Criminals & Outlaws

This collection is the first book-length examination of the various epistemological issues underlying legal trials. Trials are centrally concerned with determining truth: whether a criminal defendant has in fact culpably committed the act of which they...

The No 1 Bestseller'A fascinating read' Sean O'Rourke, RTE Radio One'Fat' Freddie Thompson first appeared in court in 1997. He was sixteen and already aspiring to be a major crime boss. Over the next twenty years his criminal career would be marked by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780385478007Author Mikal GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam...

For many, the Kray twins are legends but for Chris Lambrianou they were something else entirely . . . As a young East End tearaway, Chris turned to crime to escape the grinding poverty of his life. Armed robbery, safe blowing, fraud, even attempted...

For many, the Kray twins are legends but for Chris Lambrianou they were something else entirely . . . As a young East End tearaway, Chris turned to crime to escape the grinding poverty of his life. Armed robbery, safe blowing, fraud, even attempted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239610Author Jack BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 566g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786041145Author Michael GriesbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789380283777Author Hussain S. ZaidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Tranquebar PressPublisher Westland Publications LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610362122Author John LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bridge-Logos PublishingPublisher Bridge-Logos Publishing

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an...

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an...

An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who are brought to the screen this autumn in a major motion picture. Charlie Kray was the only person who knew the truth...

An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who are brought to the screen this autumn in a major motion picture. Charlie Kray was the only person who knew the truth...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster-"one of the most respected crime reporters in the country" (60 Minutes)-comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762902Author Aileen WuornosFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762902Author Aileen WuornosFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

A key player in the worst prison riot in British history at Strangeways Prison in April 1990, Alan Lord was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was drawn to trouble like water to a sponge. After experiencing a troubled childhood during which...

Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom of grandson Paul Getty - is now a major motion picture, directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay written...

The true story behind hit BBC drama THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT'[A] real-life Midsomer Murder ... it's chilling, but [David Wilson's] explanation of how a psychopath thinks is masterly' The TimesThe shocking story of the murder of Peter Farquhar and the...

For decades now, serial killers have taken center stage in the news and entertainment media. The coverage of real-life murderers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer has transformed them into ghoulish celebrities. Similarly, the popularity of fictional...

On 6th September 1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than twelve minutes on his block in East Camden, New Jersey. The shocking true story of the first recorded mass shooting in America has never been told, until...

An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman - Australia's first female detective - LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney's organised crime underbelly.'Special Constable' Lillian Armfield was...

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The true story behind hit BBC drama THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT'[A] real-life Midsomer Murder ... it's chilling, but [David Wilson's] explanation of how a psychopath thinks is masterly' The TimesTwo deaths.Three doors apart.An unsuspecting community about to...

Unlock the cultural obsession with high-stakes robberies in Heist, a collection of the world's greatest real-life break-ins. From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's famous art heist to the disappearance of the Marie Antoinette watch, these 100% true...

A gripping account of the life and fate of the woman who almost assassinated Benito Mussolini. 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises her old revolver and fires at the...

A gripping account of the life and fate of the woman who almost assassinated Benito Mussolini. 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises her old revolver and fires at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504076494Author Damien LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Open Road Integrated Media LLCPublisher Open Road Integrated Media LLCWeight(grams)...

The incredible story of an unconventional life During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to...

The scandalous debauchery of the playboy tenth Earl of Shaftesbury sent seismic shock waves through the British aristocracy. One of the richest men in the country and master of a Downton Abbey-style dynasty, he abandoned his loyal wife and two sons for...

'An Extraordinary story of innocence and persecution, determination and grit ... it had me rattling through the pages' SOPHIE DRAPER A gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806539140Author Anthony M. DeStefanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514746967Author Jack RosewoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541600Author S.J. PeddieFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

__________________***NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES***A gripping true-crime story of a shocking miscarriage of justice, from international bestselling thriller author John Grisham, author of A Time to Kill, The Firm and The Whistler.In the baseball draft of...

Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the...

Broadmoor: My Journey into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told. In the winter of 1979, aged just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329238Author Matthew CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm...

Observer's Best Art Book of the Year, 2018In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had...

John Massey's story is unique. Part of a notorious duo that the Flying Squad dubbed 'Laurel and Hardy', his criminal activities included hijacking a police car after robbing a bank of GBP25,000 and relieving the Sunday Mirror of GBP50,000 - and all...