White Crime

In 1875, an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour. In similar cases at the time, authorities routinely exonerated Maryland law enforcement officers who killed African Americans, usually without serious inquiry. But in this case, Baltimore’s White community chose a different path. A coroner’s jury declined to attribute the killing to accident or self-defense, the state’s attorney indicted McDonald and brought him to trial, and a jury convicted McDonald.

In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the consequences of the perjury epidemic that has swept our country, undermining the very foundation of our courts.With many prosecutors, investigators, and participants speaking for the first time, Tangled Webs goes behind the scene of the trials of media and homemaking entrepreneur Martha Stewart; top White House political adviser Lewis "Scooter" Libby; home-run king Barry Bonds; and Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff. Tangled Webs reaffirms the importance of truth.

Ein Hilfeschrei von der luxuriösen Costa Smeralda erreicht Nora und Paolo. Ihr Freund Ernesto ist ohne Erinnerung im Backstage-Bereich eines Theaters aufgewacht – neben sich der Star der Show, vergiftet. Ohne zu zögern beginnen Nora und der Commissario mit ihren eigenen Recherchen, um Ernestos Unschuld zu beweisen. Doch zunächst tappen sie im Dunkeln – hat der Mord etwas mit den Memoiren der Schauspielerin zu tun, die bald veröffentlicht werden sollen, oder hat doch ihr Mann seine Finger im Spiel, der nun ein Vermögen erbt und sich auffällig gut mit Giftpflanzen auskennt?

Nora hat sich vorerst auf Sardinien sesshaft gemacht und hilft bei einem befreundeten Weinbauern aus. Eines Morgens macht sie jedoch eine schreckliche Entdeckung – im Degustationszimmer liegt die Leiche eines Mannes. Schnell ist klar, dass es sich um ihren Kollegen, den Sommelier, handelt und dass sein Tod ein Unfall war. Doch Nora fallen schon bald immer mehr Details auf, die ihr merkwürdig vorkommen. Und so beginnt sie eigene Nachforschungen anzustellen, während in dem kleinen Dorf Mandriola alle im Hochzeitsfieber sind und sich niemand so wirklich für ihre Recherchen interessiert.

The Women's Club prides itself on the success of its annual White Elephant Sale, but this year's sale is marred by a bizarre turn. A blackmailer coerces five of the town's citizens into donating valuable artifacts. When a volunteer fails to show up on time, Henny Brawley drives off to find the missing woman, just as a powerful squall hits the island. Hours later, a worried Annie Darling goes off in search of Henny, only to find the corpse of the missing volunteer. The victim turns out to be the blackmailer.

He spoke six languages, had an exceptional memory, hated the Soviet system and thirsted for revenge, was fit as a fiddle, a dead shot, enthusiastic and eminently malleable. So they recruited him at age 22. After training him, they let him loose on Canada, the US, Cuba, the Caribbean, Uruguay, Central America and Switzerland.

It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form and raked in millions at his office in downtown Boston. Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing true story of the irresistible scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history–and uttered the first roar of the Roaring Twenties.

This is the uncompromising vision of Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile. Fearless and highly erotic, these stories delight in ideas of sexual transgression and liberation, offering a window onto a world where anything is permitted and everything is safe. As each of Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile's characters break from the bonds of acceptability and enter a darkness of desire, submission and sex, they discover their own humanity, a place where they can truly be free.

All Porter Fischer wanted was the $4,000 Tony Bosch owed him. But Bosch would not pay him back, so he swiped Bosch’s Biogenesis ledgers as collateral. Fischer eventually examined the lists of clients and treatment plans revealed in the ledgers and saw what he really had: proof that major and minor sports figures came to the Miami antiaging clinic for anabolic steroids, human growth hormones, and other illegal drugs. That included one of the greatest sluggers in modern baseball history: three-time MVP Alex Rodriguez.

Seniors are dying at the Brookside Senior Living Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. This is not unusual, but the rate has doubled in the last six months. One or two retirees are now dying each week. The executive director reports to the police that someone appears to be helping the grim reaper harvest his crop more quickly than expected. Chief Detective Bradley requests his friend and celebrated international investigator, Maurice Bordeau, and his confidante, Anthony Bristol, to take a break from their train tour across America and assist him to find the murderer.

Indictment Summer tells the story of the major criminal charges facing Donald Trump and his desperate attempts to evade justice, including the New York indictment for falsifying business records in connection to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case, the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, the January 6th case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, and the Fulton County Georgia election interference case brought by District Attorney Fani Willis.

The British don’t belong in Africa. Their skins are too pale, their clothing too heavy and elaborate, their morality all wrong. And yet, here they are in 1912 in the British Protectorate of East Africa, tangled in an uneasy peace with the Sultan of Zanzibar. Much of the tangle in this new mystery in Alfieri’s East Africa series concerns the slave trade. The British have outlawed it, but, well, it’s all a matter of who you know and who you owe, isn’t it? That slippery morality infuriates Vera Tolliver, a Scottish missionary’s daughter and the bride of a English police officer.

Gifted children are being murdered around the world by a religious cult that believes one of them is the biblical beast. But a mercenary with a bad history is on their trail and he will not let go until they are stopped.

Fighting the vigilantes, zombies, and weather has taken its toll on the Saunders Farm. But there is little time to mourn the dead as the world around them comes crashing in with modern weapons and a military leader bent on revenge. Jerry, his son, and a few friends know that a superior military force is coming for them. There is little they can do but hope, pray, and depend on their friends from space. Jerry's daughter and three others must find a way to survive a trek across 5,000 miles and two countries, battling the unknown, the lawless and the mutants left over from the Great Plague.

In a desolate Michigan ghost town, two men discover a lost Tesla technology. Now they are on the run from the Russian mob, a Chinese spymaster and a ruthless old woman who will stop at nothing to possess the technology.

Populations died in the most devastating plague to ravage the planet in the history of man. Billions are dead, leaving just a handful of people scattered across the world, struggling to live the lives they have left. Some chose to struggle with the land, scratching out a living on a piece of property and hoping to make it from one day through to the next. Others, the vigilantes and brigands, chose to prey on the survivors. They hunt, kill and torture those who want nothing more than to be left alone to live in peace.

In June 2004, 16-year-old Liam Kelly was lured to a location in Liverpool in the early hours of one morning and shot dead. The following year, another Liverpudlian, 22-year-old mother of three Lucy Hargreaves, was shot dead in her own home. Her partner and their two-year-old daughter escaped after the house was set alight by leaping from a first-floor bedroom window.

Los melodramas de alto vuelo son el tipo de eventos que realmente captan nuestra atención. Nos empapamos de la serie Versace, luego de la serie Getty; de la película House of Gucci y, recientemente, los fanáticos se han sumergido en Curse of the Chippendales. Todas estas historias tuvieron ascensos fenomenales a la fama, para terminar trágicamente.

Smile is a chilling account of Rodney Alcala, one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Ryan Green gives a suspenseful narrative that draws the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a captivating thriller.

The wartime double agent with a transmitter in his cell to contact suffragettes; the doctor hanged as he smiled to the farewells of lovers on the scaffold; the con who defied a gangland godfather and escaped the bromide in the prison tea; aristocrats and arsonists.... The screws who guard Britain's prisons have seen them all. Banged Up! is the story of six of the country's most notorious jails—Durham, Wandsworth, Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, Dartmoor and Holloway—and of the men and women who entered their gates.