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Vancouver Blue: a life against crime
Par Wayne Cope. 2015
Wayne Cope has TV to blame for starting him on his long career as an officer of the Vancouver Police…
Department. He grew up watching gunslingers like James Arness and Richard Boone, inspiring him to join up even before he finished college - and his real-life working career has turned out to be more exciting than he could have hoped. In his years on the force, Cope has seen practically everything on the ever-changing streets of Vancouver - he's worked as a jailer and a traffic cop, talked people down from bridges, worked on dog squads, gone undercover in pursuit of criminals and worked the historical unsolved homicide unit. And behind each assignment, there's a story, a joke or a revealing insight into the realities of police work. 2015.A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching…
the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power would feel like. He soon found out. At the age of seventeen, he became the youngest-ever member of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club and spent the next five decades living a life for which he does not ask forgiveness, only that his story finally be told. Includes strong language and violence. c2013.Une partie rouge: autobiographie d'un procès (Feuilleton non-fiction)
Par Maggie Nelson, Julia Deck. 2017
La poétesse raconte comment elle a vécu le procès, en 2004, du coupable présumé du meurtre de sa tante, Jane…
Mixer, assassinée en 1969 dans le Michigan. Elle propose une méditation sur les fantômes qui peuvent peupler la vie de chacun. 2017. Titre uniforme: The red parts.Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's story of life in the Mafia (Americana Ser.)
Par Peter Maas. 1997
Memoir of life inside the Cosa Nostra by the highest-ranking Mafia defector thus far in history. Traces his mob career…
as a hit man, underboss for the powerful Gambino family, and, ultimately, the government witness whose testimony put "Teflon Don" John Gotti in prison for life. Strong language and violence. 1997.Two gentlemen to see you, sir: the autobiography of a villain
Par Victor Carasov. 1971
True story: murder, memoir, mea culpa
Par Michael Finkel. 2005
In 2002, Finkel, a rising star at the Times, was fired for fabricating a character in a story. Just as…
this was about to become public, he learned that a man named Christian Longo, arrested in Mexico for murder, had been living under an assumed identity: Michael Finkel of The New York Times. Sensing a story - and an opportunity for redemption - Finkel contacted Longo, initiating a relationship that would grow increasingly complex over the course of Longo's trial and conviction. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.Traitors of the tower (2010 Quick Reads Series)
Par Alison Weir. 2010
More than four hundred years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of…
London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? This book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. 2010. (2010 Quick Reads Series)Through the glass
Par Shannon Moroney. 2011
When Shannon Moroney married in October of 2005, she had no idea that one month after her wedding, a police…
officer would arrive at her door to tell her that her husband, Jason, had been arrested and charged in the brutal assault and kidnapping of two women. In the aftermath of these crimes, Shannon dealt with a heavy burden of grief, the stress and publicity of a major criminal investigation, and the painful stigma of guilt-by-association, all while attempting to understand what had made Jason turn to such violence. Descriptions of sex and violence. 2011.Three month fever: the Andrew Cunanan story
Par Gary Indiana. 1999
In 1997, twenty-eight-year-old Andrew Cunanan killed four men, including designer Gianni Versace, before committing suicide. Using information from police and…
FBI reports, the author describes the killing spree and imagines what the young homosexual Cunanan was doing and thinking during that time. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. 1999.Italian Rocco Perri rose from the life of a petty criminal on the streets of Toronto to run the most…
prominent bootlegging operation of the Prohibition Era in central Canada, taking over Hamilton and leading one of the region’s most influential crime families. Perri was feared by his enemies and loved by the press, and following the murder of his first wife and business partner, Bessie Starkman, a crowd of 30,000 thronged the streets of Hamilton to watch her funeral. His businesses, which included alcohol, drugs, gambling and prostitution, kept Perri under constant police surveillance. Frank Zaneth, also Italian, joined the RCMP and became its first undercover operative. He was dogged in his pursuit of Rocco Perri and worked for his arrest until the day Perri was last seen, in 1944, when he disappeared without a trace. Winner of the 2018 Arthur Ellis Best Non-fiction Crime Book Award. 2017.The torso murder: the untold story of Evelyn Dick
Par Brian Vallée. 2001
The "torso" murder trial of 1946 and 1947 grabbed headlines across Canada, after Evelyn Dick had been accused of killing,…
dismembering, and burning the head and limbs of her husband. When the remains of her newborn baby were later found, she was sent to prison. Released in 1958 with a new identity, rumours and sightings of Dick have abounded, resulting in this new account of the trial and her life after prison. 2001.The story of Jane Doe: a book about rape
Par Jane Doe. 2003
When Jane Doe was the fifth woman to be raped by a serial sexual predator, she refused to become a…
victim, refused to accept the common wisdom of the police, and refused to accept the status quo that she should shut up and let the 'good men' rescue her from what the 'bad man' had done. She warned the women in her neighbourhood, leading to the rapist's arrest, fought to be allowed to watch his trial, and then took the Toronto police force to court for incompetence and lack of accountability. Jane Doe challenged the justice system, the police, and the stereotype about rape - and won. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words
Par Simon Winchester. 1998
W.C. Minor was one of the keenest volunteers involved in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. What the OED's…
editor did not realise was that he was also a millionaire American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor for murder. 1998.The Teheran contract
Par Gayle Rivers, James Hudson. 1981
The story of Chicago May
Par Nuala O'Faolain, Terry Donnelly. 2006
Biography of infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn of the…
19th century and her own experience as an Irishwoman to bring May - and all her heartache, deception and violence - to life. 2006.The stopwatch gang
Par Greg Weston. 1992
Few people could imagine that the talkative Paddy Mitchell, the affable Steven Reid, and the quiet Lionel Wright were bank…
robbers. Bank robbers on the FBI's list of America's most wanted criminals, no less. But the Stopwatch Gang -- so-called because of their stopwatch-planned bank jobs -- were the best in the business, and drove authorities wild with their extraordinary heists and daring prison escapes. Some strong language. 1992.The Osama Bin Laden I know: an oral history of al Qaeda's leader
Par Peter L Bergen. 2006
Peter Bergen is CNN's terrorism analyst, and an acclaimed journalist who actually spent time with bin Laden prior to the…
events of September 11, 2001. It features interviews with people from each stage of bin Laden's life - from childhood to the present day - and reveals both formative moments and intimate details that reveal his character and personality. 2006.The Napoleon of crime: the life and times of Adam Worth, master thief
Par Ben Macintyre. 1997
Portrait of a famous "gentleman" thief of the Victorian age. After being misreported as dead in the Civil War, Adam…
Worth began a forty-year career that would lead him to the top of an international criminal empire. Worth became the literary model for Professor Moriarty, the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. Bestseller. 1997.The murder of Biggie Smalls
Par Cathy Scott. 2000
Describes the rivalry between East and West Coast "gangsta" rap musicians that leads to murder. Chronicles the life of rap…
artist Biggie Smalls and his successful career under the guidance of Sean "Puffy" Combs. Smalls was murdered a few months after rival Tupac Shakur. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2000.The minds of Billy Milligan
Par Daniel Keyes. 1981
The story of a 22-year-old high school dropout who became the first murderer in American history to be declared not…
guilty on the grounds of a psychiatric diagnosis of multiple personality. 1981.