True crime

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Durham spans four centuries, with over fifty terrible tales of man's inhumanity to man, which are related in the pages of this book.

An exploration of the dark history lying at the heart of this scenic tourist destination, from the author of Britain's Greatest Private Detective.

What Made George Lumb Shoot his Mother?

Stories of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip.

Another trawl through the records of dastardly deeds, this time around Yorkshire, taking in the whole of the boundaries of the ancient West Riding, which stretched as far up as Sedbrough in the north-west, just beyond Todmorden in the west, north to Kirkby Malzeard and east to Selby and Goole.

The criminal cases vividly described by Bernard Lewis in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Swanseas long history.

True stories of malice, perversion and despair that reveal the dark, sometimes lethal side of history in these two London boroughs.

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham and Chadwell Heath takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way murderous husbands and lovers, cut-throats, police-killers, highwaymen, Gunpowder Plotters and even a Nazi collaborator sentenced to death for High Treason.

Sheffield born actor and author Geoffrey Howse delves into his files covering over 200 years of Sheffield's criminality.

Sheffield born actor and author Geoffrey Howse delves into his files covering over 200 years of Sheffield's criminality.

Domestic terrorism.

Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home.

When companies suffer a dramatic even catastrophic drop in their share price, it is the investors who lose their shirts and employees their jobs.

An indispensable introduction to the darker side of life, revealing the often strange and grisly stories behind the world's most infamous murderers, swindlers and crooks.

The colorful characters of the Cosa Nostra, the ruthlessness of the Russian Mafia, and the drive by shootings of the LA street gangs have all hit the headlines in recent times, catching the public eye with lifestyles that appear at once exciting and menacing.

This highly illustrated true crime book gives you the inside track on the latest developments in murder and mayhem - in full colour.

Kathryn Bonella lifts the lid on Bali's nightmarish narcotics underworld.

For millions of people across the world, lighting up a joint is no more controversial than having a cup of tea.

In February 1874 Alfred Packer staggered out of the Colorado mountains and into the Los Pinos Indian agency.

James 'Whitey Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters.

The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement.

An unputdownable true crime story set in the pulp-fiction obsessed world of 1930s America.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns.

In 1981 amid recession and widespread urban unrest Dave Watson left the building trade to join the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police.

The author of Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer examines a different series of grisly unsolved murders in Victorian-era London.

Strangeways Gaol opened in 1868, and replaced the New Bailey Gaol, where public executions had taken place before their abolition that same year.

London's West End is associated with fashion and glamour but for centuries it has had a far darker side.

The history of the old county of Yorkshire has been concerned with the great and the good, the ambitious and the downright unscrupulous.

This arresting miscellany is jam-packed with intriguing and enlightening stories, facts, and trivia about all manner of murderers, miscreants, and malcontents.

'At every turn the gripping writing reminds you of a world of spies and betrayal that was so much a part of life in post-war Europe.

Discover how forensic scientists are changing how we solve crime REVISED UPDATED EDITION The most remarkable weapon in the fight against crime, forensic science turns bullet trajectories, bodily fluids, and the very structure of our DNA into damning witnesses of our every act.

John Tawell was a sincere Quaker but a sinning one.

A compelling introduction to the global impact of organized crimeRuthless, cruel, and irresistibly cool: the Mafia has always appealed to the darker side of the imagination.

Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of a GBP300 million hedge fund fraud and the wild-goose chase through Europe by its drug-fuelled manager for a lucrative "e;secret market"e; beneath the financial market we all know.

With shocking new details from Madoff himself The definitive account of the worlds biggest Ponzi scheme an instant New York Times bestsellerWho was Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?

In 1919 the author"e;s great-grandmother, Beth, gave birth to triplets.

The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed and the decline of traditional crime-family values.

Clubland UK is a story of violent men and the worlds they inhabit.

From Salford to St Louis, former professional boxer Wayne Barker fought every man who ever challenged him.

The last time that anyone heard from 35-year-old Claudia Lawrence, a chef at the University of York, was when she sent a text message to a friend on 18 March 2009 at 8.

Fact is often stranger than fiction, and when Rod McLean, an escaped drug baron and alleged MI6 agent, was mysteriously found dead in a London flat after two months on the run, even Hollywood couldn't have scripted it better.

Better To Be Feared is the true story of a 48-year-old businessman who, having pled guilty to perpetrating a fraud involving a fake business contract, was plunged into the dark world of life inside some of Britain's hardest jails.

Trouble in Mind is bernard o'mahoney's unblinkingly honest account of his eventful life so far.

Crimelord is the gripping life story of elusive multimillionaire gangster Tam McGraw.

There was one partner the pretty young women who danced away the 1960s in Glasgow's Barrowlands were desperate to avoid: Bible John, so named because he quoted scripture to his victims.

Following Michelle and Lisa Taylor's conviction of the savage murder of Alison Shaugnessy, Bernard O'Mahoney embarked on a successful crusade to prove their innocence.

Grass is the incredible story of Phil Sparrowhawk, a working-class boy with gambling in his blood.