Mark Ebner: 3 books

In the burgeoning Hollywood club scene, where ecstasy dealers dine alongside celebrities, and illicit money bubbles up from below like the La Brea Tar Pits, a handsome double-murderer and ex-con of refined wit and taste charmed his way into young Hollywood's most elite social circles. Serving as their...

“This tale of greed and manipulation in Palm Beach County is impossible to put down” (Vanity Fair). In August 2009, former madam Dalia Dippolito conspired with a hit man to arrange the murder of her ex-con husband. Days later, it seemed as if all had gone according to plan. Beautiful young...

In the mountains of Guanajuato, Mexico sits a picturesque community favored by artists and tourists. But for American-born Jayne Valseca and her husband Eduardo, son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, it became a hell on earth when Eduardo was ambushed by strangers and kidnapped in the summer...