Categories: Crime Books

Hollywood Con Queen The Hunt for an Evil Genius

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<p>Scott C. Johnson’s unique true crime narrative recounts the tale of the brilliantly cunning imposter who carved a path of financial and emotional destruction across the world. Gifted with a diabolical flair for impersonation, manipulation, and deception, the Con Queen used their skill with accents and deft psychological insight to sweep through the entertainment industry. Johnson traces the origins of this mastermind and follows the years-long investigation of a singularly determined private detective who helped deliver them to the FBI. Described by one victim as a “crazy, evil genius,” the Con Queen enacted one of the most elaborate scams ever to hit Hollywood—the perfect criminal, committing the perfect crime for our time.&nbsp;</p><p>But for what purpose? And with what motive?&nbsp;</p><p>Johnson’s unparalleled access to sources—including exclusive interviews with victims and never-before-heard recordings of the Con Queen—brought global attention to the scam, spurred law enforcement to act, and led Johnson himself to venture in search of the Con Queen. Journeying from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to Jakarta, Johnson eventually came face-to-face with one of the most disturbing criminal minds in recent history, only to realize what chasing the Con Queen revealed about himself and his own troubled family history.&nbsp;</p>

Girls Like Her

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<p>A raw, gripping, authentic, and boldly original novel about a fifteen-year-old Texas girl set to stand trial for murder—and the one person who might be able to help her clear her name.</p><p>A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on—no one, except her state-appointed caseworker, a woman named Cadence Ware. In Ruby’s experience, that’s not anyone she can trust.</p><p>Cadence is familiar with the cold reality of Ruby’s situation, even before Ruby was arrested. Angry and alone, homeless and hungry, breaking the law just to survive, she is the kind of girl no one wants to listen to, especially not the prosecutor who wants to put her away for life.&nbsp;</p><p>But no one knows the story—the real story—of what happened the day Ruby met the man who would end up dead. As the layers of truth are peeled away and time is running out, Ruby and Cadence will both have desperate choices to make—choices that could mean the difference between Ruby spending her life in prison or her name being cleared.</p><p>Told through a collection of letters, meeting notes, news articles, court transcripts, and more, Girls Like Her is a riveting and unflinching tale of the truths so often lost in the American justice system, and one girl’s fight to be heard.</p><div><br></div>

She's Not Sorry

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<p>Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma, having plunged from a bridge onto train tracks below.</p><p>But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why?</p><p>Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close, until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realise that she and her daughter could be the next victims.</p>

A Clock Stopped Dead

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<p>'Satisfyingly intriguing' Faith Martin</p><p>'J.M. Hall has mastered the warmth of a perfect modern cosy crime with all the twists and turns that go with it. I really enjoyed it!' Hannah Hendy</p><p>Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma are giving up their coffee morning for a brand-new mystery.</p><p>Retired teachers Pat, Liz and Thelma are happiest whiling away their hours over coffee, cake and chat at the Thirsk Garden Centre café.</p><p>But when their good friend tells them about an unsettling experience she had in a sinister-feeling charity shop, they simply can’t resist investigating…</p><p>Because the entire shop has vanished into thin air.</p><p>Before long, our trio of unlikely sleuths find themselves embroiled in a race against the clock to get to the bottom of this mystery – but who has a secret to hide and how far will they go to keep it concealed?</p><p>Only time will tell…</p><div><br></div>

City in Ruins

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<p>Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow’s epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career.</p><p>'A gangland trilogy to equal THE GODFATHER. If you like SCARFACE and GOODFELLAS, this is where it's at.' STEPHEN KING</p><p>Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love.</p><p>Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich.</p><p>The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman – a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with.</p><p>Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far.</p><p>When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own.</p><p>Danny thought he had buried his past, but now it reaches up to him from the grave to pull him down. Old enemies surface, and when they come for Danny they vow to take everything – not only his empire, not just his life, but all that he holds dear, including his son.</p><p>To save his life and everything he loves, Danny must become the ruthless fighter he once was – and never wanted to be again.</p><p>Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion.</p>

Logan McRae (1) Cold Granite

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<p>The very first Logan McRae novel in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride.</p><p>DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets.</p><p>Winter in Aberdeen: murder, mayhem and terrible weather…</p><p>It’s DS Logan McRae’s first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn’t get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid’s body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. And he’s only the first. There’s a serial killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood.</p><p>Soon the dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets, and Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. And if Logan isn’t careful, he could end up joining them.</p>

UNLAWFUL JUSTICE

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<div>Baby the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Diwan family’s household help has been raped and brutalized. Vansh Diwan a criminal lawyer finds himself torn between a shot at justice for the girl and a very powerful client. He cannot bring himself to proceed at the risk of all that he has secured for his family. His wife Priti distraught and devastated at her husband’s decision turns to an old friend for help. Akash Hingorani top criminal lawyer and best friend to Priti and Vansh must step up. He is Baby’s last chance. But things quickly unravel as Akash’s probe into the rape suddenly turns into a murder investigation. A powerful legal thriller that moves breathlessly from crime scene to courtroom to homes to lay bare the difference between law and justice.</div>

MOGUL

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<p>Prem Bedi is the ‘Mogul’ – the third richest man in the country. He commands both fear and respect and at fifty-three he still looks handsome and aristocratic. But Bedi’s smoothly run empire comes to a screeching halt when he’s accused of killing his ex-wife and her husband and dragged into a court battle. The ever-present spotlight on him grows brighter and harsher and the questions grow louder – ‘Did he do it?’ A story unfolding through several different perspectives The Mogul is howdunnit set in the fractured world of power money and crime.</p>

HEIST ARTIST

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<p>Vagh Pratap Singh aka the Captain is a conman extraordinaire. From transporting illegal merchandise and stealing cars to breaking safes he’s done it all. But now in his fortieth year he’s ready to retire.So when Udham Kumar a crooked politician from Uttar Pradesh commissions the Captain to track down and steal Poppy Flowers a Vincent van Gogh’s painting that has been smuggled into India after it went missing in a museum in Egypt in 2010 the Captain knows that he’s found his last and biggest case.But the painting is now in possession of a dangerous gangster and the Captain is being followed by Udham Kumar’s ruthless associates greedy for both money and power. As the odds against him begin to stack up the Captain realizes that his last heist might not be as easy as he’d imagined.</p>

DOOSRA

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<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Ron Jogani, a jeweller from Mumbai, is in Belgium to buy a consignment of loose diamonds worth over 10 million Euros. Hours later he is found dead in his hotel room in Brussels – murdered.The tech-savvy killers have managed to elude the CCTV cameras in the hotel, except one – the concealed camera in the elevator that has captured one of them.When one of the stolen diamonds is sold in Mumbai, the Belgian Police reach out to their Indian counterparts, and the case is assigned to DCP Rita Ferreira.But when Rita and her team track down the man in the CCTV photograph provided by the Belgians, they realize there has to be some mix-up: the target does not even have a passport – he could not have travelled to Brussels. The inimitable Rita Ferreira returns to unravel a web of lies and deceit as she races against time in this thrilling page-turner.</span></p>