Posts Tagged ‘true-crime’
Let’s Ride
Hailed as the new essential resource for bikers, Let’s Ride is today’s most entertaining and authoritative guide to mastering the art of motorcycling. From choosing the right bike and keeping it finely maintained to sharpening riding techniques and achieving top performance, legendary biker icon Sonny Barger mines his lifetime of experience to provide advice, wisdom,…
Read MoreThe Hard Way Out
The shocking true story of a Canadian biker turned informant, in the vein of Gangland Undercover and Under and Alone Dave Atwell was a regular suburban Canadian kid who rose to the heights of society, rubbing elbows with billionaires as a personal security specialist before getting involved with some of the country’s most notorious gangsters…
Read MoreA Burglar’s Guide to the City
“At the core of A Burglar’s Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any building transforms when seen through the eyes of someone hoping to break into it. Studying architecture the way a burglar would, Geoff Manaugh takes readers through walls, down elevator shafts, into panic rooms, up to the buried…
Read MoreDark Ambition
“A gripping true-crime account of a young Canadian aviation heir charged with three murders–Tim Bosma, ex-girlfriend Laura Babcock, and his own father, Wayne Millard–in what appears to be thrill-seeking serial kills. Tim Bosma of Hamilton, Ontario, was a successful businessman and happily married young father until he put his truck up for sale online, went…
Read MoreThe Central Park Five
Traces the near-fatal 1989 attack on a woman and the media frenzy and public hysteria that culminated in the wrongful convictions of five teens, in a report that analyzes regional class and race struggles and the failures of local government and law enforcement.
Read MoreMidnight in Peking
Chronicles the efforts of two detectives–one British and one Chinese–as they raced to find an Englishwoman’s killer in 1937 before the Japanese invasion of Peking.
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