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On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme-- better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry-- and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline's mother, Honorah. When Honorah Parker was found in a pool of blood with the brick used to bludgeon her to death close at hand, Juliet and Pauline confessed to the killing. Their motive: a plan to escape to the United States to become writers, and Honorah's determination to keep...
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Wenn Du glaubst, DEIN Leben ist kompliziert;
wenn Du glaubst, DIR wächst alles über den Kopf;
wenn Du glaubst, DU leidest an Kummer und Sorgen,
dann solltest DU dieses Buch lesen,
um zu erfahren, wie gut es DIR geht...
Alle Opfer dieses Buches hätten nämlich gerne
DEIN kompliziertes Leben,
DEINE massiven Probleme,
DEINE großen Sorgen,
denn dann wären sie noch am Leben...
Morde, Raubüberfälle, Vergewaltigungen, Drogen, Unfälle... Schockierende...
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The true story of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the company had ever had, by becoming an international drug smuggler.
In 2019, music reporter Slava P, an editor for VICE media, was sentenced to nine years in prison for recruiting friends into a scheme to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. into Australia. Five of them were already in jail. Immediately, Slava P was internationally infamous. Was he a victim of pressure to...
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Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother? wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City-based journalist and novelist. The crime wasn't just a family legend, it made headlines across Canada in 1913, but her killer had never been found. In The End of Her, Hoffman meticulously researches this century-old tragedy, while facing another: his mother's decline from Alzheimer's. Weaving back and forth between past and present, Hoffman invokes in...
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This biography of the early 20th-century newspaper giant who became news after killing his wife. As city editor of Joseph Pulitzer's New York Evening World, Charles E. Chapin was the quintessential newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly, setting the pace for evening press journalism with blockbuster stories from the Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic.
At the pinnacle of his fame in 1918, Chapin was deeply depressed and facing...
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In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the movie Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. The movie launched Jackson's international career. It also forever changed the life of Anne Perry, an award-winning, bestselling crime writer, who at the time of the movie's release was publicly outed at Juliet Hulme, one of the murderers. A new light was now...
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Journaliste en Belgique depuis plus de 25 ans, l'auteur a accumulé les rencontres et les souvenirs intimes, tantt surréalistes, tantt émouvants.
Après avoir rencontré de nombreuses personnalités, comme les membres de notre famille royale ou nos plus grands sportifs (Eddy Merckx, David Goffin ou Justine Henin), après avoir interviewé des « people » issus d'univers différents tels qu'Arthur Ashe, Bill Gates ou encore notre Jean-Claude Van...
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Quand l'addiction devient un fléau et entraîne violence et délinquance dans son sillage...
Sans conteste, la question de l'addiction est parmi les plus difficiles à appréhender, selon les spécialistes qui se succèdent comme «experts» devant les tribunaux.
En reportage aux « Alcooliques Anonymes », un homme d'une quarantaine d'années confia à l'auteur qu'il en était arrivé à boire de l'Eau de Cologne pour assouvir son assuétude...
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Jim Christy's life and adventures began on the mobbed-up streets of South Philadelphia. Over his 73 years to date, Christy has asserted his freedom of spirit as a vagabond adventurer, latter-day hobo, journalist, private eye, actor, musician, and artist, in over 50 countries around the globe, and still found time to write over 30 books. His early adventures as a street fighter and child tramp provide a unique socio-cultural history of Philadelphia...
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The story of journalist Pete Crooks's exposé of a private- investigation firm notable for its staff of soccer moms, in which he found himself deep in the underbelly of fake sting operations, wannabe celebrities, police corruption, drug-dealing, reality television, double-crossing employees, and more twists and turns than a dozen crime thrillers.
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