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    Cover of God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of A White Supremacist, A Black Hustler, A Murder, And How I Lost A Year In Mississippi
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    God’ll Cut You Down: The Tan­gled Tale of A White Suprema­cist, A Black Hus­tler, A Mur­der, And How I Lost A Year In Mississippi
    John Safran
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    New York as a Crime Novel

    Ear­li­er this week, Jerome Charyn wrote about grow­ing up Jew­ish in the Bronx. He is the author of the recent­ly pub­lished short sto­ry col­lec­tion Bit­ter Bronx and will be…
    Jerome Charyn
    June 17, 2015
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    Mur­der 101: A Decker/​Lazarus Novel
    Faye Kellerman
    Cover of A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
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    A Child of Chris­t­ian Blood: Mur­der and Con­spir­a­cy in Tsarist Rus­sia: The Beilis Blood Libel
    Edmund Levin
    Cover of Augie's Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip
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    Augie’s Secrets: The Min­neapo­lis Mob and the King of the Hen­nepin Strip
    Neal Karlen
    Cover of Hollywood's Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen
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    Hol­ly­wood’s Celebri­ty Gang­ster: The Incred­i­ble Life and Times of Mick­ey Cohen
    Brad Lewis
    Cover of Thugs: How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny and Mass Murder
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    Thugs: How His­to­ry’s Most Noto­ri­ous Despots Trans­formed the World Through Ter­ror, Tyran­ny and Mass Murder
    Micah D. Halpern
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    After Etan: The Miss­ing Child Case That Held Amer­i­ca Captive
    Lisa R. Cohen
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    Iphi­ge­nia in For­est Hills: Anato­my of a Murder
    Janet Malcolm
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