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Attempted murder
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Twisted triangle : a famous crime writer, a lesbian love affair, and the FBI husband's violent revenge
Twisted Triangle is the first complete narrative thriller about the sensational story of Margo Bennett, a married FBI agent, who had_a love affair with best-selling author Patricia Cornwell, and whose jealous husband, Gene Bennet, a superstar FBI undercover agent, kidnapped and attempted to murder her. When the case first came to trial, it was reported in Vanity Fair, Newsweek, People, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Most every profile of Cornwell, written in the U.S. and abroad every time she releases a book, mentions this case and her relationship with Margo. Margo also was the inspiration for the heroine in “Hostage Negotiator,” a TV movie that came out in 2001. Now, for the first time, Margo Bennett has_given Caitlin Rother_complete personal access, sitting for interviews and turning over photographs,_documents, records, and private papers._Twisted Triangle _has the makings of a major bestseller: including the crazy dynamics of Margo and Gene Bennett’s family, the_brilliant FBI undercover_career of_Margo's husband Gene,_the lesbian affair with celebrity author Pat Cornwall, Gene's reactive kidnapping and attempt to kill Margo, Gene’s insanity defense, the trial that validates Margo’s story and shows she was telling the truth all along, and a happy ending to her tale of survival.

Sin City
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Storming Las Vegas : how a Cuban-born, Soviet-trained commando took down the Strip to the tune of five world-class hotels, three armored cars, and millions of dollars
Starred Review. Network producer and onetime Miami Herald columnist Huddy tells a gripping story of greed, violence, theft and public relations. Las Vegas had just launched its new blitz of advertising advancing itself not as Sin City but as a family-friendly vacation destination when Jose Vigoa (a Cuban-born commando veteran of the Soviet Army) hit town in the late 1990s. Vigoa and a small crew embarked on a violent 16-month crime wave, targeting some of the Strip's most prominent (and, as Vigoa showed, vulnerable) institutions. A 23-year veteran of the Las Vegas Police Force, Lt. John Alamshaw was charged with finding and capturing the men behind the crime spree without allowing the robberies to become national news and spoil Vegas's new image. Huddy traces Vigoa's personal history from his childhood in Castro's Cuba to fighting for the Red Army in Afghanistan, his return to Cuba and eventual resettlement in the United States. Then he chronicles the Cuban's increasingly audacious grabs for Vegas riches and his ultimate sentencing to more than 500 years in prison with no possibility of parole. This debut is a must for true-crime enthusiasts.

Mafia
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Gaspipe : confessions of a Mafia boss
One of the most dangerous, intriguing Mafia chieftains ever, Anthony Gaspipe Casso served as an apprentice thief and killer before rising to boss of the infamous Lucchese crime family, according to Carlo, a childhood neighbor of the South Brooklyn native. Carlo (The Ice Man) depicts a violent teen doted on by his gangster father and his mob godfather, Sally Callinbrano, groomed in the art of the kill and Cosa Nostra values. As his enterprises in hot goods and drugs prospered, Casso became the chief enforcer and mob royalty, able to buy a stylish lifestyle as well as an assortment of crooked cops and FBI agents. Tucked away in this book's blood-drenched pages is a picture-perfect love story between Anthony and his wife, Lillian Delduca. And for Mafia-obsessed readers, there are fascinating tidbits from the now jailed Casso about mob bosses John Gotti and Paul Castellano, Sammy The Bull Gravano, Hoover's FBI, the Russian mob and several thug rubouts. This powerful story is required reading for anyone with a yen for the Mafia, the criminal underworld and a law enforcement system struggling to keep up.

Underworld of human traffickers
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A crime so monstrous : face-to-face with modern-day slavery
Today there are more slaves than at any time in history, according to journalist Skinner's report on current and former slaves and slave dealers. Skinner's travelogue-cum-indictment focuses most sharply on Haiti, Sudan, Romania and India, and is interspersed with a detailed account of the work of John Miller, director of the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, or America's antislavery czar. Skinner reiterates that sexual trafficking is only one component of slavery, but devotes the bulk of this book (when it is not following Miller's State Department career) to this issue.


Serial murder investigation
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The monster of Florence
Documents the author's discovery that his new family home in Florence had been the scene of a double murder, his relationship with the investigative journalist co-author, and how they both became targets of the police investigation into the murders.

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A closer look at a famous case
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Final analysis: the untold story of the Susan Polk murder case
Susan Polk's husband was dead by her hand. Was it murder, or self-defense? And what, exactly, was the nature of their relationship 30 years earlier when he was her therapist and she was 15 years old?