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One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into...

In an explosive Audible Original investigative series, executive produced by James Patterson, veteran journalist and New York Times best-selling author Vicky Ward chronicles her 19-year quest to uncover what - or who - is behind Jeffrey Epstein’s wealth, influence, and criminality.

A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks. For over half a century, Banco Popular was one of...

Desde los clásicos trileros hasta los estafadores de criptomonedas, esta es la apasionante historia de los charlatanes y de por qué caemos una y otra vez en sus trampas.

WHITE HORSE covers the three days of unprecedented testimony in the Oscar Pistorius sentencing phase, witnessed first-hand by Nick van der Leek, who was accredited for the trial. Besides ground-breaking analysis and insights not only beyond the media narrative, but going much further than the court’s “intruder” narrative as well, the author – with a background in law – was also part of a “secret meeting” with the prosecution, regarding a “rogue witness”. The authors interrogate defense and prosecution witnesses in-depth; once again this is at a level of investigative ...

True Crime maestros Nick van der Leek and Lisa Wilson have had repeated requests from their fans to write about O.J. “The Juice” Simpson. For some time the authors themselves felt all there is to know about the trial, the “Dream Team” and the luckless prosecutors was already out there. But with O.J. himself up for parole in 2017, and with a ground-breaking new true crime TV anthology doing the rounds, van der Leek and Wilson have finally turned their scalpels and surgical analysis to THIS trial. They’ve since admitted to being astounded at the audacities and mendacities buried ...

How many resources were used in the Chris Watts case? Why was so much effort expended to prosecute a case, only for the case to be closed and the file stuffed away in a drawer? TWO FACE EPILOGUE is the 9th and final narrative in the TWO FACE series. In the quest to put the last remaining loose ends to rest, more staggering and disconcerting insights emerge from the murk.

Black Star III deals with the years 2011 and 2012 in the Ramsey Timeline. It evaluates Darnay Hoffman’s contribution to the Cannon, and plumbs Patsy Ramsey’s most controversial and inconsistent statements. The primary focus of Black Star III is to re-examine the fifteen room Tudor house on 15th Street America's. Where - in which room - was JonBenét Ramsey murdered?

The biggest revelation from the Second Confession is Chris Watts’ story about taking his girls to CERVI 319 while they were still alive. Watts said it, the Rzucek lawyers repeated it on Dr. Phil along with the Rzuceks themselves. The Weld County District Attorney assigned to the Watts case has also signed off on this version. The media have since reported on this version as fact. Finally, social media has recycled this version as if it’s fact. Even a few credible YouTubers have commented on this aspect as if it’s reliable. The popular mythology surrounding this case – as it stands ...

“Immediately after the incident, intricate webs of behind-the-scene schemes were afoot, games of cat and mouse and spy versus spy that were intentionally designed to keep everyone in the dark: the media, Laci’s closest family and friends, and the public. The murderer was the most active in this game, that’s no surprise, but his pursuers had a few tricks up their sleeve too.” In the first week of January, Scott Peterson made three surreptitious visits to the Marina. What was he afraid of? And if Laci’s remains had been discovered then, what would they have found, and how could that...

WHITE HORSE II continues to investigate deep into the dark matter of the Oscar behind the Great Pretender. In this narrative the authors provide additional detail of Nick van der Leek's "secret meeting" with the prosecution, and additional information released after the fact. The authors also deconstruct the ITV Interview, and unsurprisingly, uncover some peculiarities not only in Oscar's additional narrative [his third version now] but in the documentary itself. Besides following a money trail, the authors present an even more horrifying backstory to never-before seen crime footage of ...

The world’s most prolific true crime author has followed SLAUGHTER with another disturbing triumph. INCEL profiles some of the most infamous “involuntary celibate” mass shooters, including Elliot Rodger, Nikolas Cruz, Alek Minassian, Scott Beierle and Brandon Clark. INCEL examines the unique criminal psychology behind these disturbed, alienated individuals. In this ground-breaking analysis, the first of its kind, investigative writer Nick van der Leek uncovers the deep psychological causes behind the incel phenomenon. He explains why the travails of America’s most alienated men ...

"It sometimes takes a little time for the eyes to adjust to the darkness..." In May 2019, true crime maestro Nick van der Leek headed to Praia da Luz to investigate the crime scene, and to explore the potential abductor route in situ. In DEEPER INTO DARKNESS photos and video from a range of locations are insightfully presented, all giving clarity to the mosaic proposed in the preceding DOUBT trilogy, as well as in DEEP INTO DARKNESS. "The secret to the mystery of what really happened to Madeleine McCann lies buried, deeper in the darkness than any have imagined. And yet what we aren’t ...

If Casey Anthony put her two-year-old daughter's body in a forest a quarter mile from the Anthony home, why did it take five-months to find her? The second narrative in the Hopespring Series unpacks the astonishing two week aftermath following Casey Anthony's arrest in crystal clear chronological detail. It interrogates Caylee Anthony's mysterious paternity in the most persuasive analysis yet Through this book Van der Leek also introduces a brand new and fascinating concept to the true crime genre - Criminal Intertextuality. The efficacy of this tool to plumb the murky family dynamics of ...

In 2009, Boulder DA Stan Garnett put together a team of 27 lawyers, six investigators and a budget of $4.5 million to investigate the Ramsey case. They failed, just as the two previous district attorneys had failed. Was this a failure by design? The Black Star trilogy interrogates nearly 20 years of ‘post-truth’ surrounding the unsolved JonBenét Ramsey case. Black Star II focuses on 2009 and 2010. "All the stars eventually fall from the sky above the Ramsey home in Boulder, all except the Black Star...." 21 years after the JonBenét Ramsey case has gone cold, is there anything we can ...

What truth is there in the Second Confession? In ANNIHILATION it was firmly established and reinforced that the scenario of the crime Chris Watts gave his interrogators during the Second Confession was a lie. The Watts children weren’t killed after Shan’ann, and they weren’t murdered at the well site. The murder was more calculated and cunning than Watts has let on. It was premeditated. If it’s clear Watts was lying yet again what remains to sift through in the Second Confession? What’s left to unravel? Just these three questions: What truth IS there in the Second Confession? ...

The second narrative in this ground breaking and definitive series covering the Chris Watts case drills deeper. It explores unseen, murky themes - identity, back story, poverty and invalidation - floating behind the walls of the Watts home. In BENEATH THE OIL, for the first time the full extent of how Chris Watts was locked-in is revealed, as well as why he may have broken out of his deeply dysfunctional marriage the way he did.

True crime maestro Lisa Wilson and photojournalist Nick van der Leek are finally back with yet another installment in their bestselling series covering Jodi Arias. How is VANITY different to AUTHENTICITY? VANITY is perhaps the most intimate look into the lives of Jodi and Travis to date. The authors have painstakingly combed through hundreds of new communications, many provided courtesy of Beth Karas, to bring you the reader an inside look at Travis’ life, not told through Jodi, but through Travis’ own words. In Book 3 of the series, AUTHENTICITY, the importance of one-upmanship for ...

In the second narrative in the SILVER FOX trilogy true crime rocket scientist Nick van der Leek analyzes the Chris Watts case in a brand new way – through the prism of marriage. “We want to see the marriage while standing in his shoes, and then step into Shan’ann heels, and feel out the view from there. We don’t want glimpses through selfies – we want a longer, slower pan through their marriage, so that we can feel our way to something we haven’t seen before. I call it weddedness. How wedded were each of these people, and how did that drive the wheels towards inevitable ...

NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST is an assessment of Nora Quoirin’s seemingly inexplicable disappearance and death from a true crime perspective. Using tried and tested psychological analysis and profiling techniques, investigative photojournalist Nick van der Leek joins the dots while finding new puzzle pieces. The mission is to solve the mystery of the ten-day disappearance of Nora Quoirin in early August 2019, in central Malaysia. What happened to Nora? Why was she so hard to find? What role did holoprosencephaly play in this case? How did the fifteen-year-old from London die so close to ...