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Lunedì 8 gennaio 2001, verso le sette di sera, nel giardino di Villa Altachiara a Portofino, scompariva la contessa Francesca Vacca Agusta, per anni protagonista del jet set italiano e internazionale. Prendeva il via quella sera un'indagine che avrebbe riempito le cronache di giornali e tv per settimane, mesi e anni, senza soluzione né requie neppure quando, una ventina di giorni più tardi, il cadavere venne ritrovato in mare, a pochi metri da una baia in Costa Azzurra.

Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. He became a member of the Hippie Mafia, traveling the world to keep America high, living the underground life while embracing the hippie credo, rejecting hard drugs in favor of marijuana and hashish.

A searingly honest memoir of life, policing and falling apart 'Every contact leaves a trace' John Sutherland joined the Met in 1992, having dreamed of being a police officer since his teens. Rising quickly through the ranks, and compelled by the opportunity to make a real difference to people's...

The story opens conventionally with a murdered man found on the floor of his library in Washington D.C. As the plot unfolds several possible assailants are discovered. There are the dead man’s fiancée and housekeeper, and her hunchback son, his niece whose father needs money and her shell shocked brother; and of these may be responsible. Or even the lawyer who when summoned by the victim’s niece drove to the scene of the crime in one blue car and drove away in another that later furnished a clue. All of these innocent people are more or less guilty, and one unsuspected person thoroughly ...

A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska.

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The Mystery of the Blue Train is a classic Hercule Poirot detective novel that blends glamour, suspense, and psychological intrigue. Set aboard the luxurious Blue Train traveling from Calais to the French Riviera, the story opens with wealth, elegance, and hidden tensions among an exclusive group of passengers. When a young American heiress is found murdered in her locked compartment and her priceless rubies vanish, the journey turns deadly.Summoned to unravel the crime, the meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot must navigate a web of lies, jealousy, and carefully guarded secrets. Each ...

When emergency systems designed to protect us become weapons, the line between help and harm disappears. Host Raven Thorne investigates chilling cases where badges, sirens, and distress signals were twisted into tools of violence. Each episode reveals how vulnerable moments are exploited by the systems meant to save us. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

When America's beloved "Aunt Becky" was caught paying $500,000 to fake her daughters' athletic credentials, it exposed a shadow network where wealth could buy what hard work couldn't earn. This gripping series unravels the Operation Varsity Blues scandal, from mastermind Rick Singer's elaborate fraud scheme to Lori Loughlin's dramatic fall from grace, revealing uncomfortable truths about privilege, celebrity entitlement, and the broken promise of meritocracy in elite college admissions. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help ...

When Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman paid $15,000 to rig her daughter's SAT scores, she exposed the dark underbelly of elite college admissions and ignited a national conversation about privilege, parenting, and justice in America. Host Ava Grey dissects the psychology behind a mother's desperate choice, the systemic inequalities laid bare by Operation Varsity Blues, and Huffman's complicated journey from federal prison to advocacy work—asking whether redemption is truly possible when your worst moment lives forever online. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This ...

Host Ava Grey explores the declassified Air Force files behind Project Blue Book, the U.S. military's twenty-year investigation into UFO sightings. Through archival evidence and official records, discover how the government cataloged over 12,000 encounters—and why 701 cases remain unexplained to this day. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

MAYA BLUE: A Memoir of Survival is Working Girl meets Taken, a true story of love, cocaine, abduction, and survival, and in the end, Brenda Coffee is the last one standing. Recipient of the coveted Kirkus starred review and nominated for the prestigious 2025 Kirkus Prize, MAYA BLUE is a memoir that reads like a thriller, a compelling, fast-paced story that underscores the power of our voice. "It was a fairy tale until it wasn't... " For a long time, that's what successful businesswoman Brenda Coffee told herself whenever she dared to look back on her twenties and thirties.

In Fool Me Once, renowned expert Kelly Richmond Pope shows fraud in action, uncovering what makes perps tick, victims so gullible, and whistleblowers so morally righteous, while also encouraging us to look at our own behaviors and motivations in the hopes of protecting ourselves and our companies.

By the time you finish this book, you'll have a better understanding of—and perhaps more compassion for—perpetrators; a renewed connection to victims; and an appreciation for those who blow the whistle.

Behind the Thin Blue Line is a raw, unfiltered podcast diving into the real lives of law enforcement, military, and public safety professionals. Through honest conversations and real-world stories, we go beyond the uniform to expose the grit, sacrifice, dark humor, and hard truths that come with the job, on and off duty.

At the point of her retirement from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2019, Parm Sandhu was the most senior BAME woman in the capital's police force. She was also the only non-white female to have been promoted through the ranks from constable to chief superintendent in the Met's history. In this enthralling memoir, Parm chronicles her journey from life in Birmingham as the fourth child of Punjab immigrants to the upper echelons of the Met. 

"The owls are not what they seem." Welcome to The Bluerose Files. We are a dispatch from the edge of the known, exploring the intersection of true crime, internet culture, and the paranormal. We take a methodical, serious approach to the world's weirdest stories. If you are looking for deep dives into internet enigmas, occult history, or unsolved crimes, pull up a chair. New investigations every other Tuesday.

In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history.

Nestled in the warm embrace of his immigrant grandmother, Mike Moy was raised hearing bloodcurdling tales of the brutal life she escaped in China. But growing up on the mean streets of Manhattan’s Chinatown, Mike has also faced shocking violence coupled with destructive racism. In a tight-knit community besieged with fear and alienation, teenage Mike takes refuge in one of Chinatown’s notorious gangs, tattooing his membership in Fuk Ching on his body.

Ali was dubbed Supercop for the number of arrests he made: more than 1,000 over one 18-month period, when the average arrest rate for officers in England and Wales is just nine a year. In his work as a police officer, he dealt with life-and-death situations on an almost daily basis: saving lives as a hostage negotiator; rescuing the occupant of a house fire; providing tactical advice during some of the most violent incidents; clinging onto a suicidal man hanging from the roof of a multi-storey car park; and entering a flat that had been blown up in an explosion just moments before. 

The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance. Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst...