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Letters From Prison, Voices of Women Murderers
Written by incarcerated women, these incredibly personal, surprisingly honest letters shed light on their lives, their crimes - and the mitigating circumstances. Author Jennifer Furio, a prison reform activist, subtly reveals the biases if the criminal ju
The Hillside Strangler
This book is the dramatic psychological study of a brutal killer, whose crimes of rape and murder were gruesome secrets he kept even from himself. Written with exclusive information gleaned from countless conversations with killer Ken Bianchi, his girlfriend, his psychiatrists, as well as policemen and journalists involved with the case.
Ace In The Hole
A glamorous and talented Hollywood actress and playwright approaches one of America's most notorious incarcerated serial killers, seeking insight into the mind of a murderer. Hoping to leverage his fame to her own advantage, she interviews him as part of research for her new play. She dreams of creating the next Hollywood horror hit, but her plans go awry when she underestimates the charisma and manipulative charms of the subject behind bars. Love turns into madness as he puts her devotion to the ultimate test... and invites her to act out the plot of her play in the real world. From the author of 'Gone: Catastrophe In Paradise' and the 'Murder by Increments' series ('A City Owned', 'Killing Cousins'), Ace In The Hole reveals the astonishing true story of one of the most bizarre and little-known episodes in American true crime history.
In Cold Blood
A collection of three true crime titles by OJ Modjeska, now available in one volume! Ace In The Hole: A glamorous Hollywood actress and playwright seeks the insights of a notorious serial killer. But what starts as research for her new play quickly spirals into a twisted obsession as she underestimates the killer's charm. Love and madness intertwine, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, as the killer challenges her devotion in a deadly game mirroring her own play. From the author of 'Gone: Catastrophe In Paradise' and the acclaimed 'Murder by Increments' series, Ace In The Hole uncovers an astonishing true story of obsession and deception in American true crime history. Happy Land...
Black Star over Hollywood
Black Star tells the story of Ted Masters, a burned-out tap dancer and guitarist who leaves the southern black theater circuit (TOBA) and ventures west, eventually finding Sid Grauman (and his famous theater), the mom-and-pop movie producer Nat Levine, as well as Hattie McDaniel, Rex Ingram, Stepin Fetchit, Eddie Rochester Anderson, and a host of other moviemakers who pitch in, attempting to turn Masters into the first black cowboy movie star. A long-lost love appears at the most inopportune time. It is a unique look at African Americans and their struggles in the moviemaking years prior to WWII.
William T. Vollmann
Talking bugs, electricity, the founding of empires, hobos, Nazis, whores, violence, drugs, murder, secret cabals, Heaven, Hell--William T. Vollmann is a writer of enormous novels that are stuffed with entire worlds of creation and destruction. This first ever book-length critical study traces his career to date with chapters devoted to each of his novels, as well as his short stories and major nonfiction. Vollmann is a writer of obsessions, and this study concentrates on three of them--freedom, redemption, and prostitution--while arguing that the author that dwells on them is worthy of being called one of our greatest living American writers. Also included are seven interviews spanning the years 1991-2007 that reinforce the persistence of Vollmann's attraction to these themes.
Team Killers
Furio, a prison-reform activist, mixes true-crime chills with sociological analysis and excerpts from her correspondence with death- row inmates to shed light on the phenomenon of team killers. These are couples or groups in which a leader, usually a man, manipulates a weaker partner, frequently a w
Criminal Minds
The authorized tie-in to the popular TV show Criminal Minds Featuring stunning photos from the CBS series, Criminal Minds: Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Other Deviants will give you new terrifying and fascinating insights into the mind of a criminal. Most episodes of CBS's Criminal Minds series feature a briefing where the profiling team defines the type of criminal they are looking for by examining behavior patterns that were established in actual criminal cases. Now author Jeff Mariotte takes us deeper into the BAU process by revealing the evil behind some of the most heinous murderers, sexual predators, and psychopaths in history. In this authorized companion to the hit TV series, you'l...
Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives
In this book, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identity and its related ideology across a range of contemporary crime narratives, including detective fiction, the true crime genre and media journalism. How exactly is the serial killer consciousness portrayed, how is the killing linguistically justified, and how distinguishing is the language revolving around criminal ideology and identity across these narrative genres? By employing linguistic and content-related methods of analysis, her study aims to work toward the development of a stylistic framework on the representation of serial killer ideology across factual (i.e. media texts), factional (i.e. true crime books) and...
