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In 2004, police entered a Fresno home and uncovered a crime that defied belief.
By Their Father’s Hand
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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In 2004, police entered a Fresno home and uncovered a crime that defied belief. Journalist Monte Francis pieces together the story of Marcus Wesson, a father who ruled his family through fear and faith, leading to tragedy. By Their Father’s Hand is a chilling true-crime account of control, delusion, and the cost of blind devotion.
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Behind a quiet Fresno home, a nightmare was unfolding.
Marcus Wesson ruled his family with fear, isolation, and twisted devotion. To the outside world, he was a father and husband. Inside the house, he was a self-proclaimed prophet whose beliefs turned violent and fatal. On March 12, 2004, police responding to a domestic call discovered a scene so horrific it shocked the nation.
Through exclusive interviews with Wesson and those who knew him, journalist Monte Francis unravels how control, secrecy, and delusion built toward an unthinkable crime.
By Their Father’s Hand is a haunting true account of abuse, manipulation, and murder—an unflinching portrait of a family destroyed by one man’s power and the darkness that can hide in plain sight.
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Beneath the mask of Pogo the Clown, John Wayne Gacy hid thirty-three murders and a lifetime of deceit.
Buried Dreams
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Beneath the mask of Pogo the Clown, John Wayne Gacy hid thirty-three murders and a lifetime of deceit. Journalist Tim Cahill’s Buried Dreams exposes the making of a killer—his childhood, crimes, and chilling psychology—through years of exclusive research. Hailed as “disturbing” and “graceful,” this is true crime that stares unflinchingly into darkness.
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Behind the smiling mask of Pogo the Clown hid one of America’s most terrifying killers. John Wayne Gacy was a successful Chicago contractor and community volunteer—until police uncovered the remains of thirty-three boys buried beneath his suburban home.
In this definitive account, journalist Tim Cahill reconstructs Gacy’s double life with chilling precision, from an abusive childhood to the compulsions that drove him to murder. Through years of interviews, court records, and unflinching reporting, Cahill reveals not only the crimes but the fractured psychology of a man who embodied ordinary evil.
Buried Dreams is a landmark work of true crime—“an absorbing and disturbing story” (Publishers Weekly) and “the stuff of wrenching nightmares” (The Wall Street Journal).
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Oil made the Osage Nation rich—then someone began killing them for it.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Oil made the Osage Nation rich—then someone began killing them for it. David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon unravels a chilling web of greed, racism, and murder that birthed the modern FBI. A #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist, this gripping true-crime saga is now a major Martin Scorsese film.
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In the 1920s, the Osage Nation of Oklahoma became the richest people per capita in the world—until the murders began. One by one, Osage men and women were killed for their oil wealth, their deaths dismissed or ignored as greed and corruption spread through every level of power.
When Mollie Burkhart’s family is targeted, her search for justice uncovers a conspiracy so vast it shocks even the newly formed FBI. Led by ex–Texas Ranger Tom White, the investigation unearths one of the darkest chapters in American history—where racism, greed, and violence intertwined to destroy lives for profit.
David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon is a haunting masterpiece of true crime and history. A #1 New York Times bestseller, National Book Award finalist, and Scorsese film adaptation.
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Robert Lindsey’s Edgar Award–winning The Falcon and the Snowman tells the true story of two unlikely Cold War traitors.
The Falcon and the Snowman
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Robert Lindsey’s Edgar Award–winning The Falcon and the Snowman tells the true story of two unlikely Cold War traitors. Christopher Boyce, a disillusioned CIA contractor, and Andrew Daulton Lee, a drug dealer, sold U.S. secrets to the Soviets in a tale so wild it inspired a hit film. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars rating, it’s espionage at its most gripping.
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At the height of the Cold War, the CIA’s most sensitive secrets flowed through a vault in Southern California. Christopher Boyce, a young contractor with a genius mind, a love of falconry, and a distaste for his country, had access to them all. Security was lax, temptation was strong, and betrayal soon followed.
With the help of his reckless best friend, Andrew Daulton Lee, Boyce smuggled classified documents to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. What started as drunken bravado and easy money spiraled into one of the most audacious acts of treason in American history.
Winner of the Edgar Award and the basis for the acclaimed film, The Falcon and the Snowman is a real-life spy thriller as shocking as fiction.
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Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James’s The Man from the Train uncovers the chilling story of a forgotten American serial killer.
The Man from the Train
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James’s The Man from the Train uncovers the chilling story of a forgotten American serial killer. An Edgar Award finalist, this groundbreaking true-crime investigation connects the Villisca Axe Murders and dozens more, revealing a killer who struck near train lines across the nation. With a 4.6 out of 5 stars Amazon rating, it is riveting and unforgettable.
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Between 1898 and 1912, families across America were slaughtered in their sleep. The blunt side of an axe was always the weapon. Valuables were left untouched, faces were covered, and the homes all shared one haunting detail—they sat near train tracks.
At the time, no one connected the dots. Newspapers sensationalized the killings, detectives bungled investigations, and the Villisca Axe Murders became infamous while dozens of others faded into obscurity.
In The Man from the Train, statistician Bill James and his daughter Rachel McCarthy James dig into thousands of old records and uncover a chilling truth: one man committed these murders, traveling by rail from town to town.
Part investigation, part cultural history, this Edgar Award finalist exposes a forgotten American serial killer.
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A #1 bestseller in Child Psychology, The Decision to Kill follows Cherie Wier as she searches for answers after her teenage son kills her husband and struggles with…
The Decision to Kill
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A #1 bestseller in Child Psychology, The Decision to Kill follows Cherie Wier as she searches for answers after her teenage son kills her husband and struggles with grief, courtroom testimony, and the difficult process of forgiving her son, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 400 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for true crime readers interested in family tragedy, courtroom accounts, grief, forgiveness, and the search for motive.
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A family tragedy propels this gripping true crime debut as a mother searches for answers in the shocking murder of her husband—and conviction of her son.
In the early morning of October 18, 1986, Cherie Wier’s life collapses when her teenage son takes the life of her beloved husband. For years, Cherie grapples with events preceding and following the crime, struggling to overcome the consuming grief she suffers from her loss and the difficulty she faces as she attempts to forgive her son. The courtroom accounts of gruesome details and the shocking testimonies from experts, only add to Cherie’s yearning to make sense of the crime. She is tormented, wanting to know how and WHY this tragedy happened and if there was anything she could have done to prevent it . . .
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Journalist Carol Pogash examines the case of Susan Polk, who was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr.
Seduced by Madness
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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Journalist Carol Pogash examines the case of Susan Polk, who was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, and later represented herself during her murder trial, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,200 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for true crime readers interested in troubled relationships, courtroom strategy, and highly publicized trials.
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A true crime account and analysis of a California housewife's murder of her husband and the revealing trial that followed.
In October 2002, Susan Polk, the soft-spoken mother of three teenage boys, was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, to death. Three years later she was tried for first degree murder, choosing to act as her own attorney in a trial that rapidly devolved into one of the most outrageous media circuses in modern history. To a crowded courtroom, Susan Polk presented her defense—a bizarre story of unethical therapies, abuse, repressed memories, and satanic rituals—and, in doing so, exposed her madness. Carol Pogash was there.
Seduced by Madness is the remarkably compelling, profoundly disturbing true story of the severe dysfunction of an affluent American family, as told by the leading journalist who worked the case. It is a spellbinding re-creation of a troubled life, a marriage, a murder, and a terrifying, inexorable descent into madness.
Praise for Seduced by Madness
"While the background is fascinating, the coverage of the trial is mesmerizing. Pogash takes the characters . . . and creates an edge-of-your-seat excitement. For fans of true crime, psychology, courtroom drama and truth-is-stranger-than fiction, this is a triumph." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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