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Discover the shadier side of York's history with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the city. Featuring all factions of the criminal underworld, this macabre selection of tales includes murders, poisonings, poaching, theft and...

** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies & Memoirs) ** As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of...

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three. Norma was...

'If one woman understands tough guys, it's Kate Kray' - The IndependentMarried to Ron before his death, and a regular correspondent with Reg, Kate Kray was granted unique access to the shadowy underworld they inhabited, and was entrusted with some of the...

'If one woman understands tough guys, it's Kate Kray' - The IndependentMarried to Ron before his death, and a regular correspondent with Reg, Kate Kray was granted unique access to the shadowy underworld they inhabited, and was entrusted with some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993426384Author David VidecetteFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint DNA BooksPublisher DNA BooksWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911273547Author The Whitechapel SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mango BooksPublisher Mango BooksWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061730481Author Jarvis Jay MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806539980Author Leslie RuleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

A darkly funny, harrowing and heartbreaking look at the reality of prison life, with first-hand accounts from men who found themselves on the wrong side of the cell doors.Neil 'Sam' Samworth spent eleven years as a prison officer at HMP Manchester,...

The notorious corner of West Fayette and Monroe Streets in Baltimore is a 24-hour open-air drug market that provides the economic fuel for a dying neighbourhood. Through the eyes of one broken family - two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable...

From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Argo, a true-life thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which unveils the life of an American spy from the inside and dramatically reveals how the CIA reestablished the upper...

The Girl Who Just Wanted To Be Loved is a heart wrenching true story from foster mum and Sunday Times bestseller Angela Hart.Eight-year-old Keeley looks like the sweetest little girl you could wish to meet, but demons from the past make her behaviour far...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648882749Author Eileen OrmsbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Dark Webs True CrimePublisher Dark Webs True CrimeWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

An enthralling history of Italian organised crime by the author of the international bestseller COSA NOSTRA. The Sicilian mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The south of the country hosts two other major...

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...

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 9781903854457Author Tony O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 193g

'Carefully compiled' in 1867 'from prison documents, ancient papers, and other authentic sources,' this extremely rare book contains the full details of the crimes, trials and executions of every murderer, highwayman, rogue and rebel ever to swing from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021589Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887515531Author Bruce AitkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint One Hour Asia Media LtdPublisher One Hour Asia Media LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995660502Author Nigel ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint TrebletapPublisher TrebletapWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

This first volume of the Inspector George Gently Collection comprises the original two novels that established Gently as one of Scotland Yard's fictional finest. These are the stories on which the hit BBC TV series was based, written with a charm that...

The inspiration for the five-part Amazon Original docuseries Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer Now in paperback, this updated, expanded edition of The Phantom Prince, Elizabeth Kendall's 1981 memoir detailing her six-year relationship with serial killer...

This glittering, "wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told" (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman Capote, sweeping us to the upper echelons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861511966Author Richard M. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 200g

*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize ***In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021565Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood

Delve into the harrowing true story of a man who was entrenched in London's criminal underworld, a tale as much about redemption as it is about crime. Born amidst Northern Ireland's violent conflict, his earliest memory - witnessing a young man's brutal...

In the Summer of 1972, 14-year-old Judith Roberts took off for a bike ride within the vicinity of her Staffordshire home. Her body was discovered after a three-day manhunt, concealed from view in a thick privet having been brutally attacked. The...

'Curious' is perhaps not the first word you would use to label Essex. But 'curiouser and curiouser' it becomes when you dig below the surface. Forget the popular image of Essex boy and girl. Come and meet larger-than-life characters, including the...

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...

Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s...

Since 1919 Scotland Yard s Flying Squad has been in the forefront of the war against crime. From patrolling London s streets in horse-drawn wagons, it has progressed to the use of the most sophisticated surveillance and crime-fighting equipment. Between...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING MONICA DOLAN (AS 'CANOE WIDOW' ANNE DARWIN) AND EDDIE MARSANHow did the most ordinary of couples pull off one of the most outrageous frauds of modern times? And why did they carry on with the lie for so long?Drowning in...

Featuring two exclusive bonus chapters on the trial of Basil, the last Hatton Garden gang member to be caught.ONE LAST JOB was the only book on the Hatton Garden Heist to correctly predict the identity of Basil.This new edition reveals the full story of...

Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images that flash through my mind are hardly believable - sometimes, it feels like I'm remembering someone else's life. The truth is, I've lived three very different lives: the one before prison;...

Captain Charles Johnson's celebrated A General History of the Pirates (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written. Buoyed by the volume's runaway success Johnson followed up with the equally engrossing The Lives and Adventures of the Most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988981454Author Billy HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Curly Brains PressPublisher Curly Brains PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial gives his account of the case after more than four decades of silenceDespite standing as chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial, David Smith was vilified by the public due to the...