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From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the true story of Bradly Morris Cunningham, the handsome and successful entrepreneur who married five different women and destroyed each of them. The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy. Her Crime Files volumes, based on fascinating case histories, have assured her reputation as our premier chronicler of crime.

Instant New York Times Bestseller - "Alice Feeney is great with TWISTS and TURNS." —Harlan Coben - The New York Times Bestselling Author of Rock Paper Scissors returns with a locked-room mystery when a family reunion leads to murder in a delightfully twisty and atmospheric thriller, as seen on the TODAY show - "A dysfunctional family meets Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None with a truly gasp-inducing twist. This is the book you've been looking for." —Catherine Ryan Howard, bestselling author of 56 Days - Daisy Darker was born with a broken heart.

From the author of Here One Moment and The Husband’s Secret comes the number one New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. The inspiration for the award-winning HBO® series starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, and Meryl Streep—available to stream on Max®. A murder... A tragic accident... Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with.

The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. When Amy Price took a temporary design job at an Art Deco hotel in Los Angeles to help a friend, she had no idea the path it would lead her down.

"Grips you by the throat from beginning to end."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true-crime story.

New York Times and Economist Best Book of the Year — From the award-winning author comes the gripping tale of one of the most scandalous murderers in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. “A masterpiece” —The Observer — “Disturbing [and] compelling” —Colm Tóibín — “Superb and unforgettable" —Sally Rooney — “Brilliant” —New York Times Book Review — “A masterly work” —John Banville — “Fascinating” —Emmanuel Carrère — “Morally complex and mesmerizing” —Fintan O'Toole. Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite.

The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over.

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” — Entertainment Weekly. Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America. On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood.

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother. In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running.

An English professor's deadly past comes back to haunt her in this chilling and sexy thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland. As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of *The Reckoning*, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end. She knows this story. It's all familiar because she lived it.