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Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy – and the Sister She Betrayed
By Jim PopkinYou know you’ve got a serious criminal on your hands when Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the former sidekick of mass murderer Charles Manson and aspiring presidential assassinator, admits to being intimidated by them in their shared federal prison. Yet, that’s exactly the kind of impact Ana Montes made on those around her after her decades-long […]
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Book Club Q&A: Roseanne Montillo
Interview and Book Club Review by Law&Crime’s Stefanie Doucette Roseanne Montillo is the author of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire’s Wife and the Murder of the Century. Her book chronicles the murder of wealthy banking heir Billy Woodward at the hands of his wife, Ann, in 1955. Before Montillo, the case also fascinated Truman […]
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Law&Crime Network Launches True Crime Book Club
Network Expands Gavel-to-Gavel Trial Coverage to Create True Crime Community with Monthly Book Club Leading live trial and true crime network Law&Crime is excited to announce the launch of its new Book Club, which will feature a monthly book recommendation – or “Spotlight” – carefully selected from a growing pool of new releases in the […]
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David GrannWritten almost a century after the series of murders it investigates took place, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by The New Yorker staff writer David Grann takes on the dual task of archival research and contemporary critique. It attempts to understand the greed and depravity that […]
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The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial
By Maggie NelsonWhat happens when a poet attempts to grapple with the unspeakable horrors of their own family tragedy? That’s exactly the literary experiment poet Maggie Nelson embarks upon in The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, which tells the story of her Aunt Jane’s murder in 1969 and the trial to bring her killer to justice […]
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Don’t Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
By Sarah BermanAs the trial of NXIVM mastermind Keith Raniere proves, the line between self-help and cult-hood can be a tricky one to parse, as well as a scary one to contend with if left unchecked. In her book Don’t Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM, investigative journalist […]
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Shell Game
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The President Street Boys: Growing Up Mafia
By Frank DiMatteo