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SHORTLISTED FOR BEST NEW AUTHOR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2024*AS FEATURED ON CHANNEL 4's 24 HOURS IN POLICE CUSTODY*'Not many people know how much their life is worth. I do.'The value of my life, or more specifically the cost of ending it, can be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648892509Author Sue RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon their New York Times bestselling ebook The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese to give you even more information behind one of the most horrific and shocking murders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312304683Author Robert K ResslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908479853Author Francis MorlandFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 512g

This chilling follow-up to Cornish Murders brings together more murderous tales that shocked not only the county but frequently made headline news throughout the nation. They include the brutal slaying of Elizabeth Seaman in Penzance in 1845, the murder...

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...

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 9781733140027Author Yaasmyn FulaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Bearded Dragon ProductionsPublisher Bearded Dragon ProductionsWeight(grams)...

The shocking true story of the Jeffrey Dahmer's murders, as told by the Milwaukee Journal reporter who broke the story, Anne E. Schwartz-from the dramatic scene when police first entered Dahmer's apartment to the lasting, present-day repercussions of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525542223Author Patricia WiltshireFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681791302Author Arthur T BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

First account of the most valuable haul in British criminal history, the Brinks-Mat robbery of 1983Now a major TV drama THE GOLD'An engrossing read that will grip you by the throat' DAILY MAILOn a cold grey morning in 1983 a gang of masked and armed men...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911273660Author Neil BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Mango BooksPublisher Mango BooksWeight(grams) 358g

'If deaths are not investigated, then the authorities cannot be held to account and democracy is threatened. And if deaths are not investigated, we are not a society that values human life.' Inspired from a young age to help the marginalised and...

In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York...

MEET EL SICARIO.A fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head.He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training from the FBI. In grim and graphic detail he offers a...

As one of the UK's leading commentators, David Wilson shows how some serial killers stay in the headlines whilst others rapidly become invisible - or "unseen". Yet Mary Ann Cotton is not just the first but perhaps the UK's most prolific female serial...

Life in old Argyll was never quite as peaceful as the picturesque hills and glens seem to make us think. Despite the efforts of respectable parish and police constables, the magistrates and court officials in their fine new jail and the Industrial...

'A grisly treat' Financial Times on the podcast Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' of the same name comes Unexplained: a book of ten real-life mysteries which might be best left unexplained. . . ******************************* What can a case of...

An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious-and still at large-serial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501118784Author James DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Finally for the first time in over 40 years, the shocking true story behind the trial of most infamous serial killer in British criminal history comes to light. In the mid-1970s, Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper began a reign of terror across...

It was an 'open and shut' case. Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, had murdered his wife, the music hall performer Belle Elmore, and buried parts of her body in the coal cellar of their North London home. But by the time the remains were...

On 1st December 1996, 25-year-old Lee Harvey was stabbed 42 times in a frenzied knife attack. His girlfriend, Tracie Andrews, claimed he had been murdered in a road rage attack and, days later, appeared at a press conference making an emotional appeal...

Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell - the kind of spell to which...

Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was...

An intriguing investigation into over 50 elusive artworks that were stolen and never recovered.Mona Lisa, Starry Night, Birth of Venus. People travel for hundreds of miles to observe these breathtaking paintings with their own eyes. Now discover the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501188893Author Rachel MonroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

The returning heroes had been forgotten by their country. Men who had risked life and limb in the hellish world of the First World War trenches had no choice but to fight again; this time, for their livelihoods, their families, and a place in society. ...

During the mid-1980s, a brutal killing spree began in Los Angeles as several women were murdered, having been sexually assaulted and shot in the chest with a .25 calibre gun. The man responsible was Lonnie David Franklin Jr. However, his identity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912885046Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood

Game Overchronicles the life of legendary Harlem drug dealer Azie Faison. Faison, a ninth-grade dropout, went from welfare recipient to millionaire through drug peddling. Between 1983-1990 Faison earned more than $100,000 per week selling cocaine -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316213523Author Parmy OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593473979Author Larry LoftisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Horse racing may be famously known as the 'sport of kings' but, in the pursuit of prize money and getting one over the bookies, it also has attained a notoriety for some underhand, corrupt and downright illegal practices. Horse racing in Wales is not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640306738Author Publications International LtdPage Count 192Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International, Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966816020Author James PerloffFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Refuge BooksPublisher Refuge BooksWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

In The Trigger Men, bestselling author Martin Dillon delves into the dark and sinister world of Irish terrorism and counter-terrorism. Over three decades he has interviewed and investigated some of the most professional, dangerous and ruthless killers in...

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. Including a preface powerfully read by the author, Neil Samworth.Neil 'Sam'...