True Crime

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Edgar Award Nominee.Book InformationISBN 9780399589171Author Sierra Crane MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher...

It is a sobering thought that until the closing years of the twentieth century, Britain's courts were technically able to impose the death penalty for a number of offences; both civil and military. Although the last judicial hangings took place in 1964,...

In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens'...

The Cantelowe Accounts appear to offer the earliest evidence of an English merchant using Italian as a second language. They were written by John Balmayn, an unknown Londoner, who travelled to Tuscany to oversee the sale of a valuable wool shipment in...

Debbie Malone is an acclaimed spirit medium who has assisted police departments across Australia in missing-persons and murder investigations for the last twenty three years. Her extraordinary gifts-she is a psychic and clairvoyant as well as a...

Worcestershire 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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692838723Author Tom WescottFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Crime Confidential PressPublisher Crime Confidential PressWeight(grams)...

Largely forgotten now, Frankie Yale was an influential New York mobster of the early 20th century whose proteges included future leaders of New York's five Mafia families and Chicago's outfit. His influence extended to Chicago, where he personally...

From hair-raising first-hand accounts of unexplained sightings and paranormal phenomena to the search for evidence of ghosts, this eerie and richly illustrated tour around the historic town of Spalding and the surrounding area features many chilling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350211Author W.T. BrannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 474g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425253731Author Molly Caldwell CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501168390Author Cara RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

In 1991 Sture Bergwall, a petty criminal and drug addict, botched an armed robbery so badly that he was deemed to be more in need of therapy than punishment. He was committed to Sater, Sweden's equivalent of Broadmoor, and began a course of psychotherapy...

In 1964 a woman was stabbed to death in front of her home in New York, a murder The New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change". The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered in sight of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062839886Author Sarah WeinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 454g

A sardonic and artful reconstruction of the brief life of the party boy who became a media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace.It was suddenly chic to be "targeted" by Andrew.... It also became chic to claim a deep personal friendship with Versace, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629177519Author John FleuryFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Minute Help, Inc.Publisher Minute Help, Inc.Weight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990187476Author Laura Churchill DukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Moose House PublicationsPublisher Moose House PublicationsWeight(grams)...

No one knows the story behind the sensational headlines of the Scott Peterson murder trial better than defense attorney Matt Dalton. For six straight months after Peterson's arrest, Dalton was the defense's only full-time investigative attorney on the...

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen - a special individual who, like an artist or a genius, exists apart from...

Christopher Fulton's journey began with the death of Evelyn Lincoln, late secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through Lincoln, crucial evidence ended up in Christopher's hands-evidence that was going to be used to facilitate a new future for America...

On 22 June 1931, Lieutenant Hugh Chevis and Frances, his bride of six months, sat down to dinner as usual at their bungalow at Deepcut Barracks. Within an hour, Chevis was showing signs of strychnine poisoning and by the next morning he was dead. Thus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250048462Author Charles M. FalcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451166883Author Ann RuleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

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...

'Ghost towns, corporate cruelty, the centuries-old relationship between humans and a species almost magical in its abilities ... fabulous.' The New York Times'Eye-opening' Geographical 'A beautifully written book on diamond smuggling, the universe, life...

Edinburgh is a city rightly famed world-wide. It is perhaps the only large British city which can be described as beautiful. It always seems to have been at the centre of major events, many of them turbulent. The innumerable murky legends of murder,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307588593Author Nina BurleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all timeBack in the fall of 2016 we heard the...

Victorian Chelsea was a thriving commercial and residential development, known for its grand houses and pleasant garden squares. Violent crime was unheard of in this leafy suburb. The double murder of an elderly man of God and his faithful housekeeper in...

A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs-and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060096878Author Philip WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 207mm *...

Discover 50 fascinating tales of female pirates, fraudsters, gamblers, bootleggers, serial killers, madams, and outlaws in this illustrated book of lawbreaking and legendary women throughout the ages.Many of us are familiar with the popular slogan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538713822Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Samuel Herbert Dougal was intelligent, talented, and the recipient of a military medal. Outwardly, he seemed to embody all that Victorian England valued most. But he was also a career criminal whose appetite for sex and money propelled him through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947951464Author Paula WoodwardFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint City Point PressPublisher City Point PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulphuric acid? How did this intelligent, well-educated man from a loving, strongly religious family of Plymouth Brethren become a fraudster, a...