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From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter—the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels.

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.

In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blocks from his home.

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-dive into the still-unsolved double homicide of two teens in Delphi, Indiana—and its lasting impac

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genre.

Major motion picture Flag Day starring Sean Penn and his daughter Dylan Penn is based on this father-daughter story of a charming criminal—told by the daughter who loved him.

The New York Times bestseller – now in paperback, with a new afterword "A must-read for those who care about justice and integrity in our public institutions." —Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq.

A gripping and exhaustively researched, first-time account of a feared gangbuster's groundbreaking battles with organized crime — the KKK — and corruption at the highest levels of government.

"[An] exhilarating, intimate study of fate, chance and the wildly meaningful intersections of disparate lives."—Robert Kolker, New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice.

New York Times bestseller • Named one of the ten best books of the year by San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and Chicago Tribune • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder,

The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, and deaths within their walls.

Greed in the Gilded Age is a Gatsby-esque tale of mystery, money, sex, and scandal.

From #1 New York Times bestselling true-crime author Ann Rule comes "a convincing portrait of a meticulous criminal mind" (The Washington Post) in this chilling tale about a beautiful and

As seen on the Discovery ID TV series Murder is Forever, these two true-crime thrillers follow a lawyer struggling to stop a killer and a detective angling to solve a double homicide.

From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show. The scene is Baltimore.