True crime

What do you get when you add together a bottle of whiskey, a bad gambler, a flea-market wig, a plastic gun and a Hungarian bank?

'Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head?

Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common.

'Listen, Leaf,' Pritchard said, 'the hash is neither here nor there.

In 1961, young, black, eighth-grade dropout Wilbert Rideau despaired of his small-town future in the segregated deep south of America.

Lane shows how globalisation has transformed the Mafia into more than simply a local phenomenon.

True crime at its most potent: a riveting account of tracking down and convicting an evil serial killer by the detective who trapped him.

Written within a cloistered environment to protect sources that have yet to be identified, TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE is a chilling portrait of two beautiful, successful women whose murders were made to look like suicides.

On Friday, 17th November 1972, a shocking crime rocked London.

The bastard offspring of cocaine, crack first entered the UK in the early 1990s.

It was a brutal murder, and the trial of the decade.

Leading an FBI Homicide Task Force and having run-ins with drug kingpins, murderers, and serial rapists would be the last thing you would expect from an introvert.

Hellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James Earl Ray, the other one of the greatest American figures of the twentieth century, Martin Luther King Jr.

Alexander Shannon escaped a shady past to enjoy a glittering career in the army, only to end up back in the thick of criminal activity.

ESSEX BOYS is the brand new edition of the shocking bestseller known as SO THIS IS ECSTASY?

Peter Manuel was an icy-eyed psychopath and sexual predator, a petty thief and a relentless liar given to violent and uncontrollable rages.

Glasgow is known as the murder capital of Britain and no one understands why better than Joe Jackson.

Two films and numerous books have attempted to tell the shocking story of two of Britain's most ruthless gangs.

The Abode of Love is Kate Barlow's remarkable account of growing up within the remnants of a religious cult.

Twins Ron and Reg Kray were without doubt the most powerful, violent and deadly gangsters that London has ever known.

Murder Inc.

The day Rose Callaly found her daughter Rachel's battered body was only the start of her nightmares.

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A facsimile edition of a classic source for the history of piracy, as used by Robert Louis Stevenson in the writing of Treasure Island.

In their daily battle against a remorseless tide of crime, officers of Londons Metropolitan Police routinely risk their lives protecting the Capital.

Following the success of their prize-winning account of the infamous killing of PC George Clark - The Dagenham Murder - Linda Rhodes and Kathryn Abnett now reconstruct, in vivid detail, another sensational Victorian murder case.

The history and mythology of hangmen in Yorkshire-an account of crime and punishment in England from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.

The criminal cases vividly described by Paul Harrison in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Glasgow's long history.

To face a trial for murder must be a terrifying prospect, all the more so when you know that you are innocent of the charge.

The word 'murder' has always attracted widespread local and national media coverage.

When the Second World War ended, England was bombed-out and starving, with practically every saleable commodity rationed.

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The third part of James Sallis' sequence of novels featuring Lew GriffinIn a time of anger, activism, and bitter racial tensions, a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer - by tearing up innocent people like paper targets.

One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin's dark and violent past has flickered out.

Part One of the Lew Griffin SeriesThere are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is part time Private Investigator, Repo-man and blues afficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them.

* BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK * LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD *---'Impressive at every level' - Jeremy Vine'Poignant, funny, engrossing' - Jo Brand'A sensitive and immersive voyage through the career of a forensic psychiatrist' - Kerry Daynes'A beautifully balanced and compassionately written memoir.

The scalpel goes down.

In 1973, Myra Hindley, the most notorious woman in Britain, is serving a life sentence for the moors murders - a case that shocked the world.

The dramatic, compelling bestselling true story of how a serial killer was finally unmasked after evading justice for more than twenty yearsNow a major TV series starring Luke Evans1980s.

On the eve of her hanging, Ruth Ellis wrote to a friend: 'I must close now but remember I am quite happy with the verdict, but not the way the story was told, there is so much that people don't know.

THE FASCINATING SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAssaults.

Sarah Sak's son, Anthony Walgate, was murdered by gay serial killer Stephen Port after they met on dating app Grindr.

Praise for Luke and Ryan Hart's memoir:'A powerful, searing account from incredible brothers and an important contribution to our understanding of domestic abuse' Victoria Derbyshire'.

"e;The best book I've read this year"e; Rachael, Goodreads reviewer "e;Fantastic"e; Rachel, Goodreads reviewer "e;Funny, insightful, heart-breaking"e; NetGalley reviewer "e;A magnificent book"e; Jo, Goodreads reviewer Step inside one of Britain's most renowned prisons.

Half-a-million Brits reside full-time in the Costa Del Sol, drawn by the good weather and easy lifestyle.

The FBI estimate that there are between 25 and 50 serial killers at large in the USA at any given time.

The diminutive Joaquin Guzman Loera, known universally by his nickname of 'El Chapo' ('Shorty' in Spanish), is the highest-profile narco-terrorist since the demise of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s.

Is it true that the apple never falls far from the tree?

LONGLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION 2024 ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONHIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BEST NEW AUTHOR AT THE 2024 TRUE CRIME AWARDSJUDGES' CITATION: 'A cleverly constructed account of three different characters representing different aspects of the ruthless and fierce drugs trade.

A completely gripping, gritty crime thriller from UK Top 20 bestselling author John NichollIs it revenge or is it justice?