NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 7, 2010
"Merely serviceable, offering few surprises--much less vigorously written than Michael Codella and Bruce Bennett's Alphaville (2010), which covers some of the same ground."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 9, 2010
"Codella secures justice of a sort in this taut true-crime tale, which varies from by-the-numbers to genuinely exciting."
Tough-talking memoir of a street cop turned detective who battled the druglords of New York City's Lower East Side.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 7, 2010
"An uneven but well-documented mix of forensic science, narrative nonfiction and criminal psychology."
Important developments in 19th-century forensics and criminal justice are interwoven with the killing spree of French serial killer Joseph Vasher.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 5, 2010
"A quirky study that intriguingly snapshots a city in time as well as a life."
Hanson (
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War, 2006, etc.) pursues the glamour in New York City's Lower East Side gangland.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2010
"Possesses all the elements of lurid true crime and dark early American history."
Energetic Wild West tale about two enterprising brothers whose determination to make something of themselves came to radically different ends.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 23, 2010
"Intriguing subject deadened by melodramatic writing."
Longtime private attorney Stuart (
Miranda: The Story of America's Right to Remain Silent, 2004, etc.) traces a 1991 Arizona Buddhist temple massacre of nine monks, and the five men who confessed, under extreme police pressure, to murders they did not commit.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 14, 2010
"Despite its flaws, Caldwell's book does adequate justice to Mosley's battle with a sadly inadequate justice system."
Law professor and novelist Caldwell (
Red, White & Dead, 2009, etc.) recounts the moving story of 19-year-old African-American Jovan Mosley's wrongful arrest and imprisonment.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
"A startling account of a desperate problem boiling on and spilling over the border."
Mexico City–based investigative journalist Beith presents the bloody story of Mexico's drug-trafficking kingpin.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"Competent, but no more than that."
Middling true-crime life of Mafia kingpin Lucky Luciano, once a byword for the most vicious breed of mobster.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"A low-key but fascinating view of life behind bars that deserves a wide audience, if only as a deterrent to crime."
Set a thief to catch a thief--or, in this instance, a drug dealer to ferret out a murderer's secrets.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 12, 2010
"Of gang after gang that can't shoot straight, but still find ample market for their wares in an ever-hungry Norte—fuel for the fires of the legalization movement."
A pointed case study in unintended consequences—in this case, of the war against drugs spilling out into civil war, and vice versa.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 10, 2010
"Terrifying, engrossing, inspirational and surprisingly funny."
Former
Philadelphia Inquirer and
Miami Herald reporter Capuzzo (
Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence, 2001, etc.) reveals the inner workings of the mysterious Vidocq Society, a team of celebrated forensic investigators that regularly meets to tackle unsolved murder cases that have stymied conventional homicide-detection techniques.
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