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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.

A true story of violence and punishment that illuminates a transformative moment in Guatemalan historyOn the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Dv?

“This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison” and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era (The Guardian, UK).

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the Soviet-era gulags to become Russia's international criminal class.

"e;Astringent and absorbing.

Death Claims is the second of Joseph Hansen's acclaimed mysteries featuring ruggedly masculine Dave Brandstetter, a gay insurance investigator.

Fadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay.

The true story of a sensational marriage and murder in 17th-century London.

In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington.

In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the Land of Famine.

When we think of the Kray Legend, we think of Sixties London, an underground culture that has all but vanished.

Drawing on exclusive final interviews with Frank, and with unprecedented access to his closest relatives, Mad Frank and Sons follows his rise from a small kid stealing to put food on the table to a feared and respected West End crime lord and head of a legendary gangland family.

In the world's most dangerous trouble spots, a small band of men risk their lives to fly in desperately needed aid.

Welcome to Alphabet City, Manhattan's most crime-ridden neighbourhood with murder, rape and violence hitting record levels the streets, fuelled by a drug problem that's got the city by the throat.

'I thought I was the biggest dope smuggler.

The Gripping Inside Story of Melbourne's Gangland War.

The courts have made up their minds, now it's your turn.

Hours more entertaining reading from the biggest ever collection of true crime stories.

April 2014: A ship sinks in South Korea, killing nearly 300 people.

New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports.

Discover the haunting untold true story of the woman whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman.

Discover the haunting untold true story of the woman whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman.

On a hot and dusty Sunday in June 1872, 13-year-old Mary Secaur set off on her two-mile walk home from church.

On a hot and dusty Sunday in June 1872, 13-year-old Mary Secaur set off on her two-mile walk home from church.

This book provides a comprehensive sociological explanation for the emergence and continuation of organized crime in Chicago.

A thrilling true crime narrative and groundbreaking historical account, Dime Novel Desperadoes recovers the long-forgotten story of Ed and Lon Maxwell, the outlaw brothers from Illinois who once rivaled Jesse and Frank James in national notoriety.

Quan l'assassinat es converteix en estructura d'estat«No soc mala persona, però hi ha gent que se'ls ha de matar».

Strawberries are big business in California.

Finally for the first time in over 40 years, the shocking true story behind the trial of most infamous serial killer in British criminal history comes to light.

First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a back-country Georgia road in 1964, nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Much of the produce that Americans eat is grown in the Mexican state of Baja California, the site of a multibillion-dollar export agricultural boom that has generated jobs and purportedly reduced poverty and labor migration to the United States.

Counter-Colacharts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'I was a very vulnerable young woman with three small children.