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Murphy, Matt

8 holds on 3 copies

Summary: Examining murder from an insider's perspective, Matt Murphy--a former senior deputy district attorney and current ABC News Legal Analyst--discusses cases from his career, how they strained his personal life, and how he found peace seeking justice for victims and their families. Part taxonomy of murder, part prosecutor's handbook, and part personal memoir, The Book of Murder goes through a dozen...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2024

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Mager, Kim

Summary: "In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on--and broke--one of Ohio's most infamous serial killers. On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from a terrified woman who claimed to be kidnapped. The man holding her hostage was Shawn Grate,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MAG

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MAG

Kahler, Abbott

Summary: "An incredible true story of murder in a utopian community established on a remote Galápagos island by European refugees and the American industrialist who became embroiled in the investigation-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024

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Renner, Rebecca

Summary: "David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that's what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 REN

Grisham, John

6 holds on 1 copy

Summary: A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

Yoo, Paula

Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur Yoo

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 305.895 YOO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOO

Grisham, John

7 holds on 4 copies

Summary: "In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 345.0122 GRI

Thompson, Wright

9 holds on 4 copies

Summary: "A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.134 THO

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