( True-Crime stories so good they should be illegal )

 

A hit job and a murder. In Festus, Missouri, no one knows who to believe.

Mired in debt, a mild-mannered hobbyist becomes an international arms dealer. Soon the UK is flood with untraceable antique guns and ammunition and police are baffled.

Mob forces move in. Harlem’s lucrative underworld is divided. One woman must fight for control of what’s hers.

An investment scheme based on a time traveler’s inside information... or an investment scam and the original Pyramid Scheme?

A young woman decides to try to change the brutal course of the French Revolution--by becoming an assassin.

She posed as an air hostess, a psychologist, but most often as a cop. Then she fell in love with one.

She was an international superstar. She was a world-class spy. The untold story of Josephine Baker.

all Original. Always Explosive.

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A prolific art forger meets his match in an intrepid FBI investigator, but the con is only just beginning.

A man is presumed murdered. In this town of 12, everyone is a possible suspect.

A respected professor shot dead through the mansion window. A New England town shaken to its core.

An identical twin lives in the shadow of her sister. Then conflict turns into a murder plot.

The meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Steve Carroll, the high-flying corporate executive who wanted it all.

A global wave of high-profile crimes has INTERPOL, Scotland Yard, and American detectives chasing a shadow. Can the best conman of his generation stay one step ahead of the unofficial global task force obsessed with taking him down?

A single working mom begins a whirlwind romance with a man named Martin Lewis, then discovers that Martin Lewis doesn’t exist. This true story picks up right where Scorsese’s ‘GoodFellas’ left off.

America’s first policewoman protects the unprotected in a Los Angeles brewing with danger. Mocked and hampered at every turn, and paid 73 cents on the dollar, Alice Wells tracks a missing heiress to an insidious cult — and transforms policing.

A successful female lawyer by day gets swept into the underground world of a motorcycle gang by night. Her double life turns into a violent collision of worlds.

When a ring of thieves steals a poet’s beloved dog, one of the world’s most famous women must break her long domestic oppression and discover herself in the process. The dognapping that sealed a romance and changed literary history.

A young man returns home from the army and gets a surprising offer from his emotionally distant father: Join the family business and help mom & pop pull off a string of daring cross-country heists. No one expects the betrayals coming.

In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short. (Published in partnership with Boston Globe Magazine)