True Crime

CRAIGINCHES - Life in Aberdeen's Prison is the story of this forbidding place from its early days to its recent closure, told by former prison officer Bryan Glennie. Having lived and breathed the life of the prison up to his retirement, this is the real...

Six women - mothers, daughters, sisters - gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this is the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims.Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With...

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...

*Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year*'Harrowing, brave, hugely important book' HENRY WINTER'Absolutely amazed by the power of Andy Woodward's testimony' JEREMY VINE SHOW'I'm sure this will be one of the defining football books of the...

The Somerset town of Frome might top national polls as a great place to live and enjoy a reputation as the epitome of cool, with Hollywood A-listers regularly spotted on its street and global rock-stars playing its venues, but the place hasn't always...

***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all***The full story behind Oscar award-winning IcarusOne of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade'...

'A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washington's fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate today.' New York Times At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily,...

Meet Brick and Wax, two bright eighteen-year-olds looking for a route out of poverty. When Baltimore was engulfed in riots in 2015 they helped loot pharmacies, stealing over $100 million worth of opiates. The plan: to use their gang connections and...

The shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims-and evaded capture for over a decade. By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women...

The remarkable true story, as seen in the brilliant TV adaptation now showing on Netflix! Murder on the Home Front follows Molly Lefebure as she navigates working for the Home Office's chief forensic pathologist while living in a bomb-stricken London...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735233935Author Joanna JollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

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...

For more than 70 years, Al Capone has been equated with wealth, violence, and corruption. As America's most infamous criminal, he has intrigued, attracted, and repulsed the general public with his legendary criminal deeds. This concise biography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903854198Author Robin BarrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 220g

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial of Charlie Smith who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. But Smith wasn't lighting fires alone: his crimes were galvanised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307358950Author Alex CaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 272g

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By the age of six, Nicolai Lilin had been given his first 'pike knife' by an uncle, and by the age of twelve, he had been convicted of attempted murder . . . Nicolai Lilin gained his 'education' as a member of the Siberian Urkas - a small and tight-knit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768202147Author John MarquisFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

It is a little known fact that one immigrant Italian family ran London's thriving vice trade unchecked from the mid-1930s for some twenty years. The five Messina brothers imported prostitutes from the Continent on an industrial scale, acquiring the...

A "well-written, engaging detective story" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs-and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at...

Six tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain's extensive networks in Soviet Russia between the wars. It reveals for the first time how the playwright and MI6 agent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679603313Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

The award-winning, definitive account of Australia's most notorious cold case, now fully updated with new information Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True CrimeOn 4 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen set out on foot through the wintry streets of Sydney's...

There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers. No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the...

Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it can happen to you. Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947290952Author Brian WhitneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

On an internationally acknowledged Scale of Evil, these are the worlds worst serial killers. The qualifications for entry to this list of the vilest criminals of all time are a propensity for sadism, torture and murder without a shred of remorse. Using...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668020531Author Mikita BrottmanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams) 481g

On February 25, 1957, the nude, badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trash-strewn woods of north Philadelphia. Posters of the "Boy in the Box" soon dotted the city and police stations nationwide-to no avail. In November 1998...

Seventeen men, who paid the ultimate price for their crimes on the gallows, have been lowered into the earth deep within the walls of Crumlin Road Gaol in plain wooden coffins. The first was in 1854, the last in 1961. This is the story of execution in...

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime - and its extraordinary aftermath.'An absorbing work of social history and a story about the mystery and miracle of forgiveness...it deserves to be read with...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909360723Author Harry HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 252g

THE SENSATIONAL TRUE CRIME STORY THAT SHOOK ICELAND - AS SEEN ON NETFLIX.It is the most shocking miscarriage of justice in European history. And now - in the most stunning true crime narrative you will read this year - OUT OF THIN AIR spotlights...

New information from We Have Your Daughter has been revealed. Here is some of it. The Family As a top reporter in Denver, Paula Woodward was one of the few who had access to the Ramsey attorneys and thus the family. One of the prevailing questions in...

The bestselling author and true crime master Ann Rule presents her fifteenth volume of the acclaimed Crime Files series focusing on disturbing stories of people in danger,. Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they...

This book tells the stories of those most depraved killers whose crimes outraged society and demanded the harshest penalty available to a British court. Among a UK prison population of close to 100,000, fewer than 40 men and women have been told they...

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,...

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...