Many people have a skeleton in their closet, but the Carmichaels had one that was all too real.

From childhood, Andre Carmichael suspected he had a twin, but his sister Sabrina consistently denied it. Then when Andre was 20, Sabrina told him she watched their abusive mother and older brother beat to death Andre’s 3-year-old twin, Latanisha, and hide her body in a bedroom closet, where it remained for two decades. Family Skeleton meticulously profiles the players in this horrific drama, while telling the story of the secret's revelation, the grim family dynamics that drove both the savage killing and the cover-up, and Andre and Sabrina’s heroic attempts at healing.

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Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business
by Joe Pistone with Charles Brandt

When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began what was supposed to be a six-month operation infiltrating New York’s Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen. Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco,” Pistone would spend the next six years undercover in the Family, witnessing - and sometimes participating in - the Mafia’s gruesome activities while gathering enough evidence to send over 200 gangsters to jail. Pistone told his story in the 1988 book Donnie Brasco - a New York Times bestseller and later a feature film starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. But because of pending trials at the time of publication, many details of the alleged crimes were omitted.

Now, in Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, Pistone for the first time reveals with great detail the horrific deeds of wiseguys Tony Mirra, Lefty Ruggiero, Sonny Black, and the rest of the cold-blooded Bonanno crew. He puts the operation into historical perspective, detailing the timeline of mafia trials from 1981 through 2005 that crippled the New York City crime family. He also recounts his experiences after the operation, his time on the Hollywood set with Pacino and Depp, and other undercover operations through present day.

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The Last Gangster
by George Anastasia

New York Times Bestseller

For 35 years, Ron Previte roamed the underworld. A six-foot, 300-pound capo in the Philadelphia-South Jersey crime family, he ran every mob scam and gambit from drug trafficking, prostitution, and extortion to flimflams that cost an Atlantic City casino millions. By the 1990s, Previte, an old-school workhorse, found himself answering to younger mob bosses like "Skinny Joey" Merlino, who seemed increasingly spoiled, cocky and careless. Convinced that the honor of the "business" was gone, he became the FBI's secret weapon in an intense and highly personalized war on the Philadelphia mob.

As a cop, he was corrupt; as a mobster, he was brutal. Yet as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is the story of his life, of the last days of the Philadelphia mob, and of the clash of generations that brought it down once and for all. Drawing on the words of mobsters themselves, George Anastasia tells Previte's story for the first time. Unflinching and enthralling, The Last Gangster is the true story of how the once monolithic, highly organized, powerful and secretive mob was defeated by its own hand.

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Without a Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Crime Organization
by Jerry Speziale

In this mesmerizing true story, career cop Jerry Speziale chronicles his fast living years as one of the youngest recruits for the DEA's task force on drug -- an unimaginable odyssey of undercover intrigue, Colombian kingpins, amazing takedowns and nerve-jangling narrow escapes.

Speziale was recruited by the Drug Enforcement Administration and assigned to an elite drug task force whose main purpose was to infiltrate and dismantle the powerful Cali drug cartel. After learning the ropes, Speziale discovered that his informant was betraying him all along.

By turns harrowing and heroic, compelling and inspiring, Jerry Speizale's story reads like a Hollywood thriller. It's a white-knuckle ride into a world few people ever see, a decent into the netherworld of Colombia's deadly drug cartels. And it's a rare glimpse into the back rooms of justice where the country's finest put their lives on the line every day, never forgetting their duty... or its consequences.

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The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino
by Simon Crittle

Joseph Massino was the ultimate Don.

As head of the Bonanno crime family, Joseph Massino was smart, cautious and treacherous. He ran a nice side business out of his New York City restaurant. The Feds say it included extortion, loan sharking, gambling, narcotics and murder - a criminal empire that had its root back in the Sicilian motherland. Massino was definitely big time.

He honored the classic code - of trust, loyalty, silence. Until he was indicted for murder...

The last Five Family Don in operation, he was taken down in 2004 for seven brutal murders. Only then did he agree to wear a wire to slip his way out of the death penalty. News of his cooperation sent waves of panic throughout the underworld and once again made him the most feared mobster alive. And the very first New York boss to break the American Mafia’s 100-year-old vow of silence.

It would become one of the most explosive, important, and historic courtroom dramas in criminal history. This revealing book tells the story - and gives a look inside a world of organized crime that we may never see again.

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Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop who was a Mobster
by Michael Corbitt and Sam Giancana

New York Times Bestseller

A true story of murder, unbridled corruption, and the cop who was a mobster.

Michael Corbitt - along with Sam Giancana, the godson and namesake of the former Chicago mob boss - tells the gritty often gruesome, personal account of how he slipped between the deadly, conflicting worlds of cop and mobster with terrifying, almost schizophrenic ease. Among the astonishing, news-making revelations:

• The man who called for Sam Giancana's murder - and who carried it out.
• The new "clean" Las Vegas and its dirty secrets. An eyewitness account of the millions still being skimmed by organized crime from major casinos.
• The Mob's involvement in Central and South America, the Phillipines, Israel and the Middle East, and its ties to covert CIA activities around the world.

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Evidence Dismissed
by Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter

New York Times bestseller

In this astonishing book, veteran LAPD detectives Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter - the leaders of the investigation into the Brown/Goldman double murder - fully chronicle the police case that brought O.J. Simpson to trial. Here for the first time are the plain facts of this sensational case, recounted in the kind of riveting detail only the detectives on the scene could deliver. And this is also the disturbing story of how solid, professional police work became evidence dismissed.

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Circle of Six
by Randy Jurgensen with Robert Cea

In 1972, police officer Phillip Cardillo was shot and killed inside Harlem’s Mosque #7 in the midst of an all-out assault on the NYPD from the Black Liberation Army. Circle of Six is the true story of Detective Randy Jurgensen’s determined effort to bring justice to Cardillo’s killer, Lewis 17X Dupree, by taking on the Black Liberation Army, the Nation of Islam, NYPD brass and city hall.

He broke the case with an unlikely accomplice, Foster 2X Thomas, a member of the Nation of Islam who became Jurgensen's witness. The relationship they formed during the time before the trial gave each of the two men a greater perspective of the two sides in the street war and ultimately changed them forever.

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Lyn Riddle returns with an astounding new true story of the only woman on Georgia’s Death Row.  Gulf War Veteran Doug Gissendaner was known for his generosity and consideration, but in First We’ll Kill My Husband, Lyn tells how his own wife plotted his demise.  From the hold Kelly had over a good and decent man to her controversial trial, Riddle captures the manipulations of a woman bent on murder.

Family Affair - Treachery, Greed & Betrayal in the Chicago Mafia
by Sam Giancana and Scott M. Burnstein

Facing a court-ordered blood test matching his blood to that at the crime scene, as well as a murder contract placed on his head by the mob, Nick Calabrese has turned government witness and spilled the beans on a series of gangland homicides.  One of these murders is the infamous double execution of Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro and his younger brother, Michael.  Until now, this has been one of the most notoriously unsolved gangland assassinations in U.S. history.   

Sam Giancana, the godson and nephew of Mafia Godfather, Sam “Momo” Giancana, along with investigative crime journalist, Scott M. Burnstein, have delved into the mysterious inner world of the deadly Chicago mafia.  Following a federal racketeering indictment, an enormous governmental legal effort titled, "Operation Family Secrets" charged 14 defendants, several of who are members of the current Chicago crime family administration, with 18 previously unsolved gangland homicides.  Family Affair - Treachery, Greed, & Betrayal in the Chicago Mafia provides scintillating details about the ferocious gangsters who rule the Midwest.

When the Husband Is the Suspect
by F. Lee Bailey and Jean Rabe

F. Lee Bailey takes the stand with Jean Rabe in When the Husband Is the Suspect. Based on his phenomenally successful career as one of America's legendary trial lawyers, F. Lee Bailey explores the recent spate of spousal homicides which have grabbed the public interest with names such as Sam Shepherd, Scott Peterson and Michael Schiavo garnering national attention.

Bailey, the bestselling author of The Defense Never Rests, reveals his behind-the-scenes insights into some of America's most legendary courtroom battles, including the trials of Sam Shepherd and O.J. Simpson.

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