True Crime

The heartbreaking true story of two families' thirty-year fight for justice for their murdered daughtersOn 9 October 1986, Russell Bishop sexually assaulted and strangled nine-year-old Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, in woods near Brighton. He did not...

This is the story of those who ended up on the end of the hangman's rope at Norwich Castle Prison, Norwich City Prison on Earlham Road and the later Victorian Norwich Prison on Knox Road. The executions included in this book range from some of the...

When 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...

Over a hundred gripping tales - of murder and mystery, ghosts and ghouls, body-snatching and witch-burning - reveal the darker side of genteel Edinburgh's history. Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories is a highly readable collection, fully illustrated...

Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470145637Author Susan GrosseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909797529Author Mary Turner ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint WhiteWater Publishing LtdPublisher The Book Whisperers Community Interest Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645953800Author Simon DoveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint ThehotstarPublisher ThehotstarWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311014Author Betty FrizzellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Welcome to Dopeworld. Ecstasy in London, crack in Los Angeles, LSD in Tokyo, heroin in Sofia, cocaine in Medellin, bounty hunting in Manilla, opium in Tehran. Get ready for your next fix. __________Dopeworld is a bold and intoxicating journey into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963882Author Royal Hong Kong Police AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 366g

There'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425276976Author Peter VronskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Welcome 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...

"The Executioner's Bible" tells the story of these working-class men who carried out this gruesome profession until its abolition in the late 1960's. Despite often being unassuming and quiet professionals, men like Albert Pierrepoint, William Billington...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'Brilliant and extraordinary' Philippe Sands'Astonishing ... Cooper is one hell of a detective' Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body'Seductive ... Haunting'...

'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to...

WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE! 'Relentless and sleek. This pitch-perfect debut signals the arrival of a remarkable talent.' A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window 'A thoroughly engaging spy thriller that had me gripped from start to...

All I am is a fisherman. That's all I'm guilty of, Your Honour.On 31 May 2010 eleven holdalls were discovered along the shore near Freshwater on the Isle of Wight; when opened they contained GBP53m worth of cocaine - the biggest haul ever found in UK...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Spur Award / Western Writers of America 2018. Short-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017 and National Book Award 2017.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125532Author Alfredo CorchadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is ForeverHOME SWEET MURDER: Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings at their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062910646Author John E DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 454g

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The true story of a young gay man who was hanged for the murder of his mother. Sidney Harry Fox was the illegitimate son of a railway signalman. He and his mother Rosaline were a devoted couple. Sidney was a forger and a fraudster and a pathological...

Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 International Affairs Book of the Year. GANG OF ONE is the remarkable true story of one man's journey from a Glasgow orphanage to a notorious gang-infested prison in Texas. Driven by his desire to return to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012280Author Cathy BroomfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906628772Author Stephen ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint CheckPoint PressPublisher CheckPoint PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece' Hallie Rubenhold, author of the Baillie Gifford prize-winning The Five 'Ingenious history writing' Mail on Sunday 'Extraordinary' Guardian 'A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802360639Author Stephen WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692568125Author Peter A ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint AspcPublisher AspcWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

The mysterious is all around us...UFOs, extraterrestrial encounters, baffling disappearances-Mysteries Uncovered investigates, without prejudice, some of the most notorious, disturbing and enduring mysteries ever recorded.- UFO activity: the Roswell...

A ROSE FOR HER GRAVE - the principal story of this collection - vividly recreates the cautionary tale of Randy Roth, a misogynistic sociopath from the Pacific North-West whose rage was directed primarily at women and children. Addicted to his own greed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593300098Author Roy MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Aventine PressPublisher Aventine PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years...

When Sir Jimmy Savile died in 2011 he was celebrated as a prolific charity fundraiser who had dedicated his time to worthy causes. But on 3 October 2012, ITV broadcast a documentary called Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile. In it they revealed...

Over the Easter weekend in 2015, an audacious gang of criminals robbed a safe depository in London's Hatton Garden, the centre of the UK's diamond trade. Shortly before, electrical cables under nearby Kingsway had caught on fire, disrupting the emergency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394346Author David KerekesFormat PaperbackPage Count 646Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands'A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The individual tales of these courageous young women are...