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Books in Thorndike Large Print Crime Scene series

  • Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa

    James Neff

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, Jan. 6, 2016)
    "One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa. From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and intensified when his brother named him attorney general in 1961. RFK put together a 'Get Hoffa'squad within the Justice Department, devoted to destroying one man. But Hoffa, with nearly unlimited Teamster funds, was not about to roll over. Drawing upon a treasure trove of previously secret and undisclosed documents, James Neff has crafted a brilliant, heart-pounding epic of crime and punishment, a saga of venom and relentlessness and two men willing to do anything to demolish each other"--From publisher's website.
  • Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde

    Jeff Guinn

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Aug. 5, 2009)
    Forget everything you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. In Go Down Together, Jeff Guinn combines exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of two kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and fame - and whose devotion to each other was as real as their overblown reputation as criminal masterminds was not.
  • In the Woods

    Tana French

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Oct. 3, 2007)
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  • L. A. '56: A Devil in the City of Angels

    Joel Engel

    Paperback (Thorndike Press, Aug. 22, 2012)
    Traces the story of a former police officer who was wrongly accused of rape and kidnapping in 1956 Los Angeles, describing how a Latino detective fell in love with one of the victims and became the defender's only advocate.
  • Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California

    Frances Dinkelspiel

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, March 2, 2016)
    Tracing the history of California's viticulture and how passion for "the elixir of the gods" has driven people to extremes, a narrative exposes the violent and obsessive world of the California wine trade.
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: 40th Anniversary Special Edition

    Mildred D. Taylor

    Paperback (Thorndike Press Large Print, Jan. 3, 2018)
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  • Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss

    Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, July 10, 2013)
    A biography of the infamous crime boss follows his beginnings on the streets of Boston to his final capture by the FBI.
  • Starvation Lake

    Bryan Gruley

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2009)
    In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake - the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation's legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accidenthappened five miles away on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thing: murder.
  • Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China

    Paul French

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Aug. 8, 2012)
    Chronicles the efforts of two detectives--one British and one Chinese--as they raced to find an Englishwoman's killer in 1937 before the Japanese invaded Peking. (true crime).
  • Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D'Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia

    Jerry Capeci, Tom Robbins

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Feb. 5, 2014)
    After he escaped an assassination attempt, Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the top boss of the Luchese crime family, became the highest-ranking mobster to turn government witness, which resulted in the imprisonment of more than 50 mobsters, in this riveting biography that examines the Mafia in New York City. (biography & autobiography).
  • The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

    Deborah Blum

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, April 2, 2010)
    Chronicles the story of New York City's first forensic scientists to describe Jazz Age poisoning cases, including a family's inexplicable balding, Barnum and Bailey's Blue Man, and the crumbling bones of factory workers.
  • The Likeness

    Tana French

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Oct. 3, 2008)
    Traumatized detective Cassie Maddox struggles in her career and relationship with Sam O'Neill while investigating the unsettling murder of a young woman whose name matches an alias Cassie had used as an undercover officer.