True stories: general

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.

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.