True crime

The romanticised American gangster of the Prohibition era has proved an enduringly popular figure.

In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector.

The book used by Thandie Newton to research her part in Line of Duty.

Dr Geoffrey Garrett was for over 30 years a Home Office pathologist.

Who are they?

Two experienced Ripperologists have applied their joint knowledge and expertise to the painstaking collation of all the known official records to produce the ultimate Ripper book - a narrative account of the murders encompassing all the known evidence.

Crime Scene Investigtor offers a unique insight into the work and thinking of a major expert in the captivating field of forensic science.

Only thirty-three days after his election, Pope John Paul I,Albino Luciani, died in strange circumstances.

True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charri re who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil's Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud Day, said to be the only US serviceman ever to have escaped to South Vietnam; the six prisoners who escaped from Death Row in Mecklenburg Correctional Center; and Pascal Payeret, the French armed robber who escaped not once, but twice from French prisons with the help of a helicopter.

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Hugely respected, extensively quoted and widely regarded as the 'bible' of Ripper studies, The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z is the ultimate reference for anyone fascinated by the Jack the Ripper mystery.

This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him and Ghislaine Maxwell, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented Epstein's victims for more than a decade.

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontiershedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war.

If deaths are not investigated, then the authorities cannot be held to account and democracy is threatened.

';Compulsory readingfast-paced and brilliantly written' Jeremy BowenAfter Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was filmed going in to the Saudi consulate in Turkey, he was never seen alive again.

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man littwo fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch theinferno.

';Beautifully told by David Grann, one of the best true-crime writers around Nuanced and gripping' Evening StandardNow a major film starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck,The Old Man and the Gun is joined by two other riveting true-crime tales by the author of theinternational Number One bestsellersKILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOONand THE WAGERThe Old Man and the Gun is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modelled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and who, even in his seventies, refuses to retire.

Brilliant psychological suspense from the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC drama.

Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth.

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE BBC'S THREE GIRLS The UK was shocked to its core in May 2012 when a gang of nine men was convicted of the systematic sexual abuse of disadvantaged teenage girls in the Rochdale area.

OBSESSION examines the many violent interpersonal crimes committed against women and the elderly, providing extraordinary insight into what motivates the perpetrators who commit them.

At 6'4"e; and 375 pounds, Jack Garcia looked the part of a mobster, and he played his part so perfectly that his Mafia bosses never suspected he was an undercover agent for the FBI.

Legendary FBI profiler and New York Times bestselling author John Douglas explores the shocking case of John Robinson a harmless, unassuming family man whose criminal history began with embezzlement and fraud - and ended with his arrest for the savage murders of six women and his suspected involvement in at least five disappearances.

At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, wealth and the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife.

Legendary FBI profiling pioneer John Douglas's theory is that once you figure out the motivating force driving a perpetrator, you've got a good chance of cracking the case.

Certain criminal cases have a life of their own.

From the moment they first cut a swathe of crime across 1930s America, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been glamorised in print, on screen and in legend.

Handsome Bruteexplores the facts of a once-renowned, now little-remembered British murder case, the killings of the charming, but deadly ex-RAF playboy Neville Heath.

Smeared by cheap innuendo and false accusations alleging he is responsible for having allowed a bomb aboard Pan Am 103, Micheal T.

The question of why Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald was the central issue of his trial by Judge Joe B.

Emotionally evocative, Reflections From The Shield is an exciting portrayal of the author's career in a family known as the New York State Police.

It was called the trial of the century in a century whose end is now a decade in the past.

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There is an excellent chance this book will save your life.

In 1962, the author embarked on a career with the New York State Police that would span a quarter century.

In Tears From Heaven; Voices From Hell capital punishment issues are discussed from the viewpoint of the victims of violent crime and from those condemned to die on America's death rows.

Stalking is a serious crime that disproportionately affects and endangers women.

On August 30, 1993, Roberta Moore drove to work; it was a cold, rainy morning.

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry.

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide.

In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals.

In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history.

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life.

This booklet by Jonathan Meyer is a wonderful example of combining your personaland professional skills for the benefit of others.

In the middle of Bloumpei, two gun shots set the town in disarray; elders, young men, women, and children ran helter-skelter in a feet help the body fashion.

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"e;This book is a must read for any couple contemplating parenthood.

This book tells about the sins and scandals that go on at a Christian University and how all the donors money are spent.

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On any given morning more than a dozen gun towers eerily protrude through the dense blanket of fog at the waters edge.