True Crime from I Cannot Live Without Books

With Malice Aforethought: The Execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti by Theodore W. Grippo For Sacco and Vanzetti, the nightmare began on the night of May 5, 1920. They were riding on a streetcar to Sacco's home when it suddenly stopped. Officer Connolly boarded with his gun drawn. He confronted the two Italians and asked where they came from and… Read more about this item

Murder Beyond the Grave (True Crime Thrillers)by James Patterson Murder Beyond the Grave: Stephen Small has it all -- a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three sons. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight hours of oxygen. The clock is ticking. Murder in… Read more about this item

Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the maximum-security Jefferson City Penitentiary in Missouri, stuffed himself into a bread-filled metal box bound for the prison farm workers. He became the first man to successfully escape in the institution's… Read more about this item

Hunting the Unabomber: The FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the Capture of America's Most Notorious Domestic Terrorist by Lis Wiehl with Lisa Pulitzer On April 3, 1996, a team of FBI agents closed in on an isolated cabin in remote Montana, marking the end of the longest and most expensive investigation in FBI history. The cabin's lone inhabitant was a former mathematics… Read more about this item

The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During her Cape Cod summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter -- the gentle, handsome handyman at the motel -- took her and her sister on adventures… Read more about this item

Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman 1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts... and Tony Costa is at the center of it all. To a certain group of smitten young women, he is known as Sire -- the leader of their counter-culture movement, the charming man who speaks eloquently and hands… Read more about this item

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition,… Read more about this item

At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, A Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice by Rebecca Rosenberg and Selim Algar Wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, Shele Danishefsky had fulfillment at her fingertips. Having conquered Wall Street, she was eager to build a family with her much younger husband, promising Ivy League graduate Rod Colvin. But when his hidden vices surfaced, marital… Read more about this item

Murder in the Heartland, Book 3 by Harry Spiller In a place where murder isn't supposed to happen -- rural Missouri and Southern Illinois -- deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn't matter whether you live in a big city or a small county with farms and churches -- murder is… Read more about this item

Murder in the Heartland, Book #2 by Harry Spiller In a place where murder isn't supposed to happen -- rural Missouri -- deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn't matter whether you live in a big city or a small county with farms and churches -- murder is swift and can… Read more about this item

Murder in the Heartland, Book #1 by Harry Spiller In a place where murder isn't supposed to happen -- Southern Illinois -- deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn't matter whether you live in a big city or a small county with farms and churches -- murder is swift and can… Read more about this item

Death on the Devil's Teeth: The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey by Jesse P. Pollack & Mark Moran As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly… Read more about this item

True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy by Kati Marton THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. In a plot worthy of a John Le Carre, TRUE BELIEVER transports the reader to a turbulent era in which fascism and Communism are on the rise and America retreats from the world. Noel Field joined the secret underground of the international… Read more about this item

The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP by Alex Tresniowski In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small-town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective's first murder case, and… Read more about this item

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson tells the spellbinding true story of two men, an architect and a serial killer, whose fates were linked by the greatest fair in American history: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893, nicknamed "The… Read more about this item