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From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.'Full of tenderness and beauty. This book is a revelation and a restoration of her sister's memory from victim to vibrant young woman'Mariana Enriquez, author of The Dangers of Smoking in BedOn the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza's sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide. She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him.Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence - handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints - to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister's voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.

I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermindbehind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in US history?$400 million. Thisreal-life story includes a multitude of participants, banks, hedge funds,egomaniacs, and small-time crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keendesire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the rightdirection, all of these people and entities saw nothing. Gina was the Penn andTeller of misdirection, acting with caring behavior to other people (whilebilking her investors), creating philanthropic endeavors and single-mindedlypursuing her dream of building an empire, taking it public, and cashing out allthe investors. In August 2019, Gina's seven-year program of selling phony liquor licenseloans came to an end when the SEC, the US Attorney's Office, and the FBI filedsuit and shut it down. In San Diego, Gina, then fifty-four, was an icon. To theoutside world, this beautiful, charismatic woman looked as if she had succeededin a male-dominated good old boys club?building an empire that included realestate, restaurants, and retail; she was a guest economics commentator for theSan Diego Union-Tribune; she served on prestigious corporate and nonprofitboards. The City of San Diego even honored her with her own Gina Champion-CainDay. She cooked dinner for her husband Steve, walked the dogs on the beach, andwas a role model for young women. But in reality, her empire was a house ofcards funded with money from a financial fraud.

A lawyer for the people, Flint Taylor has spent nearly fifty years fighting for justice, from the courtrooms of Cook County to the US Supreme Court.

A collection of vintage Chicago Tribune crime photographs, featuring infamous gangsters, small-time bandits, crooks, and wise guys.

Two survivors of a family massacre share the horrific true story of how a former church minister slaughtered every woman in his family save one over the course of one blood-spattered evening in 1963.

In 1885 Yorkshire, sisters are on trial for their lives after being accused of murdering an illegitimate toddler. Today, sisters Sheelagh and Penny have discovered their then nine-year-old grandmother was a witness.

A collection of essays that are at once personal and political, covering a variety of topics, ranging from the author's tumultuous relationship with his criminal father and the ways writing can help us transform our own understanding to long-form journalistic dispatches from around the globe.

Chip has hired Gretchen Crary from February Partners to do publicityOutreach to True Crime podcasts that will host authors, and supplying galleys to those that don't host authorsMajor review outreachLA radio outreachEvents (virtual) with Vroman's, Skylight, and Pages, Manhattan BeachTrue Crime book club outreach

Before he was hanged, Captain Kidd claimed to have hidden a vast fortune in the Indies. Harris concludes there is much to justify his claim.

History is full of unsolved murders, most of which have no apparent motive or too many of them.

In 1976, two newlyweds plan a future together in the mysterious city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. What follows is a true story of brutality, innocence lost, and survival found.

From Confederation in 1867 until the abolition of the death penalty in 1976, 704 people were hanged in Canada. The book examines how trial, conviction, and punishment operated then, and the relevance of capital punishment today. It profiles notable individuals: victims, murderers, judges, jurors, the wrongfully convicted ... and the hangman.