True Crime

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915728081Author Daniela AirlieFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint City Sky PublishingPublisher City Sky PublishingWeight(grams) 132g

In this follow-up to Hampshire Murders, forensic and legal psychologist Nicola Sly brings together more murderous tales that shocked not only the county but made headline news throughout the nation. They include the last recorded fatal duel to have been...

A Grim Almanac of Cambridgeshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of dreadful deeds, macabre deaths, strange occurrences and heinous homicides, this almanac...

An examination of the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and an urgent call to implement evidence-based strategies to stop these tragedies Using data from the writers' groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977161058Author Emma ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Wild Horse PressPublisher Wild Horse PressWeight(grams) 342g

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...

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 9781770415621Author Irvin MuchnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 489g

The infamous Sonny Barger once declared that the Hells Angels would never be infiltrated. Running with the Devil chronicles the story of the ATF sting and the two undercover agents who risked their lives to prove him wrong. For two years, they posed as...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538718650Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Suffolk. Mark Mower unveils a catalogue of true crime stories from the county's history. Comprehensively researched using original records...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610397704Author Tom WainwrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.Weight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

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...

"America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences. The inspiration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982179380Author Barbara ButcherFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's failure to prevent the death of a child. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398841123Author John MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997559309Author Rhonda StapleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Galaxy-44 Publishing, LLCPublisher Galaxy-44 Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 264g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735214286Author Mara HvistendahlFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

A three-year-old boy dies, having apparently fallen while trying to reach a bag of sugar on a high shelf. His grandmother stands accused of second-degree murder. Psychologist Susan Nordin Vinocour agrees to evaluate the defendant, to determine whether...

It's the summer of 1933, and Oxford don Clive Staples Lewis, better known to his friends as Jack, is on a walking holiday with his brother Warnie and young friend Tom Morris. When Jack's wallet is accidentally destroyed, they visit a bank to replenish...

FLY BY NIGHT is about the helicopter crash on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" - the Warner Bros. film co-produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis - that killed actor Vic Morrow, and two children who had been hired illegally.Confidential sources...

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...

The Gold Club is the first book from a law enforcement official that details the facts about the FBI’s famous investigation. Retired FBI Agent Mark Sewell was a rookie agent in 1997 when he was assigned to investigate mafia associate Steve Kaplan and his...

This is a radically new interpretation of the life and motives of the infamous Unabomber. Alston Chase's gripping account follows Ted Kaczynski from an unhappy adolescence in Illinois to Harvard, where he was subject not only to the despairing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941890226Author Leland E HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Between the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 and the armistice in 1918, 51 men were executed in Britain. The great majority, over 80%, were hanged for murder, but in addition to this, 11 men were shot by firing squad at the Tower of...

"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...

We explore why the idea of the criminal class came into being. Starting with garrotters lurking in dark Victorian alleyways, the fiend Jack the Ripper stalking London’s streets to the menace of violent gangs, the ‘Scuttlers’, Peaky Blinders, and...

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 9781571745736Author Noreen RenierFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing CoWeight(grams) 1g

In the autumn of 1888, a series of grisly murders took place in Whitechapel in London's East End, the Abyss, the Ghetto, the City of Eternal Night. The Whitechapel murderer, arguably the first of his kind, was never caught but the killings gave rise to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440212294Author Joseph F. O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...