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The Cromwell Street Murders: The Detective's Story by John Bennett
RRP: £16.99£12.94This 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,... -
The Blood Line: an absolutely gripping detective crime novel to keep you hooked by Will Shindler 9781529383843
RRP: £9.99£6.80SOMEONE HAS BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS... Claire Beacham arrives home to a parcel on her doorstep - no note, no label. As a politician she has received her fair share of hate mail, but there's no way she could be prepared for what's inside the box. A severed... -
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt 9780743417600
RRP: £18.99£11.88Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743417600Author LeverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 28mm -
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
RRP: £8.99£6.20For 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... -
Midnight in Peking: The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
RRP: £10.99£7.77Midnight in Peking is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul FrenchTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'A first-rate murder story, a thrilling narrative. Hurtles along from one cliffhanger to the next' SpectatorPeking, 1937:The teenage... -
The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John Emsley
RRP: £13.99£10.53This book is about elements that kill. Mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead, and thallium can be lethal, as many a poisoner knew too well. Emsley explores the gruesome history of these elements and those who have succumbed to them in a fascinating narrative... -
I You We Them: Journeys Beyond Evil: The Desk Killer in History and Today by Dan Gretton
RRP: £14.99£11.35A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF NON-FICTION A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulous, clinical and sobering, a shockingly important and incisive book' David OlusogaVast and revelatory, Dan Gretton's I You We Them is an unprecedented study of the... -
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield 9781838932756
RRP: £8.99£7.07What if you thought your husband was Jack the Ripper? London, 1888. Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband wrapped around her little finger. But then everything... -
Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words by Aileen Wuornos
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762902Author Aileen WuornosFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press -
The Hunt for the Silver Killer: The Shocking True Story of a Murderer who Remains at Large by David Collins
RRP: £9.99£6.41*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... -
Fat Freddie: A gangster's life - the bloody career of Freddie Thompson by Stephen Breen
RRP: £10.99£7.77The No 1 Bestseller'A fascinating read' Sean O'Rourke, RTE Radio One'Fat' Freddie Thompson first appeared in court in 1997. He was sixteen and already aspiring to be a major crime boss. Over the next twenty years his criminal career would be marked by... -
Bloody Yorkshire: Volume 1 by W M Rhodes 9780995775220
RRP: £8.99£6.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995775220Author W M RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lah-Di-Dah-Publishing.comPublisher Lah-Di-Dah-Publishing.comWeight(grams) 152g -
American Black Widow: The shocking true story of a preacher's wife turned killer by Gregg Olsen 9781804191217
RRP: £8.99£5.45From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister's wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead.Colorado, 1976. When Reverend Mike Fuller and his beautiful wife... -
Surviving the Krays: The Final Explosive Secret about the Firm by David Teale
RRP: £12.99£9.09David Teale: groomed by the twins, controlled by threats, raped by Ronnie, falsely imprisoned by the State for his 'own protection' as younger brother of Kray-informer Bobby. Turns out that's only half the story. David first met the Krays when he was... -
Cut Short: Youth Violence, Loss and Hope in the City by Ciaran Thapar
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I came away from this book enraged, enlightened and with a sense of urgency to do something' Annie Mac'Lays down a transformative path to peace' David Lammy MP'Compelling' The Sunday Times; 'Assured' Observer; 'Brilliantly written' Nikesh... -
The Prince and the Poisoner: The Murder that Rocked the British Raj by Dan Morrison 9780750999588
RRP: £20.00£15.04‘Dan Morrison has unearthed a fabulous true-crime story and embedded it within a fascinating work of micro history. David Grann has competition.’ ROBERT TWIGGER, author of Walking the Great North LineA crowded train platform. A painful jolt to the arm. A... -
Murder at No. 4 Euston Square: The Mystery of the Lady in the Cellar by Sinclair McKay
RRP: £9.99£7.11Someone must have known what happened to Matilda Hacker. For someone in that house had killed her.So how could the murderer prove so elusive? Standing four storeys tall in an elegant Bloomsbury terrace, No. 4, Euston Square was a well-kept, respectable... -
JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation by Steve Thomas 9781250054791
RRP: £26.99£16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250054791Author Steve ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 413Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
The Murder of Mr Moonlight: How sexual obsession, greed and arrogance led to the killing of an innocent man - the definitive story behind the trial that gripped the nation by Catherine Fegan
RRP: £10.99£7.77The No.1 Bestseller!'I was a very vulnerable young woman with three small children. I was lost ... Pat Quirke tried to come in and control everything'Bobby Ryan's disappearance in rural Tipperary in June 2011 mystified all who knew him. The truck-driver... -
The Buddhist on Death Row by David Sheff
RRP: £9.99£5.82From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places. Jarvis Jay Masters's early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was... -
A Passion for Poison: A true crime story like no other, the extraordinary tale of the schoolboy teacup poisoner by Carol Ann Lee
RRP: £9.99£6.85'The whole story is so terrible. You will be disgusted and amazed.'Graham Young, confessing his crimes to detectivesThere are few criminal cases more astonishing yet less well known than that of Graham Young. A quintessentially British crime story set in... -
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt 9781789467383
RRP: £9.99£6.85FOR VIEWERS OF THE NO.1 NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY - A TWISTING TALE OF MURDER AND SCANDAL'Murdaugh Most Horrid...' Telegraph "Readers will be swept up in this account." -Booklist"Glatt has produced the equivalent of a juicy John Grisham novel, featuring a... -
Burial Rites: The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick by Hannah Kent 9781035038626
RRP: £9.99£6.52Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and a BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick!'Outstanding' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe'Gripping, intriguing and unique' - Kate Mosse, author of The Burning ChambersNorthern Iceland, 1829. A woman... -
Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers by Scott A. Bonn
RRP: £12.99£11.43For decades now, serial killers have taken center stage in the news and entertainment media. The coverage of real-life murderers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer has transformed them into ghoulish celebrities. Similarly, the popularity of fictional... -
A Modern Detective by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £3.00£2.49He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.In these two stories gentleman sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective,... -
Jack the Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation by Trevor Marriott 9781844543700
£12.61There have been countless attempts to solve the brutal murders committed by Jack the Ripper more than a hundred years ago. It seems that almost everyone has their own theory and their own suspect, ranging from the reasonably likely to the entirely... -
Street Boys: 7 Kids. 1 Estate. No Way Out. A True Story. by Tim Pritchard
RRP: £9.99£6.64The shocking, powerful true story of the lives of 7 young kids, marred by guns, gangs and violence on one of Britain's toughest estates. 'Eight years old. That's when life went downhill. From eight years old nobody looked after me. I just... -
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian'Maggie Nelson's short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they seem unfathomably vast, their cleverness and odd beauty lingering on' ObserverIn 1969, Jane... -
These Are Not Gentle People: A tense and pacy true-crime thriller Andrew Harding 9781529405606
RRP: £9.99£6.80"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS"Magnificent and heartbreaking" Washington Post"Compelling and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT"This is a book of profound importance . . . A masterpiece" ALEXANDER McCALL... -
The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence by Colin Wilson
RRP: £12.99£9.09As the number of serial killers worldwide has risen steadily - from the emergence of Jack the Ripper in 1888 to Harold Shipman and Ivan Milat, the backpacker killer of the Australian outback - the need to understand mass murder is becoming more urgent... -
The Babes in the Woods Murders: The shocking true story of how child murderer Russell Bishop was finally brought to justice by Paul Cheston
RRP: £8.99£6.22The heartbreaking true story of two families' thirty-year fight for justice for their murdered daughtersOn 9 October 1986, Russell Bishop sexually assaulted and strangled nine-year-old Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, in woods near Brighton. He did not... -
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial by Janet Malcolm
RRP: £9.99£8.59Prizewinning 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... -
The Murder of Cleopatra: History's Greatest Cold Case by Pat Brown 9781616146504
RRP: £14.99£11.53A world-renowned criminal profiler takes a fascinating look at one of the most tragic mysteries in history. For more than two thousand years, the great pharaoh Cleopatra VII has been portrayed as a failed monarch. Various ancient sources state that... -
Lancashire Murders by Alan Hayhurst
RRP: £16.99£12.94Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Lancashire's history. The cases covered here record the county's most fascinating but least known crimes, as well as famous murders that gripped not just... -
Blood Sugar: A New York Times Best Thriller Sascha Rothchild 9781398705623
RRP: £9.99£6.80She'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... -
Indefensible by Michael Griesbach
RRP: £6.99£5.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786041145Author Michael GriesbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams)... -
About A Son: A Murder and A Father's Search for Truth by David Whitehouse
RRP: £16.99£12.28As heard on the HOW TO FAIL podcast with Elizabeth Day'I was utterly floored by the emotional depth of About A Son - a book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed. It is an unflinching examination of... -
The Silent Witness by Casey Watson
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I'm so sorry, Casey,' my link worker John said, sounding weary. 'I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.' It's the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the... -
A Plot to Kill: A true story of deception, betrayal and murder in a quiet English town by David Wilson
RRP: £12.99£7.51The true story behind hit BBC drama THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT'[A] real-life Midsomer Murder ... it's chilling, but [David Wilson's] explanation of how a psychopath thinks is masterly' The TimesTwo deaths.Three doors apart.An unsuspecting community about to... -
The People V. O.J. Simpson Jeffrey Toobin 9781784755867
RRP: £10.99£7.77Now a major BBC TV series.The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The People V. O.J. Simpson is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year...