Showing posts with label True Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label True Crime. Show all posts

Alice Seabold - 2 knjige


TH - 1356 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - Bestseller 

(Fiction and Fantasy, Thriller, Contemporary, Young Adult)
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling.

N - 270 | Lucky Alice Sebold (Autobiography, Nonfiction, True Crime, Drama)
In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus.


F - 2751 | Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Memphis, 1939.
Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty.

Aiken, South Carolina, present day.
Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family’s long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption.

Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.

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N - 253 | All God's Children by Rene Denfeld

James Daniel Nelson first hit the streets as a teenager in 1992. He joined a clutch of runaways and misfits who camped out together in a squat under a Portland bridge. Within a few months the group—they called themselves a "family"—was arrested for a string of violent murders.

While Nelson sat in prison, the society he had helped form grew into a national phenomenon. Street families spread to every city from New York to San Francisco, and to many small towns in between, bringing violence with them. In 2003, almost eleven years after his original murder, Nelson, now called "Thantos", got out of prison, returned to Portland, created a new street family, and killed once more. Twelve family members were arrested along with him.

Rene Denfeld spent over a decade following the evolution of street family culture. She discovered that, contrary to popular belief, the majority of these teenagers hail from loving middle-class homes.
Yet they have left those homes to form insular communities with cultish hierarchies, codes of behavior, languages, quasireligions, and harsh rules.

She reveals the extremes to which desperate teenagers will go in their search for a sense of community, and builds a persuasive and troubling case that street families have grown among us into a dark reversal of the American ideal.

N - 253

F - 2311 | Crippen by John Boyne

July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.

Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt for them has begun.

Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. Montrose has just set off on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the first-class passengers is a Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by his teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner, anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed.

An accomplished, intricately plotted novel, Crippen brilliantly reimagines the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most notorious killers and marks the outstanding American debut of one of Ireland's best young novelists.

 

F - 2311 


R - 412 | Don’t Make Me Beautiful by Elle Casey

This story was inspired by true events. If you liked the movie "Sleeping With the Enemy", then you might like this story too.

No one knew a woman lived there or that she even existed. A monster, living in darkness...

At twenty-two, Nicole doesn't even look human anymore. The beast made sure of that. So she hides. A monster, consigned to a life of fear and solitude. This is all she deserves, she is quite sure of that.  And then one day out of the blue, the autographed baseball caught by Brian Jensen at the latest Marlins game enters her prison and manages to turn her world completely upside down.

Temptation comes in the form of pity at first, and then perhaps something more. Does she dare to believe the things she's told, that this is not the life she was meant to live? That being a monster is not her forever-fate? And will she be willing to risk everything, to reach out and accept the helping hands around her and share her deepest, darkest secrets? She knows only too well that hands can hurt. Finding out whether they can also heal is a risky proposition, especially when the beast is still out there. Looking for her.

Content warning: Violence, foul language, and adult situations. Not meant for younger readers. 

 

ID:  R - 412


Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - 40 knjiga

 


Pendergast Series:
(19 primary works; 22 total works)

(Mystery, Horror, SF)

- Best-selling Series -

PN - 748/1 | Relic (Pendergast #1) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/2 | Reliquary (Pendergast #2) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/3 | The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/4 | Still Life with Crows (Pendergast #4) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/5 | Brimstone (Pendergast #5; Diogenes #1) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/6 | Dance of Death (Pendergast #6; Diogenes #2) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/7 | The Book of the Dead (Pendergast #7; Diogenes #3) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/8 | The Wheel of Darkness (Pendergast #8) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/9 | Cemetery Dance (Pendergast #9) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/10 | Fever Dream (Pendergast #10) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/11 | Cold Vengeance (Pendergast #11) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/12 | Two Graves (Pendergast #12) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/12.5 | Extraction (Pendergast #12.5) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/13 | White Fire (Pendergast #13) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/14 | Blue Labyrinth (Pendergast #14) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/15 | Crimson Shore (Pendergast #15) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/16 | The Obsidian Chamber (Pendergast #16) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/17 | City of Endless Night (Pendergast #17) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/18 | Verses for the Dead (Pendergast #18) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 748/19 | Crooked River (Pendergast #19) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Ice Limit Series:
(2 primary works; 2 total works)

(Mystery, Action, Adventure, SF)

PN - 749/1 | The Ice Limit (Ice Limit #1) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 749/2 | Beyond the Ice Limit (Ice Limit #2; Gideon Crew #4) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Gideon Crew Series:
(5 primary works; 5 total works)

(Mystery, Action, Adventure, SF)

PN - 750/1 | Gideon’s Sword (Gideon Crew #1) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 750/2 | Gideon's Corpse (Gideon Crew #2) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 750/3 | The Lost Island (Gideon Crew #3) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

[PN - 750/4]  PN - 749/2 | Beyond the Ice Limit (Ice Limit #2; Gideon Crew #4) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 750/5 | The Pharaoh Key (Gideon Crew #5) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Wyman Ford Series:
(4 primary works; 4 total works)

(Mystery, Action, Adventure, SF)

PN - 751/1 | Tyrannosaur Canyon (Wyman Ford #1) by Douglas Preston - Bestseller

PN - 751/2 | Blasphemy (Wyman Ford #2) by Douglas Preston

PN - 751/3 | Impact (Wyman Ford #3) by Douglas Preston

PN - 751/4 | The Kraken Project (Wyman Ford #4) by Douglas Preston

Nora Kelly Series:
(2 primary works; 3 total works)

 (Thriller, Adventure, Horror)

PN - 752/0 | Thunderhead (Nora Kelly #0) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

PN - 752/1 | Old Bones (Nora Kelly #1) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child


N - 224 | The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston - Bestseller (Nonfiction, History, Travel, Adventure, Science)

N - 225 | The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston - Bestseller
(Nonfiction, True Crime, History)

N - 227 | Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado by Douglas Preston
(Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure, History)

N - 228 | Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History by Douglas Preston
(Nonfiction, Science, History, Dinosaurs)


TH - 1020 | The Codex by Douglas Preston   (Mystery, Adventure, Action)

TH - 1021 | Riptide by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - Bestseller   (Mystery, Adventure, Action)


PN - 753 | Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston  (Thriller, SF)

PN - 754 | Jennie by Douglas Preston  (Historical Fiction, SF, Animals, Thriller)


N - 34 | Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Patrick Radden Keefe writes an intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles.


Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it.

In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.

Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. 


The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders.

ID:  N - 34


N - 35 | Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII by Sophie Poldermans

This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy by seducing high-ranking Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them. They provided Jewish children with safe houses and gathered vital intelligence for the resistance. They did what they did "because it had to be done." Above all, they tried to remain human in inhuman circumstances.


Hannie Schaft was executed by the Nazis three weeks before the end of the war and became the icon of female Dutch resistance. Truus and Freddie Oversteegen survived the war, but were forever haunted by the demons of their past.

ID:  N - 35


N - 192 | If You Tell by Gregg Olsen

#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.
 
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.
For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors.

Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.

Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor’s story of absolute evil—and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today—loving, loved, and moving on.


An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.

ID:  N - 192


N - 187 | A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Which British education system struggles with 50% illiteracy? Where do teetotal Muslims attend AA meetings? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow?

Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service, a creaking and surreal world that has been left to rot for decades in the shadows of polite society.

Like most people, documentary-maker Chris Atkins didn't spend much time thinking about prisons. But after becoming embroiled in a dodgy scheme to fund his latest film, he was sent down for five years. His new home would be HMP Wandsworth, one of the oldest, largest, and most dysfunctional prisons in Europe.

Horrifying, moving, and darkly funny, this is the unvarnished depiction of what he found. With a cast of characters ranging from wily drug dealers to corrupt screws to senior officials bent on endless (and fruitless) reform, this is the reality behind the locked gates. Full of incredible and hilarious stories, A Bit of a Stretch reveals the true scale of our prison crisis and why it is costing us all.

ID:  N - 187


N - 183 | 50 SERIAL KILLERS: Bloody protagonists of history's worst murder sprees by Gary Lequipe

Serial killers are nothing like the ones we know through films or literary texts. They are not crime geniuses, but tormented beings with mental disorders and an exacerbated narcissism. Discover the behavior patterns and the stories of the most terrible criminals.

ID:  N - 183


N - 163 | Secrets from the Grave by Maria Eftimiades

He was a beloved family physician, and a ruthless doctor of death, who almost got away with murder.

It was a friendly hunting trip - two men kicking back, shooting at clay pigeons on campgrounds near rural Montrose, Pa. Then, a single shot rang out. Moments later, Marty Dillon, a promising young lawyer, was dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. His friend, Dr. Stephen Scher, later tearfully explained that Dillon had been running with a shotgun after a porcupine, and tripped and fell, accidentally killing himself. But what really happened?


Marty Dillon's violent death was immediately declared an accident by the local coroner in 1976. But as Dillon's body was lowered into the cold ground, did a damning secret, one that would haunt his friends and family for decades, go with him?

* Were rumors of an affair between Dr. Scher and Marty's wife, Pat, true?
* Why did the couple marry so soon after Dillon's death?
* If the shot was self-inflicted, why did the bullet come from Dr. Scher's gun?
* What was it about Dillon's bloody wound that cast suspicion on Scher?

After 20 years of pleading with authorities, and finally hiring their own investigators, Dillon's parents persuaded the Pennsylvania State Police to reopen the case. They exhumed Dillon's body - and his decayed remains told the real story of that tragic day two decades earlier. On October 22, 1997, Dr. Stephen Scher was convicted of the murder of Marty Dillon - final justice for a cold-blooded killer who for 20 years thought he had gotten away with murder.

ID:  N - 163


N - 161 | Cruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite Jones

On a freezing January in 1992, five teenage girls crowded into a car. By the end of the night, only four of them were alive. 
The fifth had been tortured and mutilated nearly beyond recognition. 
Her name was Shanda Sharer.
Her age--twelve.

When the people of Madison, Indiana heard that a brutal murder had been committed in their midst, they were stunned. Then the story became even more bizarre. The four accused murderers were all girls under the age of eighteen: Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence.

Veteran true crime journalist Aphrodite Jones reveals the shocking truth behind the most savage crime in Indiana history--A tragic story of twisted love and insane jealousy, teen lesbianism, and the sadistic ritual killing of a young Innocent girl.

ID:  N - 161


N - 147 | Torture Mom: A Chilling True Story of Confinement, Mutilation and Murder (True Crime) by Ryan Green

In July 1965, teenagers Sylvia and Jenny Likens were left in the temporary care of Gertrude Baniszewski, a middle-aged single mother and her seven children.

The Baniszewski household was overrun with children. There were few rules and ample freedom. Sadly, the environment created a dangerous hierarchy of social Darwinism where the strong preyed on the weak.

What transpired in the following three months was both riveting and chilling.


In October 1965, the body of Sylvia Likens was found in the basement of the Baniszewski home, where she had been imprisoned. She was starved, beaten, burned and had the words "I am a prostitute and proud of it" carved into her stomach.

Gertrude Baniszewski oversaw and facilitated the torture and eventual murder of Sylvia Likens. While she played an active role in Sylvia's death, the majority of the abuse was carried out by her children and other neighbourhood youths.

The case shocked the entire nation and would later be described as "The single worst crime perpetuated against an individual in Indiana's history".

CAUTION: This book contains descriptive accounts of abuse and violence. If you are especially sensitive to this material, it might be advisable not to read any further.

ID:  N - 147


N - 144 | Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster by Jonathan Eig

Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation’s most notorious criminal in rich new detail.

From the moment he arrived in Chicago in 1920, Capone found himself in a world of limitless opportunity. He was an impetuous, affable young man of average intelligence, ill prepared for fame and fortune, whose most notable characteristic was his scarred left cheek. Yet within a few years, Capone controlled an illegal bootlegging business with annual revenue rivaling that of some of the nation’s largest corporations. Along the way he corrupted the Chicago police force and local courts while becoming one of the world’s first international celebrities.

Get Capone explores every aspect of the man called “Scarface,” paying particular attention to the myths that have for so long surrounded and obscured him. Capone emerges as a worldly, emotionally complex man, doomed as much by his ego as by his vicious criminality. This is the real Al Capone.

ID:  N - 144


N - 101 | The Invention Of Murder: How The Victorians Revelled In Death And Detection And Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders

In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction.

Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama—even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other—the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell.


In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare’s bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London’s East End.

Through these stories of murder—from the brutal to the pathetic—Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain.  With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.


ID:  N - 101


N - 100 | Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science by Nigel McCrery

Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the major areas of forensic science from around the world over the past two centuries. The book weaves dramatic narrative and scientific principles together in a way that allows readers to figure out crimes along with the experts.

Readers are introduced to such fascinating figures as Dr. Edmond Locard, the “French Sherlock Holmes”; Edward Heinrich, “Wizard of Berkeley,” who is credited with having solved more than 2,000 crimes; and Alphonse Bertillon, the French scientist whose guiding principle, “no two individuals share the same characteristics,” became the core of criminal identification. 

Landmark crime investigations examined in depth include a notorious murder involving blood evidence and defended by F. Lee Bailey, the seminal 1936 murder that demonstrated the usefulness of the microscope in examining trace evidence, the 1849 murder of a wealthy Boston businessman that demonstrated how difficult it is to successfully dispose of a corpse, and many others.

ID:  N - 100


N - 95 | Murder in The Bayou by Ethan Brown

An explosive, true-life southern gothic story, Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Louisiana parish.

Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the murky canals and crawfish ponds of Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000 in the heart of the Jefferson Davis parish. Local law enforcement officials were quick to pursue a serial killer theory, opening a floodgate of media coverage—from CNN to The New York Times. Collectively the victims became known as the “Jeff Davis 8,” and their lives, their deaths, and the ongoing investigation reveals a small southern community’s most closely guarded secrets.

As Ethan Brown suggests, these homicides were not the work of a single serial killer, but the violent fallout of Jennings’ brutal sex and drug trade, a backwoods underworld hidden in plain sight. 

Mixing muckraking research and immersive journalism over the course of a five-year investigation, Ethan Brown reviewed thousands of pages of previously unseen homicide files to determine what happened during each victim’s final hours. 

Epic in scope and intensely suspenseful, Murder in the Bayou is the story of an American town buckling under the dark forces of poverty, race, and class division—and a lightning rod for justice for the daughters it lost.

ID:  N - 95


N - 94 | The Hospital: How I survived the secret child experiments at Aston Hall by Barbara O'Hare

The Sunday Times top ten bestseller...

'Nobody knew what was going on behind those doors. We were human toys. Just a piece of meat for someone to play with.'

Barbara O'Hare was just 12 when she was admitted to the psychiatric hospital, Aston Hall, in 1971. From a troubled home, she'd hoped she would find sanctuary there. But within hours, Barbara was tied down, drugged with sodium amytal - a truth-telling drug - and then abused by its head physician, Dr Kenneth Milner.

The terrifying drug experimentation and relentless abuse that lasted throughout her stay damaged her for life. But somehow, Barbara clung on to her inner strength and eventually found herself leading a campaign to demand answers for potentially hundreds of victims.

A shocking account of how vulnerable children were preyed upon by the doctor entrusted with their care, and why it must never happen again.


ID:  N - 94



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