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The riveting story of the hunt for a Berlin serial killer at the height of Nazi rule, uncovering the deep connections between German criminal science and policing and the horrors of the Holocaust. December 1940, Berlin. Under the cover of citywide blackouts, the city’s commuter rail system...

The wealthy playboy, the beautiful French teenager, and the bad trip that put LSD on trial at the glamorous center of London's Swinging Sixties—New York Times bestselling author John Glatt's kaleidoscopic investigation into the murder case that shattered the Summer of Love. In 1967, London was...

Forget what you think you know about the Winter Hill Gang; this is the ruthless truth of the Boston underworld and its most ominous figure — his tragic origins, unsolved murders, and his daughter who broke the silence around him. In 2020, author Springs Toledo set out to find a ghost in the...

The shocking true story of the highest-ranking Mafia Boss in history to betray the organization and strike a deal with federal authorities, ending the Mafia’s reign. After his conviction in 1983, Cleveland Mafia Boss Angelo Lonardo became the highest-ranking Mafia Boss to betray his legacy...

Der Täter, ein gebildeter und musikalisch begabter junger Mann aus gutem Hause, handelte ohne offensichtliches Motiv und passte nicht ins Täterklischee. Das machte diesen Fall kurz nach der Jahrhundertwende zu einer medialen Sensation.

The sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco and the trial that epitomized the city's transformation from raucous frontier town into modern metropolis—from the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Sin Shortly before dusk...

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal Legacy, Fin Dwyer charts 200 years of Irish history, opening up our past as never before, by observing the grand societal...

What is it that fascinates so many people about Ronnie Biggs and makes him a household name sixty years on from the crime that made his name? Is it the man or the myth that makes Ron a latter-day Robin Hood, and the odd man out who is best remembered from a gang of sixteen who held up a mail...

A NEW YORK TIMES AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author comes the gripping tale of one of the most scandalous murderers in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. “A masterpiece”—The Observer ...

John "Sonny" Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a "made man" for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, loansharking, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in...

"Will Damron performs a meticulous, exact narration of Stashower’s work. He unpacks the background and history of the places and players with the calm and collected authority of an insider, yet exudes the excitement, confusion, and fear of outsiders when delivering numerous gruesome passages...

Fabián Escalante, the founder of the Cuban Intelligence Services and head of the Cuban State Security Department, provides a clear-eyed, first-person account of his experiences defending Fidel Castro from the extraordinary attempts to take his life. From lethal poisons to plastic explosives to bazookas, Escalante introduces and describes an array of assassination plots and historical figures and depicts the ensuing cat-and-mouse game in the midst of the Cold War.

Brought to you by Penguin. Lies and double-crosses, secret police and explosions, a carriage chase, a mattress stuffed with cash and a one-eyed master of disguise... In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili - who would later take the name Joseph Stalin - met with an old friend, a clerk at...

Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics, and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls. Many of those who were imprisoned in the Tower never returned to civilization and those who did, often did so without their head! It is hardly surprising that the Tower has earned itself a reputation among the most infamous buildings on the planet.

To his parishioners, minister Matt Baker seemed a pious and good man. To his wife, Kari, he was a devoted husband and caring father. Always sunny and vivacious, Kari never questioned their frequent relocations from one small Texas Baptist church to another. Even when tragedy struck, Kari remained strong - until one day, inexplicably, she took her own life.

Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo and his President Street mob waged a deadly Mafia civil war with the Colombo crime family, and in particular, Carmine "the Snake" Persico. And on that fateful night of April 7, 1972, in a Little Italy restaurant, Gallo was assassinated...by Carmine "Sonny" DiBiasi. This is the true story of who really whacked "Crazy Joe" Gallo on that fateful night of April 7, 1972.

A power-hungry baroness with two lovers disrupts life on an Eden-like island in the Galápagos, and an isolated community descends into madness and murder—a true story of utopia gone wrong from New York Times bestselling author Abbott Kahler. “Abbott Kahler’s wickedly gothic tale confronts...

In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner’s report: natural causes. Ida’s husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli’s shifting narratives disregarded. 

In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She recieved a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street. The event is forever glorified by the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings.

Londra, 1888. Un enigmatico serial killer terrorizza i quartieri degradati di Whitechapel, avvicinando prostitute che poi sventra senza pietà. Dallas, 1963. lI presidente Kennedy viene ucciso mentre la sua auto attraversa la città. Dopo soli tre giorni anche il suo assassino viene eliminato. Parigi, 1703. Alla Bastiglia muore un prigioniero costretto da trent'anni a indossare una maschera che gli nasconde il volto. Ekaterinburg, 1918. Nicola Il e la sua famiglia vengono trucidati e sepolti in un luogo misterioso.