New Nonfiction

How the Bounty Mutineers Found Their New Home on a Secret Pacific Island

Pitcairn was an anomaly – lost to British mapmakers. So that's where the fugitive mutineers set out to forge a new future.

March 10, 2022  By Brandon Presser
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Sex and the City: The Spectacular Love Life of Mafia Boss Sonny Franzese

"Her boyfriend was not far away on stage, but Sonny was not at all concerned."

March 10, 2022  By S. J. Peddie
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The Unusual, Unsettling Crimes of the Other Dr. Gilmer

"In rural Appalachia, a man with my name and my profession strangled his father in the passenger seat of his Toyota Tacoma."

March 3, 2022  By Dr. Benjamin Gilmer
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The Murders in 1970s Montana That Finally Brought the FBI's Profiling Program Into the Field

They had interviewed dozens of killers. But their theories were untested in an active investigation.

March 2, 2022  By Ron Franscell
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A Corporate Headhunter Spills His Secrets

Clients were desperate for the non-public intelligence provided by elite headhunters. That's where the ruse came in.

March 2, 2022  By Robert Kerbeck
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Who Was Victoria Zielinski? And Who Would She Have Become, If Not For Her Murder?

Read from the new book by Sarah Weinman, Scoundrel.

March 1, 2022  By Sarah Weinman
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How One Writer's Research Shed New Light on the Century-Old "Bloody Bender" Mystery

Susan Jonusas explains how an intense archival investigation led to new insights on one of the American West's most notorious crimes.

March 1, 2022  By Susan Jonusas
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A Brief History of Xenophobia In America

Anti-immigrant sentiment goes back to our nation's founding, and has always been accompanied by state-sanctioned violence.

February 23, 2022  By Patrick Strickland
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The Socialite, Property Developer, Press Manipulator, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

Elizabeth Chudleigh was better known as the Duchess Countess. Her scandals exposed hypocrisy at the heart of European society.

February 17, 2022  By Catherine Ostler
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A Brief History of Strychnine, the Poison of Choice for Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Scores More—But Why?

Neil Bradbury on mystery's favorite silent killer.

February 10, 2022  By Neil Bradbury
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