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.
A National Bestseller and Edgar Award nominee, Son of a Grifter is Kent Walker's memoir about growing up with killer con artist Sante Kimes as a mother.
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.
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.
'Funny, twisty, bloodthirsty' JULIE MAE COHEN 'An absolute joy of a thriller' SARAH BONNERKirby Cornell needs a break from everything:- Her crumbling flat in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its award-winning sausage rolls and a second-rate serial killer from the 90s).
He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
One of the greatest escape stories I ve ever read Mail on SundayAn ordinary man s extraordinary escape from Mao s brutal labour campsXu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao s regime and forced to spend years of his youth in China s most brutal labour camps.
A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her husband through coercive control and continual physical and sexual abuse.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.