Criminals & Outlaws

A collection of chilling stories of murders from Mexico, one of the world's most prolific hunting grounds for serial killers. 'If I was a serial killer looking for new victims, I'd head over the border to Mexico because life is cheap there and the police...

Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the...

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)...

In 1973, Myra Hindley, the most notorious woman in Britain, is serving a life sentence for the moors murders - a case that shocked the world. Behind bars she has fallen in love.When Hindley is refused parole she persuades a sympathetic prison officer and...

The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time-a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312571641Author Frank LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.

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.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967602837Author Mayme JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Oshun Publishing Company, IncorporatedPublisher Oshun Publishing Company, Incorporated

'Extraordinary' Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767920063Author Charles RawFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint 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 9781732607804Author Nathan ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Snatched from the Flames PublishingPublisher Snatched from the Flames...

Published alongside the 2013 film The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma Watson, this is the explosive true story of the seven celebrity-obsessed teens who became the most audacious burglary gang in Hollywood history. It's...

Published alongside the 2013 film The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma Watson, this is the explosive true story of the seven celebrity-obsessed teens who became the most audacious burglary gang in Hollywood history. It's 19...

While researching a book on Depression-era outlaws, Playboy editor William J. Helmer stumbled upon a 600-page manuscript on John Dillinger. Written in the 1930s by G. Russell Girardin but never published, Dillinger: The Untold Story is a captivating and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451416865Author Thom HatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 355g

What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others...

The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. ...

A crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking cold case and the radicalization of a terrorist. In September 2011, Erik Weissman and two friends were murdered in a brutal triple homicide in Waltham,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062202536Author Chas SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Much has been written about the brutal crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, and - thirty-five years after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of thirteen women - scarcely a week goes by without some mention of him in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345816092Author Peter EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

"So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles."-Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling authorFrom Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett,...

As seen on Woman's Hour, BBC Newsnight and in the Daily TelegraphA hundred years ago, on the night of 3 October 1922, a thirty-two-year-old clerk named Percy Thompson was stabbed to death as he walked home to his suburban villa in Ilford. With him was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602866072Author Jose BaezFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm * 25mm

For two decades, Rene Enriquez, aka 'Boxer', was a mob enforcer among the upper echelons of the Mafia. But he didn't work for the Italians. Or the Russians. He worked for the La Familia Mexicana, also knowns as La Eme, a powerful and fearsome mob...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312330347Author Rusty YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 371Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809114Author Jarvis Jay MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

The inside story of a case that illustrates the horrific perils of unchecked prosecutorial overreach, written by the man who experienced it firsthand.Raj Rajaratnam, the respected founder of the iconic hedge fund Galleon Group, which managed $7 billion...

A vain man of good looks but no family ties to the Mob, Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to prison in 2003. When the Mafia was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912885008Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood

For two decades Robert Stone made his living on the high seas. A modern-day pirate, he was a pioneer saturation oil-field diver, treasure hunter and smuggler, which brought him more money than he knew how to spend. Stone spent the last ten of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061429859Author Philip CarloFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 286g

Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy-Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982327180Author Skipp PorteousFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Adventure Books of SeattlePublisher Adventure Books of SeattleWeight(grams) 233g

'A hugely impressive achievement.' - Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass At 8.00am on Monday 18th June 2001, Danielle Jones left home dressed in her school uniform - and promptly vanished. The 15-year...

As seen in BBC3's documentary series High: Surviving a Dubai Drugs Bust, Karl Williams describes being banged up in brutal conditions in this gritty autobiography.Karl was on holiday in Dubai, living it large with two English friends, when they were...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578771694Author K D LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Landmark PublishingPublisher Landmark PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Over the Easter weekend in 2015, an audacious gang of criminals robbed a safe depository in London's Hatton Garden, the centre of the UK's diamond trade. Shortly before, electrical cables under nearby Kingsway had caught on fire, disrupting the emergency...

The crime, the criminals, the victims and their families.And the biggest manhunt by British police...The establishment, press and public reaction, the trial, and the aftermath are all set out in compelling narrative detail. Jack Witney served twenty-five...