Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent 76 years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including 6 in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life. In addition to offering a bottom-up history of life in a segregated mental institution, Burch and Joyner's biography also enriches the traditional interpretation of Jim Crow by highlighting the complicated intersections of race and disability as well as of community and language.

Appropriate for high school students and above as well as for general readers, this two-volume reference, in a thoughtful, non-sensational manner, presents criminal cases of the past 100 years that have caught the attention of the public for various reasons.

AUDIOBOOK: Cleanskin
Cleanskin is a taut psychological thriller, from Val McDermid. Jack Farrell, a 'cleanskin' (a known career criminal with no convictions) disappears after his daughter is killed in a targeted arson attack. When his body washes up on a Suffolk beach, the CID assume a grief-stricken suicide, but then Farrell's enemies start to be murdered in the most horriffic ways... Told from the perspective of the investigating cop, Andy Martin, this is hard boiled crime fiction of the highest order.
Synopsis
When career criminal Jack Farlowe's body is found washed-up on a Suffolk shore, it looks to the police like a clear-cut case. Broken-hearted at his daughter's death, he has drowned himself - good riddance and one less crime to solve, according to CID.
Then again, maybe not. For, one by one, Farlowe's enemies are being killed. And the horrific manner of their deaths makes drowning look like a day at the beach