True crime

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out.

Bristol Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the city but also made national headlines.

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, punishment was intended to be a short, sharp shock, often administered in public to discourage others from committing similar crimes.

Pamela Shields' latest book is about Hertfordshire's many connections with royalty.

The old horse pulled the baker's van along its daily route, stopping and waiting for its usual customers in the peaceful village.

A look at the dark side of life in Bolton, this book provides the reader with a collection of true stories based on real murders.

More Murderous Bolton is a gripping collection of fascinating and true tales of the one crime that still fills people with horror.

Within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most brutal murders and executions committed in the Worcestershire area.

Death in Victorian times was something to be feared whilst at the same time it was treated with an unprecedented degree of observance and ceremony.

Murders in Derbyshire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were not, surprisingly, as numerous as those in other counties in the Midlands region.

In the Middle Ages, Norwich was the largest city in England apart from London.

The Winnats Pass, a limestone gorge near Castleton in the Derbyshire Peak District, is famed for its picturesque beauty.

In relating the cases heard in the Courts of the County Assize in Gloucestershire nearly two centuries ago this book offers a variety of examples of the sins and sinners of those days, together with a fascinating insight into the consequences of those wrongdoings.

Death Ride From Fenchurch Street and Other Victorian Railway Murders offers a compelling account of the first murders to be committed on Britain's railways, at a time when the terrified screams of the victims were drowned out by the sound of the train's steam.

Covering an area from Liverpool to London, Canal Crimes explores the whole range of criminal activity on Britain's Waterways during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Espionage is one of the world's oldest professions, and it played an integral role in Allied successes and failures during the Second World War.

The mass migration of folk from the countryside to Bradford at the height of the Industrial Revolution resulted in large numbers of people existing in abject poverty, as thousands were housed in filthy and overcrowded rooms and cellar dwellings.

During the autumn of 1888 a serial killer stalked, brutally murdering his way through the East End of London.

On 8 August 1963, just about 30 miles north of London, a red light brought the 'Up' Travelling Post Office to a halt.

In 1910 Cora Crippen, an unsuccessful music-hall artiste known as Belle Elmore, was murdered by her husband Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, at their London home.

The case of Jack the Ripper and his savage serial killing and horrendous mutilation of five women in the East End of Victorian London is the greatest of all unsolved murder mysteries.

Murder is a deliberate act which exposes the worst of human traits.

'I stood in the dock looking at the judge's expressionless face.

Ripper Murders From Old Photographs is not a standard retelling of the story of the Whitechapel Murders but the tale of historically important photographs connected to the case, discovered by the author in 2007.

The murders in London between 1888 and 1891 attributed to jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases.

In 1888 the unknown brought death and terror to the streets of Victorian London's East End.

221B Baker Street was the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle's 'consulting detective'.

In that stately Fitzrovia house, the butler was murdered by a disgruntled pantry-boy; in that one, a king's housekeeper lost her life.

On 20 January 1931, Mrs Julia Wallace was brutally battered to death in the parlour of her home in Anfield, Liverpool.

A smuggler .

Finally solves the mystery of the Victorian serial killer who murdered and mutilated up to 11 women in London in 1888.

The starting point for any investigation is a curiosity, and that curiosity will lead to questions.

The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother.

**Includes fascinating stories about Billy Fullerton, leader of the Billy Boys, featured in the latest series of BBC's Peaky Blinders**'A new type of criminal is in our midst - a dangerous, ruthless, well-armed man, who will stick at nothing, not even murder.

In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more interconnected, with terrifying consequences.

This is the story of an international group of drug smugglers, their criminal success and the hunt to bring them to justice.

From Tony Thompson, bestselling author of Gang Land and Outlaws, GANGLAND BRITAIN is a picture of crime from within the ranks of the Hell's Angels, the Yardies, the Triads and the Yakuza, as well as the more traditional old-style East End gangs.

On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its 'Number One Enemy', the legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone, with a motorway bomb that also killed his wife Francesca and three bodyguards.

An outlaw motorcycle club is a band of brothers like no other.

In Flesh and Blood, Sunday World Investigations Editor, Nicola Tallant looks at the rising phenomenon of murder-suicide in Ireland, at events which, while shocking in the extreme, happen in tight-knit communities, behind the closed doors of apparently loving homes.

From the bestselling author of The Hard Way Out and for fans of Sons of Anarchy comes a new book that reveals the cold, dark and dirty secrets of the biker underworldHells Angels.

Two men photographed each other stealing thousands of dollars from gambling machines.

Praise for Canadas Most Overrated Bank RobberStanding at the foot of the scantling .

The shocking true story of a Canadian biker turned informant, in the vein of Gangland Undercover and Under and Alone, now a national bestsellerDave Atwell was a regular suburban Canadian kid who rose to the heights of society, rubbing elbows with billionaires as a personal security specialist before getting involved with some of the countrys most notorious gangsters as a member of first the Para-Dice Riders and then the Hells Angels.

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearIn this engrossing must-read by Canadas most accomplished popular historian (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated.

True-crime writing at its finest.

Jerry Langton is a veteran journalist whose work has appeared in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Daily News (New York) and many other publications.

Drawing on a wealth of articles written by by National Post journalists including Christie Blatchford, Jonathan Kay, Andrew Coyne, Chris Selley and more, How Rob Ford Happened examines the precipitous rise and calamitous fall of one of the most controversial public figures in Canadian political history.