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Cor Blimey! Where 'ave you come from?

von Winfred Tovey

Winifred Tovey's autobiography is packed with stories and historic photos of India after Independence. In 1951 she travelled to India with her medical missionary husband, Frank, and two small daughters, to start...

Dancing with the Vodka Terrorists: Misadventures in the 'Stans

von Rob Ferguson

When Rob Ferguson went off to the five former Soviet 'Stans of Central Asia to work on a project to save the rapidly disappearing Aral Sea, he expected to have challenges and adventures, but he didn't anticipate...

Body Count

von Burl Barer

He Seemed So Normal . . .

By day, Robert Lee Yates, Jr., was a respected father of five, a skilled helicopter pilot who served in Desert Storm and the National Guard, and a man no one suspected of a deadly hidden...

Mammoth Books presents Missing Persons and Mysterious Deaths

von Jon E. Lewis

Alexander Litvinenko Mr Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian living in London, was poisoned by Polonium-210, traced by alpha detectors to a British Airways flight from Moscow to Heathrow. A Champions League match...

And Then She Killed Him

von Robert Scott

A TwoTime Widow Leading A Double Life

Miriam Giles ran away to Colorado to bury her violent pastbut this seductive, charismatic widow had a dark side that could never stay buried. After finding the "sugar daddy"...

Prisoners of Fear

von Gera-Lind Kolarik

Connie Krauser Chaney had a troubled childhood that she hoped to escape by creating her own stable and caring family. Stability, however, was the last thing she found with her husband Wayne Chaney. Physically...

No, Daddy, Don't!: A Father's Murdeous Act of Revenge

von Irene Pence

"Hi, Mom. Give us a call, okay?"

Even in the bitterest divorce cases, angry ex-spouses usually agree on one thing--the welfare of their children. Mary Jean Pearle, a Dallas antiques dealer, never dreamed that...

Eye of the Beast: The True Story of Serial Killer James Wood

von Terry Adams, Mary Brooks-Mueller & Scott Shaw

In the summer of 1993, James Wood brought terror to the unassuming town of Pocatello, Idaho. Little did the friendly community realize it had opened its arms to serial killer. Wood, the stranger in town, was...

Inside Out

von Parc Prisoners

Brought together by their crimes, the prisoners, young offenders and young people at Bridgend's Parc Prison share their stories of life on the other side of the security walls.

Overkill

von Lyn Riddle

"You ruined my life. You ruined my baby's life!"

Laurie Show was as compassionate as she was hard-working. The outgoing high-school junior worked part-time to pay for the home she and her divorced mother shared....

Lost Girls

von Caitlin Rother

Praise for Caitlin Rother and her true-life thrillers

"Will keep you on the edge of your seat."--Aphrodite Jones

"An exciting page-turner."--M. William Phelps

Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding...

Coroner at Large

von Joseph Dimona & Thomas T. Noguchi

Coroner At Large challenges the verdicts in the murder trials of Jean Harris, Jeff MacDonald, Buddy Jacobson, and explores the deaths of Elvis Presley, Sal Mineo, Freddie Prinze, and more.

Coroner

von Joseph Dimona & Thomas T. Noguchi

America's most controversial Medical Examiner explores the unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, William Holden, Natalie Wood, John Belushi,...

At the Hands of a Stranger

von Lee Butcher

"I didn't kill them for any satisfaction. It was distasteful. It was dreadful. Of course, I was able to do it because of my general rage against society."

Meredith Emerson was a recent college graduate who disappeared...

Head Shot

von Burl Barer

A Storm Of Violence

Paul St. Pierre was an alcoholic driven by an urge to kill all the time. He bullied his younger brother, Chris, into committing unspeakable acts. His childhood friend, Andrew Webb, took drugs,...

Mystery of Ma's Ugly Pickle

von Martin Michael Neveroski

if it didn't make you laugh. MYSTERY OF MA'S UGLY PICKLE is the adventures of a fatherless Polish boy growing up during the Great Depression with a fanatically religious mother. At a tender young age and wrestling...

A Knife in the Heart

von Michael Benson

"Difficult to put down. . .. This is one that I highly recommend." --True Crime Book Reviews on Watch Mommy Die

Die For Love

Sarah Ludemann was new to love. The Pinellas, Florida, 17-year old was a late bloomer....

Complete History of Jack the Ripper

von Philip Sudgen

A comprehensive account of London's celebrated East End killer, revised and updated. The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal...

Rogues in the Gallery: The Modern Plague of Art Thefts

von Hugh McLeave

Rogues in the Gallery exposes it all: the cozy insurance ransom racket, the professional gangs of art thieves, the specialists, the connections with the international drug racket and the Mafia. Hugh McLeave...

You Are Not Alone & Other Stories

von John Heffernan

In the late 1970's the Washington State Prison system opened the Geiger Corrections Center just west of Spokane, Washington. Under the guidance of Superintendent John Heffernan, sixty employees and a budget...