True Crime

Shootings, stabbings, stranglings, poisonings and even axe killings. There are more than 100 murders in this chilling account of Australia's most celebrated cases, many attracting worldwide interest, from infamous nineteenth...

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was the greatest act of terrorist violence ever committed in the United States. Timothy James McVeigh and Terry...

January 1947. LA. Elizabeth Short, aka The Black Dahlia, a small-town beauty queen, is found murdered on waste ground. She has been badly mutilated. Her body bisected. John Gilmore, who...

Ranging from domestic killings to world-wide gangland contracts, this is an account of over 200 of the most controversial and intriguing unsolved murders of the last 150 years. It covers...

"The trial which terminated yesterday...revealed one of the strangest and most horrible stories possibly ever told in a court of justice." (Morning Post). When the news broke in 1871 of...

Are you living the life you truly want? In Ariise , Zoe Marshall invites you to learn the powerful tools and techniques of manifestation to help you cultivate the life...

Some crimes are so mysterious or ghastly that they take on a legendary status, and Adelaide seems to have had more than its fair share of them. The whole nation...

From the Batavia massacre through to the disappearance of Donald Mackay, the killing of Megan Kalajzich, the Hilton bombing and the Lesbian Vampire killing, this book documents 25 of Australia's...

The Wallace Case is one of the most notorious murder cases of all time. The issue of whether Wallace was guilty or innocent of his wife's brutal murder has been...

A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in 1911. A heat wave unlike any that had come before killed people in the streets, caused others to drown in the waters...

In suburban Croydon over a period of ten months during 1928-9, three members of the same family died suddenly. A complex police investigation followed, but no charges were ever brought...

The book titled Killers in Uniform by the author Adrian Vincent. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIB True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of...

The book titled Almost Perfect: The True Story of the Crawford Family Murders by the author Greg Fogarty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The first recorded scientific examination of a corpse was carried out by a Roman doctor called Atistius on the murdered Julius Caesar, but it was not until the 19th century...

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'...

A sequel to the "Encyclopaedia of Murder", this is an account of the most famous murderers and murder cases since 1962, more than two decades which have seen a frightening...

The book titled Encyclopaedia of Murder by the author Colin Wilson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Almost as soon as it was built, London suffered the first of many acts of violent protest, when Boudica and her followers set fire to the city in AD 60....

From 1877 to 1892, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women, all prostitutes or patients seeking abortions, in England and North America. A Prescription for Murder begins with Angus McLaren's...

This 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...

The book titled Who Killed Hanratty? by the author Paul Foot. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

After a life in care, with both good and bad experiences of the system, Hope knows all too well what the risks are for children in care as they approach...

Wensley Clarkson has researched the murders that women have inflicted upon their men. This book reveals the truth about these women and where they come from.

Put your knowledge of real-life kidnappers, killers, con artists and thieves to the test with this gripping compendium of puzzles and trivia Journey to the darkest corners of human nature...

Rose West was, on the face of it, a typical mother living with her husband, Fred, and their children in a three-storeyed terraced house in Gloucester. But behind the building's...

In the Spring of 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. A 51-day standoff ensued. Known as the Waco Siege, it has become a founding myth...

For fans of Christopher Berry-Dee's Talking with Serial Killers series, this chilling new book explores the dark heart of Russia. For decades, it has been assumed that the United States...

In August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their...

An "unsparing, erudite, and incisive" (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker ) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance--both nonviolent and violent--to white supremacy Named a Best...

Peter Tobin was already serving a life sentence for murder when he was charged with the murder of two young women - Vicky Hamilton and Dina McNichol, in November 2007....

AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK FOR BEST BOOKS OF FEBRUARY A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile case: Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killing her longtime abuser; and the author, Michelle...

FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times , Financial Times , Spectator ,...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: A radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety 'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL 'This amazing book will change your life'...

*Shortlisted for Book of the Year at the True Crime Awards 2026!* What makes ordinary people, living normal lives, abandon everything to join a cult? Emma Kenny - psychologist and...

'I was hooked... a must read for all fans of true crime' Amazon reader review for Sitdowns with Gangsters 'Every chapter should be made into a film' Amazon reader review...

Death Row duty comes with three simple rules: Do not make it personal Do not question the system Do not take justice into your own hands Garrett Nelson will break...

'A profoundly confronting novel which consumed me whole... tender, astonishing and unflinching' Lucy Rose, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Lamb I remember everything that happened in those three...

The crime of sextortion has reached epidemic proportions, fuelled by both sex offenders and organised scammers targeting our most vulnerable online. Children are some of the internet's most prolific and...

The book titled Thurber on Crime by the author James Thurber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Abandoned' is the true story of a childhood full of secrets, abuse and a little girl who didn't belong. This inspirational story is about how one woman finally overcame her...

'A powerful tribute to female solidarity that you won't be able to stop thinking about' GLAMOUR 'An ode to how women support, protect and uphold each other in a misogynistic...

Through gripping accounts of actual incidents, William Breuer brings the reader to the front lines of battle with Hoover and his crimebusters. Thrilling manhunts, thwarted mayhem, and tense confrontations dominate...

'A mob of 1000 skinheads running along a road is a frightening sight. Into the tube gates we rushed. On the tube, there was the usual knees up mother brown,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being...

In July 2023, in a quiet Australian country town, Erin Patterson - stay-at-home mother and true crime devotee - invited her husband's devoutly Christian family to lunch. Within days, three...