<div>A true crime classic of drugs and murder in Denver, Colorado by the New York Times bestselling author of Smooth Talker&mdash;with a new forward and epilogue. Early one morning in May 1997, a young couple spotted a man dragging a body up a secluded trail in the mountains of Colorado. Then the man fled, leaving behind a bloody, dying woman. The resulting investigation lead from that idyllic spot to the criminal underbelly of Denver: a world of prostitution, drugs, and violence. Rough Trade recounts that investigation, and tells the story of three tragically damaged individuals: the victim, a young street walker named Anita Paley, the suspect, a drug dealer named Robert Riggan, and Anita&rsquo;s friend, Joanne Cordova, a former cop-turned-crack addict and hooker. In the past, Cordova had submitted to violent sex with Riggan in exchange for drugs. But when Anita was murdered, Joanne decided to risk her own life by going to her former colleagues on the police department to tell them what she knew. Raised in his own private hell, Cordova endured rape, incest, and extreme abuse to become a violent sexual predator. Cordova, meanwhile, summoned the courage to testify against the man she believed killed her friend&mdash;and find her own redemption in the process.</div>

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Rough Trade

<div>The New York Times bestselling author &ldquo;gives a master class on true crime reporting in Bogeyman. He writes with both muscle and heart&rdquo; (Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Bogeyman describes in dramatic detail and with heartrending poignancy the efforts of tenacious Texas lawmen to solve the cold case murders of three little girls and hold serial child killer David Elliot Penton accountable for his horrific crimes. From the book: &ldquo;For years he&rsquo;d stalked elementary schools and playground looking for young girls from low-income neighborhoods to abduct, rape and murder. He thought of them as &lsquo;throwaway kids&rsquo;&mdash;hardly missed, and soon forgotten, except by those who loved them. He was every parent&rsquo;s worst nightmare. The bogeyman they warned their children about . . . the fiend who lurked outside bedroom windows.&rdquo; &ldquo;Absorbing and haunting! Bogeyman spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson&rsquo;s hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.&rdquo;&mdash;Ron Franscell, bestselling author of Alice &amp; Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story &ldquo;Steve Jackson&rsquo;s latest, Bogeyman, reveals a living, breathing nightmare that haunted parents, as well as detectives. Be sure to add it to your reading list if you&rsquo;re a fan of true crime books.&rdquo;&mdash;Aaron Habel, host of Generation Why Podcast &ldquo;There are true crime books that just lay out the facts, and there are true crime books that pull you deeply into a world. Jackson writes deeply . . . It&rsquo;s all in Bogeyman, a fascinating, well-paced read about the lows and highs of cold case investigations.&rdquo;&mdash;Katherine Ramsland, bestselling author and professor of forensic psychology, in Psychology Today</div>

Bogeyman

<div>&ldquo;Wonderful and dark . . . a journey into the minds of two men who together become one killer&rdquo; from the New York Times bestselling true crime author(Blaine L. Pardoe, author of A Special Kind of Evil). In April 1997, pretty, 22-year-old Jacine Gielinski stopped her car at a red light in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She had no idea that the two young men looking at her from the car next to hers would in that moment decide she would be their target for unspeakable horrors. George Woldt and Lucas Salmon were an unlikely pair of best friends, much less killers. Woldt was a fast-talking, well-dressed ladies&rsquo; man who boasted of his sexual conquests. Salmon was deeply religious and socially misfit, obsessed with losing his virginity. Woldt was the leader, Salmon his willing follower, but neither had been in serious trouble with the law. However, inspired by the cult movie, A Clockwork Orange, with its dystopian violence, they fantasized for months what it would be like to abduct, rape, torture and murder a woman. Then, aroused by watching ultra-violent pornography, they decided to act upon their evil thoughts. Revised and updated with a new afterword from the author, A Clockwork Murder recounts the steps that led to an unthinkable crime and its impact on a community, as well as the friends and especially the parents of an innocent young woman who paid with her life for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. &ldquo;Jackson&rsquo;s sharp eye misses nothing in the painstakingly rendered details.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

A Clockwork Murder

<div>The New York Times bestselling author takes readers on &ldquo;a fascinating journey into the trenches of crime [investigation]&rdquo;&mdash;now revised and updated (Lowell Cauffiel, New York Times bestselling author).A body stuffed in a car trunk swallowed by the swirling, muddy waters of the Missouri River. A hiker brutally murdered, then thrown off a steep embankment in a remote mountain range. A devious killer who hid his wife&rsquo;s body under a thick cement patio. For investigators, the story is often the same: they know a murder took place, they may even know who did it; but without key evidence, or a body, pursuing a conviction is nearly impossible. That&rsquo;s when they call NecroSearch International, a brain trust of the nation&rsquo;s top scientists in a wide variety of fields, who along with law enforcement, use the latest technology and field techniques to locate clandestine graves and hidden secrets to solve &ldquo;unsolvable&rdquo; crimes. In No Stone Unturned, Steve Jackson&mdash;who became a member of NecroSearch International in 2015&mdash;gives a captivating, insider&rsquo;s look into a realm of crime investigation of which few people are aware. &ldquo;The book covers the group&rsquo;s quirky beginnings and digs into its most important cases suspensefully; Jackson&rsquo;s sharp eye misses nothing in the painstakingly rendered details. A must-have for true crime fans, it should also be of great interest to anyone fascinated with the practical applications of science.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review)&ldquo;Delves into cases that would make good novels, but they&rsquo;re real. Furthermore, he describes a group of uncommon people performing uncommon tasks, and he does it with respect, accuracy and genuine style.&rdquo;&mdash;Ron Franscell, bestselling author of Alice &amp; Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story</div>

No Stone Unturned

<div>As seen on Investigation Discovery&rsquo;s Epic Mysteries series&mdash;from the New York Times bestselling author who &ldquo;writes with muscle and heart&rdquo; (Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author). One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagiani&rsquo;s Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California, was found dead in her bar&mdash;raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. Meanwhile a month after Anita&rsquo;s murder, young Michele Wallace, was driving down a road in the mountains near Crested Butte, Colorado, when she gave two stranded motorists, including a man named Roy, a ride. She was never seen alive again. Fourteen years later, Charlotte Sauerwin, engaged to be married, met a smooth-talking man at a Laundromat in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. The next evening, her body was found in the woods; she&rsquo;d been raped, tortured, and her throat slashed. The three murders would remain unsolved, eating at the hearts, minds and lives of the women&rsquo;s families, friends and communities. Then in the early 1990s, a rookie Gunnison County sheriff&rsquo;s investigator named Kathy Young began looking into the Wallace case and identified a suspect named Roy Melanson, a serial rapist from Texas. It would lead her and other investigators looking into murders and rapes in other states to a serial killer who struck again and again with seeming impunity. Smooth Talker is the story of Melanson, his depredations, and the intrepid police work that went into bringing him to justice not just in Colorado, but California and Louisiana. &ldquo;Steve Jackson is one of the greats in the true crime author world.&rdquo;&mdash;C.L. Swinney, bestselling author of The Peninsula Serial Killer</div>

Smooth Talker

<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>New York Times&ndash;Bestselling Author: The true story of a teenager&rsquo;s horrific murder by a vicious Denver gang&mdash;and the investigation and trials that followed. A little before midnight on May 30, 1997, fourteen-year-old Brandy DuVall waited at a bus stop in the Denver area for a ride back to her grandparents&rsquo; home after spending the evening at a friend&rsquo;s. She was wearing a bright-red Chicago Bulls jersey bearing the number of her favorite player, Michael Jordan. It was the shirt that attracted the five young Bloods gang members in the car that circled the block and came back to where she stood. Why Brandy got in the car that night would remain an unanswered question. Was it voluntary? Was she abducted? Whatever the answer, the consequence was an unimaginable nightmare of torture, rape, and murder at the hands of a vicious Denver street gang, particularly &ldquo;Pancho,&rdquo; a violent psychopath, and other members of the Deuce-Seven. The crime, the investigation, the betrayals and deals cut with the devil, and the subsequent court cases&mdash;including four murder trials and two death penalty hearings&mdash;tore apart families, and affected all who were caught up in the brutal crime and its aftermath. No Angels delves into the circumstances that would forever change the fate of Brandy, two previously inseparable brothers, and the mothers who sat on opposite sides of the courtroom and yet shared a common grief. &ldquo;[Steve Jackson] writes with both muscle and heart.&rdquo; &mdash;Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of If You Tell.</div>

No Angels

<div>Three gripping true crime classics in one volume, from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. From the acclaimed journalist and author, three chilling tales of depravity, death, and detective work including: NO ANGELS Late one night in 1997, fourteen-year-old Brandy DuVall waited at a bus stop in the Denver area when, for reasons that are still a mystery, she got into a car with several young men. The consequence was an unimaginable nightmare of torture, rape, and murder at the hands of a vicious Denver street gang. The crime, investigation, and subsequent court cases&mdash;including four murder trials and two death penalty hearings&mdash;tore apart families, and affected all who were caught up in the brutal crime and its aftermath. SMOOTH TALKER As seen on Investigation Discovery&rsquo;s Epic Mysteries series Anita Andrews was found in her own bar, stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. She&#39;d last been seen alive talking to a customer, a drifter playing cards and flirting with her. A month later, Michele Wallace was driving near Crested Butte, Colorado, when she gave two stranded motorists a ride. She was never seen alive again. Fourteen years later, Charlotte Sauerwin, engaged to be married, met a smooth-talking man at a Laundromat in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. The next evening, her body was found in the woods. The three murders would remain unsolved until a rookie Gunnison County sheriff&rsquo;s investigator named Kathy Young began investigating . . . ROUGH TRADE On a morning in May 1997, a couple on their way to work spotted a man dragging a woman&rsquo;s body up a trail. The subsequent investigation into the death of young streetwalker Anita Paley would lead from that idyllic spot to the seamy underbelly of Denver and a world of prostitution, drug dealers, and violent criminals. This is the story of two people from that world whose paths crossed first on the streets and then at a murder trial: Robert Riggan, a violent sexual predator, and Joanne Cordova, a former cop-turned-prostitute, who risked her life to testify.</div>

Steve Jackson

Books By Steve Jackson (8 Books)

Rough Trade

Bogeyman

A Clockwork Murder

No Stone Unturned

Smooth Talker

Murderers' Row Volume Two

No Angels

True Crime Writers Anthology, Volume One

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