Book 'Em: It Happens Every Day
(CBS/Prometheus Books)
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November 20, 2009 11:00 AM NEW YORK - According to crime statistics from the Department of Justice, 67 percent of sexual assault victims in 2008 were juveniles and an astonishing 93 percent of these victims knew their attackers. When Robin Sax worked as a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County specializing in sex crimes against children, she personally reviewed at least five new cases every day.
November 9, 2009 8:15 AM 
NEW YORK - In the summer of 2008, two-year-old Caylee Anthony was reported missing. Five months later, her body was found near the family home in Orlando, Florida. In MOMMY’S LITTLE GIRL: Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate, Diane Fanning goes behind the headlines to provide a heartbreaking account of a case that shocked the nation.
Book 'Em: Mommy's Little Girl -- Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate
(CBS/St. Martins True Crime )
October 28, 2009 11:25 AM 
NEW YORK - When Melissa Moore's father took her for extended summer vacations throughout Oregon and Washington in the early 90s, he shared with her grisly details of what he called 'perfect' murders. She had no way of knowing the shocking truth: that these were not fictional stories from his detective novels and magazines, but were, in fact, actual slayings, perpetrated by the hands of her own father.
Book 'Em: Shattered Silence
(CBS/Cedar Fort, Inc.)
October 12, 2009 6:15 AM 
NEW YORK - Patrick Radden Keefe’s THE SNAKEHEAD: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, is a true crime thriller about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss, steeped in the American immigrant saga.
Book 'Em: The Snakehead
(CBS/Doubleday )
October 2, 2009 12:50 PM 
NEW YORK - HELD HOSTAGE: The True Story of a Mother and Daughter’s Kidnapping by Michelle Renee with Andrea Cagan is the first-person account of a mother’s daring bank heist to save her daughter from a deadly fate.
Book 'Em: Held Hostage
(Penguin/CBS)
September 25, 2009 1:30 PM 
NEW YORK - THIS FAMILY OF MINE is a memoir by Victoria Gotti that captures "the life" of the late Mafia boss, her father John Gotti, and chronicles the "other life" of the Gottis – the behind-the-scenes world of one of America's most talked about families.
Book 'Em: Victoria Gotti's "This Family of Mine"
(CBS/Pocket Books)
September 18, 2009 9:15 AM 
NEW YORK - When Manhattan model and masseuse Julissa Brisman agreed to meet a client at the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, she thought it would be a routine day on her road to recovering from an alcohol addiction. Instead, she was discovered lying face down in a pool of blood on a hallway carpet, her head battered, a bullet through her heart.
Book 'Em: Seven Days of Rage - The Deadly Crime Spree of the Craigslist Killer
(CBS/Pocket)
September 11, 2009 9:14 AM 
NEW YORK - DEADLY DOSE offers an inside look at the painstaking investigation into the death of a young husband and father, and the four year search to bring his killer—his wife—to justice.
Book 'Em: Deadly Dose
(CBS)
September 8, 2009 8:21 AM 
NEW YORK (CBS) Invitation to a Murder is the riveting account of a crime first documented on 48 Hours Mystery. Producer Gail Abbott Zimmerman unravels the lethal secrets inside a seemingly perfect marriage to find out who was behind a chilling double homicide.
Book 'Em: Invitation to a Murder
(CBS)
August 31, 2009 6:00 AM 
NEW YORK - For most of us Los Angeles evokes Hollywood movie stars, sunny weather and a laid-back lifestyle but in the roaring twenties the city had a harder edge. A BRIGHT AND GUILTY PLACE: MURDER, CORRUPTION, AND L.A.’S SCANDALOUS COMING OF AGE reveals the true life story behind the Los Angeles of noir fiction greats like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.
With a keen eye for observation and a penchant for detail, British ex-pat and longtime L.A. resident Richard Rayner follows the intertwined lives of two men who delve into the shocking and dangerous underworld of L.A. in the 1920s.
Book 'Em: Bright and Guilty Place
(Random House)
With a keen eye for observation and a penchant for detail, British ex-pat and longtime L.A. resident Richard Rayner follows the intertwined lives of two men who delve into the shocking and dangerous underworld of L.A. in the 1920s.
