True Crime

New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal,...

A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery - but what really happened? Shortly after Maria Kirwan died in a lonely inlet on Ireland's Eye, it was decided that she had drowned accidentally during a day spent with her husband on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948239523Author Steve JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062910646Author John E DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 454g

"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,...

The stifling, atmospheric, gothic crime novel with a unique protagonist and killer twist, perfect for fans of The Woman in Black, The Silent Companions, and Little Strangers ****************1904. Thomas Bexley, one of the first forensic photographers,...

'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...

**A contributing source for the film Richard Jewell, directed by Clint Eastwood**On July 27, 1996, a hapless former cop turned hypervigilant security guard named Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious bag in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, the town...

"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616082918Author L Fletcher ProutyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)...

Now the subject of the Discovery+ series Children of the Snow, a cold case murder investigation is cracked open by "a powerful, confident voice in the new true crime memoir genre" (James Renner, author of True Crime Addict).Four children were abducted...

Frome was historically one of the largest towns in Somerset and is rapidly growing today. Its wealth was built on wool and cloth industries, later metalworking and printing, bringing many people into the town. Agricultural work was also the way of life...

It was the look and the attitude that defined the UK in the 1980s. It was 'a culture unto its own' that brought with it an unforgettable style that was as important as the team. It was about confrontation and being involved, a good fight and being part...

He was the scion of a wealthy German textiles empire, an extravagantly successful day trader and a respected film producer. But he was also the cruellest of fraudsters. Over a period of 12 years, Felix Vossen conned his best friends and closest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501188893Author Rachel MonroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

'Carefully compiled' in 1867 'from prison documents, ancient papers, and other authentic sources,' this extremely rare book contains the full details of the crimes, trials and executions of every murderer, highwayman, rogue and rebel ever to swing from...

James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who manipulated promising recruits deemed ripe for conversion to the...

Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She...

One young woman missing, two found murdered -- the gripping true story of Australia's longest-running homicide investigation ** Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True Crime**In the early hours of January 27, 1996, after an evening spent celebrating at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982153694Author Mona GableFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596879324Author Mark ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Milk and Cookies PressPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 440g

Criminal Wirral is an intriguing and entertaining collection of some of the strangest, most despicable and comical crimes that took place on the Wirral peninsula from the Victorian era up until the early twentieth century. Daniel K. Longman's painstaking...

New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the surprisingly perilous world of fossil collectors in this riveting true tale. In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: 'a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton'. In fact,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944328641Author Lynda Cheldelin FellFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Alyblue MediaPublisher Alyblue MediaWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

An exploration of the minds of serial killers draws from interviews and correspondence that the author conducted as an eighteen-year-old student with such criminals as John Wayne Gacy and Charles Manson.Book InformationISBN 9780446608275Author Jason...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736580073Author Robert GraysmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Monkey's Paw Publishing, Inc.Publisher Monkey's Paw Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams)...

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...

Davey Sommers should've ended up in a nice job, with a nice wife, living in a nice house... Instead, he ends up an eight-man unlock in prison, serving 17 years for assaulting a police officer, possession of firearms, obtaining money by intimidation and...

Women are among the hardest individuals to trace through the historical record and this is especially true of female offenders who had a vested interest in not wanting to be found. That is why this thought-provoking and accessible handbook by Lucy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593198957Author Peter VronskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789810548322Author Stephen LeatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Monsoon BooksPublisher Monsoon BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

Behind the fashionable bars and clubs of Soho lies a fascinating history of criminal activity, featuring some of London's most notorious gangsters. From the razor gangs of the 1920s to the post-war gangleaders Billy Hill and Jack Spot; from the pre-war...

In 1906 the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked by the Home Office to make available skilled investigators for murder enquiries nationwide as few constabularies had sufficiently skilled - or indeed, any - detectives. Thus was born the Reserve...

Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it...

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...

The CIA, Dallas, and the hard details of the JFK assassination.Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy, how the murder was carried out, and why Kennedy was assassinated. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963981Author Patricia O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 416g

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