This is the story of barbaric murders committed in the dead of night in the midst of a rural community in Joyce Country, on the border between counties Galway and Mayo in 1882.
"e;McNicoll has a keen eye for lurid detail, and her narratives moves along with compelling force"e; - Canadian Book Review AnnualWho were the gangster women who risked everything to stay with the men of the underworld?
Sent to Reformatory at the age of 10, Sicilian-American Sam Giancana lived a gilded life as mobster and mob boss at a pivotal point in history when the mafia decided who ruled America, who lived and who died.
Often, the term 'psychopath' tends to be equated with violent and deranged criminality, but true psychopaths are very different from the way they are portrayed in film or on television.
In April 1871, a constable walking a beat near Greenwich found a girl dying in the mud her face cruelly slashed and her brains protruding from her skull.
In 1984 abusive father Joseph Fritzl drugged his 18-year-old daughter with ether and imprisoned her in a dungeon under his house - she wasn't to see daylight for 24 years.
Wars, raids and rebellions have driven the history of Canada forward from the earliest days of New France, through the two world wars to the present day.
Deep in the Congo's Garamba National Park in the dead of night, Joseph Kony the notorious warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court made a shocking admission.
Deep in the Congo's Garamba National Park in the dead of night, Joseph Kony the notorious warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court made a shocking admission.
Foul Deeds in Islington takes the reader on a sinister journey through a selection of the most shocking and revealing murders committed in this part of north London during the last two centuries.
Foul Deeds in Islington takes the reader on a sinister journey through a selection of the most shocking and revealing murders committed in this part of north London during the last two centuries.
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone takes the reader on a sinister journey through the annals of crime in Folkestone, Hythe and the surrounding area.
The criminal cases vividly described by Nicholas Corder in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Cumbria's long history.