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“debra komar”

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  • The Lynching of Peter Wheeler

    by Debra Komar ...
    At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler — a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white girl — was strung up with a slipknot noose. The hanging was state-sanctioned but it was a lynching all the same. Now, a re-examination of his case using modern forensic science reveals one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Canadian history.On ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Court of Better Fiction

    Three Trials, Two Executions, and Arctic Sovereignty

    by Debra Komar ...
    2020 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Crime Book — ShortlistedIn its rush to establish dominion over the North, Canada executed two innocent Inuit.In 1921, the RCMP arrested two Inuit males suspected of killing their uncle. While in custody, one of the accused allegedly killed a police officer and a Hudson's Bay Company trader.The Canadian government hastily established an unprecedented court ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • The Bastard of Fort Stikine

    The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.

    by Debra Komar ...
    Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-FictionIs it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years after it was committed?Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. — the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Black River Road

    An Unthinkable Crime, an Unlikely Suspect, and the Question of Character

    by Debra Komar ...
    Finalist, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book AwardIn 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly decomposed bodies. The authorities suspected foul play, but the identities of the victims were as mysterious as that of the perpetrator. From the twists and turns of a coroner's inquest, an unlikely suspect ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Ballad of Jacob Peck

    by Debra Komar ...
    On a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disembowelled his own sister, before dumping her lifeless body in a rural New Brunswick snowbank. The Ballad of Jacob Peck is the tragic and fascinating story of how isolation, duplicity, and religious mania turned impoverished, hard-working people ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War

    by Scott Anderson ...
    From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles against communism, and the tragic consequences which still affect the world todayAt the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was ... Read more

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  • The Good Daughter

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    by Karin Slaughter ...
    NOW A PEACOCK LIMITED SERIES STARRING ROSE BYRNE AND MEGHANN FAHY OUT NOVEMBER 12, 2026An instant New York Times bestsellerTwo girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind…Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their ... Read more

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  • Double Cross

    The True Story of the D-Day Spies

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    From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, and Rogue Heroes, a fascinating work of popular history that vividly recreates the vast web of deception spun by spies in order to conceal D-Day.On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a ... Read more

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  • Agent Sonya

    The Spy Next Door

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    The international bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor reveals one of the last great untold spy stories of the twentieth century: the woman hidden in plain sight who set the stage for the Cold War.In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy Cotswolds, an unassuming woman lived in a small cottage with her children and machinist husband, Len. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke ... Read more

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  • Agent Zigzag

    A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    For readers of World War II history, espionage, fans of John le Carré and Alan Furst, and of Ben Macintyre's more recent books.Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, ... Read more

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  • The Spymasters

    How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future

    by Chris Whipple ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, an “engaging…richly textured” (The New York Times), behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to run the world’s most powerful intelligence agency. “The best book about the CIA I’ve ever read…one hell of a story” (Christopher Buckley).With unprecedented access to more than a dozen individuals who have made the life-and-death decisions ... Read more

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  • Cemetery Road

    A Novel

    by Greg Iles ...
    Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MANSometimes the price of justice is a good man’s soul.The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying murder mystery of friendship, betrayal, and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town.“An ambitious stand-alone thriller that is both an absorbing crime story and ... Read more

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