True Crime

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060781026Author Simon BaatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

"A tour de force of storytelling." -Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series"Jobb's excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read." -The New York Times Book Review "When a doctor does go wrong,...

After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files detailing the Soviets' incredible hunt to recover Hitler's body: the layout of the bunker, plans for...

RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic Republic by a small Anglo/German team of military specialists. Their purpose was to explore the lives of RAF...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952225642Author Robyn MaharajFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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Crime scene investigation-or CSI-has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to identify and secure physical evidence...

One man's story of life in The Joy -- compulsive, chilling and frank. A no-holds-barred account of a criminal's time in the notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to journalist Paul Howard. This extraordinary life story tells it all. The desperate...

Wiltshire Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever...

In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a global one from the start. Unearthing previously...

On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from a terrified woman who claimed to be kidnapped. The man holding her hostage was Shawn Grate, a serial killer whom the press later dubbed “The...

"Often reads like the latest entry from Ludlum or Le Carre . . . fascinating."-Book News, Inc.A true story that pulls no punches, Enter the Past Tense also chronicles Haas's descent into, and recovery from, alcoholism that resulted from the stress of...

Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398845206Author Jo Durden SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

The wartime double agent with a transmitter in his cell to contact suffragettes; the doctor hanged as he smiled to the farewells of lovers on the scaffold; the con who defied a gangland godfather and escaped the bromide in the prison tea; aristocrats and...

As featured on 60 Minutes, Dateline, Inside Edition, and 48 Hours, the shocking true story of banker Edmond Safra's death and the man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the crime. When billionaire banker Edmond Safra died in the ashes of Monaco's La...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814358323Author Andy BottsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Monsoon BooksPublisher Monsoon Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060849634Author Catherine CrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 666g

A beloved film comedienne who worked alongside the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and dozens of others, Thelma Todd was a rare Golden Age star who successfully crossed over from silent films to talkies. This authoritative new biography traces Todd's...

'An incredible debut' MEL SHERRATTShe is wanted by the FBI.She is a stone-cold killer.She remembers nothing.She is told her name is Reeta Doe, and that she's been in an accident. That she's in Florida. That the FBI have been following her since...

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

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...

The Mafia in the United States might be a shadow of its former self, but in the New York/New Jersey metro area, there are still wiseguys and wannabes working scams, extorting businesses, running gambling, selling drugs, and branching out into white...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction 2011 and Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction 2011. Nominated for British Columbia's National Award for...

A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEARREVOLUTIONARY. CONSPIRATOR. JAIL-BREAKER. FUGITIVE. DUELLIST. RADICAL. AND KILLER.ON 8 December 1854, Emmanuel Barthelemy visited 73 Warren Street in the heart of radical London for the very last time. Within half an hour,...

'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596299979Author George JoynsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

It was a brutal murder, and the trial of the decade. On 1 November 2007, 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was slaughtered in cold blood in the apartment in Perugia, Italy, that she shared with three other girls. Two bright young people,...

Somerset Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made headlines throughout the country. They include the cases of Elizabeth and Betty Branch, a mother and daughter who beat a young servant girl to death...

Some of the gruesome cases in this book are better known than others, such as the inexplicable shooting of his wife and two daughters by Lock Ah Tam in 1926 and the Gorse Hall murder in 1909, which still excites aficionados of true crime and those who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853039150Author E. EforganFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.The massive armies of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640302723Author Publications International LtdPage Count 192Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International, Ltd...

'Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live in an age of fraud.' Washington Post'Tom Mueller's authoritative and timely book reveals what drives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998998602Author Lou BackFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Respect the Pen LLCPublisher Respect the Pen LLCWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries arsenic was readily available to the general public; indeed it was prescribed by doctors as a tonic to build up strength and put on weight as well as a treatment for rheumatism, dropsy and syphilis. It...

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...

A gripping compendium of some of the world's most infamous and shocking mass murderers, such as John Wayne Gacy, the Boston Strangler, the Moors murderers and Harold Shipman, as well as some lesser-known figuresWho was the Zodiac Killer?What drove...

THE RIVETING TRUE STORY OF HOW THE FBI BROUGHT DOWN THE FEARSOME MIGUEL TREVINO, LEADER OF LOS ZETAS, MEXICO'S MOST VIOLENT DRUG CARTEL.Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo,...