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Death on the Victorian Beat: The Shocking Story of Police Deaths
by
Martin Baggoley
ISBN: 9781526705921
Publication Date: 2018
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following
by
Gabrielle Bluestone
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781488059124
Publication Date: 2021
Madness, Murder and Mayhem: Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
by
Kathryn Burtinshaw; John Burt
ISBN: 9781526734556
Publication Date: 2018
Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer
by
Carlos Busqued
ISBN: 9781948226684
Publication Date: 2020
Oklahoma's Atticus: An Innocent Man and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him
by
Hunter Howe Cates
ISBN: 9781496200907
Publication Date: 2019
The Setup: A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV
by
Pete Crooks
ISBN: 9781940363318
Publication Date: 2015
The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts: A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks
by
Mick Davis; David Lassman
ISBN: 9781526707307
Publication Date: 2018
The House of Gucci
by
Sara Gay Forden
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062222671
Publication Date: 2012
The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale
by
Thomas Giacomaro; Natasha Stoynoff
ISBN: 9781944648022
Publication Date: 2018
Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics
by
Michael Gillard
ISBN: 9781448217410
Publication Date: 2019
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by
David Grann
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780385534253
Publication Date: 2017
Killer Instinct : Having a Mind for Murder
by
Donald Grant
ISBN: 9780522873597
Publication Date: 2018
The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
by
James Higdon
ISBN: 9780762778232
Publication Date: 2013
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by
Eliot Higgins
ISBN: 9781635577303
Publication Date: 2021
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
by
Peter Houlahan
ISBN: 9781640092129
Publication Date: 2019
The Last Train Robber: The Life and Times of Willis Newton
by
W.C. Jameson
ISBN: 9781493046089
Publication Date: 2020
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy
by
Elizabeth Kendall
ISBN: 9781419744853
Publication Date: 2020
The Last Book on the Left
by
Ben Kissel; Marcus Parks; Henry Zebrowski; Tom Neely (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781328566317
Publication Date: 2020
Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer
by
Eve Lazarus
ISBN: 9781551527468
Publication Date: 2019
Tobacco Wars: Inside the Spy Games and Dirty Tricks of Southern Africa's Cigarette Trade
by
Johann van Loggerenberg
ISBN: 9780624081678
Publication Date: 2019
Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman
by
Tammy Mal
ISBN: 9781613739792
Publication Date: 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
by
Michelle McNamara
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062916310
Publication Date: 2019
Safecracker: A Chronicle of the Coolest Job in the World
by
Dave McOmie
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781493058525
Publication Date: 2021
Jane: A Murder
by
Maggie Nelson
ISBN: 9781786995698
Publication Date: 2019
Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History
by
Erika Owen; Alexander Wright
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781982147099
Publication Date: 2021
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief
by
Doris Payne
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062918017
Publication Date: 2019
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall
by
James Polchin
ISBN: 9781640091894
Publication Date: 2019
Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed
by
Jim Popkin
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780369734235
Publication Date: 2023
The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings That Stunned the Nation
by
Robert Rand
ISBN: 9781946885265
Publication Date: 2018
Criminal Contagion: How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers Profit from a Pandemic
by
Tuesday Reitano; Mark Shaw
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9781787384460
Publication Date: 2021
In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
by
Jeffrey L. Rinek; Marilee Strong
ISBN: 9781944648985
Publication Date: 2018
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by
Hallie Rubenhold
ISBN: 9781328663818
Publication Date: 2019
The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice
by
Scott D. Seligman
ISBN: 9781612349947
Publication Date: 2018
The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking
by
Adam Sisman
ISBN: 9781640093287
Publication Date: 2020
The Murder That Defeated Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes: At Mrs Ridgley's Corner
by
Paul Stickler
ISBN: 9781526733856
Publication Date: 2018
1888: London Murders in the Year of the Ripper
by
Peter Stubley
ISBN: 9780752465432
Publication Date: 2012
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
by
Tori Telfer
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062956040
Publication Date: 2021
Taking Shergar: Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case
by
Milton C. Toby
ISBN: 9780813176239
Publication Date: 2018
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
by
Alex Tresniowski
ISBN: 9781982114022
Publication Date: 2021
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
by
Sarah Weinman
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780062899798
Publication Date: 2022
Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global
by
Geoff White
ISBN: 9781789142853
Publication Date: 2020
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