The dark side of love is no fairy tale.... And while we may like to believe that crimes of the heart only victimize those who aren't careful, this page-turning collection of must-read accounts will convince you otherwise. America's #1 true-crime writer, Ann Rule reveals how lovers become predators, how sex and lust can push ordinary people to desperate acts, and how investigators and forensics experts work to unravel the most entangled crimes of passion. Extracting behind-the-scenes details, Rule makes these volatile relationships utterly real, and masterfully re-creates the ill-fated chains of events in such cases as the ex-Marine and martial arts master who seduced vulnerable women and then destroyed their lives...the killer whose calling card was a single bloodred rose...the faithless wife who manipulated and murdered without conscience...the blind date that set the stage for a killer's brutality...and more. In every case, the victim -- young and innocent or older and... Views: 60
San Francisco, 1906. The great West Coast city is a center of industry and excitement--and also, to many, of sin. When the Great Earthquake hits, some believe it is the day of reckoning for the immoral masses.Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Shane Nightingale is witness to the violent deaths of his adoptive mother and sisters--not from the earthquake, but at the hands of a serial killer. As Shane wanders the city appearing to be just another anonymous orphan, he keeps what he has seen a secret. But when his path crosses that of Sergeant Randall Blackburn, who is in pursuit of the killer, the two become an investigative team that will use both a youth's intuitive gifts and a policeman's new deductive techniques and crime-fighting tools to unmask a vicious murderer whose fury can be as intense as that of Mother Nature herself."Every historical mystery tries to hone in on the ideal setting at the perfect moment in time. Anthony Flacco succeeds on both counts in his... Views: 58
At the height of the Civil Rights movement, a young girl's murder stirs racialtensions in Birmingham, Alabama The grave on the football field is shallow, and easy to spot from a distance. It would have been found sooner, had most of the residents in the black half of Birmingham not been downtown, marching, singing, and being arrested alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. Police detective Ben Wellman is among them when he gets the call about the fresh grave. Under the loosely packed dirt, he finds a young black girl, her innocence taken and her life along with it. His sergeant orders Wellman to investigate, but instructs him not to try too hard. In the summer of 1963, Birmingham is tense enough without a manhunt for the killers of a black child. Wellman digs for the truth in spite of skepticism from the black community and scorn from his fellow officers. What he finds is a secret that men from both sides of town would prefer stayed buried. Views: 58
Sept 2003A suspenseful, emotionally charged real-life Sopranos: The son of New
York's most notorious Mafia killer reveals the conflicted life he led
being raised by a cold-blooded murderer, who was also a devoted family
man, and the wrenching legacy of Mafia family life.Al DeMeo will
never forget the day in 1992 when a coworker, a fellow trader at the
New York Stock Exchange, taunted him with a copy of the hot new book
Murder Machine, chronicling the horrific criminal life of DeMeo's
father, Roy, the head of the most deadly gang in organized crime. The
moment sent DeMeo into a psychological tailspin: How could he have spent
his life looking up to, and loving, a vicious killer?For the Sins of My Father
recounts the chilling rise and fall of the man who led the Gambino
family's most fearsome killers and thieves, through the eyes of a son
who had never known any other kind of life. Coming of age in an opulent
Long Island house where money is abundant but its source is unclear, Al
becomes Roy's confidant, sent to call in loans at age fourteen and
gradually coming to understand his father's job description--loan shark,
car thief, porn purveyor and, above all, murderer. But when Al is
seventeen, Roy's body is found in the trunk of a car, a gangland slaying
that places Al between federal prosecutors seeking his testimony and a
mob crew determined to keep him quiet.Desperate to abide by the
father-son bond, but equally determined to escape his father's dangerous
and doomed life, Al Demeo embarks on a courageous quest for the truth,
reconciliation, and honor. With the implacable narrative drive of a
thriller and the power of a painfully honest memoir, For the Sins of My Father presents
a startling and unprecedented perspective on the underworld of
organized crime, exposing for the first time the cruel legacy of a Mafia
life. Views: 58
Bob Hamer is a 26-year veteran of the FBI. In undercover operations Hamer posed as everything from a drug dealer to an aging pedophile. His last undercover assignment-and his hardest-was infiltrating NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association. Now, looking back on a career rich in the kind of action that makes for great cinema, Bob tells us of the challenges he endured and overcame as he stared the dark side of humanity in the face-and never blinked. It is rare for an agent to serve undercover long-term, but he made a career out of a job that can completely consume and destroy a man. Remarkably, through all of this Bob found a way to remain true to his faith, and always put his family before his work. Views: 57
Three novels in one! Sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho joins the British Royal Navy as a young midshipman. Follow his adventures as he undergoes a severe initiation into the dangerous world of the great sailing warships!1. Richard Bolitho: Midshipman1772: a young Richard Bolitho joins the 74-gun Gorgon. Naive and untested, Bolitho must learn the ways of the navy quickly if he is to survive.2. Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger1773: Bolitho returns home to Cornwall for Christmas, but smuggling, ship wrecking and witchcraft tear apart his once-peaceful community.3. Band of Brothers1774: Bolitho stands on the brink of manhood and takes his examination to begin his true career as a King's Officer. But soon he must test his mettle against vicious smugglers! Views: 56
