Showing results for "Thriller" in Criminology

Justice may have been served, but the human element of the story didn't seem to add up. What drove a loving family man with everything to lose to become a killer? In March of 2023, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife Maggie and their younger son Paul at their home in South...

Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity. For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide.

*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025*** Ten wrongful conviction cases. Twenty-one innocent people. Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction. John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim McCloskey, who has dedicated his life to...

IT'S A CRIME THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. 'Sensationally good - new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. ' LEE CHILD 'Every once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice. Think Elmore Leonard, or Chester Himes...add S. A. Cosby...

Jedes Mal, wenn das Telefon klingelt, hofft May auf einen Klienten. Sie hat sich vor Kurzem als Strafverteidigerin selbstständig gemacht, doch bisher ist es ihr nur gelungen, kleinere Mandate zu erringen. Da geht der Fall des Unternehmers Rickleffs durch die Medien: Er hat für eine Werbeaktion sein Genom in eine Herkunftsdatenbank eingespeist; nun wird ihm vorgeworfen, vor Jahren ein Mädchen ermordet zu haben. Keiner stellt den DNA-Abgleich infrage.

“Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true.”—Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito Bowl...

Phil Chalmers has spent more than a decade visiting high security prisons to interview young offenders, his mission is to attempt to answer the questions we all are asking: Why do the crimes continue to happen? What sends these kids over the edge? Could we have seen these crimes coming and...

And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he wants. There is no officer. No handcuffs. No radio. Only the man across the desk and me. He looks more petrified than I do. HMP Graymoor. One of the UK’s most notorious prisons. Home to nearly 800...

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned, pushed off high buildings, drowned or set alight. Then there are the many who...

Fængselsbetjentene i det lille provinsielle arresthus har fin tid til at hygge sig med et par øl i pauserne. Der er normalt rimeligt roligt i arresten, for fangerne omgås hinanden nogenlunde civiliseret og forsøger at undgå problemer, mens deres sager bliver behandlet. Det hele ændrer sig imidlertid, da en pædofilisigtet mand bliver sat i arresten. Det bringer sindene i kog blandt de andre fanger, og det begynder hurtigt at trække op til oprør. Jørn Jønke Nielsen (f. 1960) er en dansk forfatter og rocker.

At 11 years old, Gabriel Naumann is witness to a horrific crime. Twenty-nine years later his girlfriend is taken. Then the messages begin. 'If you want to find her, then you'll have to find me.' Somebody knows the truth. Somebody knows what he did. And now his girlfriend will pay for it - unless he can find her in time. When you've spent decades running from your past, what do you do when it finally catches up with you?

“A haunting true crime tale of systemic incompetence and racism” (New York Times) – and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon...

Tre teenagedrenge fra Gentofte har fundet en god fidus. Når det er koldt og mørkt kører de rundt i en sort BMW på de stille sideveje og begår indbrud i de villaer, hvor der ikke er nogen hjemme. Og der er da heller ikke noget, der tyder på, at der er nogen hjemme i det hus, de bryder ind i den kolde februaraften. Men inde i huset finder de liget af en kvinde, og da politiet pludselig dukker op, ser de forfærdeligt skyldige ud - ikke bare i indbrud, men også i mord. Jørn Jønke Nielsen (f. 1960) er en dansk forfatter og rocker.

Dickens' final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the 'Sensation Novel' as written by his friend Wilkie Collins. Dickens' final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the 'Sensation Novel' as written by...

This anthology, with stories set in different prisons across the US, presents an absolutely new perspective on prison literature. Featuring brand-new stories by: Christopher M. Stephen, Sin Soracco, Scott Gutches, Eric Boyd, Ali F. Sareini, Stephen Geez, B.M. Dolarman, Zeke Caligiuri, Marco Verdoni, Kenneth R. Brydon, Linda Michelle Marquardt, Andre White, Timothy Pauley, Bryan K. Palmer, and William Van Poyck.