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  • True Crime

    Observations on Violence and Modernity

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at least cult, of commiseration. If we cannot gather in the face of anything other than crime, violence, terror, trauma, and the wound, we can at least commiserate. That is, as novelist Chuck Palahniuk ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Serial Killers

    Death and Life in America's Wound Culture

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political candidates, to the violent entertainment of Crash or The Alienist, to the latest terrible report of mass murder, we are surrounded by the accident from which we cannot avert our eyes. Bringing depth and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Official World

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's predicament, Seltzer writes, is a society so hungry for reality that it cannot stop describing itself, and that makes for a world that continuously establishes itself by staging its own conditions. Employing ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)

    by Mark Seltzer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines, first published in 1992, explores the links between techniques of representation and social and scientific technologies of power in a wide range of realist and naturalist discourses and practices. Seltzer draws on realist and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Piano Teacher

    The True Story of a Psychotic Killer

    by Robert K. Tanenbaum, Peter S. Greenberg ...
    New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum tells the terrifying and gripping story of Charles Yukl, a mild-mannered piano and voice teacher that killed and abused his students.Everybody has a dream. For aspiring actress Suzanne Reynolds, her dream ended in a gruesome encounter with eccentric New York artist Charles Yukl. Fooled by his choirboy looks, Reynolds had no idea the man who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In the Middle of the Night

    The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood

    by Brian McDonald ...
    Series series St. Martin's True Crime Library
    A robbery takes a fatal turn. The true story of the shocking Connecticut home invasion perpetrated by Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes.The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely daughters. Until July 23, 2007, when, according to police, two ex-cons invaded the Petit home hoping ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Invisible Killer

    The Monster Behind the Mask

    by Diana Montane, Sean Robbins ...
    When detectives respond to a crime scene in Orlando, Florida, during the "summer of hurricanes" in 2004, they find Charlie Brandt hanging from the rafters in the garage of his niece, Michelle Jones' home. Inside the house, they find a scene of horror that reminds them of other murders. In 1978, 13-year-old Carol Lynn Sullivan's head was found inside a rusty paint can in Osteen, Florida; her body ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mind Games

    The True Story of a Psychologist, His Wife, and a Brutal Murder

    by Carlton Smith ...
    A SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR.Dr. Felix Polk was a married psychologist living in Berkeley, California. At forty years old, he had a successful practice and a towering reputation—until he began a scandalous affair with one of his patients: Susan Bolling. She was fifteen years old.A TROUBLED TEENAGE GIRL.After divorcing his first wife, Felix married Susan. Susan would later claim that her marriage was built ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Pickaxe Killers: Karla Faye Tucker & Daniel Garrett (A True Crime Short)

    R. Barri Flowers Murder Chronicles, #2

    by R. Barri Flowers ...
    Series Book 2 - R. Barri Flowers Murder Chronicles
    From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and internationally bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders, comes a riveting new true crime short, The Pickaxe Killers.Having written about hundreds of notable murders in his bestselling true crime book, Murders In The United States: Crimes, Killer and Victims of the Twentieth Century, one case that stood out to Flowers for its sheer ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Body Parts

    by Caitlin Rother ...
    Now updated with shocking details about the identity of Wayne Adam Ford’s first victim – revealed 25 years after her death – the brand new edition of a true crime classic from New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother delves into the disturbing mind and brutal crimes of the Humboldt County serial killer now on Death Row.“I hurt some people.”With these words, a tearful man hinted at a deadly ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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  • Deadly Encounters

    True Crime Stories of Alberta

    by Barbara Smith ...
    Quiet pleasant communties, sparkling under the clear blue skies of Alberta, have witnessed bloody murders and violent mayhem.From a wide variety of accounts, Babara Smith has selected eight intriguing stories that will astound and amaze you.Mystery still surrounds the fate of pro golfer Frank Willey who disappeared in 1962. Two men were convicted of his murder, but his body has never been found. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cutter - It started as an obsession with hacking hair from women's heads. It ended with murder

    by Michael Litchfield ...
    Heather Barnett's mutilated body was discovered by her son and daughter on their return home from school in Bournemouth one November afternoon. The police quickly ascertained that the murder was premeditated and meticulously planned down to the last macabre detail: the killer had not left one single piece of DNA evidence -- even the bloody footprints from a distinct pair of trainers did not lead ... Read more

    $5.39 USD