Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan
9 best books like Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan (Mark I. Pinsky): Meet Me in Monaco, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, Park Avenue Summer, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century, The Apology, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
Author | Hazel Gaynor |
ISBN | 0062885375 |
Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel...
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Author | Casey Cep |
ISBN | 1101947861 |
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.
Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help...
Author | Renee Rosen |
ISBN | 1101991143 |
Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamour of 1965 New York City and Cosmopolitan Magazine, where a brazen new Editor-in-Chief--Helen Gurley Brown--shocks America by daring to talk to women about all things off limits...
New York City is filled with...
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Alaska PD.
Most of us have never heard of Israel...
Author | Eve Ensler |
ISBN | 1635574382 |
From Eve Ensler, author of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century--The Vagina Monologues--and one of Newsweek's "150 Women Who Changed the World," comes a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement.
Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting...
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Author | Paul French |
ISBN | 0143121006 |
Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking. Is it the work of a madman? One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now...
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Author | Daniel James Brown |
ISBN | 0061348104 |
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows...
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning...
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
Author | Sarah Weinman |
ISBN | 0062661957 |
7 Hours and 26 Minutes
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner.
Weaving together...