True Crime

A Thorough, Comprehensive Guide to Serial Killers for True-Crime Fans Equal parts fascinating and horrifying, the stories of serial killers like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer have taken on a new cultural prominence with the rise of the true-crime genre...

As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. John Gacy was an...

* Finalist for the Edgar (R) Award in Best Fact Crime * New York Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015" * Suspense Magazine's "Best True Crime Books of 2015" * Finalist for Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime *...

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving...

The real-life mystery featuring the two men - Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn - who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes.December 1893. Arthur Conan Doyle shocks his legions of fans by killing off the world's favourite fictional detective, Sherlock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956503944Author Neil SenturiaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Waterside ProductionsPublisher Waterside Productions

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURESharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise-until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the...

When the Cold War ended, the spying that marked the era did not. An incredible true story from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated New York Times bestselling author of Crazy.Between 1995 and 2000, "Comrade J" was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB)...

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,...

This first installment in the New York Times bestselling Crime Files series is a chilling collection of shocking crimes and the ensuing struggles to bring the perpetrators to justice-from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me...

"Every time I meet another woman who has survived, or who is helping the survivors, or who is struggling to articulate the horror the survivors and the dead have suffered and to prevent its recurrence, my own anger and grave distress turns toward hope."...

He was a perfect man living a perfect life...which made him a perfect killer. Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams commanded the largest Canadian Forces base in the country. He had personally piloted prime ministers, dignitaries, and members of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735696300Author Christopher KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Christopher KingPublisher Christopher KingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

DEAD BY SUNSET is the extraordinary cautionary tale of Bradly Morris Cunningham, a real-estate entrepreneur whose misogyny and rampant egocentricity wrecked the lives of a succession of women. Over a period of years Cunningham duped, seduced, abused and...

The first edition of William A. Guy's "Principles of Forensic Medicine" was published at the start of Victoria's reign; the final edition, from which these selections derive, was published towards the end, just a few years after the Whitechapel horrors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition) 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780922915293Author Katherine DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Feral...

The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, starring Tom Hardy. Reggie and Ronnie Kray ruled London's gangland during the 60s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of...

Two elderly shopkeepers bludgeoned to death, the only evidence - a smudged thumbprint inside a cashbox. A Quaker poisons his mistress in Slough and, confident he will evade justice, arrives at Paddington station unaware modern technology had alerted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977917Author Kevin YoungPage Count 480Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991569212Author Bayard And HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Bayard & Holmes, LimitedPublisher Bayard & Holmes, LimitedWeight(grams)...

From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation and emotional deception by her charming and successful - but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513635279Author Bill DiehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bill Diehr's Gore Galore BooksPublisher Bill Diehr's Gore Galore BooksWeight(grams)...

It recounts several notable cases, from the killing of Sarah and Edward Glass at Wadland Down in 1827 and the poisonings of Samuel Wescombe in Exeter in 1829 and William Ashford at Honiton Clyst in 1866, both by wives whose affections had gone elsewhere,...

A New York Times Bestseller! For viewers of the hit Series I Am the Night and fans of the Root of Evil Podcast, the book that finally revealed the shocking identity of the Black Dahlia Killer-and the Police Corruption That Concealed It for So LongIn...

The New York Times bestselling True Crime Files series continues with this haunting collection of the dangers lurking among those we trust the most-from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me.Doomed relationships and deadly...

These tales from Lincolnshire's forgotten past are testament to the sinister side of the county's coastal resorts and inland market towns. Retold for a new generation are shocking stories of drunken brawls in towns, death from poison and jealous rages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528900577Author Clifford EntwistleFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the script on a typical investigation narrative, revealing the biggest law enforcement embarrassment in South Dakota history.In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri...

A Grim Almanac of Old Berkshire is a day-by-day catalogue of ghastly tales dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of torment and torture, heinous homicides and cataclysms of nature, these pages contain multiple murders, horrendous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423162Author Robert KerbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767905381Author Frank W. AbagnaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

From the international bestselling author of Dexter comes a brilliant new thriller starring Riley Wolfe: a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed.'The Dexter creator's new hero-thief is a blast . . . Far-fetched,...

"A riveting account of what it was like to defend one of the most notorious serial killers in history"-Seattle Post Intelligencer"Sam, could you do me a favor?" Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true crime hall of fame. It is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Fact Crime) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781250224354Author Elon GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Celadon BooksPublisher Celadon...

In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill-and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim.How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers,...

Neurologist Dr. Jonathan Pincus personally examined and probed into the family and medical history of numerous serial killers and other violent criminals to analyze what creates and triggers the violent instinct. He discovered that virtually all suffered...

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through an unlocked door, and headed up the back steps where he found my...

Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-FictionA gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, the detective determined to find her killer and a country's hidden secretsOn 17 August 2014, the body of...

Obsession, jealousy, lust, revenge ...There is nothing more dangerous than a passion that curdles into murderous intent. Love, when it goes wrong and spirals into violence, can lead to the most tragically chilling consequences; death at the hands of a...