The Best American Crime Writing 2006Mark Bowden, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook Fifteen riveting true crime stories from some of the best crime writers around. A sterling collection of the year’s most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:
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... drove a Jaguar , and the women who worked at the school all seemed to have a crush on him . “ He was very charismatic , like a teen idol , a rock star , " says Hardwicke . “ He was an incredibly charming master manipulator . " About a ...
... drove a Jaguar , and the women who worked at the school all seemed to have a crush on him . “ He was very charismatic , like a teen idol , a rock star , " says Hardwicke . “ He was an incredibly charming master manipulator . " About a ...
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... drove up to Princeton for an emergency board meeting , where he learned that Hanson had tried to kill himself by putting his head inside a gas oven . Lessig there- upon told Howard everything he knew about Hanson's history of abuse . In ...
... drove up to Princeton for an emergency board meeting , where he learned that Hanson had tried to kill himself by putting his head inside a gas oven . Lessig there- upon told Howard everything he knew about Hanson's history of abuse . In ...
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... drove down to Princeton to hear what its officials had to say in its defense . The school's current president , Donald Edwards , gave me a tour of the grounds . We stopped at the rooms that once made up the Hanson - Lessig suite . “ He ...
... drove down to Princeton to hear what its officials had to say in its defense . The school's current president , Donald Edwards , gave me a tour of the grounds . We stopped at the rooms that once made up the Hanson - Lessig suite . “ He ...
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Mark Jacobson THE 2000ANHOUR WOMAN 155 | 45 |
Skip Hollandsworth THE LAST Ride | 73 |
Jeffrey Toobin KILLER INSTINCTS | 99 |
Robert Nelson ALTAR EGO | 125 |
Gwynne DR EVIL | 161 |
Paige Williams How TO LOSE 100000000 | 183 |
Mary Battiata Blood Feud | 195 |
Howard Blum and John Connolly Hit Men in Blue? | 223 |
Richard Rubin The Ghosts of Emmett Till | 247 |
Chuck Hustmyre Blue on Blue | 265 |
Devin Friedman Operation Stealing | 277 |
Denise Grollmus Sex Thief | 293 |
Deanne Stillman The Great Mojave Manhunt | 309 |
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