True Crime

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...

Science is a force for good in the world-at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing-no matter the...

"This is a book I wish I'd written. It's brilliantly researched, full of detail and illuminating..." -Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo IceUncover the shocking world of the Japanese courtroom.In a country where nearly all defendants plead guilty, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345465801Author Nick PronFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish emigre Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after his...

A riveting narrative that pieces together the life and murder of Black socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan—and the journey to bring her true killer to justice. The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb...

Anthony Nott joined the Metropolitan Police in 1971, which was a very different world from that of today. He describes his early experiences in the Met, including the arrest of a man for murdering a prostitute in Kings Cross. He was present when a fellow...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612438979Author Christopher Berry-DeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Modern communications have enabled fraudsters to operate on a massive scale that was previously unimaginable. Thousands of people, mainly the old and vulnerable but also those who are highly intelligent and successful, are relieved of billions of pounds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808280Author Klester CavalcantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'JON SWAIN, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time'Through a profoundly moving tale that weaves together the connected stories of a victim, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307476562Author Jay BahadurFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948239660Author Larry SellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250182463Author Jake BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm

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...

This book offers the first in-depth study of one of the most gripping trials of inter-war Britain, that of farmer's wife Beatrice Pace for the arsenic murder of her husband. A riveting tale from the golden age of press sensationalism, the book offers...

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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)...

Letters from Serial Killers is a unique study of the criminal mind based on the author's extensive correspondence with convicted serial murderers. Such a collection is extremely rare, and among the killers whose correspondence is examined are:Arthur John...

Experts agree that Jack the Ripper murdered five London women, but how many others did he slaughter in Britain or across the seas? The number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on...

This book gathers together the stories of the 123 prisoners who were executed at Gloucester between 1792, when the first prisoner was hanged on the roof over the entrance gate of the newly-built prison, and 1939, when the last convict was executed within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746582Author Elizabeth WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Peterborough has a rich and fascinating history, stretching back 3,500 years to the Bronze Age. The city is a vibrant place with a new town surrounding an ancient town centre, still dominated by its Norman cathedral. But the city has a sinister and...

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

Wickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel. "A super-thief who leaves no trace."-Andy Garcia "An anti-hero for our times."-Sarah Dunn "A can't-miss master."-David Baldacci Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a...

This volume collects together the most shocking criminal cases from Sheffield's Victorian newspapers. These grisly cases will transport the horrified reader back to a time where horse-drawn carriages clattered through the streets of the city, and the...

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...

They were an elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime reporters covering the most notorious British crime between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s. It was an era in which murder dominated the front and inside pages of the newspapers - the 'golden age'...

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 9781681772400Author Nicholas BoothFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Pegasus CrimePublisher Pegasus CrimeWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...

On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. On route to a protest, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared...

The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in...

The third title in our Conversations with a Killer series focuses on one of the most notorious serial killers of the 1970s, Ed Kemper, a key character in the hit Netflix series Mindhunter.If there ever was a human monster that walked this earth, it was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631680748Author Christopher DardenFormat PaperbackImprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 30mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449887Author Jim PopkinFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating...

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