The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals, livre ebook

Sometimes the Nicest People Make the Deadliest Criminals

“True crime storytelling at its very best!” ―Dan Zupansky, author and host of True Murder

#1 New Release in Heists & Robberies

Enjoy a collection of non-fiction accounts by international writers and experts on crooks, rogues, criminals, and serial killers who disguise themselves among society by being what you least expect-your friendly next-door neighbor.

From mild mannered coworkers to doting parents. Some might be your jack-of-all-trades friend, or others might be your family member with an altruistic persona. The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals takes you deeper into the unconventional criminal's psyche. The ones where their most prominent feature isn’t a bloodied knife, but a bright smile and warm gaze meant to lure their next victim.

Meet the real murderers and killers. You’ve heard about John Wayne Gacy. You’ve read about Jeffrey Dahmer. You’ve delved into the Ted Bundy fascination. It’s time for you to meet the infamous Naún Briones, who struck fear into the hearts of the rich, and Freddie Brenman, a notorious street-fighter with mysterious ties to the Dillinger Gang. You’ll find yourself realizing that being nice and friendly is a killer combination. 

Edited by acclaimed author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto,The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals reveals all-new accounts of true crime stories featuring serial killers from the contemporary to the depression-era. The international list of contributors includes award-winning crime writers, true-crime podcasters, journalists, and experts in the dark crimes field such as Tom Larsen, David Blumenfeld, and Anthony Ferguson.

If you are a fan of true crime books such as The Big Book of Serial Killers, The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers, or The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns, then you’ll love The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals.

Contributors include: Dean Jobb, Paul Willetts, Janel Comeau, David Breakspear, and Anthony Ferguson.

From the chapter, “Champs-Élysées Noir” by Paul Willetts

They had been hired to kill a young man named Jean-Pierre Guillaume. Dressed in trenchcoats, the two assassins were waiting for him outside the entrance to the terminal at Paris Orly Airport on the misty evening of January 27, 1958.
When Guillaume eventually emerged from this giant, boxy, modern building, he headed for the adjacent parking lot. He was a slender, dark-haired, not-quite-handsome twenty-three-year-old who worked for Air France as a trainee airline steward. Watched by the two trench-coated men, Guillaume got into a black convertible sedan, which had whitewall tires. As it sped across the parking lot, the watching men ducked into their own car, then tailed him onto the northbound side of the A106, a broad highway leading toward the low-rise heart of Paris.
Despite the mist, they were able to keep tabs on Guillaume’s distinctive vehicle. Just a few miles north of the airport, he stopped at one of the French capital’s many cafés famed for their zinc-topped bars and smoky allure.
The men in the car behind him parked nearby. Intent on carrying out their plan, they followed Guillaume into the café.
And so began perhaps the biggest French socio-political scandal since the Dreyfus Affair more than fifty years earlier. Much like that previous saga, which had been ignited by Alfred Dreyfus’s wrongful conviction for selling military secrets to the Germans, this latest scandal grew with the pace and unpredictability of a forest fire. Greed, perjury, sex, blackmail, and probable serial killing all featured in what would become a labyrinthine drama, performed by a disparate and deliciously louche cast, several of whom concealed their criminality behind a façade of urbane, well-groomed charm. The cast encompassed socialites, down-on-their-luck war heroes, a call girl, millionaire businessmen, a fashion model, and at least one prominent member of the French government. In an era when critics at the highbrow Parisian movie magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma, were eulogizing a brand of visually and thematically dark American crime thrillers, which they labeled “film noir,” here was a real-life, Gauloises-scented noir that used the city around them as its backdrop.