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The Killing of Lord George: A Tale of Murder, Deceit and the Greatest Showman of Edwardian England by Karl Shaw
RRP: £20.00£13.46'A riveting read ... a dark story of murder and deceit with verve and insight' John Woolf, author of The Wonders THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A 19TH-CENTURY CIRCUS LEGENDOn 28 November 1911 a retired showman died violently at his home in North London. Known to... -
Red River Girl: A Journey into the Dark Heart of Canada by Joanna Jolly 9780349011004
RRP: £9.99£3.01THE GRIPPING TRUE STORY OF A MURDER WHICH HAUNTED CANADA AND BECAME A RALLYING CRY FOR JUSTICE'If you were hooked on the Serial podcast, then you need to order this now' RedLonglisted for the Crime Writers' Association ALCS Gold Dagger for... -
Convicting the Moors Murderers: The Arrest, Trial and Imprisonment of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley by Chris Cook
RRP: £25.00£17.90The second book published in this series carries on from where The Moors Murderers' left off and continues the horrific story of the crimes perpetrated by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and tells of what happened at their trial in 1966. We see how Brady... -
One of the Family: 40 Years with the Krays by Maureen Flanagan
RRP: £10.99£7.9940 YEARS WITH THE KRAYS is the untold, intimate history of the twins and the woman who raised them. Told with humour and insight, it looks back across the decades at the life of this close knit, notorious East End family. Maureen Flanagan, a then 20 year... -
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade
RRP: £14.99£10.95In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of... -
The Gambino Family: A History of New York's Gambino Mafia Family by Andy Petepiece 9780228887232
RRP: £15.00£13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228887232Author Andy PetepieceFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland by Chris Thrall 9780993543944
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993543944Author Chris ThrallFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Serf BooksPublisher Serf BooksWeight(grams) 386g -
Gypsy Empire by Eamon Dillon 9781848271692
RRP: £10.99£7.99Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad. On the one hand are the positive stories like the success of boxers such as John Joe Nevin and Tyson Fury, the popularity of Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and... -
The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking Adam Sisman 9781788162128
RRP: £8.99£6.65Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator 'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of fibs and frauds' Sunday Telegraph 'An utterly... -
Mafia, The: A Cultural History by Roberto M. Dainotto
RRP: £11.99£8.66What makes Tony Soprano so likeable? Why would we rather leave the cannoli and take the gun? Do we truly want Scarface's Tony Montana to succeed? Is Michael Corleone a misunderstood hero or a despicable villain? In The Mafia: A Cultural History, now... -
Gangs Of London by Brian McDonald
RRP: £8.99£6.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903854914Author Brian McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 297g -
Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican drug cartels and the greatest banking scandal of the century by Chris Blackhurst Limited
RRP: £20.00£14.91From journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations - and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen.'Packed with... -
Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir by Paddy Armstrong
RRP: £18.99£13.55Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images that flash through my mind are hardly believable - sometimes, it feels like I'm remembering someone else's life. The truth is, I've lived three very different lives: the one before prison;... -
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade by Benjamin T Smith
RRP: £9.99£7.32Discover the secret history behind the headlines.The Mexican drug wars have inspired countless articles, TV shows and movies. From Breaking Bad to Sicario, El Chapo's escapes to Trump's tirades, this is a story we think we know. But there's a hidden... -
Among The Thugs by Bill Buford
RRP: £10.99£7.99___________________________ THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCE Welcome to the world of football thuggery. They have names like Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager, football, the Queen, and themselves. They love... -
Blood on the Page by Thomas Harding
RRP: £10.99£7.99***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION***'Meticulous and gripping - a thriller that disturbs for revelations about a singular act of murder, and the national security state which we call home' Philippe Sands, author... -
The Long Silence: The Story of James Hanratty and the A6 murder by Valerie Storie, the Woman who Lived to Tell the Tale by Paul Stickler
RRP: £20.00£15.67In August 1961, 22-year-old Valerie Storie and 36-year-old Michael Gregsten were the victims of James Hanratty in the notorious 'A6 Murder'. After a five-hour ordeal, ending in a layby on the A6 in Bedfordshire, Michael was shot dead and Valerie was... -
Boss of Bosses: How One Man Saved the Sicilian Mafia Clare Longrigg 9780719568596
RRP: £10.99£7.61Bernado Provenzano, head of the Sicilian mafia, is Italy's most notorious criminal. But despite apparent sightings all over Europe, for 43 years he eluded the police, until, on 11 April 2006, a crack police team broke into a tiny shepherd's hut in the... -
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In by Freddie Foreman
RRP: £9.99£7.05For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law - and those who operate just outside of it. With almost all of his compatriots - like the notorious Kray twins - now gone,... -
Bandit Country by Jamie Reid 9781789465501
RRP: £9.99£6.72Welcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess. A world of luxurious nightclubs where racketeers, gamblers and glamorous women mixed with entrepreneurs, bunny girls, politicians and policemen. Bandit Country is a gripping, atmospheric... -
1312: Among the Ultras: A journey with the world's most extreme fans James Montague 9781785039188
RRP: £10.99£7.99You can see them, but you don't know them.Ultras are football fans like no others. A hugely visible and controversial part of the global game, their credo and aesthetic replicated in almost every league everywhere on earth, a global movement of extreme... -
The New Guv'nor: Stormin' Norman Buckland Norman Buckland 9781802470345
RRP: £8.99£6.39"He's the toughest street fighter alive." Freddie Foreman Picture a man, he's tall, not excessively so, yet as wide as he is high. This man is a spitting and growling street brawler; a tank full of ready to blow, muscle-fuelled aggression. Imagine, if... -
Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen
RRP: £22.00£14.45A #1 New York Times Bestseller! "I read it cover-to-cover. I did not intend to, but I started at the beginning and didn't put it down until it was over."-Rachel Maddow, MSNBCThis book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to... -
Mafiopoli: Living Among the ’Ndrangheta – Italy's Most Powerful Crime Organisation Sanne de Boer 9781800962125
RRP: £22.00£14.78The 'Ndrangheta is the world's most powerful Mafia and it's behind a litany of violence, organised crime and corruption around the world. Bound together by blood ties, silent but deadly, and steeped in religious ritual, they are a Mafia unlike any other,... -
The Peasenhall Murder: An Edwardian Mystery by Neil Norman 9781399064378
RRP: £12.99£9.34In May 1902, a great storm hit the small village of Peasenhall, Suffolk. The following morning, the body of Rose Harsent was found in the house where she worked. Whilst originally believed by the doctor to have been suicide, her brutal injuries,... -
The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed Norman Lewis 9780907871484
RRP: £14.99£10.05the best book on the Mafia in Sicily - its origins, its code of honour, its secrecy and its brutality. A chilling insight. - reveals how Mafia violence and corruption crept even into every aspect of Sicilian society, including the police and the church -... -
Stalling For Time by Gary Noesner
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511281Author Gary NoesnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Big Book of Conspiracy Theories: Over 80 of History's Greatest Cover Ups, from JFK to Area 51, the Illuminati, 9/11, and the Moon Landing by Tim Rayborn
RRP: £15.99£11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646432615Author Tim RaybornFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cider Mill PressPublisher Cider Mill PressWeight(grams) 146g -
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies by Mark Hollingsworth
RRP: £20.00£14.51There's no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but... -
A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue Dean Jobb 9781643752839
RRP: £28.00£19.35In this captivating Jazz Age true crime about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed celebrities and millionaires while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the... -
Broken Blue Line: How Life as Britain's Supercop Broke Me Alistair Livingstone 9781472144768
RRP: £16.99£4.01'Broken Blue Line is a rollercoaster of a ride depicting the realities of twenty-first-century policing on the front-line. Its well written, honest and informative. Alistair Livingstone put his life on the line, and now he's put his heart on the line... -
Executed: But was James Hanratty Innocent?: A Damning Indictment of the DNA Evidence Used to Condemn Him by Robert Harriman 9781399044936
RRP: £20.00£14.51In 2002 the Court of Appeal, in London, proclaimed that James Hanratty's guilt, in the infamous A6 Murder case, had been proven by the DNA evidence from the now disbanded Forensic Science Service; thereby ?nally, after 40 years of controversy, hoping to... -
Rivals of the Ripper: Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London by Jan Bondeson
RRP: £14.99£11.72When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murderer, whose sanguineous exploits have spawned the creation of a small library of books. But Jack the Ripper... -
Peaky Blinders: The Aftermath: Britain's most notorious gangsters 1930-50 by Carl Chinn
RRP: £8.99£6.42From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnAs Britain emerges into the mid-twentieth century, change is afoot. Cities are beginning to shift from smog-filled industrial hubs to more efficient metropolitan centres of commerce and, despite the... -
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War by Roderick Bailey
RRP: £14.99£12.28'The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They especially wanted to know what I did after my escape, and precise things on the organisation of the SOE. And just for fun I suspect, because I had really not much to tell them, they pulled... -
Mafia Life: Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime by Federico Varese
RRP: £8.99£6.65We see mafias as vast, powerful organisations, harvesting billions of dollars across the globe and wrapping its tentacles around everything from governance to finance. But is this the truth? Travelling from mafia initiation ceremonies in far-flung... -
Romance Scam Survivor: The Whole Sordid Story by Jan Marshall 9780648233602
RRP: £14.99£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648233602Author Jan MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Sangam Enterprises Pty LtdPublisher Sangam Enterprises Pty LtdWeight(grams) 431g -
Babes in the Wood: Two girls murdered. A guilty man walks free. Can the police get justice? by Graham Bartlett 9781035027958
RRP: £12.99£9.50'A triumph . . . Babes in the Wood should be required reading for all budding detectives' – Malcolm Bacon, former DI and investigating officer on the caseUpdated with the latest twists in this notorious true-crime saga, Babes in the Wood by Graham... -
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
RRP: £20.00£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 1996 and National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780679772675Author Jonathan HarrFormat... -
The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist's Journey Through Life by Dr Richard Shepherd
RRP: £22.99£16.68The heart-wrenchingly honest and fascinating new book from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Each chapter is like a finely-crafted detective story . . . Shepherd...