Murder

Swansea has a dangerous past. As a seaport, the town confronted the unknown on a daily basis. In this book, we explore the dark underbelly of South Wales; from the dirty, lawless docks to the narrow, festering slums of the alleyways. Little Martha Nash,...

Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the...

A ROSE FOR HER GRAVE - the principal story of this collection - vividly recreates the cautionary tale of Randy Roth, a misogynistic sociopath from the Pacific North-West whose rage was directed primarily at women and children. Addicted to his own greed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679751311Author Helen PrejeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578771694Author K D LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Landmark PublishingPublisher Landmark PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Ashley Pond was only twelve years old when she vanished from a school bus stop in a town south of Portland, Oregon. As a shocked community came together and police began a frantic search, another tragedy was just about to take place. Miranda Gaddis was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915798992Author Alex MarFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bedford Square PublishersPublisher Bedford Square Publishers

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...

'Jim Fraser has been at the forefront of forensic science in the UK for decades... A superb story of real-life CSI.' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes'Powerful... Fascinating' Independent Most murders are not difficult to solve...

Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, remains the most infamous serial killer in British criminal history. His reign of terror saw 13 women brutally murdered and the largest criminal manhunt in British history. Just like Jack the Ripper, his...

In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. 'The Maybrick Mystery' had all the makings of a sensation: a pretty,...

This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax...

In the closing months of the Second World War, an old hedger was found bludgeoned and hacked to death in a Warwickshire field. His name was Charles Walton and the place was the little village of Lower Quinton, under the shadow of Meon Hill. They called...

The 1980s were a time of notorious serial killers--Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, Samuel Little--and these are the deadliest of all. Uncover the facts about their crimes, along with the advances in forensics that helped lead to their capture. The 1980s...

True crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and chilling cases from the last century Every town has its monsters. But only when their rage explodes and unspeakable crimes are committed do we realise we hold them in our midst. Some are...

A Fascinating Look into the Psychology of Serial Killers and the Men Who Hunt Them DownColin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI, which was set up in order to answer...

Serial killer Patrick Mackay was dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain when he appeared in court in 1975 charged with three killings, including the axe murder of a priest. The Nazi-obsessed alcoholic had stalked the upmarket streets of West London...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446515382Author D McDOUGALFormat HardbackPage Count 16Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

A priest and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin's north inner city in February 1923. Three local women notice the couple's suspicious behaviour and apprehend them. The two are handed over to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743212830Author Jack OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312978907Author Adrian HavillFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

Jonathan Paul goes behind the sensationalist headlines of 'child killers' to investigate why these crimes happen. He examines child homicide in today's violent, confusing world and contextualises it against the cruel unforgiving retribution of yesterday...

The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. When Amy Price took a temporary design job...

The incredible crimes of Britain's most notorious schoolboy serial killer, Graham Young, as told by the bestselling and much-respected true crime author of The Murders at White House Farm. There are few criminal cases more astonishing yet less well known...

She's accused of four murders. She's only guilty of three...When Ruby was a child growing up in Miami, she saw a boy from her school struggling against the ocean waves while his parents were preoccupied. Instead of helping him, Ruby dove under the water...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298033Author Mark SealFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250146540Author Rabia ChaudryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's failure to prevent the death of a child. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby...

BASED ON THE CELEBRATED BBC NEWS INVESTIGATION'gripping and bitingly cold... full of fine detail and outrage' - Sunday Times'Gripping' - Evening Standard A true story of false memories.'Over decades...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646042401Author Kierra SonderekerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

A mother's fight to bring her daughter's killer, Christopher Halliwell, to justice'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what would have been my daughter's 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878923318Author John GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Amok Books,U.S.Publisher Amok Books,U.S.

The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was...

As a gun-wielding bank robber, Noel 'Razor' Smith was top of the criminal tree, enjoying the excitement and benefits of a dangerous and adrenalin-filled career. But he'd also spent the greater part of his adult life in prison, an environment where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640095410Author Harry N. MacLeanFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 162mm *...

THE SENSATIONAL TRUE CRIME STORY THAT SHOOK ICELAND - AS SEEN ON NETFLIX.It is the most shocking miscarriage of justice in European history. And now - in the most stunning true crime narrative you will read this year - OUT OF THIN AIR spotlights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952043093Author Al CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Carlisle Legacy Books, LLCPublisher Carlisle Legacy Books, LLCWeight(grams)...

"Carlos Monzon's life was one that could have been defined with an almost unblemished boxing record, but was ultimately overtaken by a completely defaced personality. The only legacy he leaves is that the narrative, told brilliantly in the book, is...

Winner of the 2022 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Novelist Alia Trabucco Zeran has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women, but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and...