True stories: general

The Gripping Inside Story of Melbourne's Gangland War.

A serial killer is on the loose in Washington, DC.

This memoir about a friend’s murder—and the mystery surrounding her daughter’s role in it—is “a true-crime work that digs deeper” (Foreword Reviews).

100 crazy stories of America's dumbest criminals.

Robert Lee only knew his great-grandfather James Erskine briefly when he was very young.

Jovanka's comfortable life comes to an abrupt end as her husband of twenty-five years casually suggests a marital breakup.

On a cold November morning a fourteen year old paperboy was delivering his route when he saw a brightly wrapped package on the roof of a parked car.

Most killers are men.

A Heart-breaking Account of Love and LossWhen newly separated mum, Cindy Gambino, dropped her boys off to spend Father's Day 2005 with her estranged husband, she had no idea she would never see them alive again.

Peace Came in the Morning is based on a true story.

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Marina, une femme de 38 ans et Júlio sont en couple depuis une dizaine d'année, mais leur relation n'est pas aussi satisfaisante qu'avant.

When it comes to the bloodthirsty and cruel, Australia's bleak homicidal past stands alone throughout the world.

KILLERS, CROOKS AND CONS chronicles the astonishing crimes that horrified 20th-century Scotland.

This gripping anthology of the stories our history teachers didn't tell us includes: the fugutive whose favoruite food was his fellow escapers, the granny who giggled while her victims died in agony; the coral island awash with the blood of the Batavia killings; the lady-killing cad who rivalled Jack the Ripper; the monster of Norfolk Island; voluptuous Lola Montez; the gun molls whose kiss meant death; thegangsters who tried to kill our greatest sporting legend; and the musical genius who sang of the joys of flagellation.

Based on a true story a young Welsh womans trial and conviction leads to a violent cauldron of events.

The largest mass murder in Canada's history and how the Canadian court system let a killer go free On the night of April 7, 2006, eight members of the motorcycle gang the Bandidos were killed execution style and left in a farmer's field near London, Ontario.

From a New York Timesbestselling author: A searing account of cold-blooded murder as told by ';one of the chief practitioners of the true crime genre' (The Baltimore Sun).

My story is part of my life.

The true story behind the notorious serial killer Peter Manuel, and Detective William Muncie's quest to bring him to justice, recently dramatised in the major ITV drama In Plain Sight.

Isaac Newton was accorded a semi-divine status in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereby his image linked together religion and science.

It used to be thought that no single person could rule the mean streets of Glasgow.

One hundred years ago the nation reeled at the brutal rape and murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan and the arrest of her accused killer, Leo Frank.

In this beautifully designed book, Howard Marks' daughter, the writer and lawyer Amber Marks, has collated and curated highlights from Howard´s extensive and, until now, unseen personal archive.

It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908.

Following a deadly car crash, small-town lawyer Lance Cooper risked everything to battle one of the most powerful auto corporations in the world to get justice for a young woman.

In the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly unstoppable German war machine.

A Glimpse Back is a true story about a couple living in a rural southern town on a plantation with a wife who had no more than a seventh-grade education and a husband that has never seen the inside of a schoolhouse.

Petite and feisty, Pam Phree, founder of Phree Bail Bonds, is one of the first female bail bonds agents in a male dominated field, partnered with Mike Beakley, an insightful, quick-witted, former narcotics officer, bounty hunter they take on the underground world of prostitution, drug dealers, AIDS, organized crime and murder while fighting to make changes and dispelling the myths about the bail bond industry in Betrayal, Murder and Greed: The True Story of a Bounty Hunter and a Bail Bond Agent.

As seen on ABC's The Con, an "e;engrossing account of wine fraud and forgery"e; that duped some of the biggest names in the elite world of wine collecting (Wall Street Journal) In 2002, Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething, burst into the privileged world of ultrafine wines.

'GRIPPING' - THE TIMES'FASCINATING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED' THE SECRET BARRISTERHow can you speak up for someone accused of a savage murder?

En este informe se presentan los resultados de los estudios sobre el cultivo de amapola correspondientes a los períodos de monitoreo 2015-2016 y 2016-2017, realizados conjuntamente por el gobierno de México y la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (UNODC, por sus siglas en inglés) en el marco del proyecto MEXK54, Sistema de Monitoreo de Cultivos Ilícitos en el Territorio Mexicano.

What would you do if you were me?

For 132 years the ghastly and horrific murders committed in London's East End by the infamous 'Jack the Ripper' have gripped and baffled the world.

On the night of Monday, May 4, 1998, in Vatican territory, the bodies of the commander of the Swiss Guard, his wife, and a young lance corporal were found in the barracks of the picturesque force entrusted with protecting the pope.

The book contains eleven dramatic and often horrifying stories, each describing the life of a different prisoner in the camps and prisons of communist Albania.

Your lover is the one person who should have your back, right?

Corinne Hofmann describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles, with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback.

Can you shoot your wife while sleepwalking?

Critical acclaim for William B.

Graeme Pearson is one of the UK's most outspoken and respected senior police officers.