Friday, 12 July 2013
Thursday, 11 July 2013
"Doc": The Rape of the Town of Lovell (True Crime) by Jack Olsen
Paperback: The offenses dated from 1967 to 1983 and the victims' ages ranged from fifteen to sixty-eight.
For twenty-five years since he established his medical practice 1958, the trusted family doctor in a small Wyoming town - Lovell - had been raping and molesting the women and children who most relied on him.
Mostly Mormons, the naive victims sometimes realized only on their wedding nights the truth about what had happened in Dr Story's office.
In riveting detail, veteran crime writer Jack Olsen tells the searing story of a small group of courageous women who decided to bring the doctor to justice and unearthed a legacy of pain and anger that would divide their families, their neighbours and an entire town.
About the author: Jack Olsen (1925-2002) is the author of thirty-three books published in fifteen countries and eleven languages, including the highly acclaimed Predator: Rape, Madness and Injustice in Seattle (1991) which won the American Mystery Award for Best True Crime and his most notable work, "Son": A Psychopath and His Victims (1983), which won a Special Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America. Most of Olsen's books investigated the life histories of violent career criminals including studies of serial rapists.
A former bureau chief for Time, Olsen has won the National Headliners Award, citations for excellence from Indiana and Columbia universities, the Washington State Governor's Award, the Scripps-Howard Award, among others, and was listed in Who's Who in America since 1968 and in Who's Who in the World since 1967. He was named to the Mystery Writers of America's fact-crime committee in 1996 and appointed chair in 1997.
The Philadelphia Inquirer described him as "an American treasure", the Washington Post described him as "the dean of true crime authors" and the New York Daily News lauded him as "the master of true crime". His studies of crime are required reading in university criminology courses and have been cited in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. In a page-one review, the Times described his work as "a genuine contribution to criminology and journalism alike".
A nationally respected expert on the psychology of criminals, Olsen appeared on Good Morning America, Sally Jessy Raphael, Donahue, Geraldo, Larry King Live, and other network interview shows. He was the father of eight, a native of Philadelphia, a fishing fanatic and lived on an island in Puget Sound, Washington, where he passed away at the age of seventy-seven on 16 July 2002.
"Doc": The Rape of the Town of Lovell (1989) was awarded the 1991 Edgar for Best Fact Crime.
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Sunday, 7 July 2013
Saturday, 6 July 2013
To Have And To Kill (True Crime) by John Glatt
Paperback: To Have And To Kill (2004) is the true story of a marriage that turned deadly.
William and his loving wife, a registered nurse named Melanie, had just closed on their half-a-million-dollar New Jersey dream home. Little did William know about the nightmare that was in store for him.
For Melanie had been involved in a long-term affair with a married doctor at the fertility clinic where she worked - and she had plans for the future that didn't include William.
Investigators believe that on 29 April 2004, Melanie first drugged her husband, then murdered him in cold blood.
One by one, three waterlogged designer suitcases were pulled from the Chesapeake Bay. In each were body parts of a man. In a forensics room, the truth was discovered: William McGuire had been horribly murdered and dismembered.
A murder investigation was launched.
On 2 June 2005, Melanie was arrested and was charged with first-degree murder.
Her trial commenced in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on 5 March 2007 and lasted seven weeks.
On 23 April 2007, three years after America witnessed the details of the suitcase incident unfold - on 48 Hours, Dateline NBC, and ABC Primetime, and in People magazine, among other news outlets - Melanie was convicted of first-degree murder, third-degree perjury, second-degree possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose and desecrating William McGuire's human remains.
"The depravity of this murder simply shocks the conscience of this court," Middlesex Superior Court Judge Frederick De Vesa declared. "One who callously destroys a family to accomplish her own selfish ends must face the most severe consequences that the law can provide...In this case, the crime was so heinous, so cruel and so depraved, that the court finds that the maximum sentence should be imposed."
She was sentenced to life imprisonment plus fifteen years for the other charges.
She must serve more than sixty-three years before she is eligible for parole under New Jersey law, when she will be one-hundred-and-one years old. At present, she is incarcerated at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey.
On 20 September 2011, the New Jersey Supreme Court declined to hear her further appeal.
About the author: English-born John Glatt is the author of nineteen true crime books and four biographies, and has over thirty years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. He wrote his first true crime book in 1998 entitled For I Have Sinned: True Stories of Clergy Who Kill. With more than one million books currently in print all over the world, Glatt is acknowledged to be one of the best true crime writers working today. He and his wife divide their time between New York, the Catskill Mountains and London. His latest publication is The Prince of Paradise (2013), a true story of a hotel heir, his seductive wife and a ruthless murder.
This is a Crime and Investigation Network documentary of nurse Melanie McGuire and her deadly plot:
Rating: 5/5
Friday, 5 July 2013
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Split Second by David Baldacci
David Baldacci is such a good storyteller. Split Second is highly addictive and comes highly recommended.
Paperback: When something distracts secret agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate, Clyde Ritter, his life. But what stole his attention? And why was Ritter shot?
Eight years later, Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the Secret Service when her career is stopped short: presidential candidate John Bruno is abducted from a funeral home while under her protection.
The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to re-open investigations into the Ritter fiasco and join forces with ex-agent King. The pair are determined to get to the bottom of what happened in those critical moments.
Meanwhile, high-ranking members of the legal system and key witnesses from both cases are going missing. King is losing friends, colleagues and clients fast and his ex-lover, Joan Dillinger, is playing curious games - she wants Sean back, but she also owes him for something.
About the author: David Baldacci is a worldwide bestselling novelist. With his books published in over 45 different languages and in more than eighty countries, and with over 110 million copies in print, he is one of the world's favourite storytellers. David is also the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a non-profit organization, dedicated to eliminating illiteracy across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit his official website, his Wish You Well Foundation, and to look into its programme to spread books across America.
Split Second (2003) is the first book in the former Secret Service agents King and Maxwell series, which is now a TNT television series:
Rating: 5/5
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