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  • Deadly Desserts
    Deadly Desserts is the incredible but true story of Nannie Dossβ€”the most prolific female serial killer in history. Over a twenty-year period beginning in the 1930s, she murdered husbands, lovers, and family members throughout the countryβ€”as well as countless other innocent individualsβ€”with rat poison baked into her delicious desserts. A Baptist pastor’s wife and grandmother in a small rural town...
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  • Why Did They Do It?
    The cases that stunned Australia - and left us all with one question: why did they do it? Gerard Baden-Clay was described as charming and successful, with a picture-perfect life, until he murdered his wife, Allison. John Myles Sharpe killed his pregnant wife and their young daughter with a spear gun. Simon Gittany flung his fiancΓ©e off the balcony of...
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  • The Man Who Wasn't There
    LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON FICTION 2024 β€˜deeply powerful and beautiful’ - Trent Dalton, bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies β€˜a riveting story well told.’ - Sydney Morning Herald A true story about lies, murder and the Territory β€˜Sorry, mate, but that’s the message.’ Zak says to grow some balls and defend...
    By Dan Box
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  • The Maiden
    The Times Bestseller 'A masterpiece' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal 'Exceptional - a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant' - Daily Mail Inspired by a real-life murder trial, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. Winner of the Bloody Scotland...
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  • One-Armed Jack
    This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time. Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies a named perpetrator as Jack the Ripper by linking eye-witness accounts of the killer’s distinctive physical characteristics to his official medical...
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  • I Am A Killer
    What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, I Am A Killer features ten of the most compelling cases from the first two series and is full of exclusive never-seen-before material. The authors, Ned Parker and Danny Tipping, secured exceptional access to high-security prisons...
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  • Gomorrah
    Since Gomorrah was first published in Italy in 2006, Roberto Saviano has received death threats and he has been assigned police protection. A ground-breaking study and a searing expose, Gomorrah is the astonishing true story of the renowned crime organization, the Camorra, known by insiders as 'the System'. With a global reach, large stakes in construction, high fashion, illegal drugs...
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  • The Mastermind
    The Mastermind is the extraordinary story of Paul Le Rouxβ€”one of the world's most prolific criminals, and the embodiment of a new generation of internet-enabled kingpinsβ€”and the US government's clandestine efforts to bring him down. 'Meth, murder and pirates: the coder who became a crime boss. A world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners...
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  • Evil Life
    The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been responsible for nearly 40 murders in Australia since the mid-1970s and many more before that. Mafia families in Australia report directly...
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  • Selling Hitler
    His classic account of THE HITLER DIARIES - 'Impossible to Stop Reading' Spring 1983- it seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after documents had finally come to light - the private diaries of Adolf Hitler.What followed was a fiasco of fakery, greed, the duping...
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  • Tinseltown Gangsters
    Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labour unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of pounds from studio bosses. Control the unions to which projectionists, art directors, cinematographers, electricians, scene designers, stagehands, and extras belong,...
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  • Talking With Serial Killers: Inside Psychopaths' Minds - In Their Own Words
    A CHILLING NEW BOOK FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CRIMINOLOGIST, CHRISTOPHER BERRY DEE Celebrating the culmination of Christopher Berry Dee's life's work, Inside Psychopath's Minds - In Their Own Words gives the reader a forensic insight into the minds of some of the most dangerous murderers of modern times, so that we can truly ask ourselves, how does...
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  • Private Lies
    AS FEATURED ON BBC WOMAN'S HOUR Alison Marsh was living an ordinary life. She loved walks with her dog, drinks with her mates, and nights in with her family. But one night, after falling victim to a shocking crime, Ali made a decision that would change everything: she became a private investigator. Armed with her intelligence, intuition, and a strong...
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  • Fixed
    'Exposes a dark and corrupt underworld in British football' Joao Castelo-Branco, ESPN 'Gritty, dark and inspiring - you won't have read a story like this before' Daniel Taylor, The Athletic and New York Times 'The descent from talented footballer to convicted criminal is shocking. The journey thereafter is nothing short of inspirational'Rob Dorsett, Sky Sports * In 2012, English football...
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  • 11 Hours on the Ledge
    β€œLook at all those people down there, I can’t disappoint them. It’s showtime!” he said before leaping dramatically to his death, much to the delight of a cheering crowd estimated at up to 100,000. 11 Hours on the Ledge is the stunning story of John William Warde, a privileged, wealthy, educated young man who inexplicably stepped out onto the 17th-floor...
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  • Rogues, Rakes and Robbers
    Exploring detailed accounts of historic crime is one of the best ways to catch a glimpse of a society and its culture decades and centuries later. Of course, stories of crime and deviance are intriguing in their own right; but through understanding the context in which they were committed, how they were made sense of, and how communities and officials...
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  • The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
    A comprehensive account of London's celebrated East End killer, revised and updated. The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases. The Complete History of Jack the Ripper is the result of many years of meticulous research. The author reassesses all the evidence and challenges everything we thought we...
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  • Inside the Mind of Dennis Nilsen
    Dennis Nilsen seemed unremarkable – a quiet civil servant in North London. But behind the closed doors of his Muswell Hill flat, he harboured one of the darkest secrets in British criminal history. Over five years, he murdered at least 15 young men, driven not by rage, but by a desperate need for control – and for company. Inside the...
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  • Blizzard of Lies
    "A propulsive recap of a fascinating case." β€”Publishers Weekly "This is, hands down, one of the best works of crime nonfiction to hit shelves in years." β€”Booklist In January 2022, a Boston police officer turned up dead in the snow, seemingly a victim of a simple hit-and-run. But Officer John O’Keefe’s death kicked off a scandalous whodunit that invited federal...
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  • Number Go Up
    The β€œrollicking” (The Economist), β€œmasterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollarsβ€”hailed by Ezra Klein in The New York Times as one of the β€œBooks That Explain Where We Are”. FINALIST: the Edgar Award (Fact Crime), the Macavity...
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  • What Happened to Lucy Vale
    A sharp and harrowing mystery for the digital age . . . I inhaled this book like a gulp of fresh air after a long swim β€” LAUREN THOMAN FROM THE NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEFORE I FALL When true-crime writer Rachel Vale and her daughter, Lucy, move into the abandoned Faraday House at the end of Lily Lane, they...
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  • The Yahoo Boys
    When his mother fell for an 'American soldier' who promised to send gold bars to their Madrid apartment, Carlos BarragΓ‘n found himself with an unexpected window into the shadowy world of online romance fraud. He set off on a journey to find his mother's scammer, but what he discovered was much bigger: a world of young Nigerian men who drag...
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  • Murderland
    WINNER OF 2026 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME LONGLISTED FOR CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION Murderland reads like a true crime thriller SUNDAY TIMES Haunting, elegant and fiercely intelligent OBSERVER I highly recommend it R. F. KUANG, author of KATABASIS, OBSERVER A terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond - from the Pulitzer...
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  • Chasing Evil
    In the summer of 1998, FBI agent Bob Hilland reluctantly picked up the phone to call the famous psychic John Edward. Bob didn't expect much from the call, but he was working on an unsolvable cold case and had nowhere else to turn. What Bob never imagined was that the call would lead to a shattering of all his preconceived...
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  • Runaway Joe
    An investigation into one of the oldest unsolved cases on the FBI's books, spanning six decades and the Atlantic Ocean. 1967. Rochester, New York. At his son's fifth birthday party, Joseph Maloney was alleged to have poisoned his wife. While awaiting trial in the psychiatric wing of a Rochester hospital, he escaped and vanished. Years later, a charming stranger calling...
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  • Art Heist
    An intriguing investigation into over 50 elusive artworks that were stolen and never recovered. Mona Lisa, Starry Night, Birth of Venus. People travel for hundreds of miles to observe these breathtaking paintings with their own eyes. Now discover the artworks that nobody can ever see... and the fascinating stories behind their disappearance. In this collection of daring heist stories, read...
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  • The Wager
    A β€œTOUR DE FORCE OF NARRATIVE NONFICTION” (WSJ) WITH OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NYT BEST SELLER LIST From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that...
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  • The Adversary
    The Adversary—now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome). Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, whose fiction John Updike described as "stunning" (The New Yorker), explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary...
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  • The Ego Trip
    A charismatic doctor claimed to have rediscovered the ancestral roots of 'toad medicine,' and became the face of a global psychedelic movement. But in his wake, he left a trail of destruction that embodies the maladies of our spiritually desolate age. In 2012, a Mexican doctor announced that he had revived a forgotten indigenous ritual: smoking the secretions of the...
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  • The Last Mob Lawyer
    The Last Mob Lawyer presents a rare glimpse behind the curtain of some of the mob's best-kept secretsβ€”told by the only man still alive to share them. Post-World-War-II New Jersey was the breeding ground for some of the most notorious mobsters in American history. Their business was crime. Their capital was influence. And their leaders controlled every facet of American...
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  • The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid
    Born in November 1859 as William H. Bonney, Billy the Kidβ€”as he soon became knownβ€”started his criminal career at the age of twelve by stabbing a man in a bar fight. He then moved on to stealing horses, gambling, participating in the Lincoln County War, and even perpetrating mass murder. Billy the Kid's extraordinary exploits were followed in newspapers around...
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  • We Are Bellingcat
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'John le CarrΓ© demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' Financial Times 'Uplifting . . . Riveting . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat runs . . . Each runs as if the concluding chapter of a Holmesian whodunit' Telegraph We...
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  • The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, Updated and Expanded Edition
    This updated, expanded edition of The Phantom Prince, Elizabeth Kendall's 1981 memoir detailing her six-year relationship with serial killer Ted Bundy, includes a new introduction and a new afterword by the author, never-before-seen photos, and a startling new chapter from the author's daughter, Molly, who has not previously shared her story. Bundy is one of the most notorious serial killers...
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  • Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Letters from Serial Killers
    Letters from Serial Killers is a unique study of the criminal mind based on the author's extensive correspondence with convicted serial murderers. Such a collection is extremely rare, and among the killers whose correspondence is examined are: Arthur John Shawcross, aka 'The Genesee River Killer'; Phillip Carl Jablonski, aka 'The Death Row Teddy'; Melanie Lyn McGuire, aka 'The Ice Queen';...
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  • The Serial Killer's Apprentice
    Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. When Henley unwittingly entered the trap, Corll evidently sensed he'd be of more use...
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  • Outlaws: Inside the Hell's Angel Biker Wars
    An outlaw motorcycle club is a band of brothers like no other. Hidden away from mainstream society behind multiple layers of secrecy, mythology and a sophisticated campaign of misinformation that portrays them as nothing more than loveable rogues, the brutal truth about the biker world has long escaped public scrutiny. In reality, today's outlaw bikers are at the epicentre of...
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  • An Expert Witness
    From Britain's best-known forensic scientist, a book that explains what forensic science is, how it evolved and, through a series of landmark cases, the shocking truth about where it is headed. The relationship between law enforcement, science and the legal system is a complicated one. When it works well, it makes compelling television. Equally, when it does not work well,...
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  • The Ice House Murder
    The Ice House Murder by Robin Schiller and Pat Marry recounts the harrowing story of Irene White, who was 43 years old when she was found murdered at her home in Dundalk in April 2005. In one of the most vicious and senseless killings in Irish history, Irene was stabbed 34 times. While two men were convicted of the murder...
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  • Justice For My Father
    In 1983 an off-duty prison officer was shot by the IRA in cold blood on a Dublin street. Over 40 years later, no one has been convicted of his murder. In this book, his son outlines why justice must be done. Brian Stack was the chief prison officer working on the IRA wing of Portlaoise Prison in 1983. He was...
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  • HH
    β€˜A gripping, unsettling and authoritative portrait of football’s original dark genius β€” brilliantly researched and superbly told.’ GUILLEM BALAGUΓ‰ β€˜A wonderfully compelling biography... This is a story that, once read, you can’t forget.’ DUNCAN HAMILTON, THREE-TIME WILLIAM HILL AWARD WINNER β€˜One Hel of a story... uncovers the explosive truth behind a man who went further than anyone else in his...
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  • The Specialist
    The breathtaking, unputdownable insider account of Britain's most hidden profession What happens after the police tape comes down? Ben Giles has spent thirty years cleaning what most people can't bear to imagine. Dead bodies decomposing for weeks. Kitchen floors painted with blood. Hoarders' homes where the filth tells stories of unimaginable loneliness. A whale carcass lodged on a cargo ship....
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  • The Last Kilo
    From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of β€œLos Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American historyβ€”a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami. Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the cocaine business. It was corruption: the dirty cops, agents,...
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  • Red Card
    'Gripping...Bensinger's impeccably sourced account serves as a sharp reminder of the gargantuan levels of largesse and excess during Fifa's bad, bad days - as well as a warning that not enough has been done to prevent them returning.' - Sean Ingle, Guardian'Bensinger deftly deploys novelistic devices to turn it into a real-life detective thriller...[it] resembles John Grisham' - Private EyeThe...
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  • Inside the Mind of Myra Hindley
    Inside the Mind of Myra Hindley offers a chilling exploration into the psyche of one of Britain's most reviled criminals. This book meticulously dissects the motivations and twisted thought processes that fuelled her horrific involvement in the Moors Murders, also examining the persistent question of whether she was, in some capacity, a victim of Ian Brady's manipulation. True crime writers...
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  • Under Their Roof
    Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she and her sister Deirdre found themselves on the doorstep of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, seeking lodgings from a seemingly friendly local couple: Fred and Rose West. While growing up in poverty-stricken Dublin in the 1960s, Kathleen was abused from a young age. A move to England allowed her to escape, but even so,...
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  • Hunt A Killer: The Detective's Puzzle Book
    Put your crime-solving wits to the test with codes, ciphers, and more mind-bending puzzles from the groundbreaking creators of Hunt A Killer. In Hunt A Killer: The Detective's Puzzle Book, you'll meet up with private eye Michelle Gray, who needs you to hit the books and fine-tune your investigative skills before the next big murder case. Under her expert guidance,...
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  • The Trial of Buford H. Pusser
    In 1973, in the movie Walking Tall, Hollywood introduced to the world a young professional wrestler turned sheriff named Buford H. Pusser. The movie portrayed Sheriff Pusser's real-life battle against the thugs and bootleggers who had operated freely on the Tennessee-Mississippi state line prior to his election in 1964. During his six-year tenure as sheriff, Buford was shot and stabbed...
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  • The Oracle's Daughter
    On a cool autumn night in 1999, twenty-six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house and ran for her life. She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult operating out of the New Mexico desert, but also the cruelty of the cult's leaderβ€”her mother, Deborah. In The Oracle's Daughter, Harrison Hill traces the...
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  • Ray Khan
    Ray Khan was the most unlikely confidential informant in law enforcement history, yet he found himself a fugitive, running from the same government he had helped. Ray Khan was born and raised in Gujarat, India, where his father was an officer with the Indian National Police. Wanting to follow in his footsteps, Ray took the entrance exam for the IPS...
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  • The Women Are Not Fine
    'Compelling' TELEGRAPH 'Such a compelling account of a small but significant dark corner of history... Profound, angry, and tender all at once' VIRGINIA FEITO, author of MRS MARCH 'Fascinating and very compelling' ZOE VENDITOZZI, co-author of HOW TO KILL A WITCH 'A moving story of desperation, violence and survival' HELEN LEWIS, author of DIFFICULT WOMEN The women of Nagyrev are...
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  • Raised by a Serial Killer
    The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards. One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns...
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  • Kidnapped
    The story of Australia's first known kidnapping of a child for ransom - now with an exclusive extract from Mark Tedeschi's new book, Murder at Myall Creek - The Trial that Defined a Nation. When eight-year-old Graeme Thorne was kidnapped on his way to school in July 1960, Australia was gripped with fear and loathing. What monster would dare take...
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  • The House of My Mother
    From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog – now the subject of a new Disney+ docuseries – and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom and healing. Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for survival....
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  • YARD DOWN
    YARD DOWN delves into the intricate world of investigating prison gang crimesβ€”offences conducted by gang members to benefit, direct, and associate with their criminal street gangs, with the specific intent to promote, further, and assist their illicit activities. This gripping narrative is recounted by a retired, experienced California gang investigator, who has offered expert testimony in San Joaquin County court...
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  • Who Killed Bob Crane?
    Can Modern DNA Science Crack this Cold Case? The 1978 murder of actor and American icon Bob Crane remains one of the most high-profile unsolved celebrity murders of all time. Thirty-eight years after his brutal murder in Scottsdale, Arizona, millions around the world still want answers. Was John Carpenter the killer? Or did police arrest an innocent man? For nearly...
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  • We All Go into the Dark
    A captivating, eloquent and nuanced book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night dancing at Glasgow’s infamous Barrowland Ballroom. Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well-dressed, scripture-quoting killer who had apparently...
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  • To Hunt a Killer
    Winner of Best New True Crime Author, CrimeCon UK True Crime Awards 2023 Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger award for non-fiction, Crime Writers’ Association Awards 2023 The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murderer to justice. BATH, 1984 Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakens to news that her daughter Melanie has...
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  • Tinseltown Gangsters
    Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labour unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of pounds from studio bosses. Control the unions to which projectionists, art directors, cinematographers, electricians, scene designers, stagehands, and extras belong,...
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  • The Twins - Men of Violence
    'If one woman understands tough guys, it's Kate Kray' - The Independent Married to Ron before his death, and a regular correspondent with Reg, Kate Kray was granted unique access to the shadowy underworld they inhabited, and was entrusted with some of the darkest secrets they possessed - secrets that could never be revealed until they were both dead. Featuring...
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  • The True Crime Quiz Book
    While away a long stretch or simply kill a little time in this bumper quiz compendium covering the full gamut of true crime: from old-school, East End gangsters to white-collar fraudsters; from dazzling diamond heists to killer cannibals; and everything in between. With over 600 questions in sixty-two quizzes, like any dogged detective worth their salt, this book leaves no...
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  • The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson
    A shocking history of racial injustice and the valiant efforts to secure a Black man's freedomβ€”now in paperback. The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn’t commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him...
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  • The Schoolgirl Strangler
    November, 1930. One sunny Saturday afternoon, 12-year-old Mena Griffiths was playing in the park when she was lured away by an unknown man. Hours later, her strangled body was found, mouth gagged and hands crossed over her chest, in an abandoned house. Only months later, another girl was murdered; the similarities between the cases undeniable. Crime in Melbourne had taken...
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  • The Rise and Fall of the City of Money
    It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two largest and oldest banks and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking,...
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  • The Real Lolita
    Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, THE REAL LOLITA tells Sally Horner's...
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  • The Organ Thieves
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart stolen out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman....
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  • The Liar
    In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closelyβ€”they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher...
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  • The Killing Season
    Does for the gangland killing streets of LA what David Simon's Homicide did for Baltimore. Meet Pete Razanskas, a 22-year veteran homicide cop, and Marcella Winn, a rookie detective who grew up in the 'hood. They're an unlikely partnership tasked with attempting to close some of the hundreds of murder cases that occur every year in the gang-infested streets of...
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  • The Journalist And The Murderer
    'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible'. In equal measure famous and infamous, Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the author of a book about the crime. Lauded...
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  • The Great New Zealand Robbery
    It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commission's offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost $1 million today. This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be known as the Waterfront Payroll Robbery, was executed with military precision and...
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  • The Fatalist
    The Fatalist begins with the author's first encounter with Lindsey Rose while playing pool at The Burwood Hotel in 1988. At that time, the author was two years out of high school, and unbeknownst to them, Rose had already committed three murders. The locals knew him as a brothel owner and knew not to cross him, but they had no...
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  • The Doctor's Wife Is Dead
    The remarkable true story of a gripping murder trial - and of the strange marriage that gave rise to it. In 1849, a woman called Ellen Langley died in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. She was the wife of a prosperous local doctor. So why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been confined to the grim attic of...
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  • The Devil Behind the Badge
    β€œA thrilling ticktock on the borderland slayings and the effort to solve them.”—Texas Monthly The shocking true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred. Twelve days is all it took. Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez,...
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  • The Corner
    The notorious corner of West Fayette and Monroe Streets in Baltimore is a 24-hour open-air drug market that provides the economic fuel for a dying neighbourhood. Through the eyes of one broken familyβ€”two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable fifteen-year-old son, DeAndre McColloughβ€”Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the USA. The Corner unflinchingly assesses why...
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  • Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane
    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 its origins in modern law lie with the 'M'Naghten Rules' of 1843, formulated by British judges as a jury instruction in cases where a plea of insanity had been entered....
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  • Sitdowns with Female Gangsters
    Bosses. Criminals. Killers. Up close and personal with the world's most dangerous women. 'Every page is punch in the mouth stuff that will have you reeling. A real masterclass from the guy who has been there and got many T-shirts. An absolute must-read!' - Christopher Berry-Dee, No.1 True Crime Author Shaun Attwood, former ecstasy kingpin turned author and podcast host,...
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  • She Kills Me
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