Colin Wilson, co-author of the bestselling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MURDER, has written a definitive volume on the world’s major cases of violent murder. In doing so, he traces the history of violence from its beginnings. From Sawney Bean and his cannibal family to Ed Gein, the Wisconsin Necrophil...
Fatal Flaw: A True Story of Malice and Murder in a Small Southern Town byPhillip Finch-Booktrope,1992 Fatal Flaw examines an unsolved murder of four that occurred on Christmas Eve, 1975, at a furniture shop. The person convicted of the murders remains on Death Row despite evidence that emerg...
This is a biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the first woman executed in the United States not for the crime of murder, and mother of two small children, aged 10 and 6. Always paired with her husband as 'the Rosenbergs'—executed in New York State for spying for the Soviet Union—in this...
Book One, concerned with the mythical origins of the French language, also addresses the fabled origins of the alphabet: the story of Jove, Io and Mercury behind the letters I and O and their claim to being the first letters and also the tale of Apollo’s accidental murder of Hyacinth exp...
1 Parrott reported on the June 1929 murder trial of Earl Peacox for the New York Evening Journal. This goes on for another page and a half, and it’s just one of several name-dropping orgies. As entertainment, Ex-Husband edges out Ex-Wife in my book. While Parrott’s book is undou...
About A Son by David Whitehouse recounts the aftermath of the murder of 20-year-old Morgan Hehir who was stabbed to death while he was on a night out in Nuneaton in Warwickshire on 31 October 2015. It’s a true crime book, but not written in the way that you might typically expect...
The best books on Evolution Jerry Coyne, Biologist Buy now Listen now Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Read expert recommendations “Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, which looked at how pesticide use was harming, and in some cases killing, animals and humans, and really was the first book of...
Politics! Murder! It has something for everyone. ~~~ Hana Lee, Road to Ruin: Debut novel that mixes fantasy with the postapocalyptic atmosphere of Mad Max: Fury Road. Courier Jin has been bringing letters across the wasteland between two would-be lovers, and falling in love with both of...
Amyjane’s murder took place in August 2012, but Luke also tried to kill another woman about a year later. That was when the police realized that they had a potential serial killer on their hands. Four decades before Amyjane’s murder, Gene Dale, Luke’s grandfather, also tried abducting...
Listening to the audiobook felt like I was taking a 400-level philosophy class on economic growth. It spent a lot of time building an ethical and philosophical framework for growth, making the argument internally consistent, and discussing hypothetical edge-cases. Some interesting concepts emerged ...