True Crime

From the author of BBC Between the Covers pick The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou. 'Gripping and compelling.' LAURA MARSHALL 'A magnificent melodrama, full of glamour and grit.' THE TIMES THREE WOMEN. ONE SHOT AT REVENGE. Hollywood, 1954. At night, before we’re strapped to our beds, the nurses let us watch a movie. A moment of make-believe in this place...

The gripping true story of a serial con man whose lies condemned a man to death row by award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Pamela Colloff. 'Incendiary, emotionally devastating. [This] is a feat of dogged reporting, bravura storytelling, and clear-eyed moral conscience.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing and London Falling For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik...

A Year of True Crime Page-A-Day® Calendar 2027 offers shocking stories: Uncover tales of remorseless serial killers, bumbling thieves, forensic breakthroughs, and cold-blooded criminals every day. Intriguing investigations await you: Discover historic cases, fascinating details, cold cases cracked, wild crime stats, quotes, trivia, and photos throughout. This makes a truly gory gift, perfect for any one of the millions of...

The true story of one of the biggest bank heists in Irish and British history – and the questions that remain. On a Sunday evening in December 2004, two young men were at home with their families. Both worked for the Northern Bank’s cash centre in Belfast. They heard knocks on their front doors. Within a few minutes, masked men...

Dr Elizabeth Vartkessian's clients are guilty of the most heinous crimes. But as Dr Vartkessian tells it, everyone has someone who loves them. Even people who have committed murder. As a mitigator hired by criminal defence lawyers in the hope of reducing the severity of their clients' punishments, Dr Vartkessian has spent hundreds of hours per case talking to mothers,...

Though there are many books about organised crime, this is the only book that focuses on how the mob adapted to the murders of its bosses, failed hits, internecine wars, and to prosecutions, and continued to thrive throughout the United States for the better part of the 20th century. Mafia Hits, Misses, Wars, and Prosecutions is about pivotal events that...

The District Attorney began his opening statement with, “If you don’t know what hell is like, you’re about to find out.” In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris went on a rape and killing rampage. The pliers, screwdrivers, hammers, sledgehammers, and ice picks they used on their victims became their calling card and moniker: The Toolbox Killers. They were soon...

WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'A classic' John le Carré 'Nothing less than a masterpiece' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'Absolutely riveting' Sarah Waters, Guardian 'Terrific' Ian Rankin 'A triumph' Observer On a summer’s morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home...

The extraordinary tale—'A two-volume mystery!' Mark Twain called it—of the solicitor who incited a campaign to free a man he knew was guilty of attempted murder, who lost his reputation and ability to practise, and who embarked on a decades-long political career to regain it all. Sydney, 1895. Richard Meagher is a brilliant criminal defence solicitor with ambitions in politics....

In The People vs. the Golden State Killer, Thien Ho, the current District Attorney of Sacramento, recounts his harrowing and exhilarating experience as the lead prosecutor responsible for capturing and prosecuting Joseph DeAngelo. Referred to at various times by law enforcement and the media as the Visalia Ransacker, the East Bay Rapist, the Original Nightstalker, and finally the Golden State...

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, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman 'I loved it' Richard Osman 'Shattering' Val McDermid 'Gripping' Sarah Waters In 1953, the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of...

Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023 A Waterstones Best True Crime Book Nagyrev, Hungary, 1929. Over 160 mysterious deaths. A group of local wives conspiring together, and one woman at the centre of it all… In 1929, a dark secret at the heart of a Hungarian farming village was finally exposed. For more than 15 years, Nagyrev had harboured a...

Bestselling author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes readers deep inside the dark minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous people alive. Having spent years interviewing imprisoned criminals—including notorious serial killers—he discovered that the lack of remorse these people showed was in many ways even more terrifying than the crimes they had committed. Yet, in the course of these...

Lethal Lit follows Tig Torres, a Cuban American teen detective, in her hometown of Hollow Falls. In season one of the hit podcast, Tig used her smarts and fearlessness to track down the infamous ‘Lit Killer’, a serial killer who staged his murders after death scenes from famous books. But there’s no rest for courageous, mystery-solving teens in a place...

One of the most feared Chicago mobsters, Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious businessman, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did...

Having infiltrated the Bandidos for three years in a landmark police operation, Alex Caine is uniquely positioned to tell the untold story of the Hells Angels' fiercest rivals, the Bandidos. Started in the mid-sixties by a group of Texas malcontents and ex-military who idolised the Hells Angels, the Bandidos now operate in almost every country of the world and are...

In an era of mounting law enforcement abuse and rising public defiance, The Assassination of Fred Hampton is more relevant than ever. Read the story of Black Panther activist Hampton's murder by Chicago police and attorney Jeff Haas's fight to bring the assassins to justice. On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing...

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood’s glitzy façade, exposing the city's ugly underbelly of corruption, crime, and murder. These two spectacular dead bodies, one found dumped and posed in a vacant lot in January 1947, the other found dead in her home in August 1962,...

Today's gangsters are streets apart from the old-style gang lords of the Fifties and Sixties. The godfathers of old were seen by many as a stabilising influence. Their power inspired respect and they well and truly kept the underworld in check. The twenty-first century gangs of Britain are far more shady. Their brutality has spread far and wide and they...

From the author of BBC Between the Covers pick The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou. 'Gripping and compelling.' LAURA MARSHALL 'A magnificent melodrama, full of glamour and grit.' THE TIMES THREE WOMEN. ONE SHOT AT REVENGE. Hollywood, 1954. At night, before we’re strapped to our beds, the nurses let us watch a film. We’re allowed a moment of make believe,...

The remarkable, true story of an unusual childhood, complete with gangsters, guns, diamonds, drug smuggling, and fraud—just like any other little girl’s life. At twelve years old, Leslie Bradford-Scott watched police cars swarm her family’s suburban home in Ontario. Hours later, she, her mom, and her grandmother were fleeing across the border into Florida with no explanation and no questions...

A serial arsonist. A mass killing. A predator who refused to stop. ‘Among the most dangerous serial arsonists ever documented.’ – Ed Nordskog, international arson profiler ‘He will remain dangerous for life.’ – Dr Rod Milton, forensic psychiatrist Fire was only the beginning. Two men. Two infernos. Twenty-one dead. Both were serial arsonists. One would later return to court as...

An Aussie father’s relentless quest for justice after his daughter’s mysterious death in Mozambique exposes a web of silence, failure, and enduring love. When 20-year-old Elly Warren was found dead in a coastal village in Mozambique, her devastated father, Paul Warren, was thrust into a nightmare. With few answers from local police and no support from Australian authorities, Paul began...

In 1969, during a Boston snowstorm, a crate containing Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of a Woman and a Musketeer vanished from Logan Airport. It should have gone to a Milwaukee gallery—but instead ended up in the closet of Bill Rummel, a young forklift operator. What followed was a stranger-than-fiction chain of events: FBI agents on the hunt, whispers of Whitey Bulger’s...

It was a bite mark that finally confirmed Ted Bundy as a murderer. It was a handwritten note that gave away the identity of the Lindbergh baby kidnapper. It was a tiny fibre that identified the mastermind behind the Antwerp Diamond Heist. No matter how meticulous criminals are in covering up their steps, they always leave some trace behind. Just...

From the author of BBC Between the Covers pick The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou. 'Gripping and compelling.' LAURA MARSHALL 'A magnificent melodrama, full of glamour and grit.' THE TIMES THREE WOMEN. ONE SHOT AT REVENGE. Hollywood, 1954. At night, before we’re strapped to our beds, the nurses let us watch a movie. A moment of make-believe in this place...

Serial Killers Of The 70s by Jane Fritsch explores the grim and chilling world of serial murderers who became infamous during the 1970s. From notorious figures like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy to the infamous David Berkowitz, this book delves into the heinous acts of some of the era's most brutal killers, as well as some you may never...

The shocking true story of Jeffrey Dahmer's murders, as told by the Milwaukee Journal reporter who broke the story, Anne E. Schwartz—from the dramatic scene when police first entered Dahmer's apartment to the lasting, present-day repercussions of the case. This updated edition of the book includes a new preface and final chapter, showing how the case continues to affect the...

A New York Times Bestseller! This new and updated edition finally proves the shocking identity of the Black Dahlia killer—and the police corruption that concealed it for so long. In 1947, the brutal, sadistic murder of a beautiful young woman named Elizabeth Short led to the largest manhunt in LA history. The killer teased and taunted the police and public...

Now in paperback—an astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe... Now in paperback—an astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe... Thought to...

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humour, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI. Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too...

A thorough and groundbreaking addition to our understanding of the RFK assassination based on newly released police reports and government documents. In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was...

'I think that every now and again our wonderful system cocks up, and this was one of those times.' Former ALP Senator Graham Richardson Cabramatta was embroiled in a heroin epidemic, gang wars and demands to deport Vietnamese gangsters when local MP John Newman was gunned down in the driveway of his home. Newman's murder was billed as Australia's first...

Every town has a haunted place, but few roads carry the weight of legend like Missouri's Zombie Road. For generations, people have whispered about widows in white, maniacs crouched in shacks, soldiers marching where no wars were fought, children laughing in the trees, and lights that hover and vanish with a will of their own. But Zombie Road is more...

When the Moment Chose Me: The Day ISIS Came to Garland, TX recounts the harrowing events of May 3, 2015, when an ISIS-inspired attack turned a peaceful evening in Garland, Texas, into a scene of chaos. The book draws on first-hand accounts, investigative records, and expert analysis to detail how two radicalised individuals attempted to wreak havoc during a cartoon...

Winner of the 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely and "galvanizing" (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy....

The shut-down of Omaha, Nebraska's Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in November 1988, sent shock waves all the way to Washington, D.C. $40 million was missing. The credit union's manager: Republican Party activist Lawrence E. "Larry" King, Jr., behind whose rise to fame and riches stood powerful figures in Nebraska politics and business, and in the...

The Amityville Horror is "a fascinating and frightening book" (Los Angeles Times) that tells the bestselling true story of a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo...

The Next All the President’s Men for State and Municipal Corruption Six Degrees of Corruption - The Fleecing of a City is a whistleblower true crime investigation that exposes how a forged police certification in Methuen, Massachusetts spiralled into one of the most disturbing municipal scandals in recent American history. The book offers an unflinching, evidence-driven account of how a...

The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American landscape. Reactions to these modern-day monsters range from revulsion to morbid fascination--fascination that is either fed by, or a product of, the saturation coverage provided by print and broadcast media, along with a dizzying array of books, documentary films, websites, and "Movies of the...

The New York Times Bestseller "A gripping journalistic procedural... Spotlight meets Erin Brockovich." --Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times "Julie K. Brown's important book offers not just a definitive account of the Epstein case, but a compelling window into her own experiences as a dogged reporter at a regional newspaper, facing off against powerful interests set against her reporting." --Ronan...

New York Times Bestseller, Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, The Guardian, New York and more Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered...

This book has been my effort to chronicle the existence of an international child sex trafficking network involved in the dissemination of the pederast ideal, the facilitation of political blackmail beneath it, and the production of sadomasochist child pornography, including snuff films, at its greatest depths. The tendrils of this network are met with throughout the chapters of this book,...

In A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind, ex-South African banker Stephen Goodson explains how the Central Banking "scam" originated, and how those who run it have throughout history used their power to subvert governments and manufacture wars. These actions not only produced vast profits but frequently toppled regimes whose banking systems were not under their control....

From brainwashing and blackmail to manipulation and murder, explore the terrifying world of cults in this pocket guide. The strange and disturbing world of cults is fascinating and horrifying in equal measure. Led by charismatic and deceptively charming leaders, these shadowy organizations lure people in with promises of good futures and fortune, and then trap them and control them. The...

‘Part memoir, part shoe leather investigative journalism, The New Mafia is a vital exploration of how organised crime takes hold of a society from the bottom up and spreads around the world.’ -Miles Johnson, author of Chasing Shadows ‘Beautifully written, excellently researched.’ -Mick Van Wely ‘An exceptional investigation into the global muscle of the Calabrian mafia.’ -StrongWords book of the...

Nicholas Tochka analyzes the role of rock music in the life of Charles Manson, the Family, and the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings, which also gives larger insight into Sixties counterculture. Failed singer-songwriter. Devious cult leader. A rock Pied Piper. The product of a sick society. Just another dime-a-dozen singing hippy mystic. Did the guitar-playing guru personify the violence that the...

There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught. This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers. No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. The process...

For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history's most 'elite' serial killers - master murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims. Historical in scope and international in breadth, this collection of true-crime stories chronicles fifteen of the most infamous 'extreme killers' who ever lived -...

The third title in our Conversations with a Killer series focuses on one of the most notorious serial killers of the 1970s, Ed Kemper, a key character in the hit Netflix series Mindhunter. If there ever was a human monster that walked this earth, it was the highly intelligent, psychotic 6'9" killer Edward "Big Ed" Kemper. As a troubled 15-year-old,...

How fakes, fraudsters, and grape crusaders have shaped the world of wine. This novel take on the history of wine reveals that, whether by adding toxic sweeteners or passing off counterfeit bottles, wine fraud is abundant—and as old as wine itself. Vintage Crime will intrigue even the most sated of wine drinkers with its juicy tales of deception, raising interesting...

When his mother fell for an American soldier who promised to send gold bars to their Madrid apartment, Carlos Barragán 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...

Go behind the scenes of four well-known murder trials to uncover all the facts about what really happened before the cases went to trial. Follow author and investigative journalist Allison Hope Weiner as she reveals the secrets behind some of the country’s most intriguing murder cases, exposing both the power behind the media’s influence and crucial evidence that never made...

Some stories are not forgotten — they wait hidden in the shadows, whispering to be told. A Whispering of Trees is dedicated ‘For Charlie, whose life lasted six years. For Susan, who learned to survive the rest.’ In the days leading up to the shooting, Ted Benedek told his children that to stay together, they would all need to ‘go...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savour this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that would change the world forever. Scrutinising...

Drugs, cartels, mafia, addiction, the FBI, and coercion - this is the untold story behind the tragic decline of football's most gifted and controversial legend. Maradona was football's ultimate genius - a magician on the pitch whose talent rivalled only Pele. But off the field, the boy from the barrios of Buenos Aires became entangled in a dark web of...

Thrilling tell-all of a prolific informant in the FBI’s largest insider trading investigation of a generation Part financial crime thriller, part personal transformation story, and part redemption memoir, Wired on Wall Street: The Rise and Fall of Tipper X, One of the FBI’s Most Prolific Informants tells the riveting true story of Tom Hardin, a young hedge fund analyst turned...

'Pedley nails the true story of Australia's Dillinger, Brenden Abbott, whose life and crimes raise echoes that go all the way back to Ned Kelly and Ben Hall.' Andrew Rule, author of The Chosen FewBank robber. Fugitive. Womaniser. Comedian. Conman. Chameleon.Fully revised and updated with exclusive anecdotes and pictures, this is the story of the man who became Australia's most...

With a new preface reflecting on her life so far after prison, her true feelings about ex-boyfriend and co-conspirator Nick Godejohn, and her regrets as she stumbled in the unforgiving public eye, My Time to Stand is Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s story as only she can tell it.A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy’s unique and...

How a sceptical FBI agent reached out to a famous psychic for help on a baffling case - and the twenty-five-year crime-solving journey that followed. 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...

The Hell's Angels leader, Sonny Barger, is toasted as an American legend, and the bikers work hard to promote their folk-hero image. But the facts tell another story. The Hell's Angels are America's major crime export. Their membership has spread to 25 countries, including the UK, Australia, and Holland, where they have inspired a violent subculture of biker gangs who...

Elizabeth Baxter has heard it all. Thieves, rapists, drug dealers, burglars, murderers, abusers, and arsonists – they’ve all confided in her. Some are harder to shake than others. There’s sweet, baby-faced Stella who hurled a brick through her ex’s window and threatened to cut off his… well, you get the picture. Jack, who burned down his grandfather’s shed and prized...

When a wife uncovers her husband’s sinister past and terrifying present, she wages a fierce battle to ensure the safety of her family and the integrity of her profession.Tonia Bales married a handsome young man named John Meehan, who offered her a bright future. They had a happy marriage for nearly ten years, weathering the typical challenges couples experience. Then,...

Atop the Ozark Mountains and in the buckle of the Bible Belt, the murder of an eccentric lawyer reveals a tragic family drama and an examination of a community that would rather see some crimes left unsolved.Rolland Comstock lived in what was described as “a Grimm Fairy tale.” With his pet wolves roving the estate and a world-famous book collection...

Mum handed me some papers. 'Here's the brief of evidence if you want to read it.'Brief of evidence?This was a surprise.I retreated to the study to peruse it. Two bank tellers gave statements describing the person who had completed a fraudulent transaction. Blonde, overweight, in her twenties. My mother was forty-five, slim, and was sometimes asked if she was Greek...

Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history—which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious, postwar country grappling with new ideas, demographics, and technologies.The brutal murder of Elizabeth Short—better known as the Black...

From the author of the word-of-mouth breakout hit, A Waiter In Paris, comes an intimate and authentically told true story from the Parisian demi-monde of the 1960s, when the high-life and the low-life went hand in hand. It was a time when the French New Wave of cinema was taking the world by storm, a time of glamour, sports cars,...

An expert in forensic linguistics will teach you how to tell if someone is lying to you by analysing the language they're using. How can you tell if someone is lying to you? Is it possible to separate the truth from lies in what people say? And when should you trust what you hear? Everyone lies. We lie to our...

FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITERWINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman'I loved it' Richard Osman'Shattering' Val McDermid'Gripping' Sarah WatersIn 1953, the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of a Notting Hill house. He tells...

Inside the Mind of Charles Manson dissects the chilling psychology behind the infamous cult leader. Acclaimed crime writer Brad Hunter meticulously examines Manson's insatiable desire for control, revealing the sinister techniques of mind manipulation that allowed him to achieve his cult status. This book goes beyond the headlines, offering a gripping analysis of how a disturbed individual became a true...

A smart, daring and refreshing book - Weekend Australian Deliciously sinister - Herald Sun Why would anyone join a cult? Maybe they're unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they're disappointed with their lives and want to find something bigger or holier that makes sense of this confusing, chaotic and dangerous world. Or maybe...

Published for the 30th anniversary of the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe, aka The Yorkshire Ripper. The Yorkshire Ripper's reign of terror is well known, but many remain unaware of the full truth behind the brutal attacks that shocked the nation many years ago. Countless crucial details of murder, manipulation, and miscarriages of justice have been hidden from the public, and...

Tell kids not to worry. sorting my life out. be in touch to get some things. Instead of being a simple SMS message, this text turned out to be crucial and chilling evidence in convicting the deceptive killer of a mother of two. Sent from her phone, after her death, tell-tale signs announce themselves to a forensic linguist. Rarely is...

'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 . . . a stunning work' - GREG GRANDIN, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fordlandia Growing up in a remote corner of the Amazon, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to...

When police in Rexburg, Idaho, perform a wellness check on seven-year-old J.J. Vallow and his sister, sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when officers return the following day with a search warrant, she, too, is gone. As the police begin to close in, a larger web of...

Fascinating. A book that will be essential reading for every aspiring crime writer Guardian Offers a chilling glimpse into her life's work. Fascinating stuff. Sunday Times Compelling Daily Mirror __________ By the time I arrived at the wood yard in Huddersfield on a bitterly cold night in February 1978, the body of the 18-year-old victim had already been taken to...

"An ugly story told beautifully. Wedderburn will hold you tightly in its grip, and leave an imprint when it lets you go." Myfanwy Jones "In Wedderburn, we see the trauma caused by the blackest of hearts. A desolate yet deeply affecting tale of savage crime in rural Australia." Mark Brandi "Maryrose Cuskelly has the rare gift of telling a true...

'Nicola Tallant, not for the first time, demonstrates why she is the very best writer on crime. No novelist alive could ever imagine the very complex and very dark human dramas that she skilfully unravels, delivering page after page of truth-telling that we must pay attention to.' - Darragh MacIntyre From the author of the 2023 bestselling Cocaine Cowboys, murder...

Winner of BEST NEW AUTHOR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025 Highly commended for BOOK OF THE YEAR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025 Shortlisted for THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION at the 2025 CWA DAGGERS 'Diligent and absorbing' Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian 'Meticulous and unexpectedly gripping' Janice Turner, The Times 'An excellent and open-minded study of the case' Peter...