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A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. When Marion Barter disappeared in 1997, police initially dismissed it as the actions of a divorced mother abandoning her family. In this book, the creators of the addictive global hit...

Dubai is feted internationally as a beacon of modernity: glittering skyscrapers, a cultural melting pot, even a new player in the space race. The city's ruled by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, an all-powerful multi-billionaire who counts the Queen and Donald Trump as friends. His...

From the depths of the Grand Canyon to the towering peaks of Yosemite, Murder on the Trail delves into chilling stories of killers, mysterious disappearances, and other harrowing crimes that have occurred in US national parks, including those involving: Cary Stayner, Yosemite Park Killer; Gary Hilton, National Forest Killer; the tragic story of vanlifer Gabby Petito; Toni and Harold Henthorn; and more.

The twelve cases in this volume span half a century and four countries, and they turn on a single unsettling truth: the evidence was usually there long before anyone was willing to read it. These weren't crimes of a single hot second. They were choices, made and remade by people who had every chance to stop and chose instead to keep going.

Number one bestselling author and ultimate thriller writer Jeffery Deaver returns with a new Lincoln Rhyme investigation. Rhyme and Amelia Sachs' latest case: catching a terrifying killer targeting couples... The happiest time of their lives - will be their last. William and Anna went to collect...

When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect. He wasn't the best father - the job always came first - but now his daughter needs him more than ever. As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast - and a small town with big secrets - he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn't want to find....

Part investigative true crime and part personal reckoning, Between the Devil and the Tide chronicles a journalist’s decade-long investigation into the Long Island Serial Killer case, where questions about violence, power, and manipulation become impossible to separate from her own life. Women...

Some secrets are buried deeper than others. Behind ordinary homes, quiet gardens, sprawling estates, and familiar neighborhoods, investigators uncovered scenes no one wanted to imagine. Human remains lay beneath floorboards, inside yards, across private properties, and in places designed to make death disappear. Beneath Ordinary Ground examines ten disturbing true crime cases involving concealed bodies, hidden graves, family secrets, serial murder, and the shocking discoveries that finally brought long-buried crimes into the light.

Some women disappeared in crowded cities. Some vanished along dark roads. Some were last seen getting into cars, walking home, leaving work, or trusting the wrong person at the wrong time. Before the headlines, before the arrests, before the confessions, and before investigators understood the patterns, there were families waiting for answers. Before They Found the Bodies is a dark, gripping true crime collection about missing women, serial predators, failed investigations, cold case questions, and the long search for justice.

Ann Rule became America’s queen of true crime by doing what few writers could: stepping past headlines, police reports, and courtroom drama to ask the deeper question. Why? In First Lady of Murder, acclaimed true crime author Cathy Scott turns that same investigative eye on Rule herself, revealing the complicated, driven, fiercely human woman behind The Stranger Beside Me, Small Sacrifices, and a body of work that changed crime writing forever.

Unsolved Georgia: Cold Cases, Missing Persons, and Unidentified Victims Still Waiting for Answers is Book One in the Unsolved America series, a respectful true-crime collection focused on real unresolved cases from across Georgia. This audiobook examines sixty cases, including unsolved homicides, missing persons, unidentified remains, rural cold cases, cases involving children and teenagers, and mysteries connected to Georgia’s roads and highways.

In this installment, I’ll cover the story of a female spree killer, whose lust for blood saw her take the lives of three men - and try to murder two more unsuspecting victims. The purpose of her crimes? In her own words, it was for “fun.” Join me in understanding more about these crimes, as well as six more lesser-known cases, in Unbelievable Crimes Volume Six. As with all content covering true crime, this book contains descriptions of violence, assaults, and murder.

In 1981, detective Kay Schucker was the lead investigator in the high-profile missing persons case of Old Dominion University student Janice Starr. The beautiful co-ed disappeared without a trace from ODU's Norfolk, Virginia campus. Among the only leads was Janice's diary, which included detailed journal entries about her daily activities. As Kay studied the diary—going several years back—she learned that Janice, a US Army veteran, had faced the same challenges in the military that Kay did in law enforcement. They were both women trying to succeed in a man's world. 

Bien qu'heureuse chez son parrain et sa marraine, Catherine rêve de connaître ses vrais parents. À 6 ans, à la sortie de l'école, une femme qui se présente comme étant sa mère l'emmène chez elle. La petite Cathy ne peut croire au miracle que quelques heures car, dès l'arrivée dans sa nouvelle maison, l'enfer commence pour elle. Pendant six années, elle sera humiliée, torturée mentalement et physiquement. Esclave de sa mère et de ses frères et sœurs, jouet sexuel du compagnon de sa mère, elle n'a d'autre choix que de se taire. Elle devra sa survie à la Ddass, qui la place à l'âge de 12 ans.

I Will Ruin You: The Twisted Truth Behind the Kit Martin Murder Trial delves into the complex circumstances behind Martin's story. It looks beyond the sensational headlines and legal turmoil into the heart of this controversial case.

For decades, Sandra Brown’s life has been intertwined with someone she has never met: an eleven year-old girl named Moira Anderson – who disappeared from their hometown of Coatbridge, Scotland, in 1957. It became one of the oldest cold cases in Scottish history. Sandra lived just around the corner from Moira. She grew up hearing about the missing girl, whose memory haunted the town. But she never imagined that, one day, she would be the one trying to uncover what happened. Or that her search for answers would reveal secrets and lies so close to home.

In this gripping work of true crime, a criminal lawyer takes readers inside the notorious Lori Vallow case and the devastating "doomsday murders." A blonde beauty queen, missing children, six suspicious deaths, and the twisted Mormon doomsday writings of her fifth husband are only the beginning...

College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight hundred miles from home. Social and gregarious, studying fashion and rooming with friends, Lauren embraced her new adventure with the zeal of a young woman who suddenly had everything she desired. But there was a dark side that she and her inner circle kept secret. And one warm June evening, after heading out with friends, she seemingly vanished.

Letters to the Pope: One Man’s Quest for the Truth is a true story of one man’s decades long struggle to discover the truth of his own origin. Stolen as a baby and then sold as part of a fraudulent adoption, Enrique Vila Torres, now an adult, learned of this deception through accident. Shocked but determined to find his biological mother, he began a lifelong commitment on behalf of himself and victims just like him to get the answers to questions many of us take for granted-Who am I? Where did I come from?

At the end of 1954, just a handful of weeks after emigrating from a small village in Germany to Montreal Canada, Rosemarie Döderlein (Doederlein) just turned 14 years old when she vanished on the way to a bakery a few doors down from the family apartment, never to be seen or heard from again. After 68 years of fruitless searching and wondering, in 2022, Rosemarie's youngest sister Vera finally learned the truth of what happened to her. It is a remarkable story about unconditional love, DNA, and investigative genetic genealogy.