Last Updated: June 16, 2025
The true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown.
Though little remembered today, the trial of Laura D. Fair for the murder of her lover, A. P. Crittenden, made headlines nationwide. As bestselling author Gary Krist reveals, the operatic facts of the case–a woman strung along for years by a two-timing man, killing him in an alleged fit of madness–challenged an American populace still searching for moral consensus after the Civil War. The trial shone an early and uncomfortable spotlight on social issues like the role of women, the sanctity of the family, and the range of acceptable expressions of gender, while jolting the still-adolescent metropolis of 1870s San Francisco, a city eager to shed its rough-and-tumble Gold Rush-era reputation.
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by Caroline Fraser
As Murderland indelibly maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem–the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, even Charles Manson–Fraser’s Northwestern death trip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction.
The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom
by Shari Franke
Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a fȧade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface–Ruby’s wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than anyone could have imagined.
The unbelievable true story of the Cinta Larga, a tribe first contacted by Westerners in the 1960s, who came to run an illegal diamond mine in the depths of the Amazon. Based on six years of immersive reporting and research, WHEN WE SOLD GOD’S EYE tells a unique kind of adventure story, one that begins with a river journey by Teddy Roosevelt and ends with smugglers from Antwerp and New York City’s Diamond District.
In this true story, on December 10, 1887, the Walker family’s shark fishing boat was split in two by a storm, and they awoke in the morning on an island inhabited by a ragged man named Hans who seemed helpful but had a dark secret.