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Victorian and Edwardian Jarrow was a boom town but it also had a dark side. The nineteenth century brought heavy industry to the town, transforming it from a small market town to a shipbuilding and coal-mining powerhouse. People flocked to the town from...

London in 1952 was a still recovering from the devastation wrought by World War II: rationing was still in effect, rates of crime and unemployment were high, and the national economy was in shambles. In an effort to repay its massive war debt, the...

Forged during the Second World War, the close and abiding friendship of Robert Harling and Ian Fleming, one of the twentieth century's most iconic authors, would go on to define the lives and literature of both men significantly. Their paths first...

Now in paperback, here's the first nonfiction work from Joe Pistone since his New York Times #1 bestseller and hit movie, Donnie Brasco . Perhaps no man alive knows the lifestyle of wiseguys better than Pistone does, having spent six years infiltrating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476726199Author Joe McGinnissFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593135686Author Joel WarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

These warring youth factions inspired copycat cultures around the globe. This in-depth book cuts through the myths that Fleet Street built up around the cults; it tells the truth about the young, angry Britain of the 1970s that inspired a kaleidoscope of...

A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022 A Waterstones Best Book of 2022:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996394321Author Michael ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Twin Prime PublishingPublisher Twin Prime PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061429859Author Philip CarloFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995779556Author Mark BridgemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Watermill BooksPublisher Watermill Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862249Author Staughton LyndFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995779563Author Mark BridgemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Watermill BooksPublisher Watermill Books

Over 50 billion dollars in securities. Gold reserves that exceed those of industrialized nations. Real estate holdings that equal the total area of many countries. Opulent palaces containing the world's greatest art treasures. These are some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593199657Author Robert GraysmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

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...

Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, remains the most infamous serial killer in British criminal history. His reign of terror saw 13 women brutally murdered and the largest criminal manhunt in British history. Just like Jack the Ripper, his...

On a steamy August night in 1952, a British family settles down to sleep beside their car in a lay-by. Before daybreak all three of them, a father, a mother, and their ten-year-old daughter, have been brutally murdered. In a remote corner of Provence...

For fans of ITV's 'Des', starring David Tennant as Dennis Nilsen.Only one TV interview with a serial killer has ever been recorded in a British jail and broadcast. This is the exclusive story of that dramatic event, carried out by award-winning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742315Author Joby WarrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is an exemplary American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome and charismatic. But his Texas town is poor and dangerous, and it isn't long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug...

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As a gun-wielding bank robber, Noel 'Razor' Smith was top of the criminal tree, enjoying the excitement and benefits of a dangerous and adrenalin-filled career. But he'd also spent the greater part of his adult life in prison, an environment where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911273332Author Amanda Harvey-PurseFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Mango BooksPublisher Mango Books

When Manny McDonnell was twelve, he awoke to discover British troops surrounding his home in the toughest area of trouble-torn Belfast. Internment had begun and, encouraged by a fiercely Republican mother, he took to the streets with other school kids,...

In real life, there is a person like "Anonymous", who, for the sake of this story, I'll call Huey Carmichael. I was friends with this person for a while before I learned about his other life. The real Huey knows more than a thing or two about the weed...

The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover and a reluctant hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885 James Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the lives of over 100 criminals in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Tortured by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743296687Author Peter MansoFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 33mm

The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable questions that...

Murder - the most appalling crime of all. It comes in many guises and is as diverse as the victims and perpetrators themselves. But no matter how horrifying, it fascinates as much as it repels.In this updated edition of THE LAW KILLERS, journalist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984763214Author A James KolarFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Ventus Publishing, LLCPublisher Ventus Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm)...

If you lived on the notorious Canterbury Estate in the '40s and '50s, then you knew there was one man you did not want to cross: Charlie Hudson. A solitary man, feared and respected by the gangsters of the time, Charlie was a boxer who never lost a...

Night comes quickly to the Bahamas. That of 7 July 1943 was unpleasantly close and humid, for though the rains were nearing their end, the air was heavy with an approaching storm. It struck Nassau soon after midnight. By the time it had blown itself out,...

On Halloween morning in 1999, Mabel Greineder was savagely murdered along a wooded trail in the well-heeled community of Wellesley, Massachusetts. As the shock following the brutal killing slowly subsided, the community was further shaken when the focus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692762103Author Philip VannatterFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint LVM BooksPublisher LVM BooksWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Coinciding with Pope Benedict XVIs state visit to the UK in September 2010. David Yallop, author of In God's Name, looks at the current news stories concerning widespread child abuse by priests and shows how the Vatican is not telling the full story...

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.

Now that he's in prison, the whole world knows that Dennis Rader is BTK. But the intricate twists and shocking turns of this story have never before been told by the people who were there - and intimately acquainted with both the BTK killer and Rader the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250879493Author James KeeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

Acclaimed for her 'devastatingly accurate insight' (The New York Times Book Review) into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her bestelling Crime Files series. For this sixth stunning collection, Rule has...