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A gripping true crime memoir that fuses firsthand testimony with investigative storytelling to uncover a deeply disturbing hidden world beneath what once appeared to be an ordinary relationship.

Beginning in the 1960s in California, erstwhile music producer Tony Alamo became interested in authoritarian religion and, along with his charismatic wife, Susan, began gathering followers. By the 1970s, Tony Alamo Christian Ministries had established particularly strong footholds in Arkansas, as well as maintaining outposts in California. The ministry gained a legion of followers, with branches not only in the USA but in places as diverse as Africa and Sri Lanka.

Jessica Renee was 11 years old when her stepfather began routinely raping and sexually assaulting her. Only when she was 15 and her boyfriend asked the right questions did the truth come to light—a terrible truth that her mother chose not to believe. Backed by a church community that believed a woman’s duty was to support her husband above all else, Jessica’s mother and countless other family and friends turned against her, labeling her a sinner even as her rapist was convicted.

What kind of man walks out of a back yard at dawn with a uterus in his pocket, then sits down to read about himself in the morning paper? For over a hundred and thirty years, the world has been chasing the wrong man. The cape. The top hat. The royal physician with a black bag and a brougham. Every generation paints him a new costume. The truth has never worn one. Jack The Ripper, the Whitechapel killer was almost certainly a man you would have walked past on the way to the baker. Quiet. Polite. Forgettable. He paid his landlady on time. He nodded at the constable on the corner.

Alligator in the Ocean illustrates one family’s drive to stop a serial predator and overcome the heart-wrenching struggles that followed. Anina Swan shares the true account of how she survived the brutality of a serial predator, Ivan, unveiled traumatic amnesia, and rallied help to stop his crime spree. With deep-seated courage, Anina did the unthinkable when she confronted her perpetrator. The result eventually delivered Ivan’s confessions of assaulting hundreds of children, according to local news reports.

How did a man in a white tracksuit shake hands with the Queen on a Tuesday, visit a hospital mortuary on a Wednesday, and walk away from every investigation that ever came close to him? For fifty years, Jimmy Savile held Britain in the palm of his hand. He raised forty million pounds for charity. He befriended a prime minister. He advised a future king. He was knighted by the Queen and honoured by the Vatican. He was also, behind the grin and the cigar, the most prolific sexual predator in British history. This is not a list of what he did. It is a forensic dive into why.

A sweeping history of how child sexual abuse has been systematically concealed and minimized for decades—and how a courageous group of survivors, psychologists, and advocates are fighting to expose the truth In 1896, Sigmund Freud presented a theory that he hoped would explain why so many of...

Moors Murders Decoded: Unmasking the Evil of Hindley and Brady. You already know the names. You have seen the mugshots on a hundred front pages. You have probably argued about the case over a drink, or paused on a documentary one rainy Sunday afternoon and wondered how two ordinary people from a Manchester street could have done what they did. The headlines only ever gave you the shape of it. They never gave you the why. This book is the why.

#1 New York Times bestseller From the world's #1 bestselling author, Filthy Rich—the book that exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s shocking exploits as a multi-millionaire pedophile—now with an updated Author's Note and Afterword. “Much more than a true crime book.” —Town & Country Charismatic...

“Venduta” è la storia vera, terrificante e toccante di una giovane ragazza russa che sogna una vita migliore, ma che finisce vittima della tratta di esseri umani. La diciassettenne Natascia è attratta da un'offerta di lavoro in un casinò in Lituania. Quello che crede essere il suo biglietto per la libertà si trasforma in un incubo peggiore di quanto avrebbe mai potuto immaginare. Costretta a prostituirsi con uomini diversi e, nonostante stia lentamente crollando sia psicologicamente che fisicamente, Natascia si rifiuta di arrendersi.

Lydia Hadjara is net vier jaar oud als ze voor het eerst in aanraking komt met de sekte van Raël. Het is Lydia’s moeder, een toegewijde aanhangster, die haar dochter laat kennismaken met wat de komende twintig jaar haar leven zal bepalen. Als Lydia dertien jaar is, wordt ze verkracht door een van de leiders van de sekte, die beweert haar voor te bereiden op Raël. Later wordt ze de favoriet van de goeroe, wat betekent dat ze zijn slavin is en hem moet dienen en zich moet onderwerpen aan al zijn seksuele verlangens.

You have seen the grainy footage of the white tent in the back garden. You have caught the documentaries on a wet Sunday afternoon. You have argued over a pint about how a quiet Gloucester terrace ended up with twelve young women under its floors and patios. The headlines gave you the bones of the case. They never gave you the brain. This audiobook gives you the brain. Forget the lazy version where Fred is the leering monster and Rose is the puppet. That story is comforting, and it is wrong.

He killed two people. Just two. And yet Ed Gein's name has outlasted serial killers with dozens of victims. He inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. He changed the way America thinks about horror. Not because of what he did, but because of what he was.

Jeffrey Dahmer. You've seen the Netflix series. You've heard the name. You know about the apartment, the photographs, the things they found in the freezer. You know enough to feel a shiver when someone mentions Milwaukee, and you know enough to change the subject when the conversation gets too specific.

He was handsome, articulate, and politically ambitious. He volunteered at a suicide prevention hotline, studied law, and had a girlfriend who adored him. He also murdered at least thirty women across seven states and kept returning to their remains long after they were dead. Ted Bundy wasn't a mystery. He was a warning. In Bundy Decoded, bestselling author and persuasion expert Craig Beck dismantles the most famous serial killer in American history, piece by piece.

Una obra literària impecable. Un testimoni impressionant. Un llibre que ha fet història. Seduïda a l'edat de catorze anys per Gabriel Matzneff, cèlebre escriptor de cinquanta, Vanessa Springora desgrana, tres dècades més tard, el control i la manipulació que aquell home va exercir sobre...

Simon McLean takes the listener on an often hilarious, sometimes scary, always fascinating journey through the ranks of the Scottish police: from his spell as a rookie constable in the hills and lochs of Argyll; through his career in Rothesay; and to his ultimate goal: The Serious Crime Squad in Glasgow. Once there, listeners are taken into the squad room and ride along as terrorists are pursued, murderers brought to book and armed fugitives confronted; always peeking behind the veil of professionalism and order portrayed to the public.

A layered saga, Vegas Concierge spans more than a decade and includes world-famous stars, violent “gorilla” pimps, crooked and honest cops, struggling journalists, ambitious FBI agents, influential casino executives, and high-profile political figures. It tells the inside story of this failed investigation and its countless twists, moving from the luxury hotel rooms of the Las Vegas Strip to the inner offices of the Las Vegas police, to the newsrooms of some of Nevada’s biggest news organizations.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DAVITT AWARD FOR NON-FICTION This powerful memoir gives extraordinary insight into a secretive sect, and the horror Dassi Erlich had to survive. Dassi's resilience and fight for justice is inspiring. As a young girl growing up in a strict ultra-Orthodox family, Dassi's...

Undetected by the FBI for three decades until the turn of the twenty-first century, a handful of elusive, transient long-haul trucker serial killers had been murdering hundreds of sex workers and hitchhikers along major US highways. This was not the first time innocent victims were attacked along major US interstate thoroughfares. Nearly lost to history was a similar pattern of carnage that occurred in the late nineteenth century.