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It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHonorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Historical Fiction Category2021 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award 2021 Finalist Wishing Shelf Book AwardRiveting Southern Fiction by the award-winning author of When We Were Brave. ~Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden... -
![None Left to Tell by Noelle W. Ihli]()
None Left to Tell by Noelle W. Ihli
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree women, connected by one of the most brutal mass slayings in US history.Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now, the tables have turned. Rumor has it, some of those same men are traveling through Utah on their way to California. And this time, Lucy won’t run... -
![The Secret Hours by Mick Herron]()
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret Service “to investigate historical over-reaching... -
![A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne]()
A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey were the family with everything. Money. Influence. Glamour. Power. The power to halt a police investigation in its tracks. The power to spin a story, concoct a lie, and believe it was the truth. The power to murder without guilt, without shame, and without ever paying the price. America's royalty, they called the Bradleys. But an outsider refuses to play his part... -
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![Veil of Doubt by Sharon Virts]()
Veil of Doubt by Sharon Virts
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed? Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is accused of poisoning her three-year-old daughter, Maud... -
![Libra by Don DeLillo]()
Libra by Don DeLillo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero KIn this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history... -
![A Million Drops by Víctor del Árbol]()
A Million Drops by Víctor del Árbol
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn intense literary thriller that tears through the interlocked histories of fascism and communism in Europe without pausing for breath. Gonzalo Gil is a disaffected lawyer stuck in a failed career and a strained marriage, dodging the never-ending manipulation of his powerful father-in-law... -
![Carolina Skeletons by David Stout]()
Carolina Skeletons by David Stout
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1944, Linus Bragg, a 14-year-old black student, is accused of killing two white girls and condemned to the electric chair. Forty-four years later, Bragg's nephew travels to South Carolina to discover the truth--and finds himself on the Wanted List and fighting for his own freedom! HC: Mysterious Press... -
![The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth Woollett]()
The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a convicted serial killer, seeking inspiration. A pair of childhood sweethearts reunite to commit rape and murder. A devoted Mormon wife follows her husband into the wilderness after he declares himself a prophet... -
![Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys]()
Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story.Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling...Categorized as:
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![The Accident Man by Tom Cain]()
The Accident Man by Tom Cain
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf Princess Diana had been murdered, what sort of man would have killed her? Breathlessly paced and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cain's The Accident Man surprises the reader at every turn. For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver will arrange a death. A ruptured gas line, an automobile crash, a fall from a window; anything can look like an accident... -
![The Angel Makers by Jessica Gregson]()
The Angel Makers by Jessica Gregson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Like Tracy Chevalier in Girl with the Pearl Earring, Gregson excels at developing strong, complex female voices; a swift plot; and a story that will hold readers from beginning to end.BooklistWhen the men of a remote Hungarian village go off to war in 1916, the women left behind realize their lives are much better without them... -
![Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara]()
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare...Categorized as:
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![Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott]()
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBy the author of Dare Me and The End of EverythingIn October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles' Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade... -
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![The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee]()
The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of High Dive comes an enveloping, exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, a story of one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder.Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises... -
![The Secrets of Lizzie Borden by Brandy Purdy]()
The Secrets of Lizzie Borden by Brandy Purdy
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn her enthralling, richly imagined new novel, Brandy Purdy, author of The Ripper’s Wife, creates a compelling portrait of the real, complex woman behind an unthinkable crime. Lizzie Borden should be one of the most fortunate young women in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her wealthy father could easily afford to provide his daughters with fashionable clothes, travel, and a rich, cultured life... -
![End of Story by Peter Abrahams]()
End of Story by Peter Abrahams
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAspiring author Ivy Seidel accepts a part-time position teaching writing to a group of convicted criminals hoping the experience will add depth and darkness to her own work. But in the haunting writings of charismatic inmate Vance Harrow she discovers a talent possibly greater than her own... -
![Too Much Money by Dominick Dunne, Ann Marie Lee]()
Too Much Money by Dominick Dunne, Ann Marie Lee
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"My name is Gus Bailey...It should be pointed out that it is a regular feature of my life that people whisper things in my ear, very private things, about themselves or others. I have always understood the art of listening." The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has finally gotten him into trouble--$11 million worth... -
![Decoded by Mai Jia, 麦家]()
Decoded by Mai Jia, 麦家
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of China's bestselling novels, an unusual literary thriller that takes us deep into the world of code breakingIn his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking... -
![El reverso de la fortuna by Michael Ennis]()
El reverso de la fortuna by Michael Ennis
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA sweeping, intense historical thriller starring two of the great minds of Renaissance Italy: Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci... -
![Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari]()
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times BestsellerIt is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world have begun to recognize three startling truths: Drugs are not what we think they are... -
![The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]()
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratings#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLERPharma-funded mainstream media has convinced millions of Americans that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a hero. He is anything but. As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci dispenses $6... -
![Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation by Paul Holes, Jim Clemente]()
Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation by Paul Holes, Jim Clemente
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Golden State Killer. The East Area Rapist. The Original Night Stalker. The Visalia Ransacker.The monster who preyed on Californians from 1976 to 1986 was known by many aliases. And while numerous police sketches tried to capture his often-masked visage, the Golden State Killer spent more than 40 years not only faceless, but nameless... -
![Columbine by Dave Cullen]()
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsBarnes & Noble Discover Great New WritersColumbine -- it used to represent a lovely blue flower that grows in the West. Sadly, it now has a different, much darker legacy of terrified students and of a pair of killers who did away with themselves before they could answer any of our questions... -
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![The Hospital: How I Survived the Secret Child Experiments at Aston Hall by Barbara O'Hare]()
The Hospital: How I Survived the Secret Child Experiments at Aston Hall by Barbara O'Hare
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Sunday Times top ten bestseller...'Nobody knew what was going on behind those doors. We were human toys. Just a piece of meat for someone to play with.'Barbara O'Hare was just 12 when she was admitted to the psychiatric hospital, Aston Hall, in 1971. From a troubled home, she'd hoped she would find sanctuary there... -
![There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz]()
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. The boys live in a gang-plagued war zone on Chicago's West Side, literally learning how to dodge bullets the way kids in the suburbs learn to chase baseballs... -
![Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko]()
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny... -
![Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones]()
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin—the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin—to the veins of people across the United States... -
![Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Eric Powell, Harold Schechter]()
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Eric Powell, Harold Schechter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Killer Files, Hell's Princess), teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell (The Goon, Big Man Plans, Hillbilly) to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history, Ed Gein... -
![Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace by Michael Morton]()
Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace by Michael Morton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justice—and a second chance at life.On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time...
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