Detective Biography

John will show you how to understand the power of your own psychic abilities. He insists that everyone has psychic gifts, but most of the time they have been locked away in the recesses of the mind and need to be developed and recognized...

Former undercover narcotics detective and police officer, Hal Nevitt, recounts his experiences leading up to his arrest for cocaine use. Nevitt explains the exact events leading up to his life-altering encounter with the substance, his experience in prison, and how it all affected his marriage. Discover the commonalities between people who become addicted to drugs and how he came to terms with his own personal demons. Due to his own experience with drug use and his deep understanding of the psychology behind substance abuse, Nevitt believes that people who struggle with addiction need ...

The incredible true story of a group of moms who, united by a search for new purpose, attempt to solve a fifteen-year-old double murder. “A true crime mystery that reads like a novel . . . It can be easy to forget that the underlying case is based on real, not fictional, murder.”—Los...

"This is a must-read for anyone thinking about moving on from law enforcement to the private sector." -- Sheriff Mike Chapman Sheriff – Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, 2023 “National Sheriff of the Year”, Vice President – Homeland Security Committee Embrace the Journey to Life Beyond the Badge In "Beyond the Thin Blue Line," Colin Whittington, the 2019 Virginia Deputy Sheriff of the Year and CEO of Recruiting Heroes LLC, takes you on a deeply personal journey through the highs and lows of life in law enforcement and the transition to the private sector. Colin shares his ...

The detective who solved crimes not by reading clues but by reading souls. The most radical inversion of Sherlock Holmes ever written — and, a century later, still the strangest and most morally serious detective fiction in the English language. This Erato Press critical edition brings together four complete Father Brown collections with a critical essay that examines what Chesterton was actually doing: smuggling theology into the detective story and making it work. In 1910, G. K. Chesterton introduced a small, round-faced Catholic priest who carried a shabby umbrella and solved crimes by...

From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. “I love the book… It reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing.” (Michael...

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...

Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and invisible. Their only calling card: the symbol of a black hand.

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents two hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made in this two-book collection containing THE GREAT MOVIES and THE GREAT MOVIES II. Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a...

Women Who Talk to the Dead chronicles the remarkable journey of Detroit Police Detective Shannon Jones and FBI Special Agent Leslie Larsen. Surrounded by skepticism and bureaucratic roadblocks, these women spearhead Operation UNITED—the largest coordinated exhumation of unidentified murder victims in FBI history.

From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century. Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller! This extraordinary true story, read by the author, is the basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver. When detective Ron Stallworth, the...

The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.” In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a...

A man writes down, in careful and apparently candid detail, everything that happened on the night Roger Ackroyd was murdered — and the account is, from beginning to end, scrupulously honest. It simply declines, here and there, to mention certain things. When The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published in 1926, this device changed what a detective novel was allowed to do, and readers who think they already know the trick may not know exactly how it works. This edition presents the complete 1926 text, a United States public-domain edition prepared under the ninety-five-year rule; Agatha ...

The agency in this book never existed. There was no "Dickenson National Detective Agency," no superintendent who broke up the Molly Maguires under that name. Before this memoir could be published in 1912, Charlie Siringo's real former employer took him to court and forced the substitution — and Siringo tells you so himself, on the second page, in the flattest, most carefully lawyered sentence in the whole book. This edition presents the complete 1912 text, exactly as it appeared after that legal intervention, in the public domain worldwide. A critical afterword by Henry Bugalho, "The Town...

Meet the gentleman-burglar who out-thinks every detective alive — and once humiliated Sherlock Holmes himself. Six classic adventures of Arsène Lupin, the most charming criminal in literature, gathered in a single annotated volume. Before there was a master thief in any heist film, there was Arsène Lupin: thief, escape artist, master of disguise, and France's national hero. Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) created him as the laughing mirror-image of Sherlock Holmes — and when Leblanc set the two against each other, Conan Doyle's lawyers objected, so Lupin's rival became the thinly veiled...

Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this “lyrical and deeply researched” (Publishers Weekly) biography that goes beyond the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to reveal a more fascinating and complicated man than legend provides. For more than a century...

In this brilliant portrayal of lovers who kill and the men and women who are their unwitting victims, Ann Rule expertly analyzes shocking, headline-making cases, unmasking the motives that transform sex and passion into deadly crimes. Recounting several cases where the search for true love went...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS...

They have a vision of a crime being committed, they can see the scene, they can feel the perpetrator, the victim. They know something no one can. They are called clairvoyant, psychic, or medium. Often frowned upon, psychic investigators are called in to help solve a case that has gone cold, and when they do help solve a crime, families can get justice for their loved ones and know what happened. More and more, they become involved in police work to support an investigation or are hired by families of a victim who need answers about what happened.