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Boy on a Shelf by J.T. Daniels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInspired by a true story, J T Daniels exposes the horrific life of Peter. His family lived a normal life – work, school, church – while he was chained in a room, starving. Peter was their dirty, little secret. They would go to any lengths to keep him hidden from others... -
![Who Painted My Money White? by Sree Iyer]()
Who Painted My Money White? by Sree Iyer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA ship carrying 2 containers, each containing Rs.5000 crores in 500- and 1000-rupee notes, docks in the dark of night at Kochi. The money is quickly distributed to members of a minority community using a network of 100 Chartered accountants. The bulk of the money finds its way back into fake firms, shell corporations and charities with the sole aim of destabilizing the country... -
![When No One Is Watching by Joseph Hayes]()
When No One Is Watching by Joseph Hayes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the eve of announcing his run for Congress, a charismatic Chicago politician causes a deadly accident. Panicked, he frames his best friend, a good-hearted alcoholic, and flees the scene. As one man tries to pick up the pieces of his shattered life, the other embarks on a meteoric rise to political stardom... -
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Resurrection by Ken McClure
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA half-dead man crashes his car at the Iraqi border. He is picked up by a British patrol and found to have suffered a rare reaction to the smallpox vaccine. But why are the Iraqis innoculating their population against a disease which has been wiped out for twenty years?A young Iraqi student at the Institute of Molecular Science in Edinburgh, Scotland kills himself for no apparent reason... -
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![The Khan by Saima Mir]()
The Khan by Saima Mir
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Bold, addictive and brilliant.' Stylist, Best Fiction 2021Be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men.Jia Khan has always lived like this. A successful lawyer, her London life is a long way from the grubby Northern streets she knew as a child, where her father headed up the Pakistani community and ran the local organised crime syndicate... -
![Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou]()
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsThe full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers... -
![My James: The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father by Ralph Bulger, Rosie Dunn]()
My James: The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father by Ralph Bulger, Rosie Dunn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA powerful, heartfelt and moving account of his son's murder and his fight for justice by Ralph BulgerJames Bulger was just a few weeks shy of his third birthday when, on 12 February 1993, he wandered away from his mum Denise in a shopping mall in Bootle. Grainy images from a security camera showed him trustingly holding the hand of ten-year-old Jon Venables as they walked away... -
![Lockdown by Drauzio Varella]()
Lockdown by Drauzio Varella
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne doctor's account of 10 years spent treating inmates in the Casa de Detenção, Brazil's largest and harshest prison.The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of São Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the "Old House," it was also highly unusual in the way it was governed... -
![Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House by Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz]()
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House by Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House: the wild crimes, audacious cover-up, and spectacular downfall of Vice President Spiro Agnew - with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast... -
![Casos de Família by Ilana Casoy]()
Casos de Família by Ilana Casoy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsO assassinato do casal Richthofen e de Isabella Nardoni foram reunidos em um só livro e trazem novos detalhes observados por quem estava nos bastidores... -
![Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka by Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama]()
Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka by Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings*A New York Times Book Review Notable Book"*An NPR Best Book of the Year*For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy , this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child... -
![The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Dennis Boutsikaris]()
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Dennis Boutsikaris
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters... -
![A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India by Josy Joseph]()
A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India by Josy Joseph
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Every day, millions of people -- the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors -- are hunting for ways to get their business done in modern India. If they search in the right places and offer the appropriate price, there is always a facilitator who can get the job done... -
![Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial. by Ron Peterson Jr.]()
Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial. by Ron Peterson Jr.
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUnder The Trestle is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on a Saturday night. She was never seen again. Her abandoned car was found parked beneath a railroad trestle bridging the New River, with blood in the trunk... -
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![American Desperado: My life as a Cocaine Cowboy by Jon Roberts, Evan Wright]()
American Desperado: My life as a Cocaine Cowboy by Jon Roberts, Evan Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAmerican Desperado is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal autobiography ever written. Like a real-life Scarface Jon was born into the upper levels of the Gambino crime family and witnessed his first murder at age seven. He became a one-man juvenile crime wave before joining an assassination squad in Vietnam... -
![Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara]()
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBy the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society... -
![Book of Poisons: A Guide for Writers by Serita Stevens, Anne Louise Bannon]()
Book of Poisons: A Guide for Writers by Serita Stevens, Anne Louise Bannon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover Deadly Doses to Kill Off CharactersThe readers of your crime and mystery stories should be trying to figure out "whodunit"not wondering why your facts don't make sense. If you want to kill off characters with something poisonous, you need to know how a villain would gain access to such a poison, how it would be administered, and what the effects on the victim would be... -
![Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis]()
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 37 ratings#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new AfterwordIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits... -
![Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein by Bradley J. Edwards]()
Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein by Bradley J. Edwards
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented Epstein’s victims for more than a decade. In June 2008, Florida-based victims’ rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was thirty-two years old and had just started his own law firm when a young woman named Courtney Wild came to see him... -
![Picking Up The Pieces by Paul Britton]()
Picking Up The Pieces by Paul Britton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe extraordinary and fascinating new book by the author of the award-winning bestseller The Jigsaw ManForensic psychologist Paul Britton can 'walk through the minds' of those who murder, rape, torture, extort and kidnap. He can see the world through their eyes and know what they're thinking... -
![هربت ولن تعود - مافيا إخفاء الأموال المنهوبة by Nicholas Shaxson, فاطمة نصر]()
هربت ولن تعود - مافيا إخفاء الأموال المنهوبة by Nicholas Shaxson, فاطمة نصر
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMost people regard tax havens as being relevant only to celebrities, crooks and spivs, and mistakenly believe that the main offshore problems are money laundering and terrorist financing. These are only small parts of the whole picture. The offshore system has been (discreetly) responsible for the greatest-ever shift of wealth from poor to rich... -
![Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels by Paul Pringle]()
Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels by Paul Pringle
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds... -
![Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back by Oliver Bullough]()
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back by Oliver Bullough
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, something has gone wrong with the workings of the world.Once upon a time, if an official stole money, there wasn't much he could do with it. He could buy himself a new car or build himself a nice house or give it to his friends and family, but that was about it... -
![Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart]()
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.Pulitzer Prize–winner James B... -
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![The Department of Truth #1 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds]()
The Department of Truth #1 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCole Turner has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn’t prepared for what happens when he discovers that all of them are true, from the JFK assassination to flat Earth theory and reptilian shapeshifters. One organization has been covering them up for generations... -
![By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham]()
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A... -
![Finding Sharon by Matt Birkbeck]()
Finding Sharon by Matt Birkbeck
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his international bestseller A Beautiful Child, award winning investigative journalist Matt Birkbeck told the heartbreaking story of a brilliant and beautiful young woman known as Sharon Marshall.Caught in the murderous web of the monster she called her father, Sharon wasn’t her real name... -
![Police Procedure & Investigation: A Guide for Writers by Lee Lofland]()
Police Procedure & Investigation: A Guide for Writers by Lee Lofland
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNot everything you see on your favorite crime show is accurate. In fact, a lot of it is flat out wrong. Police Procedure & Investigation helps you get your facts straight about the inner workings of law enforcement... -
![Gardez l'oeil ouvert, Tome 3: 20 histoires criminelles déconcertantes by Victoria Charlton]()
Gardez l'oeil ouvert, Tome 3: 20 histoires criminelles déconcertantes by Victoria Charlton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDe retour sur les lieux du crime avec Victoria Charlton!La célèbre youtubeuse braque les projecteurs sur 20 nouveaux dossiers qui demeurent, encore aujourd'hui, des énigmes uniques dans les annales du crime... -
![Ik zal leven - Het moedige verhaal van een vrouw die geen slachtoffer wilde zijn by Marianne Thamm]()
Ik zal leven - Het moedige verhaal van een vrouw die geen slachtoffer wilde zijn by Marianne Thamm
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this inspiring tale, Alison, the victim of a brutal rape and attempted murder, shares the courage and philosophy that allowed her to turn her tragic experiences into something life-affirming and strong...
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