Jonathan Harr A Civil Action is a non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s.After finding that her child is diagnosed with...

Eric Ferrara New York's Lower East Side is the birthplace of everything from organized crime to anarchist movements. In the nineteenth century, an influx of struggling immigrants seeking opportunity met...

Jaycee Dugard   On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her...

The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe This is the true story of how a small group of courageous journalists uncovered child abuse on a vast scale - and held...

Peter Reder, Sylvia Duncan and Moira Gray What can we learn from inquiries into cases of fatal child abuse? Beyond Blame offers a new way of looking at such cases...

Stephen Fay In an eerie echo of 1929's Black Thursday, which signaled the beginning of the Great Depression, March 27, 1980, was dubbed Silver Thursday by a very fightened Wall...

Dr Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson The Dead Do Tell Tales...A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition....

Ben Mezrich The #1 national bestseller, now a major motion picture, 21 —the amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas—and lived...

Sarah Churchwell A fascinating look at the autumn of 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda returned to New York and the seeds for The Great Gatsby were sownSince its...

James EllroyJames Ellroy is a unique and powerful writer with a tough and explosive voice. His obsession with the dark side of L. A. is personal and vital, triggered by...

John Follian John Follain, who covers Italy for the Sunday Times, tells the definitive inside story of this extraordinary case.Shortly after 12:30 pm on 2 November 2007, Italian police were called...

Lenny McLean A bare-knuckle fighter turned moviestar, Lenny Mclean had powerful friends and terrible enemies. In this biography, he tells stories about his life, including how he knocked out the...