True Crime

Is it still possible to fake your own death in the twenty-first century? With six figures of student loan debt, Elizabeth Greenwood was tempted to find out. So off she sets on a darkly comic foray into the world of death fraud, where for $30,000 a...

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial of Charlie Smith who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. But Smith wasn't lighting fires alone: his crimes were galvanised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439258767Author Sidney D KirkpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781462017553Author Jay MargolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm

The story of one of the vilest murders in Canadian history. One glorious autumn day in 1894, a drifter attacked thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith so violently that people thought Jack the Ripper must be loose in rural Ontario. To solve the crime, the...

When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check on seven J.J. Vallow and his sister, sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when officers return the following...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884956379Author Ted SchwarzFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Quill Driver Books, U.S.Publisher Quill Driver Books, U.S.Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612437620Author Christopher Berry-DeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquin Archivaldo "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, building on Noah Hurowitz's revelatory coverage for Rolling Stone of El Chapo's federal drug-trafficking trial.This is the true story of how El...

'Superb - one of the best real-life copy books ever written.' Lee ChildIn a true crime cross between James Ellroy and David Simon's The Wire, A Good Month for Murder follows twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250093066Author Don DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340g

This extraordinary account of a struggling midwestern coal town profiles small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career--and suspected involvement with two unsolved murder cases--had a profound and lasting impact on his community. In...

This is the inspiring and "page-turning" (Booklist) true story of a man who discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby-and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family, and set in motion the second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375713804Author Beverly LowryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 237gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Vito Ciancimino - Don Vito da Corleone - spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics, business deals and the secret service. Don Vito recounts years of previously censored contacts between politicians and the mafia - between the Italian State...

Raised in a South Boston housing project, James "Whitey" Bulger became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In this riveting story, rich with family ties and intrigue, award-winning Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy follow...

The New York Times bestseller that offers all the evidence on the biggest conspiracy in American history-the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.It's been more than fifty years since John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and it's time we all fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993245275Author Mary JordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Dolphin Marketing PressPublisher Dolphin Marketing PressWeight(grams) 466g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652292490Author Dr Robert RockawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137579Author Mark BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Illustrated with more than 60 archive images, this collection of true tales from across the Ribble Valley gives a record of crime and punishment. It begins with the paranoid prisoner of Barnoldswick and passes through an alphabet of place names that ends...

The story of a murder and its aftermath. On Christmas Night in 1881, John Manley, a poor son of Irish immigrants living in the slums of Leeds, was fatally stabbed in a drunken quarrel. The frightened murderer went on the run, knowing that capture could...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560255598Author Frankie SaggioFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

In 1933, the celebrated German economist Robert Kuczynski and his wife Berta arrived in Britain as refugees from Nazism, followed shortly afterwards by their six children. Jurgen, known to be a leading Communist, was an object of considerable concern to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540146Author Frank DimatteoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Dr. Henry C. Lee is highly regarded throughout the law-enforcement community as one of the most talented and experienced forensic scientists in the world. He has also received widespread public recognition and media attention through his association with...

In 1965, 18 convicted criminals were sentenced to death for murder - a haunting testimony to the failure of a bold experiment on Pulau Senang to reform seasoned criminals in a gaol without bars. Right to the end, Daniel Dutton, director of the model...

A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error of his ways and abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist. As he stumbled through...

Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment.Spanning three...

The explosive account of the trial of the century 'Powerful, vivid and affecting. A compassionate account of the consequences of crime' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Urgent, necessary and courageous' ELIZABETH DAY 'The definitive voice on the Epstein horror.' OWEN...

A memoir of hope, healing, and survival, sure to resonate with fans of Jaycee Dugard's A Stolen Life and Elizabeth Smart's My Story. On August 28, 1997, just as she was starting her junior year at the University of Kentucky, Holly Dunn and her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307592217Author Paul CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

The shocking true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred.Twelve days is all it took.Melissa Ramirez,...

Only once in history has a British Prime Minister been assassinated. At 5.00 p.m. on Monday, 11 May 1812, John Bellingham made his way to the Houses of Parliament carrying concealed weapons. At 5.15 p.m., as the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. Spencer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992446048Author Greg R ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint New Disease PressPublisher New Disease PressWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578228020Author R Gentillalli M EdFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint T. Atencio & R. GentillalliPublisher T. Atencio & R...

The Postmaster looked over my shoulder. As I turned to look I saw a flicker of movement from across the street. I felt unseen eyes peer at me. He walked away without another word. I watched as he climbed onto his bicycle and sped away down the street. I...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425202418Author Christopher MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780767911795Author Kurt EichenwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of...