<div>The true story of drugs and corruption in Brooklyn&rsquo;s 75th precinct, as told by a cop who lived it, a journalist, and an Edgar Award-winning author. They had no fear of the cops. Because they were the cops. NYPD officers Mike Dowd and Kenny Eurell knew there were two ways to get rich quick in the Seven-Five. You either became drug dealers, or you robbed drug dealers. They decided to do both. Dowd and Eurell ran the most powerful gang in East New York&rsquo;s dangerous 75th Precinct, the crack cocaine capital of 1980s America. These &ldquo;Cocaine Cops&rdquo; formed a lucrative alliance with Adam Diaz, the kingpin of an ever-expanding Dominican drug cartel. Soon Mike and Ken were buying fancy cars no cop could afford, and treating their wives to levels of luxury not associated with a patrol officer&rsquo;s salary. They were daring, dangerous and untouchable&mdash;until the biggest police scandal in New York history exploded into the headlines with the arrest of Mike, Ken, and their fellow crooked cops. Released on bail, Mike offered Ken a long shot at escape to Central America&mdash;a bizarre plan involving robbery, kidnapping, and murder&mdash;forcing Ken to choose between two forms of betrayal. &ldquo;When you lie, you steal the truth. Once you have stolen the truth, you can justify stealing anything from anybody.&rdquo; Adapted from Ken Eurell&rsquo;s personal memoirs of the time plus hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the major players, including Adam Diaz and Dori Eurell, this book reveals the truth behind the documentary The Seven Five. Edgar Award winner Burl Barer once again teams with award-winning journalist Frank C. Girardot, Jr, and Eurell to bring you an astonishing story of greed and betrayal.</div>

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Betrayal in Blue

<div>In this riotous mystery, a Pacific Northwest PI is hired by an ex-pro wrestler whose suspicions are hard to prove&mdash;and hard to follow: &ldquo;A real winner.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal Jeff Reynolds&mdash;an author who became a PI to find ideas for books&mdash;is about to get some new material. He&rsquo;s having breakfast with a potential client who tells a long story involving barroom brawls, professional wrestlers, and prostitutes; reveals that this is the first time he&rsquo;s been out of the house in fifteen years; and announces that his father was murdered. What he wants is for Reynolds to find out whether they&rsquo;re still after him. Though when Reynolds asks who &ldquo;they&rdquo; are, he refuses to say since Reynolds could be one of them. From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling and Edgar Award&ndash;winning author Burl Barer, and featuring cameos by a few real-life mystery authors, this is a wildly entertaining PI tale in which it&rsquo;s hard to tell what&rsquo;s deception, what&rsquo;s delusion, and what&rsquo;s genuinely deadly&mdash;and all roads lead to McFeely&rsquo;s Tavern in Walla Walla, Washington . . . &ldquo;Clever, quirky, and often outrageous.&rdquo; &mdash;Lee Goldberg, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Mr. Monk Gets Even &ldquo;Undeniable talent, pizazz and imagination.&rdquo; &mdash;Jack Olsen, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Night Watch</div>

Headlock

<div>Now updated, the New York Times bestseller about a horrifying Alaska massacre and a controversial trial: &ldquo;Barer writes true crime at its best.&rdquo; &mdash;Jack Olsen On March 15, 1987, police in Anchorage, Alaska, arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman&rsquo;s brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In other rooms were the bodies of her eight-year-old daughter, Melissa, and her three-year-old, Angie, whose throat was slit from ear to ear. Both Nancy and Melissa had been sexually assaulted. After an intense investigation, the police focused on a principal suspect: twenty-three-year-old Kirby Anthoney, a troubled drifter who had turned to his uncle, Nancy&rsquo;s husband John, for help and a place to stay. Little did John know that the nephew he took in was a murderous sociopath. These shocking, tragic events stunned Anchorage residents and motivated the Major Crimes Unit of the city&rsquo;s police department to get everything right. Feeling the heat, Kirby bolted for the Canadian border. But he was caught in time&mdash;and the cops and a tenacious prosecutor began a long, bitter battle to convict him, up against an equally tough defense lawyer and the egomaniacal defendant himself. The tale reached its climax in a controversial trial, where for the first time an FBI profiler was allowed to testify and the pre-DNA science of allotyping was presented to a jury. But justice would not be served until after the psychopathic Kirby Anthoney took the stand in his own defense&mdash;and showed the world the monster he truly was.</div>

Murder in the Family

<div>As seen on Investigation Discovery: &ldquo;A true crime murder mystery that will leave you gasping for breath.&rdquo; &mdash;Steve Jackson, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of No Stone Unturned Frank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and stepdaughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Aside from being dead, Frank is in perfect health. Demanding to know the cause of her husband&rsquo;s death, Angie Rodriguez badgers the police, insisting that Frank was murdered. The cops attribute her assertions to overwhelming grief, but soon they too believe that Frank didn&rsquo;t die of natural causes. When the police enlist their number one suspect to help in the investigation, things spiral out of control until law enforcement is dealing with a daring plot to murder Angie&rsquo;s best friend, and allegations of another homicide so evil and perverse that even seasoned LA County Detectives are shocked beyond belief . . . New York Times&ndash;bestselling and Edgar Award&ndash;winning author &ldquo;Burl Barer, with co-author Frank Giradot, has hit yet another home run with this crime story. A smart and well-written who-dunnit tale&rdquo; (Cathy Scott, Los Angeles Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Killing of Tupac Shakur). &ldquo;A doozy of a murder.&rdquo; &mdash;Suzy Spencer, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Breaking Point</div>

A Taste for Murder

<div>Three true-crime books in one volume, featuring cases ranging from Texas to Georgia to Alaska, from New York Times&ndash;bestselling and award-winning authors. Included in this three-in-one volume are: Bogeyman by New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Steve Jackson For years he stalked elementary schools and playgrounds looking for young girls from low-income neighborhoods to abduct, rape and murder. They were &ldquo;throwaway kids&rdquo; to him, hardly missed, soon forgotten, except by those who loved them. He was every parent&rsquo;s worst nightmare&mdash;and it took a decades-long fight by Texas lawmen to bring him to justice. &ldquo;A fascinating, well-paced read about the lows and highs of cold case investigations.&rdquo; &mdash;Katherine Ramsland, in Psychology Today Murder In The Familyby Edgar Award&ndash;winning author Burl Barer A New York Times Bestseller: In 1987, Anchorage police arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman&rsquo;s brutally beaten corpse and the bodies of her two young daughters. After an intense investigation, they identified the principal suspect: Kirby Anthoney&mdash;a troubled drifter who&rsquo;d turned to his uncle, Nancy&rsquo;s husband, for help and a place to stay. Little did he know that the nephew he took in was a murderous sociopath . . . &ldquo;Barer writes true crime at its best.&rdquo; &mdash;Jack Olsen Targetedby New York Times&ndash;bestselling author M. William Phelps When her missing boyfriend is found dead, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a Georgia sheriff&rsquo;s deputy is arrested and charged with his murder. But as an investigative journalist digs in, the truth leads to questions about her guilt . . . &ldquo;Phelps is one of America&rsquo;s finest true-crime writers.&rdquo; &mdash;Vincent Bugliosi</div>

Murderers' Row Volume Two

<div>The true-crime story of one man’s life after his faked death, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Murder in the Family. 1982: Oregon businessman Phil Champagne, age 52, dies in a tragic boating accident off Lopez Island off the coast of Washington state. He is survived by one ex-wife, four adult children, an octogenarian mother, and two despondent brothers. Phil didn’t know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well. So did Phil’s brother, Mitch, the beneficiary of a 1.5 million dollar policy on Phil’s life. 1992: Washington restauranteur Harold Stegeman, famous for his thick, juicy steaks, is arrested by the Secret Service for printing counterfeit United States currency in an Idaho shed. In addition to the bogus bills, Stegeman also has a fraudulently obtained passport, a fabricated Cayman Island driver’s license, and Phil Champagne’s fingerprints. When the uproarious reality of Harold Stegeman’s secret identity hit the headlines, the counterfeit resurrection of Phil Champagne became one of the most celebrated and hysterically funny true-crime stories of the twentieth century. And while every supermarket tabloid and television talk show hounded after the untold story, only Edgar Award–winner Burl Barer captured Champagne’s confidence and received permission to detail Phil’s post-mortem career of fraud, deception, trickery, lies, and fine prime rib, bringing to life the exploits of a man his family thought dead over a decade ago. Includes bonus photographs, a police interrogation transcript, and an afterword by Phil Champagne Praise for Man Overboard “True crime at its best. . . . Barer has undeniable talent, pizzaz and imagination!” —Jack Olsen, New York Times–bestselling author of Son: A Psychopath and His Victims “Crisp as a freshly printed C-note. Exceptionally clever and vastly entertaining!” —Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bone Canyon “Barer does it again! A deft and dazzling display of solid research and rapier wit—a must for all true crime aficionados.” —Gary C. King, author of Love, Lies, and Murder</div>

Man Overboard

<div>The true crime story of a family of altruistic jewel thieves and four decades of daring capers and sweet escapes, including a 1992 New York mega-heist. Punch Stanimirovic insists: “My father, known as Mr. Stan, is the greatest gentleman thief who ever lived—a true genius.” Punch was raised to be an exceptional diamond thief. He could work magic on a safe that would have sent Mandrake the Magician back to the novelty store, and Dr. Strange back to medical school. He and his family risked it all to make the patriarch, Mr. Stan, proud. Punch’s pop culture sensibilities, his father’s proven skills, and his mother’s artistic input merged to create cinema-style capers—elaborately planned and executed, including a spectacular 1992 New York mega-heist of over one billion dollars in diamonds, gold, and precious gems—and they got away with it. Many of the crew members went on to invest in real estate, helping to “build the New York skyline”, while others moved to Europe and became the Pink Panthers. They had one rule: No One Gets Hurt. From daring heists to the ultimate escape, discover the true story of Punch, his extraordinary crew, and his high-society family . . . Edgar Award winner and New York Times–bestselling author Burl Barer brings to light the remarkable story of four decades and two generations of America’s First Family of kind and generous “altruistic outlaws” in Stealing Manhattan: The Untold Story of America’s Billion Dollar Gem Heist Masterminds. Praise for Stealing Manhattan “Barer has that all-important knack for seeking and finding hidden truth. In Stealing Manhattan, those who pulled off this caper were professionals who knew how to keep their mouths shut. And lucky for us, some of these mouths have recently opened to Barer . . . now the world can know the truth. You will not want to miss this “gem” of a book!” —Kevin Sullivan, author of The Bundy Murders: The Yearly Journal</div>

Stealing Manhattan

<div>Famous Rock Stars, TV Celebrities, Stone Cold Conmen, A Daring Rescue of Kidnapped Kids, And More! Ready to uncover the truth behind Hollywood's elite? SECRETS OF A HOLLYWOOD PRIVATE EYE is your ultimate source for the juiciest stories, scandals, and gossip from Tinsel Town. Join private investigator Fred Wolfson on thrilling adventures from the glitz and glamour of Bel Air and Beverly Hills to the gritty streets of Hollywood Boulevard. Experience the real-life drama of Wolfson's cases firsthand and the truth behind cheating spouses, greedy con artists, duped superstars, jealous directors, kidnapped children, and every type of civil and criminal caper imaginable in a city known for scandal and celebrity intrigue. As the star of the popular USA Network reality series CASE CLOSED and consulting credits on hit crime dramas like L.A. Law, Murder She Wrote, and Picket Fences, Wolfson brings a lifetime of experience to this compelling compendium of stranger-than-fiction cases.</div>

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Books By Burl Barer (8 Books)

Betrayal in Blue

Headlock

Murder in the Family

A Taste for Murder

Murderers' Row Volume Two

Man Overboard

Stealing Manhattan

Secrets of a Hollywood Private Eye

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