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Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart's Den of Thieves is a #1 best-seller across the nation. It tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal of the late '80s that nearly brought down Wall Street. Stewart reveals how some of the biggest names on Wall Street-Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine-crafted a scheme to grab billions before a band of downtrodden detectives brought them to justice.

Guinn delivers the definitive portrait of Bonnie and Clyde. These media-savvy outlaws appealed to America's Depression-era hunger for swashbuckling characters. Glowing radio and newspaper reports transformed these "public enemies" into celebrities--much like the cinema gangsters of the time.

Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground investigative reporting that gives readers a front row seat to Hernandez's tumultuous downward spiral, this biography reveals the truth behind the troubled star, with first-person accounts and untold stories.

After Michael Blutrich founded a strip club with proceeds from an embezzlement scheme, he wanted to lay low, make the club a success, and put his criminal acts behind him. But when the Mafia got involved and then the FBI, Blutrich went from carefree club owner to undercover spy.

Was Dorothy Kilgallen, television star, media icon, investigative reporter, and journalist, murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Through discovery of never-before-seen videotaped eyewitness interviews with those closest to Kilgallen and secret government documents, journalist Mark Shaw unfolds a murder mystery featuring suspects including Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia Don Carlos Marcello, and a "mystery man" who may have silenced Kilgallen.

The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa. The twenty-six-year-old white American was brutally murdered during the final days of apartheid. But the true story of Biehl's death is not only a story of forgiveness but also a reflection of the complicated history of a troubled country.

Who Is Bob_34? sheds light on the clandestine world of online child pornography and pedophilia. What exactly do we know about these crimes? Who produces child cyberpornography? Who distributes it? Who consumes it? And is there a link between viewing and abuse? By infiltrating child-porn user groups and comparing their findings to scholarship on the topic, Francis Fortin and Patrice Corriveau address these questions and more, opening a window on a world that is much more complex than media accounts and commissioned reports suggest.

What options did Paul Bernardo’s lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn’t doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public? In this book, leading Canadian legal academics and practising lawyers draw on real-life stories to probe the tension between ethics and the law.

Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and conviction of the victim's son, Dennis Oland, for second ­degree murder. Oland's trial would be the most publicized in New Brunswick history.

In July 1924, Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith was murdered in Vancouver’s wealthy Shaughnessy Heights. Her killer was never apprehended, but the investigation had shocking consequences. Twenty years later, Molly Justice was stabbed to death in a Saanich park. Her murderer has never been charged, even though police were virtually certain of his identity for over 50 years.