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The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition

eBook | 512 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | True Crime
978-0-307-51409-7 (0-307-51409-9)

August 4, 2010 | $15.00



This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions: crime...

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Angels of Death
Written by William Marsden and Julian Sher

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | True Crime; True Crime - Murder
978-0-307-37032-7 (0-307-37032-1)

July 30, 2010 | $24.00

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Angels of Death
Written by William Marsden and Julian Sher

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307370327
Our Price: $24.00


The award-winning authors of The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada bring us a definitive, up-to-the-minute account of the Hells Angels and the international biker network.

Marsden and Sher explain how the expansion of America’s foremost motorcycle gang has allowed this once ragtag group of rebels, outcasts and...

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The Pickton File
Written by Stevie Cameron

eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | True Crime - Murder - Serial Killers; True Crime
978-0-307-36861-4 (0-307-36861-0)

July 23, 2010 | $24.95

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The Pickton File
Written by Stevie Cameron

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307368614
Our Price: $24.95


Stevie Cameron turns her renowned analytical eye from the "crooks in suits" of her previous books to the case of Vancouver's missing women and the man who has been charged with killing 27 of them, who if convicted will have the horrific distinction of being the worst serial killer in Canadian...

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A Checklist for Murder
Written by Anthony Flacco

eBook | 408 pages | Dell | True Crime
978-0-307-75674-9 (0-307-75674-2)

June 23, 2010 | $7.99

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A Checklist for Murder
Written by Anthony Flacco

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307756749
Our Price: $7.99


The Peernocks cast the impression of being a very well-to-do and content family evenl after the separation of Richard and his wife. But madness was contained inside their house and one night Richard Peemock came to kill his wife and daughter, brutally beating them, force feeding them alcohol and placing them...

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Chemical Cowboys
Written by Lisa Sweetingham

Paperback | 512 pages | Ballantine Books | True Crime
978-0-345-52115-6 (0-345-52115-3)

June 22, 2010 | $9.99

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Chemical Cowboys
Written by Lisa Sweetingham

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345521156
Our Price: $9.99
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In 1995, after receiving a tip from an informant that a new drug called Ecstasy was being pushed in Manhattan’s nightclubs, DEA agent Robert Gagne embarked on a mission to unravel one of the world’s most lucrative drug-trafficking networks. Chemical Cowboys tracks Gagne as he infiltrates New York’s club scene, uncovering...

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The Road to Hell
Written by Julian Sher and William Marsden

eBook | pages | Seal Books | True Crime
978-0-307-36586-6 (0-307-36586-7)

June 11, 2010 | $10.99

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The Road to Hell
Written by Julian Sher and William Marsden

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307365866
Our Price: $10.99


In this definitive, up-to-the-minute account of the Hells Angels in Canada, two veteran journalists investigate why the recent imprisonment of feared biker leader, Maurice “Mom” Boucher, is too little, too late.

By the spring of 2002, Boucher was safely in prison but the Hells Angels had grown to 37 chapters with close...

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One Child at a Time
Written by Julian Sher

eBook | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | True Crime; Current Affairs; Social Science - Pornography
978-0-307-36585-9 (0-307-36585-9)

June 4, 2010 | $13.95

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One Child at a Time
Written by Julian Sher

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307365859
Our Price: $13.95


From a renowned investigative reporter, the true story behind a horrifying Internet abuse epidemic – and the heroes who are out to stop it.

The Internet has helped make child abuse terrifyingly common – it is the new face of crime in the 21st century. There are tens, probably hundreds of...

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A Bright and Guilty Place
Written by Richard Rayner

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor | History - United States; History - United States - 20th Century; True Crime
978-1-4000-3358-4 (1-4000-3358-6)

June 1, 2010 | $18.95

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A Bright and Guilty Place
Written by Richard Rayner

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400033584
Our Price: $18.95
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Best Book of the Year
The Los Angeles TimesThe Washington Post

Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking...

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Priceless

Hardcover | 336 pages | Crown | True Crime
978-0-307-46147-6 (0-307-46147-5)

June 1, 2010 | $29.95

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Priceless
Written by Robert K. Wittman and John Shiffman

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307461476
Our Price: $29.95
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The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”
 
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller...

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Priceless

eBook | 320 pages | Crown | True Crime
978-0-307-46149-0 (0-307-46149-1)

June 1, 2010 | $25.00

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Priceless
Written by Robert K. Wittman and John Shiffman

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307461490
Our Price: $25.00


The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”
 
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller...

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Priceless

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | True Crime
978-0-307-73586-7 (0-307-73586-9)

June 1, 2010 | $24.00

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Priceless
Written by Robert K. Wittman and John Shiffman, Read by Mark Deakins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780307735867
Our Price: $24.00


The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”
 
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller...

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Written by John Berendt

eBook | 400 pages | Vintage | True Crime - Murder
978-0-307-53837-6 (0-307-53837-0)

May 12, 2010 | $21.00

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Written by John Berendt

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307538376
Our Price: $21.00


Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print.

* All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface



Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981.  Was it murder or self-defense?  For nearly a decade, the shooting and...