True Crime

'A must read for anyone who wants to understand not only our media, but power in Britain' - OWEN JONES, author The Establishment 'Top court reporting' - NICK DAVIES, THE GUARDIAN Go behind the doors of Court 12 of the Old Bailey for what was billed...

As seen on the BBC Victoria Derbyshire ShowAs heard on The Jeremy Vine ShowThink you've got a dysfunctional family?Meet mine.For 18 years, my family lived a normal life in a respectable suburb...Until one day, my dad gave up his successful career, and...

This is the story of an international group of drug smugglers, their criminal success and the hunt to bring them to justice. There were sixteen of them, from America, Britain, Australia and Thailand, and together they were called 'The Ring'. They first...

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...

'Broadmoor Inmates: True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum' brings together the histories of people who died in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, each having committed a crime that led to them being pronounced criminally insane, necessitating...

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The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. ...

This chilling collection of cases delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Gloucester during its long history. Among those featured are a French sailor stabbed to death outside a Gloucester pub, a boy drowned in the Gloucester and...

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SPECIAL LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE! From the bestselling creators of Captain America: The Winter Soldier comes this smash-hit spy thriller with a unique new twist!When the world's greatest secret agent is killed, all evidence points to Velvet Templeton,...

'The Krays were out of control. They had the East End buttoned up too tight and someone had to undo it. Slowly, I realised that someone had to be me...'Bobby Teale and his brothers, David and Alfie, were the three men the Kray twins trusted most. They...

A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing expose of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder-and the...

In the late 1960s the Richardson Torture Gang and the Kray Twins were removed from the London scene by ACC Gerry McArthur and Det. Supt. Nipper Read respectively. Predictably it was not long before the vacuum this left was being filled. With McArthur...

***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...

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Handsome Brute explores the facts of a once-renowned, now little-remembered British murder case, the killings of the charming, but deadly ex-RAF playboy Neville Heath. Since the 1940s, Heath has generally been dismissed as a sadistic sex-killer - the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602866072Author Jose BaezFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm * 25mm

In which pub was the notorious murder that led to the Kray twins becoming Britain's most feared gangsters? Where is the hostelry in which Jack the Ripper's victims drank? How did Burke and Hare befriend their victims in a Scottish watering hole before...

Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique meditation on murder and fate. Dagmar, a gentle, eccentric spinster, was the embodiment of Austerity Britain's prudence and thrift...

Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in...

*Shortlisted for the Lukas Prize Project*The tree was poached in a two-part operation. It was felled one night and taken another.Here was a murder mystery in the deep woods: who had taken the cedar, how had they done so, and - most importantly -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982327180Author Skipp PorteousFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Adventure Books of SeattlePublisher Adventure Books of SeattleWeight(grams) 233g

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCOBut who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a fighter against fascism, an impassioned campaigner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739325428Author Mark PlayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Wild TalesPublisher Wild Tales

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In the late 1950s the reputation of Brighton as a popular seaside resort took a sinister and notorious turn. After a series of drunken disturbances, suspicions were raised that the owner of the Astor Club, which became known globally as The Bucket of...

A century before the emergence of its cousin, the Sicilian mafia, the criminal organisation known as 'The Camorra' was establishing a deadly grip on Naples and Southern Italy. Its influence today is as strong as ever. This account of the organisation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922757104Author Stuart MullinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Ocean Reeve PublishingPublisher Ocean Reeve PublishingWeight(grams)...

A Chilling Casebook of Horrifying Hometown Crimes How well do you really know your friends?Neighbours, friends, doctors and colleagues. We see them every day. We trust them implicitly. But what about the British army sergeant who sabotaged his wife's...

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams-by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995779518Author Mark BridgemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Watermill BooksPublisher Watermill Books

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a state-of-the-art work on intelligence and national security. Edited by Loch Johnson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, the handbook examines the topic in full, beginning with...

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In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of...

The Victorian belief that women were the weaker sex' who were expected to devote themselves entirely to family life, made it almost inconceivable that they could ever be capable of committing murder. What drove a woman to murder her husband, lover or...

"A deeply disturbing book-cool, ironical, and ferocious." -Thomas Flanagan, author of The Year of the French For several weeks in the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was held hostage by fear as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young...

Finally for the first time in over 40 years, the shocking true story behind the trial of most infamous serial killer in British criminal history comes to light. In the mid-1970s, Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper began a reign of terror across...