True Crime
Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped
Paperback
The astonishing story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Kidnapped.
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
Paperback
"Vivid, laconic, and crisp. The bodies fall like dominoes, and every word sounds like it was shot from a gun. And as you might expect from Lesy, the photographs are extraordinary." —Luc Sante
A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
Paperback
"A true story more incredible than fiction." —Kevin Baker, author of Striver's Row
A Death in Belmont
Hardback
A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood.
And the Sea Will Tell
Paperback
"Grips you by the throat from beginning to end."—Cleveland Plain Dealer