The Annals of Unsolved Crime
Written by Edward Jay Epstein
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 15, 2013
Price: $26.00
The product of more than 40 years of investigative work: an insightful guide to some of the most controversial and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years
Edward Jay Epstein’s book on the Kennedy assassination
Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth was one of the first books on the...
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Sex on the Moon
The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
Written by Ben Mezrich
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $15.95
From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet—moon rocks—from an "impregnable" high-tech vault.
But breaking into a highly secure laboratory wasn't easy. Thad Roberts, an intern in a prestigious...
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Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Written by Kevin Poulsen
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $11.99
Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s...
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The Fatal Gift of Beauty
The Trials of Amanda Knox
Written by Nina Burleigh
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher’s housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a troubled local man Knox said she “vaguely” knew, was...
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Ponzi's Scheme
The True Story of a Financial Legend
Written by Mitchell Zuckoff
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $11.99
You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance.
It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering...
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The Murder of Cleopatra
History's Greatest Cold Case
Written by Pat Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 270 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $20.00
A world-renowned criminal profiler takes a fascinating look at one of the most tragic mysteries in history. For more than two thousand years, the great pharaoh Cleopatra VII has been portrayed as a failed monarch. Various ancient sources state that she desperately ended her life with the bite of an asp...
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The Hot House
Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
Written by Pete Earley
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2011
Price: $7.99
An account of life in Leavenworth Prison, based on interviews with inmates and others, describes the lives of a sexual predator, a gang member in for forty-two years, a sociopath in ""no human contact"" status, and others.
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