Browsing: True Crime

A New York Times bestselling author sheds new light on the Jonestown massacre and Jim Jones’s evolution from preacher to cult leader. This “thoroughly chilling” account (The Boston Globe) paints “a disturbing portrait of evil” (San Francisco Chronicle).

After Nicolas de La Reynie became the first police chief of 17th-century Paris, he discovered a scandal possibly involving King Louis XIV’s own mistress… “Tucker vividly brings to life a slice of Parisian history in this rigorously researched true crime epic” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

Did Mary Pinchot Meyer uncover the truth behind JFK’s assassination — and was she killed for what she found? “Mary’s Mosaic just might have solved a great murder mystery… A must-read” (New York Times bestselling author Jim Marrs).

A New York Times bestseller with over 14,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: In 1986, Christopher Knight left home for the woods of New England — and spent nearly 30 years there in complete isolation. “An extraordinary story about solitude, community, identity, and freedom” (The Guardian).

Hot Art traces Joshua Knelman’s five-year immersion in the shadowy world of art theft, where he uncovers a devious game…

When Sam Amirante was a young lawyer just opening his practice, he had no idea his first client would be the vicious, infamous John Wayne Gacy. This shocking true story “will illuminate the case for anyone fascinated by the inner workings of a serial killer” (Publishers Weekly).

From the outside, Nancy Cooper’s life with her husband and children in a beautiful North Carolina town seemed perfect. But when her body was discovered one summer day, it would reveal the darkness beneath her marriage’s seemingly tranquil surface.

Soon to be a NETFLIX film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey…

When death swept through a vibrant community in the mid-1990s, a canny insurance investigator and a homicide detective began to track a predator — and sparked a hunt that would span continents before the killer was finally brought to justice.

Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me…