This collection by a New York Times journalist gathers three horrifying true accounts of crimes of passion, ambition, and fear.
Author Joe Sharkey delivers three gripping accounts of betrayal and murder in this compelling American true crime collection.

Above Suspicion: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Emilia Clarke and Jack Huston, this true account tells the story of the only FBI agent to confess to murder. Assigned to Pikeville, Kentucky, rookie Mike Putnam cultivated paid informants and busted drug rings and bank robbers. But when one informant fell in love with the bureau's rising star, their passionate affair ended with murder.

Deadly Greed: On October 23, 1989, Charles Stuart reported that he and his seven-months-pregnant wife, Carol, had been robbed and shot by a black male. By the time police arrived, Carol was dead, and soon the baby was lost as well. Stuart then identified a suspect: Willie Bennett. The attack incited a furor during a time of heightened racial tension in the community. But even more appalling, Stuart's story was a hoax- he was the true killer.

Death Sentence: John List was working as the vice president of a Jersey City bank and had moved his mother, wife, and three teenage children into a nineteen-room mansion in Westfield, New Jersey when he lost his job and everything changed. Fearing financial ruin and the corruption of his children's souls by the free-spirited 1970s, he came up with a terrifying solution: He would shoot his entire family and vanish, taking on a new life and a new identity.

Joe Sharkey was a weekly columnist for the New York Times for nineteen years. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer. The author of four books of nonfiction and one novel, Sharkey is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona. He and his wife live in Tucson.

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Above Suspicion
  • Title Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • Epilogue
  • Image Gallery
• Deadly Greed
  • Title Page
  • Dedication
  • 1 The Hub
  • 2 Chuck
  • 3 Carol
  • 4 Willie
  • 5 Ambitions
  • 6 Drumbeat
  • 7 Debby
  • 8 A Decision
  • 9 Murder
  • 10 Panic
  • 11 'A Terrible Night'
  • 12 The Projects
  • 13 'A Steadfast Wife'
  • 14 An Arrest
  • 15 Recovery
  • 16 Matthew
  • 17 The Detectives
  • 18 The Suspect
  • 19 Lineup
  • 20 A New Year
  • 21 The District Attorney
  • Epilogue
  • Gallery
• Death Sentence
  • Title Page
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
• Part One: Descent into Hell
  • Chapter One
  • Chapter Two
  • Chapter Three
  • Chapter Four
  • Chapter Five
  • Chapter Six
  • Chapter Seven
  • Chapter Eight
  • Chapter Nine
  • Chapter Ten
• Part Two: Resurrection
  • Chapter Eleven
  • Chapter Twelve
  • Chapter Thirteen
  • Chapter Fourteen
  • Chapter Fifteen
  • Chapter Sixteen
  • Chapter Seventeen
  • Epilogue
  • Image Gallery
• About the Author
• Copyright Page