Politi og kriminalitet

This remarkable book tells the engrossing story of a small, highly organised criminal gang who ruled supreme in the South-West of the Netherlands in the 1990s, and were never caught. The gang members came from all over Europe, and all stratas of society. They each had specialist skills and spoke at least three languages. Their audacious targets, meticulous planning, and ruthless execution gave them legendary status. They never killed, but struck fear into their enemies. It was not until 2022 that a gang member approached the author and told his story for the first time. It is a fascinating account, and as he readily admits, they would not get away with it today.

A memoir exposing one man's control over many women, an exploration of the trauma he left behind and the sisterhood that formed in his wake despite - and in spite of - him

?This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a vigorous empathy that leaves Truman Capote in the dust. Scott Johnson's courage, his relentless quest for the truth behind a set of brilliantly obscured cruelties, and his examination of the very fabric of psychopathy ultimately lead him to question how the appalling lies spat out by the Con Queen relate to the daily untruths required of us all. His narrative is further deepened by breathtakingly honest reportage about himself and his family, which led him to this radical investigation of a deformed mind. I cannot remember the last time I read anything with such breathless fascination.??Andrew SolomonThe spellbinding tale of an epic international manhunt for a psychopathic con artist who exploited the dreams of creators to steal dozens of identities and millions of dollars.Blending years of deep reporting with distinctive, powerful prose, Scott C. Johnson's unique true crime narrative recounts the tale of the brilliantly cunning imposter who carved a path of financial and emotional destruction across the world. Gifted with a diabolical flair for impersonation, manipulation, and deception, the Con Queen used their skill with accents and deft psychological insight to sweep through the entertainment industry. Johnson traces the origins of this mastermind and follows the years-long investigation of a singularly determined private detective who helped deliver them to the FBI. Described by one victim as a ?crazy, evil genius,? the Con Queen enacted one of the most elaborate scams ever to hit Hollywood?the perfect criminal, committing the perfect crime for our time. But for what purpose? And with what motive? Johnson's unparalleled access to sources?including exclusive interviews with victims and never-before-heard recordings of the Con Queen?brought global attention to the scam, spurred law enforcement to act, and led Johnson himself to venture in search of the Con Queen. Journeying from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to Jakarta, Johnson eventually came face-to-face with one of the most disturbing criminal minds in recent history, only to realize what chasing the Con Queen revealed about himself and his own troubled family history.

The shocking true story of one of Britain¿s most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police cover operations

The shocking true-crime story of a Texas border patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred.Twelve days is all it took.Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Ann Luera, Griselda Hernandez, and Janelle Ortiz were four marginalized women striving to make ends meet as sex workers. They looked out for one another. But they would soon share a connection that none of them could have imagined. When Melissa was found dead, the other three women were on edge but assumed they were safe. Twelve days later, they too were dead and police had detained an unlikely suspect--Juan David Ortiz, a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, where he carried a badge, a service revolver, and was entrusted to protect the community in which he eventually killed. From September 3 through September 15, 2018, Ortiz, a husband and doting father to three children, lured his victims into his white Dodge truck and drove them to the outskirts of town where he violently executed them, leaving them dead or dying on the sides of dark, rural roads.In this fast-paced, electrifying tick-tock, Pulitzer Prize-winning USA Today journalist Rick Jervis tells the gripping story of the four murders that shook the small border town of Laredo, and the quest to unmask a cold, calculated killer who was hiding in plain sight. The Devil Behind the Badge is also a deeply human portrait of the four lives lost and an attempt to uncover what motivated Ortiz's descent into darkness. Along the way, it raises serious questions about the border crisis, the abuse of law enforcement, and the challenges of a federal agency to police its own ranks.

Despite the efforts of respectable parish and police constables, the magistrates and court officials in their fine new jail and the Industrial Revolution on the horizon, this dip into Argyll's history tells how crime in the county was just as bloody and violent as in former eras.

"During the heyday of the Mafia in America, the FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover, ignored organized crime believing it was better handled by local law enforcement. That changed when an all-out effort to contain and eradicate the Mafia was started in the 1960s by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and was escalated in the 1980s by Rudy Giuliani in New York City. In this book, readers are introduced to several characters in the American Mafia, known as "rats" in the criminal world, who cooperated with law enforcement, resulting in the arrest of many in their gangs across the country. Short biographies of each informant detail their crimes and the deals they made to stay alive or reduce lengthy prison sentences. Through the use of FBI and CIA records released in 2017, and books written by the criminals themselves, it is revealed why previously loyal Mafia members and associates became informants. Most of the criminals written about are dead, a few are presumed to be alive and in the witness protection program."--

In 1978 the Bulgarian author and dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated by a poisoned umbrella on Waterloo Bridge in London. His murder is the most iconic killing in almost five decades of the Cold War, and no one has ever been prosecuted for it.The Umbrella Murder reveals the real architect and hit man behind this spectacular killing: a spy code-named Piccadilly who worked for the Bulgarian secret service and the KGB, who has been hiding for more than forty years.Written as a modern-day thriller, and drawing on an incredible thirty-year cache of original documents and recordings and never-before-seen archive material -- some not even seen by police or secret services -- this is a jaw-dropping and page-turning search for justice in the murky underworld of intelligence and across the shifting sands of spycraft.

A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land

Thieves-in-law' (vory-v-zakone in Russian) are career criminals belonging to a criminal fraternity that began in the 1930s in the Soviet prison camps. For reasons that the book attempts to explain, thieves-in-law became exceptionally prevalent in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Here, by the 1990s, they formed a mafia network--criminal associations that attempt to monopolize protection in legal and illegal sectors of the economy. At this time, the mafia was in many ways more powerful than the state. In 2005, however, anti-organized crime policy was transferred from Italy and America to Georgia. Legislation targeting the thieves-in-law directly was successful in causing a steep decline in mafia influence and organized criminal activity. This book asks how and why this occurred. In particular, why did the thieves-in-law not resist the attack on them successfully? Based on extensive fieldwork and utilizing unique access to primary sources of data, such as police files, court cases, archives, and expert interviews, the book provides a case study of varying organized criminal resilience to state attack. It studies the dynamics of changing mafia activities, recruitment practices, and organization as these relate to changes in the socio-economic environment and, in particular, anti-organized crime policy in what is the first sustained, directed anti-mafia policy implemented in a post-Soviet country.

Diamonds are a girl's best friendJoan Hannington was the most notorious female figure in London's criminal underworld during the 80s, earning her the nickname 'The Godmother'. With her stunning looks and glamorous wardrobe, Joan was constantly underestimated, but she used this to her advantage and became an undetected mastermind in high-stakes jewellery theft. Often transforming herself into different characters, Joan seamlessly got away with millions of pounds in diamonds.Coming from a violent, loveless childhood, Joan learnt to trust no one but herself. At seventeen, she becomes a mother, but is trapped in a disastrous marriage with a brutal thug. When he goes on the run, Joan seizes the moment to leave her old life. Motivated by her desire to care for her daughter, Joan gets swept up in the exhilarating world of a life of crime and makes some heartbreaking decisions as she sets her sights on a better life.Joan is the true story of her meteoric rise from petty offender to one of Britain's most accomplished diamond thieves, making a success of life by not playing by the rules when the odds seemed stacked against her.

Every Contact Leaves a Trace is a professional and confessional account of cases and stories from a senior crime scene investigator.

The stakes are never higher when the charge is murder¿ Explore the riveting twists and turns of some of the most notorious and controversial murder trials in history, such as the O. J. Simpson, Phil Spector, and Oscar Pistorius cases.Each of the trials detailed in this book¿the latest in DK¿s highly successful series of true crime investigations¿dominated the world's news media and gripped public attention. After examining the evidence, if you had been a member of the jury, what would have been your verdict? Guilty? Or Not Guilty?

THE PRISON OFFICER.CHALLENGES EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT PEOPLE IN PRISON. Life as a prison officer was Gen's calling. But when she took her first job in a men¿s prison at only 23, she was thrown in at the deep end.How did she find her place amongst gangsters, killers and traffickers?How would she navigate a mental health system on its knees?And how could she help the prisoners when most of the officers were burned out?From the wing kingpin who delivers his threats with a smile and a pat on the back, to the famous drill artist causing a stir on the wing, and from the `frequent flyer' for whom prison is the only home he's known to the young offender who gets a second chance, Gen reveals the incredible cast of characters behind the prison walls.In this searing account of her time behind bars, discover how Gen learned how to use her heart, her humour and sheer bloody-mindedness to make a difference.

Filled with tales of con artists and their mind-bending schemes, this thrilling compendium of the world's most incredible scams is truly stranger than fiction. From swindlers and imposters to double lives and faked personas, discover the people behind these frauds and the lengths they went to in order to commit them.

he first book to reveal the full extent of King Edward VIII's looting of jewellery, artworks, furniture and priceless heirlooms from the Royal Collection, and the historic crown conventions he exploited to do it

A gripping true crime compendium of some of the world's most infamous and shocking mass murderers, such as John Wayne Gacy, the Boston Strangler, the Moors murderers and Harold Shipman, as well as some lesser-known figures. This book not only relates the disturbing events that transpired but also delves into the psychology of the perpetrators.

As investigative writers, Ivor and Sally Davis set out hoping to find their neighbor and friend, Fred Roehler, innocent or the double homicide he is arrested for¿instead they found a viper¿s nest of deceit and murder.

I could not put this book down' Reader review, 5 stars'If you ever tell my secret, you'll be dead to me.'THE FRIEND: When ordinary mum Frankie moves into her new home, it is a dream come true. Shocking, thrilling, and absolutely unputdownable' Reader review, 5 stars

Veteran Detective Rex Braden has worked many murder cases in the city of Rock Valley, Colorado, a peaceful city at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, for over ten years. He is a "caffeine addict by day with a few whiskeys at night" sort of guy. In Rock Valley, a serial killer is a rarity. However, a gruesome series of murders takes place, each seemingly linked to the others. Braden and his partner, Jason Martin, must scramble to make sense of clues that don't add up. When a suicide is connected to the current murders, not only will Braden have to stop the darkness taking over the city, but also that which seeks to darken the past.

If it bleeds, it leads. Poised to win her first contested election in Eda County, South Dakota, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey is broadsided by bad news. Not only does a hooligan deface a turbine in the county's new wind farm, but Alyson Linderman, daughter of a Twin Cities media mogul, is found dead on the launch day of an electronics recycling center. Is it eco-terrorism in reverse or something more insidious? Branded as a bumbling pair of misfits, Karen and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, must solve the high profile murder under a media microscope-or they'll both lose their jobs.DEAD NEWS is a character-driven police procedural of a rural bent. Fifth in series. Word Count: 91,000. Occasional profanity. Minimal gore.

It's the year 2000 and the Silicon Valley city of Sunnyview is abuzz with the possibilities of vast fortunes to be made in the Dot Com boom. But to retired cop Benjamin Stone, who has come to Sunnyview to find his estranged daughter, Jessica, the promise of Sunnyview rings hollow. Benjamin grew up in Sunnyview in the 1950s, when it was a sleepy farming town, and he finds its modern day counterpart strange and weirdly insubstantial. After Jessica turns up dead in a creek bed, apparently murdered, Benjamin follows clues that suggest a conspiracy involving a startup company and a Silicon Valley pioneer with a disturbing past. As the mystery unravels, Benjamin must confront the reality of terrible crimes that occurred in the idealized town of his youth, which helped to make Silicon Valley what it is today. But as Benjamin attempts to unravel the conspiracy, all the clues begin to point toward a horrifying possibility: Sunnyview isn't what it seems.

Cliff and his partner Maeva are hired to investigate the theft of some gold coins in California's Gold Country. What they find astounds them. When the case turns into a murder investigation, things take a dangerous turn, but not too dangerous to keep Cliff from geocaching.

Deux anciens amis, vétérans du Vietnam en fin de carrière sont sur le point de céder leur place sur le plan professionnel, assurant tous deux leur relève respective. Jeff Lawson, médecin légiste prend sous son aile une jeune recrue, tout droit sortie de l'université. Le second, P.D.G d'une importante compagnie pharmaceutique à l'envergure mondiale, envisage de céder la place à sa fille unique Sarah. Tous deux, chargés de gérer la fusion avec une autre grande société, dirigée en partie par le fils d'un sénateur.Cette fusion ne se présente pas comme prévue.

El policía nacional, Moisés Guzmán, se acaba de jubilar y adquiere un pequeño apartamento en la localidad de Blanes, donde piensa pasar su primer verano como pensionista. Allí coincide, en el mismo bloque, con una chica joven que huye de su padre maltratador, un escritor jubilado obsesionado por terminar su último libro y un hombre solitario que se hace acompañar por un perro. Durante la primera semana, muere un hombre en el interior de su coche, cuando está parado en el semáforo de la misma calle donde reside el policía. Lo que al principio parece un accidente, resulta ser un crimen. Todo se complica cuando la investigación de los Mossos d'Esquadra de Blanes apunta a sus tres nuevos vecinos como posibles culpables. Novela de uno de los autores más leídos en todo el mundo, cuyas intrigas policíacas y de misterio apasionan a miles de lectores y lectoras.

Nine people have 30 seconds to live. They just don't know it. Publisher's Weekly says "Thomas Scott's writing is thrilling and frantic!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ As leader of the Major Crimes Unit, Detective Virgil Jones tackles only the toughest cases in the state, and the one he faces this time has the city of Indianapolis on edge, near the brink of panic. When a team of serial snipers begin using their own personal brand of domestic terrorism, it's up to Virgil to find out who is responsible for the mysterious killings, and why. But when Virgil gets too close, the hunter becomes the hunted, and one final bullet reveals a truth that will change his life forever.This series grabs you with book one and doesn't let go!--Wall Street Journal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This is Crime fiction at its finest...a Thriller filled with mystery, suspense, humor and a touch of romance as well!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Pick up your copy of the Mystery, Thriller & Suspense book that turned Thomas Scott into a household name. If you like John Sandford, James Lee Burke, Scott Pratt, Robert Crais, Michael Connelly or C.J. Box, you'll love Thomas Scott! Here's what other readers are saying about State of Anger and Thomas Scott: Awesome book! This could be my new favorite series!! Ranks up there with Parker and Sandford!! -John Deharte ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved it! A very well written novel. I could not put it down. -Debra Johnson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Terrific book! One of the best novels I've read recently. It's an exquisitely plotted mystery, a cop procedural, a thriller, and a love story. It's also a book about family and forgivenes. I can't wait to read the next Virgil Jones book. -Jillian Coleman Wheeler ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️State of Anger is book 1 of the Detective Virgil Jones Mystery Thriller Series. Grab your copy today!