True Crime

In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous-and flamboyant-American serial killers on record. Bundy's story is a complex mix of psychopathology, criminal investigation, and the U...

In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he had ever know, In postwar Tokyo, however, he realised there were certain opportunities. He had a failed...

A study of the sex killer Chris Halliwell who, having been arrested in 2011 for one murder, led police to the scene of a second. But the senior police officer blew it . . .Superintendent Steve Fulcher of Hampshire Police had not followed procedure, an...

A man desperate to know his true identity struggles to solve the infamous kidnapping that nearly destroyed his family-and find his twin sister, who has been missing for more than fifty years.When he was ten years old, Paul Fronczak was snooping around...

During the early 1990s, the diet drugs fen-phen and Redux achieved tremendous popularity. The chemical combination was discovered by chance, marketed with hyperbole, and prescribed to millions. But as the drugs' developer, pharmaceutical giant American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385548519Author Patrick Radden KeefeFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586422615Author Michele R. McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415034Author Vanessa BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

The incredible real-life cases behind TV's hit crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, including photos. The crimes, the suspects, the trials-as they really went down. True Stories of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit focuses on twenty-five of...

Homicide, the celebrated true crime-book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned in this first volume of a gritty, cinematic graphic novel duology. In 1988, journalist David Simon was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore Police...

Manchester in the century between 1850 and 1950 witnessed extraordinary growth and changes. In the mid-nineteenth century, Manchester was the world's first industrialised city, home of the Industrial Revolution and known as 'Cottonopolis'. It was a city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101987421Author Matt BirkbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264g

Was There Crime in the Second World War?At a time of national emergency, the average person could be forgiven for thinking that crime rates would go down as everyone tried to help the war effort. However, the reality was that criminals saw the war as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578845913Author Teodora HadjiyskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint VisiaPublisher VisiaWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250805416Author John GlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's True CrimePublisher St. Martin's True CrimeWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies & Memoirs) ** As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of...

The Linden Triangle: Linden Avenue and Linden Place, Hempstead, Long Island. At this blighted intersection, seemingly forgotten by the middle and upper class communities that surround it, the dream of suburban comfort and safety has devolved into a...

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Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Kent's history. Linda Stratmann re-examines some of the historic crimes that shocked not only the county but Britain as a whole. Among the gruesome cases...

Smuggling has been a way of life in Galicia for millennia. The Romans considered its windswept coast the edge of the world. To the Greeks it was from where Charon ferried souls to the Underworld. Since the Middle Ages, its shoreline has scuppered...

The ancient city of Bath has always attracted visitors, flourishing in the Georgian era and becoming home for the fashionable and wealthy. The city was rebuilt to reflect its new status and although areas were devastated by aerial attacks in the Second...

A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF EVIL Revisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998918983Author David MiraldiFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint David MiraldiPublisher David MiraldiWeight(grams) 549g

Shropshire 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...

A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered-for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure-rife with historical details that will have any true crime junkie on the edge of their seat In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers...

'I wonder what you'd think of me if you found out that I've done something really serious . . .' So begin the confessions of Thomas Quick - Scandinavia's most notorious serial killer. In 1992, behind the barbed wire fence of a psychiatric hospital for...

The shocking true crime story of a beloved Hollywood star gone too soon-told by the captain of the boat on which Natalie Wood spent her last night. Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the long-awaited, detailed account of events that led to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983074434Author Steve HodelFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Thoughtprint PressPublisher Thoughtprint PressWeight(grams) 152g

Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible...

The Georgian era was perhaps one of the most shocking, gory, vice-ridden and downright surprising in the capital's history. From an anaconda attack at the Tower of London to a ghost in Regent's Park, a murder at the House of Commons, a body-snatching...

"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry." -Letter written by Princess Diana, late 1996It is a moment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560256885Author James EllroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624092803Author Christopher ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

For readers of true crime and books such as SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO, a shocking and movingly told portrait of the murder of suburban mum Tara Costigan and an examination of why domestic violence affects us allTara Costigan was the woman next door. A hard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416517016Author Lou EppolitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Pocket StarPublisher Pocket StarWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619848764Author Robert EscobarFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Catoblepas PressPublisher Catoblepas PressWeight(grams) 957gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

What's scarier than a murderer? Someone with the charisma to compel others to kill for them . . . or to kill themselves. Meet these cult leaders-and get an inside look at their beliefs and how they controlled others. Some cults, led by leaders like...

The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book-the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956566345Author Jason NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint Idigital GroupPublisher Idigital GroupWeight(grams) 1012gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947290938Author Alan R WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...