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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
By John Grisham
345.766 GRI
Presents the real-life tragic case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball hero who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a 21-year-old woman in his small Oklahoma hometown.

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed
By Patricia Cornwell
364.1523 COR
Patricia Cornwell's investigates whether British painter Walker Sickert was in fact the murderer Jack the Ripper. She examines the century-old series of murders that terrorized London in the 1880s, drawing on research, state-of-the-art forensic science, and insights into the criminal mind to reveal what she claims is the true identity of the infamous Jack the Ripper.

The Devil in the White City
By Erik Larson
364.1523 LAR
Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes dispatched possibly 200 people, mostly single young women, in Chicago. Many of the murders occurred during the World's Fair of 1893. Larson's breathtaking history is a factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By John Berendt
975.872 BER
In charming, beautiful, and wealthy old-South Savannah, Georgia, the local bad boy is shot dead inside of the opulent mansion of a gay antiques dealer, and a gripping trial follows.

Saturday
By Ian McEwan
F MCEWAN
A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident, an encounter that has savage consequences.

The Book of Illusions
By Paul Auster
F AUSTER
David Zimmer, a Vermont professor disillusioned with grief over his family's death in a plane crash, finds a new purpose when he becomes obsessed with research into the life and art of a silent film comedian, Hector Mann, who mysteriously disappeared when silent films ended.

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
By Neil White
BIO WHITE
White tells his emotional, incredible true story of crime and redemption, vanity and spirituality, as he discovers happiness and fulfillment in an unlikely place – imprisonment in The Long Center, the last leper colony in the U.S.

The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter
By Jason Kersten
BIO WILLIAMS
Relates the true story of a gifted counterfeiter who created a nearly indistinguishable copy of what was thought to be the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever created, and then printed millions of the fake bills for criminals and spending sprees.