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Bone valley : a true story of injustice and redemption in the heart of Florida / by King, Gilbert,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America's most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man's life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of justice. In 1987, Leo Schofield was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Michelle. Always insistent on his innocence, he was poorly served by his legal defense: the investigation was sloppy, the case flimsy, and numerous pieces of evidence were ignored. He was sentenced to life in prison. Over thirty years later, Gilbert King is tipped off to Leo's case and is astonished by what he found: layers of corruption, flawed evidence, and deep-seated errors. He can't shake the story and starts to get to know Leo and his family. Leo shows an incomprehensible amount of grace and love about his situation, which spurs Gilbert even more to tell his story. Bone Valley is at once a revelatory investigation into a murder, a chilling portrait of the criminal justice system, and a uniquely powerful story of grace and redemption. Gilbert King has written a new classic of narrative nonfiction"--
Subjects: True crime stories.; Criminal justice, Administration of; Judicial error; Justice.; Murder;

Don't Believe a Word. by Lewis, Susan.;
LAST BOOK IN SERIES: NOTHING TO SEE HERE 9780008472054They raised me. Nurtured me. And lied about everything. Sadie's childhood has always been shrouded in mystery. But there are three things she knows. She was raised by two aunts. She never knew her parents. She is convinced she was stolen. Cristy Ward, podcast host, is gripped by Sadie's story. It's perfect for her next true-crime investigation. Yet Sadie's aunt claims it's all a fantasy. As the evidence begins to stack up, and the lies fall apart, they all could be in a lot more danger than they thought...Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce; FICTION / Psychological; FICTION / Thrillers / Domestic; FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological; FICTION / Women;

Triple Cross [sound recording] / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Wayne Carr, Mela Lee, Inger Tudor, Kiff VandenHeuvel.Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families-and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull, calls the Family Man murders the perfect crime story. He believes the killer may never be caught. Cross knows there is no perfect crime. And he's going to hunt down the Family Man no matter what it takes. Until the Family Man decides to flip the narrative and bring down Cross and his family.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Cross, Alex (Fictitious character); African American detectives; Authors; Murder; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers;

My mother, a serial killer / by Baron, Hazel,author.; Fife-Yeomans, Janet,author.;
"Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, Australia which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kind and caring. The officers at the local police station found Dulcie witty and charming, and they looked forward to the scones and cakes she generously baked and delivered for their morning tea. That was only one side of her. Only her daughter Hazel saw the real Dulcie. And what she saw terrified her. Dulcie was in fact a cold, calculating killer who, by 1958, had put three men in their graves-- one of them the father of her four children, Ted Baron-- in one of the most infamous periods of Australian criminal history. She would have got away with it all had it not been for Hazel. Written by award-winning journalist Janet Fife-Yeomans together with Hazel Baron, My Mother, A Serial Killer is a chilling story of a murderous mother and the courageous daughter who testified against her and put her in jail."-- Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: True crime stories.; Baron, Dulcie.; Bodsworth, Dulcie.; Women serial murderers;

The writer / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Barker, J. D.(Jonathan Dylan),1971-author.;
"She's the #1 bestselling crime writer in the world. Now she's a murder suspect herself. NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West? In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She's covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment's floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow. "This is you?" Shaw asks the woman. "You're a writer?" Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Murder; Women authors; Secrecy;

The Writer A Thriller [electronic resource] : by Patterson, James.aut; Barker, J. D..aut; Ganim, Peter.nrt; CloudLibrary;
“Consider blocking out a few hours of uninterrupted reading time” for The Writer, #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson’s “Excellent… perfectly executed … genuinely suspenseful” (Booklist) thriller about a true-crime author swept up in a murder plot. “Entertaining…one gonzo plot twist follows the next…loads of fun.” (Publishers Weekly)   NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?   In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room.   Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow.    "This is you?" Shaw asks the woman. "You're a writer?" ​ Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer?
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Police Procedural; Suspense; Crime;
© 2025., Hachette Audio,

A murder in Hollywood : the untold story of Tinseltown's most shocking crime / by Sherman, Casey,1969-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and Lana's daughter, Cheryl, witnessed her mother's bruises and abuse first-hand. On an infamous night in 1958, Lana attempted to break it off with Johnny but he predictably turned violent and Cheryl tried to protect her mother with a knife, killing him. The subsequent murder trial made for the biggest headlines of the year, its drama eclipsing every Hollywood movie. In Murder in Hollywood, Casey Sherman pulls back Tinseltown's velvet curtain to reveal a dark underbelly of celebrity, rife with toxic masculinity and casual violence against women. But in this case, Lana Turner and her daughter finally stood up, which makes for one of the 20th century's most notorious true crime stories"--
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Personal narratives.; Crane, Cheryl.; Stompanato, Johnny, 1925-1958.; Turner, Lana, 1921-1995.; Children of celebrities; Children of celebrities; Justifiable homicide; Justifiable homicide; Victims of family violence; Victims of family violence;

The carpool detectives : a true story of four moms, two bodies, and one mysterious cold case / by Hogan, Chuck,author.;
"In 2020, four women found themselves at a crossroads: Each of them had transitioned from full-time jobs to full-time parenting, and each was pushing against the new boundaries of her life as the pandemic looms. At a bowling night fundraiser for their kids' school, they discover they all share a passion for true crime that crystalizes around a mysterious double homicide that took place a decade earlier. A married couple in their 60s vanished overnight from their home. A few days later, the family business was shuttered, and the bank financing it sued the missing couple for one million dollars. They were rumored to have absconded with the money until their bodies were discovered inside their car at the bottom of a steep ravine. And then the case went cold. But what if, the moms think, they could solve it? The women have no prior connection to the case and no law-enforcement background, but each brings a special set of skills to the investigation: Marissa's background as a former forensic accountant; Jeannie's passion for journalism; Samira's ambition and drive; and Nicole's nose for research. With the world now on pause due to the pandemic, the moms have unique access to witnesses and crime experts who are stuck at home. They make connections, draw conclusions, and experience breakthroughs in the case wilder than anything they could have imagined. When an awe-struck Assistant District Attorney reopens the case, enlisting the four women in the official investigation, they not only get further than anyone ever expected, but end up in real danger themselves"--
Subjects: Case studies.; True crime stories.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Criminal investigation; Criminal investigation; Murder; Stay-at-home mothers;

Wicked little letters [videorecording] / by Sharrock, Thea,1976-film director.; Adefope, Lolly,1990-actor.; Atkins, Eileen,1934-actor.; Buckley, Jessie,1989-actor.; Colman, Olivia,actor.; Jones, Gemma,actor.; Kirby, Malachi,1989-actor.; Scanlan, Joanna,actor.; Spall, Timothy,1957-actor.; Vasan, Anjana,actor.; Sweet, Jonny,screenwriter.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music by Isobel Waller-Bridge ; edited by Melanie Ann Oliver ; director of photography, Ben Davis.Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan, Joanna Scanlan, Gemma Jones, Malachi Kirby, Lolly Adefope, Eileen Atkins, Timothy Spall.Based on a stranger than fiction true story, this ferociously funny mystery follows two neighbors: deeply conservative Edith Swan and foul-mouthed Rose Gooding. When Edith begins to receive wicked letters full of hilarious profanities, Rose is charged with the crime. However, as the towns women begin to investigate themselves, they suspect that something is amiss.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy films.; Dark comedy films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Feature films.; Gooding, Rose; Swan, Edith; Swearing; Christian women; Criminal investigation; Neighbors; Anonymous letters; Hate mail; Irish; Nineteen twenties; Small cities;
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The Sinners All Bow Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne [electronic resource] : by Dawson, Kate Winkler.aut; cloudLibrary;
One of Amazon’s Best History Books of January Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America. On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah’s death a suicide...or something much darker? Determined to uncover the real story, Victorian writer Catharine Read Arnold Williams threw herself into the investigation as the trial was unfolding and wrote what many claim to be the first American true-crime narrative, Fall River. The murder divided the country and inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter—but the reverend was not convicted, and questions linger to this day about what really led to Sarah Cornell’s death. Until now. In The Sinners All Bow, acclaimed true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson travels back in time to nineteenth-century small-town America, emboldened to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements—including “forensic knot analysis” and criminal profiling (which was invented fifty-five years later with Jack the Ripper)—Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams’s research to find the truth and bring justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given.
Subjects: Electronic books.; 19th Century; Women; Murder;
© 2025., Penguin Publishing Group,

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