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In March 1999 a bruised and bloodied 22-year-old girl, naked apart from a padlocked metal collar around her neck, burst into a house in the small city of Truth or Consequences in New Mexico, screaming for help and shaking with fear. Cyndi Vigil's heroic...

For millions of people across the world, lighting up a joint is no more controversial than having a cup of tea. But in Hash Wensley Clarkson explores the dark and sinister side of this multi-billion pound business: one fuelled by a brutal underworld...

The New York Times bestselling author of War Dogs exposes the inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greatest scandal in the history of the NCAA.When the federal government catches hotshot financial...

This book is the fully documented story of Marilyn Monroe's death - a heart-stopping account of the events that led to the circumstances of 4th August 1962. To this day the Los Angeles police and the District Attorney's office have perpetuated a...

'A fascinating look behind closed lock-up doors'Evening StandardEast End Gangland is a true crime classic, now updated and expanded. Bestselling author James Morton tracks the changing face of the East End from the 1870s to now, through opium dens and...

What happens when ordinary people, in real-life murder clubs, set out to investigate cold cases and other crimes? The Netflix hit Don't F**k with Cats was based on the 2012 Montreal murder of Lin Jun by his porn-star boyfriend, Luka Magnotta...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950154753Author Benji FeldheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The disappearance of schoolboy Philip Cairns has baffled detectives and his family and remains unsolved 35 years later, despite an intensive garda investigation, extensive searches and multiple media appeals. The quiet 13-year-old was snatched in broad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814358323Author Andy BottsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Monsoon BooksPublisher Monsoon Books

It was the look and the attitude that defined the UK in the 1980s. It was 'a culture unto its own' that brought with it an unforgettable style that was as important as the team. It was about confrontation and being involved, a good fight and being part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199376568Author Associate Professor Jason Morgan WardFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732241626Author William D LarueFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Chestnut Heights PublishingPublisher Chestnut Heights PublishingWeight(grams)...

In her bestselling book Slave Girl, Sarah Forsyth told of her terrible ordeal as a young woman sex-trafficked from England to the Red Light District of Amsterdam - and of her dramatic escape from forced prostitution. But Sarah's journey from the dark...

Dark Valleys collects together more than a century of murders that took place in and around the valleys of South Wales. These horrific crimes shocked not only Wales, but also made national headlines. Although treated with compassion and sensitivity by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250312303Author John GlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648946809Author Jennifer TwemlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Jennifer TwemlowPublisher Jennifer TwemlowWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948239646Author Charity LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A fly-on-the-wall account of the greatest drama in modern sporting history by the New York Times cycling correspondent. As Lance Armstrong's precipitous fall from grace continues, New York Times sports reporter Juliet Macur takes the reader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772774481Author Raymond AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint 10-10-10 PublishingPublisher 10-10-10 PublishingWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This...

"A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of disbelief-and richly rewards it." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review); Best Books of February SelectionThe...

In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after fifty murders, while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Best Book of 2017, Chicago Public Library 2017 (United States). Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, LGBTQ Nonfiction 2018 (United States) and...

The incredible real-life cases behind TV's hit crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, including photos. The crimes, the suspects, the trials-as they really went down. True Stories of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit focuses on twenty-five of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839012471Author Duncan MaclaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Separating fact from fiction, Anatomy of an Injustice - The Killing of Fr Niall Molloy re-examines the astonishing circumstances surrounding the death of a 52-year-old priest almost forty years ago. In July 1985, the discovery of Fr Niall Molloy's badly...

London in 1952 was a still recovering from the devastation wrought by World War II: rationing was still in effect, rates of crime and unemployment were high, and the national economy was in shambles. In an effort to repay its massive war debt, the...

Behind the notorious Hudson men who dominated the Canterbury Estate for over 30 years were the girls, and my mam Shirley. Whether marrying into or determined to escape from it, the third instalment of this gritty series recounts the incredible stories of...

The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the Queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the second edition, including much new information, of the full-length account of one of its key players,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250754400Author Jake BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 25mm

In The Dirty Game, investigative reporter and BBC Panorama presenter Andrew Jennings, who has been heralded around the world for his decade-long pursuit of this story, uncovers the eye-watering level of fraud and criminal activity at the heart of FIFA,...

The book used by Thandie Newton to research her part in Line of Duty. A lone policewoman disarms a knife-wielding schizophrenic; two officers drag a woman from a railway line seconds before an express train roars past; an undercover cop clings onto the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914770Author Simon GoldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

An adaptation of the documentary film, Operation Toussaint reveals how an Ex-Special Agent and Operation Underground Railroad are saving children from sex trafficking around the world through Operation Toussaint, a covert mission to Haiti. Tim Ballard...

For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. That is, until Frances Glessner Lee.Frances...

Drawing on extensive interviews and correspondence with many of Tann's surviving victims, Barbara Raymond shows how Tann not only popularised adoption - which until then had been feared and discouraged - but also commercialised and corrupted it. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525538967Author Frank AbagnaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A beautiful island lying in the northern part of the Irish Sea between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, the Isle of Man was once a popular holiday destination. It is perhaps better known today for the TT motorcycle races held there, its tailless...

Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning filmWINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBESTehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American embassy and...