True Crime
Explore true crime with these tales full of murder, assassination, theft and forgery, from different historical periods up to the present day.
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Yellow Bird
Murdoch’s gripping narrative follows independent sleuth Lissa Yellow Bird’s dogged investigation into the 2012 disappearance of a truck driver working on tribal land.
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A Few Days Full of Trouble
As the last surviving witness to the 1955 abduction of his cousin Emmett Till, whose lynching was a key moment in the Civil Rights Movement, Parker shares a first-hand account of his experiences and his perspectives on racial justice.
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Till Murder Do Us Part
This continuation of Patterson’s true crime series tells two chilling tales of love gone wrong.
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Indecent Advances
Polchin analyzes true-crime reporting of the 1920s to 1960s to reveal the often harmful ways the press portrayed crimes against gay men.
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Blood & Ink
Vivid storytelling and investigative reporting breathe life into a tawdry century-old murder case, with a keen eye on its role in fueling the growth of tabloid journalism.
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Code Name Blue Wren
This engrossing narrative chronicles Ana Montes, the woman who spied for Cuba from 1985 to 2001 during a successful career as an analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
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The Kneeling Man
Seletzky confronts her dad’s conflicted role as an undercover Memphis police officer who infiltrated the Invaders, a 1960s militant Black Power group.
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Pushed
Washington author Spagna investigates a largely forgotten 1875 incident dubbed the Chelan Falls Massacre, involving the mysterious deaths of nearly 300 Chinese gold miners.
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The Good Assassin
Journalist Talty delivers a captivating account of Israel’s 1965 undercover mission to hold an escaped war criminal accountable, nearly two decades after his involvement in the Holocaust.
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Con/artist
An infamous art forger shares his colorful life story, revealing the art world’s dark secrets along the way.
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