Book Award Winner: Felony Review: Tales of True Crime and Corruption in Chicago by Randy E. Barnett

Congratulations on your silver book award! Synopsis Acclaimed Constitutional scholar Randy E. Barnett offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of the years he spent as a young prosecutor during the rampant violence and corruption of 1970s and 80s Chicago in his new book, Felony Review: Tales of True Crime and Corruption (March 17, 2026, Encounter Books). […]

Book Award Winner: Into the Night: A Jailbreak and Double Homicide on Maryland’s Eastern Shore by Stephanie L. Fowler

Congratulations on your silver book award! Synopsis On Sunday, December 8th, 1968, Joseph J. Bartholomey, Jr., a 21-year-old troubled delinquent from Baltimore, sat in the Wicomico County Jail in Salisbury, Maryland. Armed and dangerous, he was plotting his escape, but two men stood in his way: the jailer, Albert L. Kelly, and the county sheriff, […]

Book Award Winner: Death, Taxes, and Turduckens: Unraveling History’s Biggest Tax Heist and the Broken System That Enabled It by Jens Heycke

Congratulations on your gold book award! Synopsis Death, Taxes, and Turduckens reveals the world’s wildest offshore tax evasion scheme, where the ultra-wealthy hide billions inside complex “Trust Turduckens.” It tells the true story of Robert Brockman, a secretive billionaire indicted for allegedly orchestrating the largest tax fraud in history. Based on exclusive interviews with top […]

Book Award Winner: Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America’s Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row by Karen Conti

Congratulations on your silver book award! Synopsis John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news. Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of […]

Book Award Winner: Juror #11: A Memoir of the Broken Justice System and Rising from the Trials of Life by Katrina Robertson

Congratulations on your gold book award! Synopsis How can you keep your faith in people after seeing the flaws of the American justice system? Juror #11 exposes the flaws and weaknesses in the American justice system from the perspective of a murder trial juror who endured months of trauma, the threat of jail, and thousands […]

Author Interview: Michael J. Coffino, Co-Author of The Demon in Disguise: Murder, Kidnapping, and the Banty Rooster

Author Name: Michael J. Coffino Book Title: The Demon in Disguise: Murder, Kidnapping, and the Banty Rooster Website URL: https://michaelcoffino.com Link to book page on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3lYTycq Social Media Links: https://www.facebook.com/authormichaelcoffino https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19485648.Michael_J_Coffino https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcoffino/ https://www.instagram.com/michaeljcoffino.author/ https://twitter.com/michael_coffino What is your book about? The decade-long pursuit of justice for the separate (within thirty days) execution-style murder and kidnapping […]

Book Award Winner: The Demon in Disguise: Murder, Kidnapping, and the Banty Rooster

Nonfiction Book Award Status: GOLD Synopsis During the late evening of May 18, 2002, Ashley Elliott’s father, Carter Elliott, a prominent local businessman, and a young protege, became the first double homicide victims in the history of Conway, Arkansas. The Conway PD, Arkansas State Police, and FBI combined to launch a painstaking investigation into what seemed […]

Book Award Winner: Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: From Alexander, to Hitler, to the Corporation

Nonfiction Book Award Status: GOLD Synopsis Conquest is murder & theft. Conquerors are vicious criminals. Vicious criminals become kings. Kings designed civilization. We are the products of civilization. Right wing movements are of increasing concern around the globe, but the attention is misdirected. The real problem is not the authoritarian leader, but the blinkered supporters who […]