True crime

The daily robbing, bashing, drugging, extortion and murder of foreign tourists on Thai soil, along with numerous scandals involving unsafe facilities and well established scams, has led to frequent predictions that Thailands multi-billion dollar tourist industry will self-destruct.

Karen Lynch was an unlikely person to become one of the first female cops in San Francisco.

Grab your thinking as we probe every part of Presleys mysterious death, FBI involvement, and the sinister forces at work during the final days of his career.

Theres a reason Elvis father hired two private investigators to find his murderer.

Why did Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1957, 12 years after FDRs death, suddenly hire a private investigator to probe the case?

DRAGON'S BREATHBlackmail, sabotage and murder shatter the calm of a Victorian bush town; unrelated acts of evil or evidence of a wider and deeper, Chinese Communist Party plot, to undermine and take over Australia?

Fans of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will embrace Poe Ballantine's Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere.

Since the publication of The Compleat Meadmaker, mead has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in the United States.

Milwaukees Sicilian underworld is something few people speak about in polite company, and even fewer people speak about with any authority.

Father of Organized Crime, Lucky Lucianoborn poor in Sicily, came to New York's Lower East Side in the early 1920s.

For decades, movies and television shows have portrayed FBI agents as fearless heroes leading glamorous lives, but this refreshingly original memoir strips away the fantasy and glamour and describes the day-to-day job of an FBI special agent.

It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908.

It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908.

In 1799, the murder of a young woman caused a terrific stir in the city of New York.

When we think of gangs, we are likely overcome with images of fear and violence.

Cyber Shadows is a tour de horizon of the digital world's dark places, the threats and innovations in cybercrime, espionage, and surveillance - and new attacks moving beyond identity theft to hacking our behavioral patterns, brains, and DNA to buy and sell as lucrative business.

The brutal murders of young Devon and Damon Routier in the early morning hours of June 6, 1996, put their motherDarlie Routierat the heart of one of the most notorious murder cases in modern Texas historydespite her own throat having been slashed to within two millimeters of her carotid artery.

My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone.

On a spring day in 1961, over-the-road trucker Jim Harper was en route from Mauston, Wisconsin, to his home in Minneapolis.

On May 22, 1970, responding to a bogus emergency call to help a pregnant woman, St.

In 1978 seven Norman Rockwell paintings and a supposed Renoir, later discovered to be a forgery, were stolen from Elayne Galleries in St.

Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in historys shadows: Tom Brown.

On a July afternoon in 1972, two masked men waving guns abducted forty-nine-year-old Virginia Piper from the garden of her lakeside home in Orono, Minnesota.

At 9:00 on the morning of March 6, 1963, in the quiet St.

James McLevy, an Edinburgh policeman, was one of the first exponents of the crime genre and a likely influence on the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Corruption has played a pivotal role in determining the current state of the world - from mass poverty in developing countries, to the destruction of natural resources and to the erosion of trust in political parties.

The state of Yucatan has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food.

Hotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.

In this beautifully designed book, Howard Marks' daughter, the writer and lawyer Amber Marks, has collated and curated highlights from Howard´s extensive and, until now, unseen personal archive.

After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify and fascinate us.

The Black Dahlia case.

In his two-decades-long career with the Metropolitan Police, Detective Sergeant Harry Keeble has hunted child murderers and child abusers, drug dealers and hit men.

On a hot summer day in August of 1892, a double murder took place in Fall River, Massachusetts.

On August 4, 1892, an elderly couple living in Fall River, Massachusetts, was slaughtered with a hatchet.

This first book by Pennie Morehead chronicles the life of Judith, the wife of Gary Ridgway, the infamous serial killer of more than 48 women.

After it was announced that the twenty month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted, the entire world grieved for their loss.