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Elizabeth Haysom: Reality Check
The Girl, Who Spent 33 Years In Prison
2023 || Paperback || Elizabeth Haysom || Brave New Books
Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom (*1964) is the protagonist of one of the most spectacular crimes of the last decades. In March 1985, she had her parents murdered by her lover Jens Soering, the then 18-year-old son of a German diplomat. To this day, there is speculation as to whether Haysom herself was at the crime scene. – The gruesome massacre was preceded by a fierce love affair between the highly gifted students. Letters that Haysom and Soering sent to each other before the crime, as well as a ...
Framed
astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
2024 || Hardcover || John Grisham e.a. || Doubleday
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Nikita Ungar's quest for freedom
2022 || Paperback || Henri Patrik || Schrijverspunt
Nikita leaves her country to work in Austria. Everything is arranged by a travel agency. However, the destination is not what she’s expecting.
She ends up in a prostitution network in Mitrovica, refuses to accept her fate, and is ready to do anything to regain her freedom, counting on the weapons nature has given her. However, she must deal with setbacks while her life constantly is in danger.
Her acquaintance with Jason revolutionizes her existence.
First, they must deal with ruthless huma...
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Who killed Henry?
Paperback || Henry van Buuren || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Understand more about present wars in the Middle East and attacks on the West. The struggle for energy, played a central role in world politics before!
Reading like a thriller, this biographical adventure shows how oil played a decisive role in the 2nd World War and how the struggle for energy led to personal tragedy. Was Henry van der Waerdens’ death in 1937 murder, or did he commit suicide?
The events bring us to the year 1937 in Europe, when two prominent Shell-oil-men were swept off th...
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Penoze Hugo - English
Memoirs of the legendary Red Light District gangster
2023 || Paperback || Hugo Broers || Uitgeverij De Kring
The unique life story of one of the last true Amsterdam penoze ******
Hugo Broers is one of the last faces of the old Amsterdam penoze. Growing up in the Warmoesstraat, in the middle of the Red Light District (de Wallen), and abused by his father on a daily basis, he picked up on the unwritten underworld codes like no other. He befriended famous Dutch criminals, and ‘cleaned up’ the Wallen neighbourhood with his own team. He spent his life fighting, stabbing, and dealing drugs, subsequent...
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Surviving life a life story about K
2023 || Paperback || Kris Witcomb || Bookmundo
A story about a young boy/man who went down a path of crime but pulled himself up from the gutter and turned his life around.
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Killer Collections
dark Artefacts from True Crime
2022 || Hardcover || Paul Gambino || Laurence King Publishing
Delve into the dark and dangerous side of humanity with this intriguing collection of artifacts and ephemera relating to some of the world's most infamous criminals and criminal acts.
Framed
astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
2024 || Hardcover || John Grisham e.a. || Hodder & Stoughton
A fundamental principle of the American legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt.
Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close l...