True Crime

__________ 'Many of the world's great leaders request to come to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. They like it. I like it. We're comfortable.' - Donald Trump A bit too comfortable,...

Highly organised gangs, from the Italian Mafia to the Japanese Yakuza, infiltrate every corner of the globe: and money laundering is at the heart of their business. Dirty Dealing exposes...

An unforgettable life of heroism, sacrifice, and resilience. In Through the Rubble, Alan Playford recounts his extraordinary life, marked by the dramatic moment he emerged from the wreckage of the...

The book titled Holy Killers: True Stories of Murderous Clerics, Priests and Religious by the author Brian McConnell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

A chilling compendium of mass murder cases features profiles of two hundred notable instances of killing sprees and terrorist acts, including coverage of Timothy McVeigh's attack on the Oklahoma federal...

The book titled World Encyclopedia of 20th Century Murder by the author Jay Robert Nash. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The New Murderers' Who's Who by the author J.H.H. Gaute. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled St. Albans Poisoner: Life and Crimes of Graham Young by the author Anthony Holden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper by the author Martin Fido. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia by the author Lacey Baldwin Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The author of "The Complete Jack the Ripper", has drawn upon documentary and eye witness material to give an account of the Edwardian East End which was the refuge of...

The book titled Norman Birkett: The Life of Lord Birkett of Ulverston by the author H.Montgomery Hyde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

A reconstruction of a controversial murder case which happened in 1935 revealing a plausible motive for the crime. It gives an account of the events that led up to the...

The 'if' of death is certain. The 'when' is unknown. It is the 'why' that really gets people's interest ... From a rare and deadly amniotic avalanche to a victim...

The findings are based on 30 years of field research on the behaviour and ecology of chimpanzees and other mammals in Africa.

This book gives us fresh insights into the complex task of child protection and must be essential reading for all those engaged in this demanding work. Both practitioners and policy...

'Under Their Roof... does so much more than chronicle her time living with the Wests. It's a desperately sad insight into what makes someone vulnerable to abusers... but ultimately, this...

'Don't leave me here! Please, don't leave me.' What possesses a mum to kidnap her own child? That's what Maggie asks herself when she's asked to foster 13-year-old Saskia, the...

THE INSTANT TOP 10 BESTSELLER Can YOU guess who killed Jamie Lawrence? 'Impossible to put down' HELEN FIELDING international bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary 'I adored it' GILLIAN MCALLISTER...

WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her strength and courage' - Selena Gomez 'An incredibly powerful...

'Don't leave me here! Please, don't leave me.' What possesses a mum to kidnap her own child? That's what Maggie asks herself when she's asked to foster 13-year-old Saskia, the...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the UK's number one true crime podcast, RedHanded ! What is it about killers, cults, and cannibals that capture our imaginations even as they...

'A bold message.' Sunday Times Is violence normal? Is evil ever a useful concept? Does trauma cause it? And can we change violent minds? For Dr Gwen Adshead, these are...

Payback is a killer . . . Rita Marsh is a good person. By day, she runs a care home, looking after the elderly and infirm. By night, she's a...

The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complicated defence, and...

In 1976, Francis Beaumont spirited eleven-year-old Kim Chown and her brother away from their mother to Africa, where he had taken a job as a university lecturer. There, behind a...

'Anybody who wants to understand the cryptocurrency mania should read Hype Machine .' LIONEL BARBER, FORMER EDITOR OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES 'A richly reported and devastating indictment of a financial...

The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two...

'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...

'Beautiful, haunting.' LOUISE KENNEDY'Vividly real . . . There's love here as well as pain.' MARIAN KEYES'A sure-footed and emotionally complex novel . . . absorbing.' IRISH TIMES'I loved it.'...

I Heard You Paint Houses is a gripping work of true crime that chronicles the extraordinary confession of Frank The Irishman Sheeran, a Teamsters official and hitman who claimed responsibility...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear, some minor scuffing. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover. A chilling collection of crime fiction set against the...

In her bestselling memoir As I Lay Me Down To Sleep, Eileen Munro vividly documented the emotional, physical and sexual abuse she experienced as a child at the hands of...

'Part memoir, part shoe leather investigative journalism, Mafiopoli is a vital exploration of how organised crime takes hold of a society from the bottom up and spreads around the world.'...

'Some of the most beautiful prose being written in Ireland today' Irish Times Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that...

Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018 "You will not want to put this riveting, masterfully reported book down. No matter how bad...

Part biography, part literary memoir, "Dead Men's Wages" is, like Lorna Sage's "Bad Blood". "Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy....

Brothers-in-law Harry and Jack run a Johannesburg furniture business that is being robbed repeatedly. The investigation of the crime reveals that the perpetrators lie even closer than the proprietors expected--and...

The Disturbing Inside Story of Women Who Are Driven to Kill Killer Women are the most disturbing yet compelling of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity and...

**Shortlisted for the 2025 CWA Whodunnit Dagger** 'Can you come round?' Dad says tremulously. 'Of course. Are you OK? Is it Mum?' 'No!' He almost shouts it. 'Just come quickly....

The first hundred years of the American Mafia's existence would come to be seen as a golden age. From small-town Sicily to glittering Las Vegas, the mob had carefully expanded...

In this powerful and honest memoir, Laurie Matthew takes the reader with her as she revisits her childhood in 1950s and 1960s Dundee. Raised in a home which consisted of...

What kind of child murders another child? First published in 1972, The Case of Mary Bell still stirs controversy today and is a work of extraordinary and compassionate journalism. In...