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The FENCE: A police cover-up along Boston's racial divide

Dick Lehr tells the true-life story of how Michael Cox, an African American plainclothes officer, was brutally beaten in 1995 by his fellow police officers when he was mistaken for a murder suspect. While he was being attacked, Kenny Conley—an Irish American officer from South Boston—was chasing down the actual murder suspect. Weeks later, Cox was in the hospital waiting for an apology from the Boston Police Department and federal investigators were accusing Conley of lying when he denied seeing the beating. Both men had dedicated their lives to serving the Boston Police Department, and when they needed the BPD to stand up for them, they both came up against the infamous blue wall of silence.

Judgment Ridge: The True Story of the Dartmouth Murders

On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two of its most beloved professors had been hacked to death in their own home. Investigators searched helplessly for clues linking the victims, Half and Susanne Zantop, to their murderer or murderers. A few weeks later, across the river, in the town of Chelsea, Vermont, police cars were spotted in front of the house of high school senior Robert Tulloch. The police had come to question Tulloch and his best friend, Jim Parker. Soon, the town discovered the incomprehensible reality that Tulloch and Parker, were now fugitives, wanted for the Dartmouth murders. Authors Mitchell Zuckoff and Dick Lehr provide a vivid explication of a murder that captivated the nation.

Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and a Devil's Deal

John Connolly and James "Whitey" Bulger grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the mid 1970's, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston office and Whitey had become godfather of the Irish Mob. What happened next -- a dirty deal to being down the Italian mob in exchange for protection for Bulger -- would spiral out of control, leading to murders, drug dealing, racketeering indictments, and, ultimately, the biggest informant scandal in the history of the FBI. Compellingly told by two Boston Globe reporters, Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, Black Mass is at once a riveting crime story, a cautionary tale about the abuse of power, and a penetrating look at Boston and its Irish population.

The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family

On February 26, 1986, Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 45 years in prison. In The Underboss, bestselling authors Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill tell the story of the fall of the house of Angiulo. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, aided in part by the Irish Mob's Whitey Bulger, entered the Boston Mafia's headquarters in Boston's North End early one morning in 1981 and began to compile the evidence that would lead to the entire upper tier of one of the most profitable and ruthless criminal enterprises in America. Originally published in hardback by St. Martin's in 1989, The Underboss became a national bestseller. Information uncovered during the course of Lehr and O'Neill's Black Mass investigations adds new dimensions to the story and the authors include this new material-including Whitey Bulger's cagey manipulation of the FBI-in The Underboss's revised text and in a new preface and afterword.