Almost Midnight

eBook | 352 pages | Broadway | True Crime; Religion; True Crime - Murder
978-0-307-81545-3 (0-307-81545-5)

February 8, 2012 | $24.95



The haunting true story of a triple murder in the Ozarks, two lovers on the lam, and a death-row inmate saved by the pope.
On a spring day more than ten years ago, sixty-nine-year-old Lloyd Lawrence was gunned down in rural Missouri. The shooter also turned his twelve-gauge shotgun on Lawrence’s...

The Biker Who Shot Me

eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | True Crime; Biography & Autobiography
978-1-55199-695-0 (1-55199-695-2)

February 8, 2012 | $19.95



On September 13, 2000, Michel Auger was walking away from his car in a parking lot across the street from the offices of Le Journal de Montréal when he was shot in the back six times. Miraculously, although at least one bullet lodged in his spine, no vital organs were damaged...

Kingpin

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Broadway | Technology - History; True Crime - Hoaxes & Deceptions
978-0-307-58869-2 (0-307-58869-6)

February 7, 2012 | $18.00



Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s...

Stung

eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | True Crime; Business & Economics - Business Ethics
978-1-55199-672-1 (1-55199-672-3)

December 21, 2011 | $24.99



He was one of the brightest stars at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a brilliant young banker on his way to the top. But Brian Molony had a secret obsession: he loved to gamble. The unsuspecting bank was soon fuelling that obsession, as Molony helped himself to hundreds of thousands...

Edwin Alonzo Boyd

eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | True Crime
978-0-385-67439-3 (0-385-67439-2)

December 14, 2011 | $18.95



A Second World War veteran and the son of a policmen, Edwin Alonzo Boyd seemed an unlikely condidate for the role of master criminal.  But before his career as a bandit was ended in 1952, the glamorously handsome Boyd cut a swath through 11 Toronto-area banks, stealing thousands of dollars and igniting...

A Woman Scorned

eBook | 338 pages | Anchor | True Crime
978-0-307-80209-5 (0-307-80209-4)

December 14, 2011 | $23.95



2011 Edition with a New Afterword by the author

The venerable and often misquoted phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" continues to haunt American women who accuse men of sexual harassment and rape. In this bracing study of American sexual culture and the politics of acquaintance rape, anthropologist Peggy...

The Book of Assassins

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; True Crime - Murder
978-0-307-36909-3 (0-307-36909-9)

November 16, 2011 | $27.95



The compelling, tragic and often bizarre life stories of history's famous and infamous assassins, now collected in one comprehensive, easy-to-use volume.

The names are well-known, but how much do you know about the inner lives of John Hinckley Jr.,  who shot Ronald Reagan in a misguided attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster, or...

Breaking Blue

eBook | pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Criminals & Outlaws
978-0-307-80040-4 (0-307-80040-7)

November 16, 2011 | $22.00

The Hot House

eBook | 464 pages | Bantam | True Crime
978-0-307-80831-8 (0-307-80831-9)

November 9, 2011 | $7.99



An account of life in Leavenworth Prison, based on interviews with inmates and others, describes the lives of a sexual predator, a gang member in for forty-two years, a sociopath in ""no human contact"" status, and others.