Lawrence Schiller In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenét Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under...

Patricia CornwellNow updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus.In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror. An...

Bryan Burrough January 1, 2009 by PENGUIN

Sunny Jacobs In 1976 a 28 year old mother of two and her partner were wrongfully sentenced to death by the Florida courts for the murder of two police officers....

Alfred Hitchcock

Christopher Berry-DeeCriminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes readers deep inside the dark minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous people alive. Having spent years interviewing imprisoned criminals, including notorious serial...

Herbert Ashbury The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered . . . the...

David W Maurer'Of all the gifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, ' wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitively proved in The Big Con. A professor of linguistics who...

Ronald Kessler  No institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, no institution is...

Helmut Walser Smith Traces the events surrounding the murder of a German boy in 1900 and the Jewish butcher accused of the crime, piecing together the rumors, accusations, and anti-Semitic...

Gitta Sereny In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused...

John Berendt June 5, 2006 by Sceptre