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Découvrez le deuxième volume de Crimes en Provence, une série audio captivante qui plonge dans les profondeurs mystérieuses du crime en Provence. Cette collection d'histoires criminelles met en lumière des affaires aussi fascinantes que dérangeantes, chacune révélant les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine.

Dive deep into the electrifying underbelly of crime, where audacity and genius dance in the dim light of clandestine corners. From the ruthless prison gangs' silent codes to the digital prowlers of the virtual realm; from the dazzling heists orchestrated by masterminds to the informants who dare to betray—this is not just a tale of crime, but a journey through the very soul of humanity.

In Daisy de Melker, Ted Botha weaves together a fantastic cast of killers and con men, detectives and lawmen, journalists and authors – even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Herman Charles Bosman – to depict a grand and desperate city. For almost twenty years, Daisy hid in the shadows but when someone finally spoke up about the suspicious deaths around her, it led to a trial like nothing the City of Gold had ever seen and spread her name across the world.

Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro's revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin's trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob's growing infiltration of the jukebox industry.

Styckmordet i Halmstad, och fyra andra mordfall är en samling som kastar ljus på några av de mest omskakande och gåtfulla mordfallen i Nordens historia. Samlingen består av fem olika mordfall, tidigare publicerade som enskilda titlar, och erbjuder en unik inblick i de polisutredningar som följde på dessa mörka brott.

Trippelmordet i Härnösand, och fem andra mordfall är en samling som kastar ljus på några av de mest omskakande och gåtfulla mordfallen i Nordens historia. Samlingen består av sex olika mordfall, tidigare publicerade som enskilda titlar, och erbjuder en unik inblick i de polisutredningar som följde på dessa mörka brott. En mörk skugga kastades över den annars så fridfulla sommaren i Härnösand 2010 när en pappa och hans två barn hittas brutalt mördade. Morden på Pernilla och Engla, som fångade den svenska nationens hjärtan våren 2008.

Dramat i Knutby, och fyra andra brottsfall är en samling som kastar ljus på några av de mest bisarra och omskakande brottsfallen i Sveriges historia. Samlingen består av fem olika brottsfall, tidigare publicerade som enskilda titlar, och erbjuder en unik inblick i de utredningar som följde på dessa brott. Knutbys pingstförsamling blev skådeplats för hisnande händelser som slutligen ledde till att församlingens pastor dömdes till livstids fängelse för mordet på sin andra hustru. En välorganiserad kriminell grupp lyckas med en stulen helikopter råna en värdedepå i Västberga.

In this meticulous and authoritative account of the trial and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices—including the mastermind—he presents the clearest ever picture of a criminal partnership that would shake every class and culture of American society.

Daughter of Song is a gripping account of a bold attempt to right an irreparable wrong while spanning dangerous treks through the Khmer Rouge-controlled jungles of Cambodia and the suffering of wasted years behind bars.

Back then, hot-headed gangsters, not-so-gentle dames and bullet-riddled corpses filled the newspaper headlines. And some of the stories below the headlines were even true. The 1920s was a period in American history when even the respectable were unwilling to stay sober. And not-so-fast cars carried assassins across Chicago, a city that for many captures the essence of the USA. In Tough Guys in the Room, the story of Al Capone and his rivals is told in separate and stand-alone topics that cover key figures and events.

Un periodo storico affascinante e complesso, che gli studiosi dividono in alto, alla caduta dell’Impero Romano sino all’anno mille, e basso, che si conclude nel 1492. Parliamo del medioevo, a torto liquidato come l’era dei secoli bui, ma certo un’epoca dove il ricorso alla violenza è pratica quotidiana. In “Nero come il Terrore” vi racconteremo storie incredibili di intricati complotti ed efferati omicidi, sanguinose battaglie e vittime innocenti, a comporre un ritratto più vicino a noi di quanto vorremmo ammettere.

In December 1832 a farmer found the body of a pregnant young woman hanging near a haystack outside a New England mill town. When news spread that Methodist preacher Ephraim Avery was accused of murdering Sarah Maria Cornell, a factory worker, the case gave the public everything they found irresistible: sexually charged violence, adultery, the hypocrisy of a church leader, secrecy and mystery, and suspicions of insanity. Murder in a Mill Town tells the story of how a local crime quickly turned into a national scandal that became America's first "trial of the century."

Am 23. Juli 1908 stirbt die 22-jährige Bürgermeistertochter Grete Beier im sächsischen Freiberg unter dem Fallbeil - das letzte Todesurteil im Königreich Sachsen ist vollzogen und ein kurzes, dramatisches Leben ausgelöscht.

The fourth volume of this comprehensive work features hundreds of serial killers from Sacramento to Soviet Russia—plus numerous unsolved cases.

Среди всех преступлений, которые когда-либо совершал человек, мало таких же интригующих и мистических, как отравления. Как Лукреция Борджиа, Екатерина Медичи, Иван Грозный и другие знаменитые отравители расправлялись со своими врагами и конкурентами? Какие яды были самыми популярными? Почему яд считается женским оружием и при чем здесь гендерное неравенство? Перед вами сборник будоражащих воображение историй, в которых найдется место детективам и политическим трагедиям, психологическим триллерам и любовным романам.

A layered saga, Vegas Concierge spans more than a decade and includes world-famous stars, violent “gorilla” pimps, crooked and honest cops, struggling journalists, ambitious FBI agents, influential casino executives, and high-profile political figures. It tells the inside story of this failed investigation and its countless twists, moving from the luxury hotel rooms of the Las Vegas Strip to the inner offices of the Las Vegas police, to the newsrooms of some of Nevada’s biggest news organizations.

The dramatic events of some of the world’s most controversial murder trials The stakes are never higher when the charge is murder… Explore the riveting twists and turns of some of the most notorious and controversial murder trials in history, such as the O. J. Simpson, Phil Spector, and...

True stories of death and desperation One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion. Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye. In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime...

Chattanooga 1906. The town erupts when a young white woman is assaulted in a dark cemetery. After a quick, flawed trial, a black man named Ed Johnson is convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. Despite a direct order from the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the execution, a mob lynches Johnson. The infuriated high court holds Captain Joseph Shipp, the ambitious county sheriff, responsible for the outrage and charges him with contempt.

Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) a decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim—often glamorized as the "Golden Age of Piracy". Boston-based laborer, Edward Low, left his mark on pirate history as the most vicious and sadistic raider of them all.