Crime Con

When Frankie sees the unforgettable face of her long-lost love in a passing train, she turns straight round and goes after him. For she, more than anyone, "knows" he is dead. She was there when it happened, attended the inquest, and later served a prison sentence for his manslaughter. Frankie, Cristina, Cassandra, Jenny, Pippa.... They are five women living quite separate lives - in Antwerp, Paris, Venice, Rio, Bath - except for one crucial fact. Each has devoted her life to the same duplicitous man.

Jim Gold is a former FBI agent turned Private Investigator, currently living in a small town in Pennsylvania. Jim has earned the respect of the townspeople and the Sheriff's Department, but the peace and quiet is about to be disrupted by something sinister. A number of people travelling the back roads have been disappearing for a month, and with next to no trace of them found, the main suspicion is that they've been kidnapped.

New York Times Bestseller #1. Die unglaubliche wahre Geschichte des begehrtesten Betrügers der Welt, die von Leonardo DiCaprio im Spielfilm von Steven Spielberg verewigt wurde. "Von Behörden und Nachrichtenreportern wurde ich als einer der gerissensten Scheckbetrüger, Trickdiebe und Gauner dieses Jahrhunderts bezeichnet, als Hochstapler vom Format eines Academy Award Preisträgers. Ich war ein Schwindler und Schauspieler mit erstaunlichen Fähigkeiten."

¿Qué pasaría si los youtubers más influyentes del país empezaran a cerrar, de repente y sin previo aviso, sus cuentas en la red? ¿Qué podría estar obligándolos a desaparecer? Tres adolescentes inquietos estarán dispuestos a todo por descubrirlo. Guillermo Barea, un adolescente ciego con una gran personalidad, se convertirá en un detective espontáneo a raíz de un extraño suceso. Todo comienza cuando Rodrigo, un vecino de Guillermo, periodista y amigo de la familia, es hallado muerto en su piso.

Entre mayo y junio de 2019, se juzgó en Nueva York al falso gurú de la autoayuda, Keith Raniere, por un cúmulo de delitos que incluyen lavado de dinero, esclavitud sexual, extorsión, entre otros. Raniere aseguró por años ante sus fieles ser el hombre más inteligente y ético del mundo, aunque nunca demostró ninguno de estos dos atributos.

One million dollars - that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. They band together and shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed lawns of Oxford.

It's the late 1960s, and homosexuality has only just been legalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his beautiful, unstable lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk. With the help of his fellow politicians, Thorpe schemes, deceives and embezzles - until he can see only one way to silence Scott for good. The trial of Jeremy Thorpe changed our society forever: it was the moment the British public discovered the truth about its political class.

Greg Wilson is now in prison. Finally, it is over for Coleen and Karen. They can now move on, take time and heal. But is it that easy? Or is there still much more of the story to come? The uplifting follow-up true story to “Playing with Fire.” How after the darkest days have ended, light will always break through.

A rash of burglaries in the small town of Lark Point, California has a domino effect on a group of local residents; eight lives bound together by honor, betrayal and love. Tangled like Music rushes through the small town like a whirlwind and creates changes that none could have anticipated. Love, mystery, deception, murder, and relationships intertwine to tell the story of redemption and the unraveling of life's tangles. It's a recipe for a song.

This is the true story a woman swindled out of a fortune by her famous ex-Confederate-general husband, Philip Dale Roddey. You will find this story nowhere else in material about Roddey but it was splashed across the nation in newspapers in 1874 and followed closely by the New York Times.

Guillermo Barea, un adolescente ciego con una gran personalidad, se convertirá en un detective espontáneo a raíz de un extraño suceso. Todo comienza cuando Rodrigo, un vecino de Guillermo, periodista y amigo de la familia, es hallado muerto en su piso. Debido al afecto que los unía, Guillermo se siente obligado a esclarecer lo ocurrido. Junto a su amigo Zebra y a su vecina Carlota, que vive pared con pared y a la que acaba de conocer, Guillermo forma un equipo improvisado con el objetivo de averiguar la verdad.

Guillermo Barea, un adolescente ciego con una gran personalidad, se convertirá en un detective espontáneo a raíz de un extraño suceso. Todo comienza cuando Rodrigo, un vecino de Guillermo, periodista y amigo de la familia, es hallado muerto en su piso. Debido al afecto que los unía, Guillermo se siente obligado a esclarecer lo ocurrido. Junto a su amigo Zebra y a su vecina Carlota, que vive pared con pared y a la que acaba de conocer, Guillermo forma un equipo improvisado con el objetivo de averiguar la verdad.

The killing of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey—found in the basement of her family home in Boulder, Colorado, with a smashed skull and a garrote placed around her neck—remains one of America’s most shameful unsolved crimes. A flawed investigation, fraught with police, prosecutorial misconduct, and widespread evidence tampering, means that the little girl’s killer remains at large after more than two decades.

Herb is a fixer, a social media manipulator, an anonymous barracuda in a sea of wealthy marks. Blackmail, character assassination, fraud—it’s all in a day’s work. When a quick scam introduces Herb to a cold-blooded director on a quest to film the Marquis de Sade’s Justine, Herb enters a world of porn stars and celebrity sociopaths, massage parlors and murder. Herb is building a family. He’s trying to build a conscience. But most importantly, Herb will get his money, no matter how many lives he has to ruin along the way.

El 9 de diciembre de 2005, el reportero Pablo Reinah cubrió un “operativo” en el rancho Las Chinitas para Televisa. Se trataba de la captura de dos presuntos secuestradores de la banda Los Zodiaco: la francesa Florence Cassez y el mexicano Israel Vallarta. Poco después, se supo que este “operativo” había sido un montaje. La noticia se volvió un escándalo mediático y político de proporciones inimaginables que puso al descubierto las ineficiencias y la corrupción que atraviesan al sistema de justicia mexicano.

More than one-fifth of children want to become influencers, and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic uncertainty by winning the internet's attention? What if you could turn the adoration of your social media followers into a lucrative livelihood? But as Symeon Brown explores in this searing exposé, the reality is much murkier. From IRL streamers in LA to Brazilian butt lifts, from sex workers on OnlyFans to fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes, these are the incredible stories that lurk behind the filtered selfies and gleaming smiles.

The instant bestselling story of Lee Mackenzie, who was a capable and confident young woman, studying broadcast journalism and honing her skills of observation and objectivity. She was also a little unworldly, the product of a small, rural Western Canadian community where doors were never locked and life was simple and direct. On a backpacking trip in the UK, she met the man who would become her husband. A man who everyone agreed was one of the most intelligent, charming people they had ever met.

Nel 1850, appena otto anni dopo la creazione del Detective Branch di Londra, Charles Dickens dedica vari articoli al tema dell'indagine poliziesca, pubblicandoli sulle riviste Householde Words e All the Year Round (di cui è direttore). Le tecniche di investigazione dell'epoca, ancora relativamente nuove, rivelano in "Giù con la marea" una raffinatezza che dimostra l'estrema modernità della Scotland Yard del tempo.

Un piccolo villaggio nel Massiccio Centrale francese. L'alba. Risuonano degli spari. Un'anziana signora ha imbracciato la doppietta e si è messa a far fuoco contro il vicino di casa, poi contro i poliziotti sopraggiunti. È così che l’ispettore André Ventura incontra la centoduenne Berthe Gavignol, cinque volte vedova, ancora piuttosto arzilla e ancora dotata di buona mira.

This full-cast audiobook, featuring 11 different voice actors, and narrated by Hillary Huber, take on the roles of the Tandem Players, a group of community theater actors that love their community theater almost as much as they love the sweet old landlady who gave them a home to perform their plays in over the years. But when she passes away, and the will that was to leave the Broadtown Theater to the acting troupe disappears, they don’t even have time to mourn their loss. Her son comes in like a wrecking ball....