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_____________________________THE NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER on the murder behind the Netflix documentary Killer InsideHe had it all. A $40 million NFL contract. Fame. Adoration - until he was convicted of murder, and jailed for life without parole.A...

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...

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...

On 5 February 2011, Marcia Grender received a phone call which changed her life forever. The flat her beautiful nineteen-year-old daughter Nikitta shared with her fiance Ryan Mayes was on fire, and Nikitta was believed to be trapped inside. Marcia and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310185Author Heath MattioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 397g

Nostalgic recollections of wartime Britain often forget that when the blackout was enforced at night in an attempt to foil Nazi bombers a crime wave, cloaked by the inky black darkness, ensued on many of our streets. There were petty crimes, robberies,...

In which pub was the notorious murder that led to the Kray twins becoming Britain's most feared gangsters? Where is the hostelry in which Jack the Ripper's victims drank? How did Burke and Hare befriend their victims in a Scottish watering hole before...

It was an 'open and shut' case. Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, had murdered his wife, the music hall performer Belle Elmore, and buried parts of her body in the coal cellar of their North London home. But by the time the remains were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859654371Author Cathy ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

On 21st September 2001 the mutilated torso of a small child was found floating beside London's Tower Bridge, one tide away from being swept into the North Sea. Unable to identify the victim, the Murder Squad turned to Richard Hoskins, a young professor...

In this clear eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a fascinating life story through the cases that have made Di Maio famous-from the exhumation of...

For audiences of the popular FX television series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, based on Jeffrey Toobin's The Run of His Life and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Courtney B. Vance. Named on Vogue...

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 *...

This fresh edition of Satish Sekar's classic work brings events up to date as at 2017 and includes matters that the author was prevented from publishing sooner. Among other things it deals with the collapse of the 2011 trial of police officers and others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311014Author Betty FrizzellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805039399Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786044733Author M. William PhelpsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

THE THRILLING TRUE STORY OF BRITAIN'S FIRST EVER RAILWAY MURDER 'A fascinatingly quirky portrait of the underside of Victorian London . . . unputdownable' Daily Telegraph'A cunning and suspenseful tale' Independent 'Meticulously researched . . . the...

A Chilling Casebook of Horrifying Hometown Crimes How well do you really know your friends?Neighbours, friends, doctors and colleagues. We see them every day. We trust them implicitly. But what about the British army sergeant who sabotaged his wife's...

Updated and expanded edition of the fullest ever collective investigation into Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders. This volume collects not just all the key factual evidence but also 20 different arguments as to the identity of Jack the Ripper,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250113818Author James RennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm

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...

Somerset Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made headlines throughout the country. They include the cases of Elizabeth and Betty Branch, a mother and daughter who beat a young servant girl to death...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602866072Author Jose BaezFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786037285Author M. William PhelpsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091441Author John GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams) 94gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091441Author John GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams) 94gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541884Author Pete EarleyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of...

The Victorian belief that women were the weaker sex' who were expected to devote themselves entirely to family life, made it almost inconceivable that they could ever be capable of committing murder. What drove a woman to murder her husband, lover or...

From Boy Scout to assassin - the true confessions of a cartel hitmanAt the age of twelve Martin Corona started dealing drugs. After years in and out of prison, he rose through the ranks to become the leader of an elite killing squad for a notorious...

'Kate Winkler Dawson is an unbelievable crime historian and such a talented storyteller.' Karen Kilgariff, cohost of the My Favorite Murder podcast'Heinrich changed criminal investigations forever, and anyone fascinated by the myriad detective series and...

The crime, the criminals, the victims and their families.And the biggest manhunt by British police...The establishment, press and public reaction, the trial, and the aftermath are all set out in compelling narrative detail. Jack Witney served twenty-five...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE DAILY MAIL AND WOMAN AND HOMEA New York Times 'Editor's Pick'One of the Observer's Ten Best Debut Novelists of 2020Shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel AwardLonglisted for the Jhalak PrizeLonglisted for the CWA John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631680687Author Marcia ClarkFormat PaperbackImprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm * 41mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904587453Author Paul WillettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 426g

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...

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...

The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 - shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe field - gripped everyone from the Home Secretary in London...

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...