savannah, Georgia.

• A Thousand Miles From Care

  a Hunt for a Brother's Killer - a Thirty-year Quest for Justice

  Johnson, Steve

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  A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles from Care tells the 30-year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother's death.

• Faces of Evil

  Unmasking the World's Most Horrific Serial Killers

  Utton, Dominic

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  A collection of chilling true crime stories that lift the lid on the world's most infamous serial killers, unpicking their means, motives and methods - and how they were finally brought to justice.

• Mine Is the Kingdom

  the Rise and Fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church

  Hardaker, David

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  The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston. In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a minor,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Survivors

  Braunias, Steve, 1960-

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  True stories of death and desperation. One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion. Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There Is No Ethan

  How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

  Akbari, Anna

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  Part memoir, part glimpse into the mind of a catfish, this page-turning personal account follows three successful and highly educated women who fell in love with Ethan Schuman and were ensnared in a web of intense emotional intimacy, until…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Infernal Machine

  a True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

  Johnson, Steven, 1968-

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  This engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detectives who transformed policing to meet the threat reveals a mostly forgotten period of political conviction, scientific…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Off the Beat

  My Life as a Brown, Muslim Woman in the Met

  Mehtab, Nusrit

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  Nusrit Mehtab's 30 years fighting against racism and misogyny in the Met police have made her uniquely placed to write this brave and insightful memoir of a deeply flawed institution and how to fix it.

• Unmasking Monsters

  Henwood, David

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  From almost jovial relationships with small time criminals to dogged investigations to catch serious violent offenders, Henwood looks back at the nearly 40 years he spent as a sworn police officer and reflects on what's changed in New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hell Put to Shame

  the 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

  Swift, Earl, 1958-

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  The forgotten story of the mass killing of 11 black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921 - a crime which exposed for the nation the existence of the "peonage system," a form of legal enslavement established after the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Behold the Monster

  Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

  Lauren, Jillian

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  The author draws on correspondence and conversations with imprisoned serial killer Samuel Little and four of his surviving victims, recounting Little’s confession to dozens of additional murders and what the interviews reveal about the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fixer

  Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn

  Young, Josh (Joshua D.)

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  Based on his never-before-seen investigative files and personal archives, this riveting tell-all biography of Fred Otash, Hollywood's most infamous private detective and fixer to the stars, take readers inside the nefarious world of a man…Read moreRead more of this annotation