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Contained within the pages of Bristol Murders are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Bristol. They include the murder and suicide of a brother and sister in 1842; the tragic death of 10-year-old Mabel Price in 1897; the...

'A hugely impressive achievement.' - Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass At 8.00am on Monday 18th June 2001, Danielle Jones left home dressed in her school uniform - and promptly vanished. The 15-year...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812994384Author Truman CapoteFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 212mm...

In December 1958, Ken Martin, his wife Barbara, and their three young daughters left their home in Northeast Portland to search for Christmas greens in the Columbia River Gorge-and never returned. The Martins' disappearance spurred the largest missing...

Glimpse what went on behind the walls of EnglandA*s first Criminal Lunatic Asylum! Mark Stevens reveals what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago. From fresh research into the Broadmoor archives, Mark has uncovered the...

John Gilligan is one of the most notorious and hated criminal figures in Irish history. His name is indelibly etched in the national psyche a quarter of a century after he crossed the line to organise the execution of the fearless, high-profile...

As seen on Woman's Hour, BBC Newsnight and in the Daily TelegraphA hundred years ago, on the night of 3 October 1922, a thirty-two-year-old clerk named Percy Thompson was stabbed to death as he walked home to his suburban villa in Ilford. With him was...

John Gilligan is one of the most notorious and hated criminal figures in Irish history. His name is indelibly etched in the national psyche a quarter of a century after he crossed the line to organise the execution of the fearless, high-profile...

The thirteenth entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from the "prolific and talented" (Publishers Weekly) Ann Rule focuses on crime victims who had no idea they were in life-threatening danger, often from the very people they trusted the most...

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

From the bestselling true crime author comes the mesmerising true story of Debora Green, a beautiful, wealthy, successful doctor and mother of three whose murderous rage and jealousy brings death and destruction to her family. With direct access to all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692973615Author Robert SouzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint LVM BooksPublisher LVM BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Irish travellers live in a closed community. What we think we know about them is based on hearsay, rumour and stereotype. But not any more. Knuckle is the true story of James Quinn McDonagh - clan head and champion bare-knuckle fighter. It's a...

A FEVER IN THE HEART dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the north-west of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly...

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,...

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...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019"Like Don DeLillo's JFK-themed Libra, the novel is an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction" Glasgow Herald"A masterful writer" Nicole Krauss"Vasquez has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary...

Nestled deep in the Surrey countryside stands the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial. Maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, its panels contain the names of nearly 3,500 men and women of the land forces of Britain and the Commonwealth who died...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938633263Author Jeff KassFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower House

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...

In the early hours of 7th August 1985, five members of the Bamber family were shot dead with a .22-calibre Anschutz rifle. Sheila Caffell, who was known to have struggled with mental illness, was at first thought to have murdered her twin sons and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615833415Author Peter Ross RangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Hawthorne BooksPublisher Hawthorne BooksWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The powerfully-built nightclub bouncer kidnapped and murdered 13 year old Milly Dowler as she walked home from school in broad daylight. She had stopped for a bag of chips with friends at a railway station cafe. The case horrified the nation when six...

The powerfully-built nightclub bouncer kidnapped and murdered 13 year old Milly Dowler as she walked home from school in broad daylight. She had stopped for a bag of chips with friends at a railway station cafe. The case horrified the nation when six...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Spur Award / Western Writers of America 2018. Short-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017 and National Book Award 2017.Book...

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...

Warwickshire has seen its fair share of murder down the centuries. This latest collection explores notorious crimes from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using contemporary documents, trial transcripts and newspaper accounts to examine cases...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732181304Author Duane 'keffe D' DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint KingdomediaPublisher KingdomediaWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540054Author Jake AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538471Author Anthony M DeStefanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

Astonishingly, The Hagley Wood Murder is the first book solely on the subject (other than a selection of privately printed/self published offerings) ever written on this murder, which too place eighty years ago. In April 1943, four teenaged boys...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385521314Author Patrick Radden KeefeFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 771g

*As seen on The Long Shadow (ITV) The Ripper (Netflix) and Surviving a Serial Killer (More4)*Criminologist Jane Carter Woodrow has spent many years working with both offenders and victims of violent crime, but it wasn't until she met Neil, whose mother...

Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard. In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives...

Did Jeremy Bamber murder five members of his adoptive family in a frenzy, or was he falsely imprisoned?About the AuthorScott Lomax is a true crime author and human rights campaigner. Jeremy Bamber is his first book. He has campaigned against the...