True crime

Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthyLee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many others.

A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffardincluding ';Dirty John,' the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.

Falling for a scam or con is humiliating for anyone, and can have terrible consequences.

In the decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of New York City's lower east side nurtured the gangs of New York.

Many people express shock and horror when they hear of a wealthy or famous person killing another person.

The story of sixty years of Scotland Yards top crime-busting department has been written over a twenty year period by a former detective who spent over eight years with the Flying Squad The Sweeney.

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The Number One Bestseller______________For over thirty years, David McDonald worked in Ireland's biggest prisons.

The Number 1 Bestseller'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner* * *Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman.

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When he retired in 2018 Pat Marry had been instrumental in solving dozens of serious crimes, including many murders.

To catch a villain sometimes you just have to become one.

'I was a drug trafficker in the true sense of the word: a pure narco.

'Shanghai's champion storyteller - He grips his reader to the end' Economist'Gripping, breakneck ultra-noir reminiscent of vintage Ellroy' David Peace, author of Red or Dead'If you love Richard Lloyd Parry and David Grann, don't miss City of Devils' Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me1930s Shanghai could give Chicago a run for its money.

"e;A fascinating insight into the country's most famous asylum for criminals"e; which reveals Victorian England's care and management of the mentally ill (Your Family Tree).

Historical accounts of Englishwomen who have killed, their varying motives, and their final fates.

Maurice Morson has reconstructed, in painstaking detail, several of the most shocking and intriguing episodes from Norfolk's criminal history for this gripping study.

The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip.

Much has been written about the soldiers executed during WW1 for military offenses, all of whom were conditionally pardoned in 2006.

A historic account of the Northern England city's crimes, including misdeeds that shed light on past ways of life-from death by neglect to police killings.

The ten Scotland Yard detectives, featured in The Guvnors, are unique.

The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip.

In a superb companion volume to her best-selling book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey, Glynis Cooper turns her attention to the dark side of the past in Jersey.

WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering.

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS AWARD FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE 'Best Sports Book of the 21st Century' SPORTS BOOK AWARD'Gripping .

Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws .

In the early hours of 30 April 2003, twelve armed and uniformed officers accompanied by four plain-clothes detectives burst into Alan Barker's house.

Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision.

As he rose through the ranks of various departments of the Metropolitan Police, Christian Plowman dreamt of being an undercover cop.

On Glasgow's meanest streets life started well for the young Paul Ferris.

Armed Candy is the true story of one woman's struggle for survival on Britain's meanest streets.

When Ron and Reg Kray were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1968, most people thought that was the last they'd hear of two of the most notorious and vicious criminals Britain has ever produced.

Mr Nasty charts the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of a wannabe player in the global narcotics business.

The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial AmericaWas classical piracy an earlier version of state-sponsored terrorism?

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"e;Creepy crawling"e; was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached.

Think You Know Everything about the Lincoln Assassination?

A deep investigation into historical documents that prove the notorious outlaw Jesse James faked his own death *; Presents the legend of Jesse James and counters it with the real story, based on family records *; Provides photographic evidence, a journal of Jesse James's, and historical records that prove James faked his death, verified by experts and civic authorities *; Debunks the 1995 DNA test results of James's supposed remains The story of the notorious outlaw Jesse James's assassination at the hands of Robert Ford has been clouded with mystery ever since its inception.

In this completely revised Texas A&M University Press edition, Guthery and coauthor Fidel Hernndez have breathed new life into a classic work that for more than twenty years has been teaching biologists, managers, and ranchers to think like a quail.

Selvaratnam very bravely and compellingly uses her personal experience to shine a light on the global crisis of violence against women.

"e;If Angela's Ashes and My Dark Place had a .

A collection of Chicago Tribune articles detailing the case and trial of the infamous police officer convicted of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

From John Douglasthe legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1New York Timesbestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix showMindhuntercomes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify andcatch him.

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Killer Across the Table returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer and one of the most disturbing psychopaths he has ever encountered.

An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal by Jessica Stern, one of the world's foremost experts on terrorism.

This landmark study offers a rogues' gallery of women-from the Colonial Era to the 20th century-who answered abuse and oppression with murder: "e;A classic"e; (Gloria Steinem).

The Last Boss of Brighton has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles.