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Meet the DeMeo gang - the most deadly killers the Mafia has ever known. They were a small-time Brooklyn corner crew who, headed by the notorious Roy DeMeo, became the hitmen of choice for the Gambino family. Killing for profit and pleasure, they were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956566246Author Jason NealFormat HardbackPage Count 446Imprint Idigital GroupPublisher Idigital GroupWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm

With a frightening capacity for extreme violence, Tyneside protection hardman Viv Graham struck fear into the hearts of his enemies, yet his benevolence to local charities and schemes to keep kids away from drugs and crime was well known. A legend in his...

As seen on This MorningThere was a time when I loved my mother. It's shocking to imply that I stopped loving her because mothers always love their children and always do their best for them. Mothers are supposed to be good. But my mother wasn't good.Ten...

THE NO 1 BESTSELLER***A true story of murder and vengeance, a shattered community and a miscarriage of justice that echoes down the decadesOctober 1971. Nineteen-year-old Una Lynskey vanishes near her home in Co. Meath. In the weeks that follow, and on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375200Author Dan LawtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 153mm * 30mm

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR SURVIVING LIFE IN PRISONCharles Bronson knows more about life in prison than anyone else in Britain - on either side of the bars. Jailed originally in 1974, his life since then has been once unbroken stretch of over forty-five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942266952Author Dennis GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster.In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609491352Author Graham K. BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908479815Author Gordon GoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 215g

A shocking expose of the terrible secrets at the heart of the Pitcairn Island community - a tale of systematic child abuse and rape which stretches back over 40 years. Pitcairn Island - home to the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty -...

Roy Shaw is the ultimate hardman. He has cult status and commands a respect that few, even in the violent world he moves in, can equal. To him, violence is simply an accepted part of his profession. He doesn't exaggerate it, he can't excuse it and he...

'Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' Jeremy Vine'A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the...

The astonishing true story of the Scottish coal miner's daughter who took on the Mafia-backed creators of the world's biggest financial fraud and helped the FBI to convict them Soon to be a major Hollywood film directed by Scott Z Burns 'In the...

Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction 2011 and Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction 2011. Nominated for British Columbia's National Award for...

Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his death in September 2012.Notorious Charlie Richardson was the most feared gangster in 1960s London. Boss of...

In Cops and Horrors: Uncut Tales from the Frontline, Matt Calveley offers an up close and personal view into the life of a dedicated officer serving in one of the biggest police forces in the world. Highly decorated, Matt lived a varied career, meaning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501123764Author Guy LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 776Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 53mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908479921Author Tom ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947290693Author Deborah Vadas LevisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on extant source material, it examines how the trade was organised and financed with...

THE CLOSEST PLACE ON EARTH THAT YOU WILL GET TO HELL - Charlie BronsonBroadmoor: My Journey Into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey...

In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room.Fearing that he would be held responsible, and sensing that his wife was somehow involved, he wanted to do all he could to protect his young family.Jamie...

These bald facts, horrific as they are, do not begin to scratch the surface of the truth about Robert Black, a Scottish-born serial killer who undoubtedly committed further murders for which he was never tried, both in this country and on the Continent...

When Maximilian Potter went to Burgundy to report for Vanity Fair on a crime that could have destroyed the Domaine de la Romanee Conti-the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world-he soon found a story that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915728005Author Daniela AirlieFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint City Sky PublishingPublisher City Sky PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956566314Author Jason NealFormat HardbackPage Count 458Imprint Idigital GroupPublisher Idigital GroupWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910903544Author Richard StuttleFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX. In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson's world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the...

THE FINAL WORD FROM THE LAST KING OF GANGLAND WITH A FOREWORD BY MARTINA COLE 'We couldn't, we wouldn't, let anyone take a liberty. That was never an option at that time.' Eddie Richardson is the last brand-name gangster. Say the name and the world of...

A gripping read on the real story of Rose West who, together with her husband Fred West, became Britain's biggest and most notorious murderers.***As seen on the Channel 5 documentary Making a Monster***Although it's hard to believe now, Rose West was an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838213121Author Phil M PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Subversive Media PublicationsPublisher Subversive Media PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527219366Author Clare Rewcastle BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Lost World PressPublisher Lost World Press

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over GBP40 million today) has never been recovered, and there has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954757731Author Nicky AlltFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Nicky Allt and Dave KirbyPublisher Nicky Allt and Dave KirbyWeight(grams)...

*HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BEST AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023*'A truly astonishing murder mystery - this is proper journalism' Jeremy Clarkson Following a long investigation by the world-famous Sunday Times Insight team, David Collins...

Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you. Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions and tortured them with horrifying violence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Fact Crime) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781250826466Author Erika KrouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher...