The war waged on narcotic drugs and the drug trade in the US – launched in the 1970s – has been ongoing for decades now. Despite making remarkable progress – evidenced by the incarceration of notorious Mexican drug lords – there still seems to be...

Dreaming in Chinese: Memoirs from a Taiwanese Prison by William Tsung is a relatively short but impactful account of life inside a Taiwanese prison. The author is what was known as an ABC (American Born Chinese). When he traveled from California to Taiwan in January...

“For me, JFK’s death now existed in another life. Or so I thought,” writes George Schwimmer in the preface to Murder in Dallas, November 22-24, 1963: What Really Happened. Schwimmer originally believed the version trotted out by the government and mainstream media, whereby Lee Harvey...

Thomas Sweatt: Inside the Mind of DC's Most Notorious Arsonist by Jonathan Riffe takes you to Washington DC, which was the scene of a terrifying spate of arson attacks between 1980 and 2005, before the perpetrator was finally arrested. Confessing to more than 340 fires...

“The winners are those who control the game and all players are suckers” is a quote attributed to gangster Meyer Lansky in Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas by Jeffrey Sussman. Las Vegas wasn’t founded by the men...

The Man Who Hacked the World: A Ghostwriter’s Descent into Madness with John McAfee by Alex Cody Foster is a fascinating insight into the world of one of the most notorious and misunderstood software geniuses, John McAfee. The book is neatly split into two halves....

In the fall of 2018, James W. Marquart, a criminologist by training with years of experience in the field, found out that the house he had recently bought in Frisco, Texas, belonged to the killer Rich Schmelzer, who was incarcerated in an Illinois prison for...

The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries by Mitzi Szereto is a compendium of some of the many unsolved crimes and mysteries. We all expect crimes to be solved but many never do, going cold over time and raising plenty of questions....

By The Side of The Road: The True Story of the Abduction and Murder of Ann Harrison by Marla Bernard takes readers back to March 22, 1989. Two friends steal a car and go on a crime spree in the eastern part of Kansas City....

The Battle for Sicily's Soul: The Rise of the Mafia and the Fight to Free Sicily from its Evil Tyranny by Claudine Cassar is a must-read historical nonfiction book. It focuses on the Sicilian Mafia and gives a deeper understanding of the origin of the...