True Crime

From the author of best seller, Ruxton: The First Modern Murder, comes another deep dive into one of the most notorious cases in Scottish Criminal History. Tom Wood’s The World’s End Murders: The Inside Story is a new look at a well-known story. In this...

A Preston Chronicle newspaper headline in 1866 of 'Thievery, Knavery & Harlotry in Preston' described a town struggling with crime and its consequences. Justice had been swift from the days of horse thieves and highwaymen, when the gloom of the gallows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780910857Author Jim BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

The result of extensive research, including an analysis of over 140 active shooter/killer incidents, Krav Maga Extreme Survival provides an apolitical view of personal safety-concentrating on practical methods to survive violent situations. In his third...

Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was caught lurking in the shadows beneath the Houses of Parliament. But what if it wasn't like that at all?...

Having been released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009, this is considered by Ronnie Biggs to be the final chapter of his life story. This book covers events in the Author's life following the Great Train Robbery in August 1963, the...

As a survivor of a brutal attack by the Yorkshire Ripper, this book gives fresh insight into the consequences of being labeled a victim of this notorious serial killer. Mo Lea was followed home and attacked by Peter Sutcliffe, who hit her over the head...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746575Author Elizabeth WilliamsonFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 730g

When her adoptive mother died in 2009 Donna Freed set out to track down her birth mother. What she discovered was truly shocking - she was the daughter of a pair of infamous con artists, at the heart of one of the biggest true crime stories to grip the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455542680Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312599539Author Jennifer Thompson-CanninoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

From Mary Ann Cotton, the Victorian serial murderess, to Dr Crippen, poisoners have attracted a celebrity unmatched by violent killers. Secretly administered, often during a family meal, arsenic (the most commonly-used poison) led to a slow and agonising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250118707Author Gregg OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

Like any country, the United Arab Emirates have had their share of criminals, accidents, natural disasters and downright weird incidents. Most of these events merit a few pages in the newspapers before disappearing from history. This book brings the...

December, 2014: In the forbidding waters off Antarctica, Captain Hammarstedt of the Bob Barker embarks on a voyage unlike any seen before. Across ten thousand miles of hazardous seas, Hammerstedt's crew will relentlessly pursue the Thunder - an infamous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060508159Author David McClintickFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524872106Author Christine SchieferFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved...

On 9 November 1966, popular GP Dr Helen Davidson was battered to death in dense woodland while birdwatching and exercising her dog a few miles from her Buckinghamshire home. Her body was found the next day, her eyes having been pushed into her skull...

John "Red" Shea was a top lieutenant to South Boston's top Irish mobster, Whitey Bulger, and was the only guy to walk the walk and take the rap when the mob boss and his fellow rats turned and ran. Shea did twelve years of hard time in order to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770416673Author Felix SeguinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Desperate Times is the brilliant and unfl inching new collection of sketches of contemporary political life by The Times's master of satire, Peter Brookes. Within these pages, the multiple winner of the British Press Awards Cartoonist of the Year...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525538967Author Frank AbagnaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the...

Irish travellers live in a closed community. What we think we know about them is based on hearsay, rumour and stereotype. But not any more. Knuckle is the true story of James Quinn McDonagh - clan head and champion bare-knuckle fighter. It's a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593138854Author Daniel Barban LevinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Presented in a diary style format and converted into the story of events leading upto and beyond, the robbery. Included is a background to all of the leading characters their lifestyles and their meeting. Coinciding with the robbery, before during and...

This memoir was recently discovered and appears to have been written in the 1920s by somone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper.This person is James Carnac, this memoir written shortly before his death is an account of his entire life, including a...

This fascinating book recounts a pivotal event in West African history that provides important insights into law and politics in the colonial Gold Coast, and the clash between traditional and modern values, and the nature of African monarchy in the...

How were criminal children dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Over this hundred-year period, ideas about the way children should behave - and how they should be corrected when they misbehaved - changed dramatically, and Emma...

From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold, where organized crime ravages both north and south - yet also...

Alison Hewitt was in the midst of training to be a family doctor when she met Al Amin Dhalla through an exclusive dating agency. He was a seemingly respectable businessman from Canada, so attentive and caring it was easy to ignore the warning signs -...

An engaging first-hand memoir of life in the Royal Navy during the Cold WarTony Beasley joined the Royal Navy as a teenager in 1946. This biography recalls the adventures he had during his time in the Navy, from training and specialisation as a...

1981. Ronald Reagan and Francois Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrand's French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793987012Author Karl BergFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Korsgaard PublishingPublisher Korsgaard PublishingWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Harry Edward Vickers, aka Flannelfoot, was possibly Britain’s most successful ever burglar. Not financially - he stole cash and low-value items (even, bizarrely, false teeth!). The success was in his hundreds of burglaries spread over many years without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878923318Author John GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Amok Books,U.S.Publisher Amok Books,U.S.

The inside story-from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The...