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A chilling, factual account of the 1959 shotgun murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members were killed with no clear motive or clues.

Jon Ronson's investigative inquiry into psychopathy examines the tools, practitioners, and personalities behind the science—and reveals how the lines between study and madness can blur.

John E. Douglas recounts his 25‑year career in the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, detailing how psychological profiling helped him solve some of the nation’s most infamous serial killings.

Aaron Hernandez—college All‑American, youngest NFL draft pick, and Super Bowl participant—led a hidden life that culminated in a murder conviction and his own tragic death. All‑American Murder details the case with original reporting.

"Hayes's history of the illustrated medical text "Gray's Anatomy" coincides with the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. Fascinated by the fact that little was known about the famous book's genesis, Hayes combed through nineteenth-century letters and medical-school records, learning that, besides Henry Gray, the brilliant scholar and surgeon who wrote the text, another anatomist was crucial to the book's popularity: Henry Vandyke Carter, who provided its painstaking drawings. Hayes moves nimbly between the dour streets of Victorian London, where Gray and Carter trained at St. George's Hospital, and the sunnier classrooms of a West Coast university filled with athletic physical therapists in training, where he enrolls in anatomy classes and discovers that "when done well, dissection is very pleasing aesthetically." - The New Yorker"All laud and honor to Hayes....In perusing the body's 650 muscles and 206 bones, he has made the case that we are, as the psalmist wrote, "fearfully and wonderfully made" and that dissection has an aesthetic all its own. The act of carving open a body becomes, in this context, a perverse act of love, a desecration that consecrates "the extraordinary, the inner architecture of the human form." - The Washington Post"How do you write a book about someone about whom next to nothing is known? For most writers, the answer would be move on to the next subject. But Bill Hayes has an unusual set of skills. The author of previous books on insomnia and blood, he is part science writer, part memoirist, part culture explainer. "The Anatomist," his appealing new book about the man behind Gray's Anatomy, combines his search for the remaining traces of Henry Gray with a memoir of his own experience as a dissection student and a scalpel's-eye tour of the body." - The New York Times"Some of [Hayes's] most memorable writing describes the dissection classes he attended in San Francisco. We are treated to a selection of fascinating anatomical snippets about, for example, how to trace evidence of the sealed hole in the fetal heart through which the mother's blood enters; or how to find the kidney in a cadaver; or that blood flowing out of the heart is first used to feed the heart itself; or, best of all, a structural analysis of how the Queen manages to deliver such a uniquely restrained wave." - Nature: The International Weekly Journal of ScienceThe classic medical text known as Gray's Anatomy is one of the most famous books ever written. Now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication, acclaimed science writer and master of narrative nonfiction Bill Hayes has written the fascinating, never-before-told true story of how this seminal volume came to be. A blend of history, science, culture, and Hayes's own personal experiences, The Anatomist is this author's most accomplished and affecting work to date.With passion and wit, Hayes explores the significance of Gray's Anatomy and explains why it came to symbolize a turning point in medical history. But he does much, much more. Uncovering a treasure trove of forgotten letters and diaries, he illuminates the astonishing relationship between the fiercely gifted young anatomist Henry Gray and his younger collaborator H. V. Carter, whose exquisite anatomical illustrations are masterpieces of art and close observation. Tracing the triumphs and tragedies of these two extraordinary men, Hayes brings an equally extraordinary era--the mid-1800s--unforgettably to life.But the journey Hayes takes us on is not only outward but inward--through the blood and tissue and organs of the human...

A case study of a young girl's murder investigation in Texas, where her father, a manipulative man, murdered his daughter for an insurance policy.

The unsolved 1922 murder of silent‑film director William Desmond Taylor remains a Hollywood enigma—revisited by biographer Sidney Kirkpatrick, who uncovers a web of suspects and long‑hidden evidence after filmmaker King Vidor’s covert investigation.

A true‑crime collection featuring high‑stakes murder plots in New York and a chilling case of a mother‑daughter dynamic gone deadly.

Two true‑crime case studies: a wealthy man buried alive with only 48 hours of air, and a fatal shooting in the Sierra Nevada involving locals and wealthy developers.

Two gripping true‑crime stories – a couple brutally tortured and abandoned after a home invasion, and a double homicide in Omaha, Nebraska – that illuminate modern American murder and the investigation process.

No Regrets is a true‑crime book by Ann Rule that examines murder and cold‑case investigations in the United States.

Marc Schultz, Olympic gold‑winning wrestler, recounts the fatal affair between his brother Dave and eccentric billionaire John du Pont at Foxcatcher Farms, where a 1996 murder and two‑day standoff ended with du Pont’s arrest.

A gripping true‑crime account of a 1954 murder in Boulder, Colorado, whose victim—Jane Doe—was identified decades later thanks to the work of historian Silvia Pettem and forensic experts.

A gripping true‑crime investigation, detailing cosmetic surgeon Dr. Anthony Pignataro’s forged credentials, botched procedures, and attempted arsenic poisoning of his wife, followed by four other shocking criminal cases.

New York detective Stanley Hastings gets pulled into a deadly prostitution ring when he tries to rescue a housewife from her pimp, only to find himself the top suspect amid money, sex, and murder.

Ann Rule explores how domestic and familiar relationships can become the very source of deadly violence, offering case studies that reveal the chilling reality behind many homicides.