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• Blood and Treasure

  Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier

  Drury, Bob

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  Follow Daniel Boone and his family as they spill blood throughout the American frontier.

• A Brotherhood Betrayed

  the Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.

  Cannell, Michael

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  Abe Reles was responsible for many murders during his time as a mobster, but then sold out his brotherhood to keep himself safe - until he wasn't.

• Evidence of Love: a True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

  Bloom, John, 1953-

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  Candy and Betty were friends, but also enemies, and that finally led to Betty's murder in her own home.

• The Fort Bragg Cartel

  Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces

  Harp, Seth

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  In December 2020, two Special Forces soldiers were found murdered near Fort Bragg, revealing a dark web of drug trafficking, violence, and cover-ups within elite U.S. military units. Investigative journalist Seth Harp exposes corruption, addiction,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hell in the Heartland

  Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

  Miller, Jax

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  What really happened to Ashley Freeman and Laura Bible on the night Ashley's family home burned down with her parents in it? Neither girl has been found, even after 20 years of searching.

• Hunting the Unabomber

  the FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the Capture of America's Most Notorious Domestic Terrorist

  Wiehl, Lis W.

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  New insights on one of the most famous cases in America culture.

• The Icepick Surgeon

  Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

  Kean, Sam

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  Untold stories of awful acts people did in the name of science.

• If You Tell

  a True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

  Olsen, Gregg

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  Three sisters grow up in a house of horrors that brings them closer together instead of tearing them apart.

• Killing Crazy Horse

  the Merciless Indian Wars in America

  O'Reilly, Bill

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  A historical account of the merciless drive to overpower Native Americans and take away their land.

• Killing the Mob

  the Fight Against Organized Crime in America

  O'Reilly, Bill

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  History of the mob during the 20th century and the height of its murders and its takedown.

• Murderland

  Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

  Fraser, Caroline

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  A propulsive nonfiction thriller, Murderland transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.

• Save Our Souls

  the True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

  Pearl, Matthew

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  In this true story, on December 10, 1887, the Walker family's shark fishing boat was split in two by a storm, and they awoke in the morning on an island inhabited by a ragged man named Hans who seemed helpful but had a dark secret.

• Trespassers at the Golden Gate

  a True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco

  Krist, Gary

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  Fair for the murder of her lover, A. P. Crittenden, made headlines nationwide. As bestselling author Gary Krist reveals, the operatic facts of the case--a woman strung along for years by a two-timing man, killing him in an alleged fit of…Read moreRead more of this annotation