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Stephen Port was jailed in November 2016 after luring four young, gay men through dating apps so he could drug them to death and rape them. Easy Kills tracks Port's life and crimes and questions the role of Barking and Dagenham Police, who were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909360488Author Marcus BlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 312g

Kim Chown was just 11 when her father Bernard Beaumont took her from her mother to Kenya. There, he tormented Kim with extreme sexual and emotional abuse, safe in the knowledge that as a pillar of the expat community his word would be believed over hers...

A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind,...

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is the most legendary of Mexican narcos. As leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, he was one of the most dangerous men in the world. His fearless climb to power, his brutality, his charm, his taste for luxury, his penchant for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806514444Author Michael BensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Carol Publishing Group,U.S.Weight(grams) 773g

For nearly 100 years, the question has repeatedly been asked: who was 'Jack the Ripper'? The real question that should be answered, however, is why? Why were five poor, defenceless women savagely murdered in the slums of Whitechapel in the autumn of...

Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world.At its height, the group's online empire was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087800080Author Harry N MacLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Harry N. MacLeanPublisher Harry N. MacLeanWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Throughout the 1960s, Tony Lambrianou was a trusted member of the Kray Gang and had a unique insight into the workings of a criminal organisation whose reputation in the underworld remains to this day. Tony not just an observer and his role in the Kray...

Throughout the 1960s, Tony Lambrianou was a trusted member of the Kray Gang and had a unique insight into the workings of a criminal organisation whose reputation in the underworld remains to this day. Tony not just an observer and his role in the Kray...

Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad. On the one hand are the positive stories like the success of boxers such as John Joe Nevin and Tyson Fury, the popularity of Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and...

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS AWARD FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE 'Best Sports Book of the 21st Century' SPORTS BOOK AWARD 'Gripping ... Bensinger's impeccably sourced account serves as a sharp reminder of the gargantuan levels...

The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the...

Cass Pennant was one of the best-known figures of the I.C.F. He has used his unique position as a West Ham insider to bring together these first-hand accounts of the men who were at the eye of the storm, both on and off the terraces. These tales from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425209394Author Simon CrittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in...

Kat Ward was the first victim to speak out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Jimmy Savile. Her shocking testimony was the catalyst for the uncovering of decades of abuse and cover-ups. Kat Ward's childhood was marked by physical, emotional...

Cocaine is the world's most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark and deadly side. But who really are the shadowy people behind this chilling network? The coca farmers, the jungle sweat-shop workers, the...

In the 18th century shotgun weddings were not unusual, but in most cases it wasn't the bride that was holding the gun. So began the stormy marriage between Lord and Lady Grange, a marriage which was to end with Lady Grange's death on the Isle of Skye...

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)...

Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because of her father's...

"A gritty, engrossing, and concise account of a boxer's meteoric career and tortured personal life."-Kirkus Reviews "If I wake up, I know I'm a success. The day I don't wake up, I know I'll be home. I have one foot on this earth and one foot has...

A Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year"A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events."-Times Literary Supplement"Brilliantly researched and written...casts a careful eye upon the...

This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping true story of violence, double-cross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover, exposing one of the most outrageous scandals in FBI history.Boston, 1975. Under a harvest moon, 'Whitey' Bulger, godfather...

Serial Killer profiles over 100 of the world's most deadly serial murderers. Each profile details the means, motive and opportunity of those who kill and kill again, and asks: what, if anything, drives these killers? Were they born to kill? What could...

This book tells for the first time the story from a police perspective. For ten years, the officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Superintendent John Bennett QPM, has refused to tell his story. Now, together with BBC journalist Graham Gardner,...

It all started with a ruthless murder. An ex-boxer and petty police informer was efficiently disposed of, sending a ghastly warning to others. That would have been the end of it, had not a shark, in a million-to-one chance, vomited up the victim's arm in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932113815Author Hock HochheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Lauric Enterprises, Inc.Publisher Lauric Enterprises, Inc.Weight(grams)...

When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her...

Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields-a chilling true story that has already helped police uncover evidence that may link suspected serial killer...

Bestselling authors Jonathan Levi and Emma French use their unrivalled access to the secret world of police protection officers as they tell the dramatic and astonishing stories of bravery, and the decisions that can change lives in a heartbeat.With the...

From his bruising first experience of giving witness to securing Britain's first ever double-supergrass, Dick Kirby describes with a strong dose of humour the trials and tribulations of over twenty years spent in the Serious Crime Squad and Flying Squad...

A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of a top courtroom sketch artist.Jane Rosenberg is America's pre-eminent courtroom sketch artist. For over forty years, she's been at the heart of the story, covering almost every...

In 1984, at the age of 78, world-renowned rose grower Hilda Murrell was found brutally murdered in the Shropshire countryside. She had just gained approval to testify on the unsolved [problems of radioactive waste at the first British planning inquiry...

There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands, while the...

Nostalgic recollections of wartime Britain often forget that when the blackout was enforced at night in an attempt to foil Nazi bombers a crime wave, cloaked by the inky black darkness, ensued on many of our streets. There were petty crimes, robberies,...

The 'peaky blinders', much like the gangsters that followed them, were amongst the thieves and the villains that recognised the hierarchical system from an early age. If you weren't born into the elite, the top 1%, you were fighting an uphill struggle...

Located in central England, the Black Country is a distinctive industrial region encompassing numerous ancient towns and villages in a unique and diverse landscape, formed by centuries of mining and iron forging. Here evolved a breed of people much...