Hardcovers: True Crime
Edited by Dick Donahue and Skip Skwarek. Compiled by Alia Akkam, Natalie Danford, Diane Patrick, Sarah Robbins, Judith Rosen and Michelle Wildgen. -- Publishers Weekly, 6/29/2009
BERKLEY
We're Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-Up of a Mafia Crime Buster (Dec., $24.95) by Charles Brandt and former FBI agent Lin DeVecchio explores accusations that DeVecchio was illegally tied to his Mafia source.
CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS
(dist. by IPG)
Murder in Baker Company: How Four American Soldiers Killed One of Their Own (Feb., $24.95) by Cilla McCain examines the torture–murder, which occurred after the victim and his killers returned from Iraq.
DUTTON
Most Evil: The Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hodel (Sept., $26.95) by Steve Hodel presents new evidence that the author's father killed more than the Black Dahlia.
FULCRUM PUBLISHING
(dist. by Consortium)
Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family (Sept., $24.95) by Dick Kreck delves into a high-profile Denver syndicate that balanced community service with criminal deeds.
HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST
(dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
Femme Fatale: The Female Criminal (Nov., $19.95) by Nerida Campbell contrasts photos of infamous Australian female criminals with the glamorized femmes fatales of pop culture.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS
Murder Behind the Badge: True Stories of Cops Who Kill (Oct., $25) by Stacy Dittrich. A former detective investigates 18 cases.
REGNERY
The Murder Business: High Profile Crimes and the Corruption of Justice (Oct., $27.95) by former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman uses infamous cases as studies of justice sidetracked by media coverage.
TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
Someone's Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe (Oct., $22.95) by Silvia Pettem compares forensics of the 1950s and today as part of the search to identify a 1954 victim found in Boulder, Colo..
UNIV. PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates (Nov., $25) by John Temple reveals the inside story of Ken Rose, an idealistic legal genius who fought for a decade to overturn an innocent man's death sentence.
UNIV. PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND
Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains (Oct., $26.95) by Casey Sherman explores a deadly feud in New England's north country.
