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Tout le monde savait. Tout le monde se doutait. Beaucoup de gens avaient leur petite idée de ce qui pouvait m'arriver dans l'intimité du foyer. Les coups, la violence banalisée, les humiliations quotidiennes... Tous les invariables de cette vie qui n'en est pas vraiment une. Un jour, pour qu'il ne nous tue pas, je l'ai tué. Depuis cette nuit-là, celle du 13 mars 2016, le sommeil ne m'a plus jamais trouvée. Je pense à mon procès.

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force - the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed "The Tsunami", quickly realises that even within the organisation, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly.

"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences." - New York Times, Best Wine Books of 2023. How fakes, fraudsters, and grape crusaders have shaped the world of wine. This novel take on the history of wine reveals that, whether by adding toxic sweeteners or passing off counterfeit bottles, wine fraud is abundant—and as old as wine itself.

Instant New York Times bestseller. "The definitive account of the Murdaugh murders. Forget the podcasts, the TV specials, and the documentaries—this is the version of the story you'll want to read. And once you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down."—John Carreyrou, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Bad Blood. Power, privilege, and blood—this is the true story of Alex Murdaugh's violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case.

Nicknamed "the most beautiful woman in Alaska," 31-year-old Diane Wells was bruised and bloodied when she screamed for help in the early hours of October 17, 1953. Her husband Cecil, a wealthy Fairbanks businessman, had been shot dead, and she claimed they were the victims of a brutal home invasion. Blonde, glamorous, and 20 years younger than Cecil, police were immediately suspicious of Diane's account, and the investigation soon turned toward her alleged lover, black musician Johnny Warren, who had left town the night of the murder.

A triumphant, uplifting true justice story led by jury trial expert Richard A. Sprague – the indomitable, nationally renowned prosecutor who engaged in the most intense manhunt investigation in police history. Coal Country Killing: A Culture, A Union, And The Murders That Changed It All, revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America "reform candidate" Jock Yablonski, and murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse.

Winner of the 2024 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Biography. On a June night in 1983, twenty-three-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and her boyfriend, fueled by a sinister cocktail of illicit drugs, broke into a Houston apartment. "We were very wired," Tucker later testified, "and we was looking for something to do." Though they later claimed they entered the premises with no murderous intent, they ended up slaughtering two people—one a sworn enemy, the other an utter stranger. The weapon: a pickax they found in the apartment.

In "The Biggest Cases of Pinkerton National Detective Agency," Allan Pinkerton crafts a gripping narrative that delves into the most significant investigations undertaken by his agency in the 19th century. Through a meticulous blend of first-hand accounts and analytical storytelling, Pinkerton provides readers with a vivid portrayal of the artistry and challenges of detective work during a transformative period in American history.

Before eighteen-year-old Craig Semple joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1988, he was someone who preferred to steer clear of trouble. But like so many young police officers, he gradually built resilience to fear through a process of selflessly, and often recklessly, turning towards danger. By the time he started locking horns with some of Australia's most notorious outlaw motorcycle gangs, Craig believed himself to be bulletproof.

An unexplained disappearance spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. In October 2014, local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo faced a perplexing missing-person case. It was not like Chris Regan, a devoted father and dependable employee, to take off without explanation. When Frizzo learned Chris was having an affair with Kelly Cochran, a married co-worker, suspicion fell on Kelly's hulking husband, Jason. Soon after that the Cochrans abruptly moved to Indiana. Sixteen months later, Jason Cochran died from a drug overdose. Friends and family rallied around the grieving Kelly.