True stories: general

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.

Paul Dale grew up in Yackandandah wanting to be a cop.

More stories from the biggest-ever collection of Australian true crime.

It's a shocking thing when love turns to hatred, and hatred turns into bloodshed.

“Those kids are my heroes and by actively deciding to help them continue their fight with a little more hope, you’re one of my heroes, too.

The Crime of the Century.

The biggest-ever collection of Australian true crime stories.

An unforgettable memoir about one woman's story of overcoming neglect in the U.

In the late 1950s the reputation of Brighton as a popular seaside resort took a sinister and notorious turn.

Love is the strongest emotion.

It's hard to believe Mozambique is a country which rarely has stories written about it, when truly extraordinary things happen to the people who live there.

Every year, many marriages end in murder.

In a motel room on the east side of the city, a little girl is brutally murdered by her mothers sadistic boyfriend for failing to know her ABCs.

A New York Times BestsellerLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept.

In this new collection of stories by Australia's true crime queen, Robin Bowles shines a light on women who have done hard time.

Exchange student Jamie Penich left her small Pennsylvania hometown to see the world, but her journey ended with a brutal attack in a shabby motel room in Seoul, South Korea, where the raven-haired 21-year-old was found naked and stomped to death.

From secretive online followers to jealous ex-lovers and obsessed admirers through to random strangers and crazed criminals, this unnerving book will provide an insight into the minds of stalkers, and reveal how their sinister actions affect their victims.

Would you want to walk in the footprints of the author?

Lory Kikks, age fifteen, is a music prodigy, scoring seven chart-topping hits and two Grammy Awards in her short two-year career.

For more than 100 years the poverty of Glasgow's slums fuelled the violence of the gangs.

Born in Rome in 1965, Angelica A.

Cheryl Ann Araujo is The Accuser.

We have all seen the CSI-type TV shows characterized by the beautiful women with their ample bosoms and low-cut tops and the dashing, debonair men who find the one hair follicle that will solve the case.

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

Stop the propaganda!

For decades, a war to control Glasgow's streets has been waged.

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.

Stuart Rattle and Michael O'Neill were the perfect couple.

In the twenty-first century, Glasgow is still a city living down a fearsome reputation for crime.

Beauty pageants, bad musicals, bizarre diseases, and more: it’s all covered in this collection of fascinating trivia and full-color pictures!

Eavesdropping on Evil details the police hunt for their two colleagues' killers and the emotion-charged courtroom drama of the two accused.

"e;A stupendous feat of reportage.

Pretending to be dead is one of the more bizarre ways to opt out of society.

Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement.

Praise for The Rescue"e;Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Japan's 'Z Plan' (the decisive-battle strategy for destroying the U.

This is my story is about growing up in the Appalachian Mountains.

Larry Thompson was one of the most wanted people in the country.