Dead Man Walking
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified...
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Plain, Honest Men
The Making of the American Constitution
Written by Richard Beeman
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $18.00
In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the...
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Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $11.99
The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His...
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The Killer of Little Shepherds
A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Written by Douglas Starr
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $16.00
Winner of the Gold Dagger Award
A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal investigation.
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside, eluding authorities for years, and murdering twice as many victims as Jack The...
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Reversal of Fortune
Inside the Von Bulow Case
Written by Alan M. Dershowitz
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $11.99
Defense attorney and Harvard law professor provides an insider's account of the trial, appeal, subsequent retrial, and acquittal in the murder case of Claus von Bulow, profiling the people involved.
NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
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Justice
Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
Written by Dominick Dunne
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $13.99
For more than two decades,
Vanity Fair has published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Here, in one volume, are Dominick Dunne’s mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow’s romp through two trials; the...
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