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

    Keefe, Patrick Radden

    Summary:

    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.

    Genre: True crime stories

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

    Wright, Tom

    Summary:

    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

    Genre: True crime stories

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

    McDiarmid, Jessica

    Summary:

    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.

    Genre: True crime stories, Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials

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  • Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith
    Author:

    Krakauer, Jon

    Summary:

    This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy.

    Genre: True crime stories

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

    Daubs, Katie

    Summary:

    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 accoun

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, True crime stories

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

    Patterson, James

    Summary:

    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.

    Genre: True crime stories

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  • Cult, a love story : ten years inside a Canadian cult and the subsequent long road of recovery
    Author:

    Amor, Alexandra

    Summary:

    Think you could never join a cult? Think again. Cults thrive on secrecy, isolation, deception, and manipulation as they coerce even worldly and intelligent people into their cruel grip.

    Genre: Body, mind and spirit, Canadian nonfiction, Religion and spirituality, True crime stories

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  • The third rainbow girl : the long life of a double murder in Appalachia
    Author:

    Eisenberg, Emma Copley

    Summary:

    In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering, but never arrived.

    Genre: Social science, True crime stories, Biographies and autobiographies

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  • My war criminal : personal encounters with an architect of genocide
    Author:

    Stern, Jessica

    Summary:

    Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician wh

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Political science, True crime stories

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  • Broken faith : inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, one of America's most dangerous cults
    Author:

    Mohr, Holbrook

    ,

    Weiss, Mitch

    Summary:

    Broken Faith is the meticulously reported story of a singular female cult leader, a terrifying portrait of life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who esca

    Genre: Religion and spirituality, True crime stories, Social science

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  • The book of Atlantis Black : the search for a sister gone missing
    Author:

    Bonner, Betsy

    Summary:

    Betsy Bonner unravels the mystery of her sister and what happened in the final months before her disappearance, alleged overdose, and death.

    Genre: True crime stories

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  • We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence
    Author:

    Cooper, Becky

    Summary:

    Forty years after the fact, Becky Cooper, a curious Harvard undergrad, first heard whispers of a murdered student, one bludgeoned to death by a professor to cover up an affair.

    Genre: History and geography, Social science, True crime stories, Biographies and autobiographies

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  • The last days of John Lennon
    Author:

    Patterson, James

    Summary:

    John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Music, True crime stories

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  • Cold case north : the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett
    Author:

    Bell, Eric

    ,

    Reder, Deanna

    ,

    Nest, Michael Wallace

    Summary:

    A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of the North's most enduring missing persons cases. Missing persons. Double murder?

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials, True crime stories

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  • Horseplay : my time undercover on the Granville Strip
    Author:

    Boucher, Norm

    Summary:

    In his first true crime memoir, undercover operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver's heroin scene, a world of paranoia, ripoffs, and violence.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, True crime stories

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