18 books like Three Crooked Kings

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The second father Domenico Cacciola · 2009 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This true story was Underbelly before Underbelly. From underworld crime to police corruption, former undercover cop Domenico 'Mick' Cacciola finally breaks his silence. In 1954, at the age of nine, his family migrated to Brisbane. In the Sicilian tradition, as the eldest of four boys, Mick was considered the 'second father'. Shares Police corruption, Political corruption, Politics and government, True Crime

Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares True Crime, Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Killer with a badge Chuck Hustmyre · 2004 · ★ 4.8 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Details the shocking true account of rogue cop Antoinette Frank of the New Orleans police department, who, along with her drug dealer boyfriend Rogers LaCaze, murdered off-duty cop Ronald Wilson and two innocent bystanders in the name of misguided revenge. Shares Police corruption, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Missing Persons

Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

A history of autobiography in antiquity

A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Autobiography

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Outlaws

Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.

Nice Girl

Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.

A Talent to Deceive William Norris · 2006 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, and the subsequent trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, have been a source of fascination for more than 70 years. Now, for the first time, William Norris delves into sources of information ignored by previous investigators and comes up with the identity of the true culprit. Lindbergh is exposed as having obstructed the… Shares True Crime, Biography & Memoir

The Force Don Winslow · 2017 · ★ 4.1 · 482p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "The explosive and sensational next novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel"-- Shares Police corruption, Police

Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge · 1929 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and… Shares Politics and government, Biography & Memoir

Still Life (A Three Pines Mystery) Louise Penny · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something… Shares Quebec, Police

True Blue Randy Sutton · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Lieutenant Randy Sutton's fascinating collection of stories and memories, solicited from law enforcement officers across the country, offers a broad and insightful look at the many facets of police life: courage, exhilaration, frustration, loss, and even humor, from the everyday to the career-defining moments on the job. Told by the cops that lived them, these stories show what it truly means to… Shares True Crime, Police

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