True crime stories

  • Till murder do us part : Discovery's Murder is forever, book 6

    Creator

    Patterson, James

    Abstract

    From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a collection of Discovery ID true crime stories where the bonds of matrimony and love can tear you brutally apart. Til Murder Do Us Part : Kathi Spiars can't believe she's found such a good man to marry as Stephen Marcum. Twelve years later, she starts to suspect that he isn't who he says he is. As she digs into his past, she doesn't realize that learning the truth will lead to a lifetime of fear and hiding.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Grand Central Publishing

    Non spécifié
  • The missing millionaire : the true story of Ambrose Small and the city obsessed with finding him

    Creator

    Daubs, Katie

    Abstract

    In December 1919, Ambrose Small, the mercurial owner of the Grand Opera House in Toronto, closed a deal to sell his network of Ontario theatres, deposited a million-dollar cheque in his bank account, and was never seen again. As weeks turned to years, the disappearance became the most "extraordinary unsolved mystery" of its time.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, Ontario

    McClelland & Stewart

    Non spécifié
  • Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith

    Creator

    Krakauer, Jon

    Abstract

    This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God. At the core of Krakauer's book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Doubleday

    Non spécifié
  • Highway of tears : a true story of racism, indifference and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

    Creator

    McDiarmid, Jessica

    Abstract

    A searing and revelatory account of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and an indictment of the society that failed them.

    For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Doubleday Canada

    Non spécifié
  • Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world

    Creator

    Wright, Tom

    Abstract

    Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios).

    Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York, NY

    Hachette Books

    Non spécifié
  • Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland

    Creator

    Keefe, Patrick Radden

    Abstract

    In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Doubleday

    Non spécifié
  • Killers of the flower moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

    Creator

    Grann, David

    Abstract

    From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Doubleday

    Non spécifié
  • Midnight in the garden of good and evil

    Creator

    Berendt, John

    Abstract

    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 its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Vintage Books

    Non spécifié
  • Rodéo

    Creator

    Solovkine, Aïko

    Abstract

    Au départ c'est un jeu. Une manière de tuer le temps. Trouver une proie, en l'occurrence une conductrice esseulée sur une route de campagne, puis la prendre en chasse. Faire crisser les pneus sur l'asphalte, serrer de près sa voiture pour le plaisir de voir sur son visage les traits de la frayeur. Les jours sont longs pour Mike, Jeff, Jimmy, Lucky Strike et compagnie; la vie est grise dans leur ville-dortoir, entre fermetures d'usines, marasme économique et misère sexuelle. C'est normal de vouloir s'amuser un peu...

    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    Éditions XYZ

    Non spécifié
  • El jefe : the stalking of Chapo Guzmán

    Creator

    Feuer, Alan

    Abstract

    The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, "El Chapo," from the New York Times reporter whose coverage of his trial went viral. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is the most legendary of Mexican narcos. As leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, he was one of the most dangerous men in the world. His fearless climb to power, his brutality, his charm, his taste for luxury, his penchant for disguise, his multiple dramatic prison escapes, his unlikely encounters with Sean Penn—all of these burnished the image of the world's most famous outlaw. He was finally captured by U.S.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Macmillan Audio

    Non spécifié