true crime stories

"[This book] twists together transcripts, emails, and documents into an investigation of a missing college girl, also weaving in the mysteries of how the narrator 'Joseph Knox' came to be in possession of these files and what fate befell the original author, as well as why Knox might not be telling us everything he knows. Zoe Nolan disappeared from Manchester University in 2011. Her story was sad, certainly, but hardly sensational, Joseph Knox thought. As a crime writer, he felt that dead girls were everywhere, and the missing ones just didn't cut it. He wouldn't have given her any more thought were it not for Evelyn Mitchell. Another writer struggling to come up with a new idea, Evelyn attended one of Joseph's publicity events, and she was wondering just what happened to all the girls who go missing. What were the stories there? What happened to Zoe? So Evelyn began investigating herself, and sending Joseph emails with chapters of the novel she was writing with her findings. Uneasy with the novel's corkscrew twists and turns, Joseph pays closer attention to the real story"--Provided by publisher.

Jam-packed with illustrations, fun facts, travel tips, and beverage recs, this guide includes some of the country?s most notorious crime scenes, hauntings, and supernatural sightings. You?ll also find Christine and Em?s personal recommendations to the best local ice cream parlors, oddity museums, curiosity shoppes, and more.

Provides a collection of essays detailing the true stories behind over forty films as "Psycho," "The Fugitive," and "Double Indemnity" among other popular movies. The films are listed alphabetically, from "Alpha Dog" to "The Young Savages," and there are black-and-white photographs throughout.

Describes how sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyon disappeared from a shopping mall in Washington, D.C. in 1975, and the forty-year effort to bring their kidnapper to justice. The author covered the original story years ago, and now returns to recount its conclusion.