True crime Books
Penguin Putnam Inc Zodiac Unmasked
Book SynopsisRobert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac—America''s most elusive serial killer.Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven murders, he manipulated the media with warnings, dares, and bizarre cryptograms that baffled FBI code-breakers. Then as suddenly as the murders began, Zodiac disappeared into the Bay Area fog.After painstaking investigation and more than thirty years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac’s true identity. With overwhelming evidence he reveals the twisted private life that led to the crimes, and provides startling theories as to why they stopped. America’s greatest unsolved mystery has finally been solved.INCLUDES PHOTOS AND A COMPLETE REPRODUCTION OF ZODIAC’S LETTERSTrade Review“A SCARY AND DISTURBING ACCOUNT OF PURE EVIL.”—Booklist“FASCINATING...LIKE READING A BRAND NEW MYSTERY.”—Inspector Dave Toschi“[GRAYSMITH’S] ACCESS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS. A meticulous reconstruction of the way the case evolved. By far the best book on the subject of the Zodiac murders.”—New York Press
£10.51
Octopus The Women Are Not Fine
Book SynopsisThe untold story of the women behind the greatest mass poisoning of the 20th centuryThe women in Nagyrev are desperate. They are suffering. `They are being abused by their husbands.They are feeding their newborns to livestock.Midwife Zsuzsanna Fazekas first arrived at the village of Nagyrev, Hungary in 1911 to assist the impoverished women with abortions. She offered them a solution: arsenic, made of kitchen larder flypaper boiled with vinegar. But when they told her of the violence they were suffering at the hands of their husbands, she concluded, Why put up with them?Nearly twenty years later, it had spiralled into an epidemic and the greatest mass poisoning event of the 20th century.But it wasn''t murder of their unborn children. It was the murder of their husbands.In THE WOMEN ARE NOT FINE we follow these women to the noose.
£15.29
Little Brown and Company The Idaho Four
£26.25
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dead Names
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£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc Lets Kill Mom
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£8.99
Crown Publishing Group (NY) Mothers Reckoning
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan’s mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not known something was wrong? Were there subtle signs she had missed? What, if anything, could she have done differently? These are questions that Klebold has grappled with every day since the Columbine tragedy. In A Mother’s Reckoning, she chronicles with unflinching honesty her journ
£13.19
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Chase the Devil
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£25.00
The History Press Ltd A Dangerous Place
Book SynopsisA Dangerous Place is the first full-length account of the crimes of John Duffy and David Mulcahy. Told by the son of one of the police officers who led the enquiry, exhaustively researched and with unprecedented access, this is the story of two of the most notorious serial killers of the twentieth century and the times they operated in.
£12.34
Clinical Press The MadDoctors of Calne
Book SynopsisThe historical account of true crime by psychiatrist, and medical historian, Dr Peter Carpenter.I heard the scuffle on the landing. I jumped out of bed, opened the door, and in she rushed, exclaiming Master he has murdered me! I shall die! I shall die! I closed the door and bolted it It's 1859 and the murderer was previously a kind gentle surgeon who was seen as one of the pillars of society one time Mayor of Calne, magistrate and operator of the Calne Lunatic Asylum.All the details and analysis of the murderer and his family.
£11.40
Globe Pequot Press Naming Jack the Ripper
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£19.96
Orion Publishing Co The Believers
Book SynopsisHow America fell for financier Bernie Madoff''s $65 billion investment scam.It was luxurious Palm Beach, by the manicured lawns and Olympic-sized swimming pool, that financier Bernard Madoff ravaged the world of philanthropy and high society he had strived so hard to join, vaporising the assets of charities, foundations and individuals that had trusted him with their funds. It seems nothing was sacrosanct to Madoff, possibly the greatest con-man in history. Even Elie Wiesel''s foundation has lost tens of millions. How could Madoff, a pillar of the Jewish community, do this to a Nobel Laureate and Auschwitz survivor? But Wiesel was hardly alone in trusting the rogue financier. How could some of the most sophisticated and worldly people in America fall victim to a collective delusion for year after year? THE BELIEVERS answers these unsettling questions. It opens up the clubbish world where Madoff operated, tracing the links from Palm Beach and The Hamptons to tTrade ReviewAdam LeBor explains the Madoff phenomenon brilliantly...a very good analysis * EVENING STANDARD *His intelligent study offers disquieting glimpses into the fin-de-siecle lifestyle of America's financial elite * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *LeBor calls Madoff a modern "schtarker", or gangster, who used technology, charm and brilliant social connections to rule, and, ultimately, destroy. His motivation was deep and determined - the result speaks for itself * CITY.AM *In these turbulent times we want a morality tale, dressed up with glamour and glitz, about how Madoff seduced and shafted the rich, sophisticated and stupid. LeBor stumps up these rewards in a lively story that will satisfy even the economically literate * THE TIMES *This book brilliantly answers the "How?" question about Bernie Madoff and his giant Ponzi, or pyramid-selling, scheme. Madoff used a mixture of charm, arrogance and breathtaking cruelty -- Brian Appleyard * NEW STATESMAN *A fascinating, poignant, subtle portrait of the United States itself -- Simon Sebag Montefiore * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *The chilling message of this account is that no regulatory regime, however sophisticated, can ever totally protect us from the chameleon fraudster * THE SCOTSMAN *LeBor's great strength, in addition to a page-turning journalistic style, lies in his detailed and perceptive analysis of how and why so many so-called experts were fooled for so long * THE OLDIE *Adam LeBor explains the Madoff phenomenon brilliantly...a very good analysis. -- William Leith * LONDON EVENING STANDARD *his intelligent study offers disquieting glimpses into the fin-de-siecle lifestyle of America's financial elite * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
£10.99
Random House USA Inc Who Killed These Girls The Unsolved Murders That
Book Synopsis“A true-crime page-turner.... Lowry exhausts every possible scenario behind the shocking, unsolved quadruple murder ... and offers a theory on what really happened.” —New York PostGripping, moving, and as good as any depiction of a murder case since In Cold Blood.... Brilliant. —Ann Patchett, award-winning, bestselling author The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged, burned bodies of four girls—each one shot in the head—were found in a frozen yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror overtook the city. But after eight years of misdirected investigations, only two suspects (teenagers at the time of the crime) were tried; their convictions were later overturned and detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. The story has grown to include DNA technology, coerced false confessions, and other developments in
£9.49
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Deadly Dozen Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old
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£24.75
Revel Barker Joyce McKinney And The Case Of The Manacled Mormon
£13.62
JFK Lancer Productions & Publications Someone Would Have Talked
£22.21
Little, Brown Book Group Signs of Murder A small town in Scotland a
Book Synopsis''Enthralling ... will leave true-crime readers with more to ponder than they bargained for'' - The Herald From the UK''s leading criminologist comes the true story of Margaret McLaughlin, and the man he believes was fitted up for her murderBefore David Wilson became the UK''s pre-eminent criminologist, he was just a young boy growing up in the Scottish town of Carluke. As a child, the brutal murder of a young woman rocked this small community, but very quickly a man was arrested for the crime, convicted and put behind bars. For most, life slowly carried on - case closed. But there were whispers in the town, that the wrong man was imprisoned. Over the years, these whispers grew louder, to the point that any time David would visit, friends and acquaintances would ask in hushed tones: ''But what are you going to do about the Carluke Case?''Carluke believed that a young man had been wrongly cTrade ReviewThis should be essential reading for any budding detective as it navigates the reader through the opportunities and risks involved in the search for evidence and truth -- Tom Halpin QPM, Deputy Chief Constable (Retired)
£18.00
Duke University Press Every Last Tie
Book SynopsisEmotional, moving, and powerful, Every Last Tie is the highly personal memoir of David Kaczynski—brother of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber—in which he discusses his family, comes to terms with his brother's crimes, and meditates on the possibilities for reconciliation and maintaining family bonds.Trade Review"Compelling and quietly dramatic, the author's story, which is followed by a brief afterword by psychiatrist James Knoll, seeks not to excuse his brother but rather to humanize him. As Knoll suggests, understanding the mentally ill 'with an open heart' is an activity in which not only affected family members, but also the whole of society must engage for the good of all. Powerfully provocative reading." * Kirkus Reviews *"David Kaczynski’s reflective and resolutely unsensational memoir reveals how difficult it was to accept even the possibility that his older brother, Theodore, might be a terrorist." -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *"In Every Last Tie, Mr. Kaczynski gives a compelling personal account of his relations with his brother and the anguish he experienced upon realizing that Ted was one of the most wanted terrorists in America." -- Edward Jay Epstein * Wall Street Journal *"This slim, intriguing book is the story of a family whose two sons lead different lives. David Kaczynski's voice is quietly thoughtful, and his writing is lovely; he ranges from family anecdote to psychological puzzle to philosophical musing while retaining an even tone. Every Last Tie is both a straightforward story and a complex consideration of an extremely difficult one." -- Julia Jenkins * Shelf Awareness *"[R]emarkable for its slenderness, humility and tact. ... Kaczynski devotes a thoughtful, affectionate chapter to each member of his immediate family." -- Susan Choi * Washington Post *"Every Last Tie is extraordinarily insightful—but also instructive. By analyzing his own capacity for causing pain, David brings his brother close enough to learn something from him." -- Malcolm Harris * The New Republic *"[T]he perspective on these events is obviously somewhat different when offered directly from a family member, not filtered through the eyes of a reporter. ... [Kaczynski] succeeds at the most difficult task of a book like this, writing about his brother’s victims with sensitivity and restraint." -- Michelle Dean * The Guardian *"The book is an admirable attempt to examine Ted’s early life, offering us glimpses of a more psychological humanity. Most important, David reveals the roots of Ted’s affinity for nature and his increasing alienation from a world that he saw as driven by technological advancement and a digital revolution. ... [M]any of the recollections are revealingly intimate instances of a precocious but troubled boy." -- Nathan Smith * Pacific Standard *"We already knew that the younger Kaczynski was a compassionate and ethical man–he turned in his brother, but only after he thought that the death penalty was off the table. This memoir reinforces what it took for him to lead authorities to Ted, and offers ways for the rest of us to move forward with empathy." -- Kel Munger * Lit/Rant *Table of ContentsPreface xi 1. Missing Parts 1 2. Life Force 31 3. Ghost within Me 61 4. North Star 81 Afterword / Dr. James L. Knoll IV, MD 105 Acknowledgments 137 Index 139
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Albatross Funnybooks Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
Book Synopsis“It is fantastic! Not only is Eric Powell's art on point, but Harold Schechter introduces some new ideas about Ed Gein that have never been heard.” - THE LAST PODCAST ON THE LEFT“A natural choice for true-crime fans.”―BOOKLIST“As extensively researched as the Alan Moore/Eddie Campbell Jack the Ripper graphic novel From Hell, ”Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?” is a masterpiece of the form, standing as the best possible dramatization of Ed Gein's tale in any medium.”―BLOODY DISGUSTING“This is a new true crime comics essential.”―SYFY WIREOne of the greats in the field of true crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Killer Files, Hell's Princess), teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell (The Goon, Big Man Plans, Hillbilly) to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged serial killers in American history, Ed Gein.Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? is an in-depth exploration of the Gein family and what led to the creation of the necrophile who haunted the dreams of 1950s America and inspired such films as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs.Painstakingly researched and illustrated, Schechter and Powell's true crime graphic novel takes the Gein story out of the realms of exploitation and gives the reader a fact-based dramatization of these tragic, psychotic and heartbreaking events. Because, in this case, the truth needs no embellishment to be horrifying.
£22.94
Time Warner Trade Publishing Filthy Rich
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£16.14
Little, Brown Book Group The Last Yakuza
Book Synopsis''Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else'' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo ViceMakoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force -- the yakuza.Saigo, nicknamed ''Tsunami'', quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger.The internal politics of the yakuza are dizzyingly complex, and between the ever-shifting web of alliances and the encroaching hand of the law that pushes them further and further underground, Saigo finds himself in the middle of a defining decades-long battle that will determine the future Trade Review'Adelstein tells Saigo's story with a relish for its comic aspects [and] an understated feeling for its pathos... one comes away from The Last Yakuza finding its subject not just sympathetic, but even lovable' * Telegraph *'The Last Yakuza might be a work of non-fiction, but it reads more like a thriller... a gripping read' * Irish News *
£15.29
St Martin's Press Whoever Fights Monsters
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£9.59
Barricade Books Inc The Mafia And The Machine: The Story of the
Book SynopsisThe story of the City of Fountains - Kansas City - and the events that unfolded within it, shaping the entire Mafia underworld.
£17.09
Penguin Publishing Group Provenance
£17.00
John Blake Publishing Ltd The World's Most Evil Gangsters
Book SynopsisAlthough organised criminal groups have been an ever-present menace to our cities, in the last decade gangs have snowballed into one of the most terrifying problems facing Britain today. Seducing disillusioned youngsters into their ranks, vicious crews have declared open war in a desperate attempt to gain control of the lucrative drug trade...murder, kidnapping and intimidation have become all too common. In south Manchester, the feud between the Gooch Gang and the Doddingtons became so vicious that peace-keepers from America's Crips and Bloods were flown in from Los Angeles to broker a deal. Across the United States, the Crips now boast some 35,000 members from all ethic backgrounds - African-American, Caucasian, Hispanic and Asian - while the Bloods have made an alliance with the old-time Lucchese crime family, once one of the 'Five Families' of New York and still a pillar of the Cosa Nostra.
£7.59
Random House USA Inc The Innocent Man
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone terribly awry. In the Major League draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the state of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution’s case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.Don’t miss Framed, John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, co-authored with Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey.
£999.99
Penguin Books Ltd Zero Zero Zero
Book SynopsisNOW A MAJOR SKY ATLANTIC SERIES From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this searing exposé reveals how dirty money and the drug trade are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our worldIn many countries, 'zero zero' or double zero flour is the finest, best flour on the market. Among narco-traffickers, then, 'zero zero zero' is the nickname for the very purest, highest quality grade of cocaine. From Mexican cartels to Milanese financiers, Guatemalan mercenaries to Ukrainian warlords, Calabrian traffickers to the traders in Wall Street and London who wash the money clean, this is an unforgettable story that goes around the globe and through every level of society to show the extent to which the drug trade affects us all.Weaving together stories, interviews, wiretaps and his own experience of the criminal underworld, Saviano reveals an international narco-state, which, in the wake of the financial crisis, is now the pillar of our global economy. It is the perfect synthesis of modern capitalism, where everything is for the taking - and all is consumed, ruined and destroyed.Trade ReviewThe most important book of the year ... Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as pure capitalism ... Saviano realises the brutal truth: that to understand narco-traffic is to understand the modern world ... it is revolutionary -- Ed Vulliamy * Observer *Impassioned . . . a literary style that switches from vivid descriptions of human depravity to a philosophical consideration of the meaning of violence in the modern world. -- Misha Glenny * Financial Times *Vivid . . . lands a resounding thump to the solar plexus * Economist *A powerful work of reportage . . . it goes to the heart of the financial sector's dependence on drug capital and its depredations -- Ian Thomson * Telegraph *After reading Saviano, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again. * The New York Times *Saviano is a blazingly vivid and courageous writer. * Independent *Saviano has an astonishing ability to write luminously yet subtly about terrible things. * Le Parisien *A national hero. * Umberto Eco *Brave and passionate * Guardian *Saviano should be commended for his bravery, and supported by all who share his revulsion. * Observer *
£10.44
Vintage Publishing Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic
Book SynopsisTHE MULTI-AWARD WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4Why would you kill your neighbour?Based on the best part of a decade embedded with the homicide units of the LAPD, this groundbreaking work of reportage takes us onto the streets, inside the homes and into the lives of a community wracked by a homicide epidemic.Through the gripping story of one particular murder – of an eighteen-year-old boy named Bryant Tennelle, gunned down one evening in spring for no apparent reason – and of its investigation by a brilliant, ferociously driven detective – a blond, surfer-turned-cop named John Skaggs – it reveals the true origins of such violence, explodes the myths surrounding policing and race and shows that the only way to reverse the cycle of violence is with justice.Trade ReviewRiveting … extraordinary … For long passages, it enveloped and transported me more completely than any other work of nonfiction I have ever read -- Ed Caesar * Sunday Times *Lucid, revelatory, superbly written, incredibly timely. I was astonished by Jill Leovy's Ghettoside in which police and race in America are examined with forensic skill and furious, exceptional prose. Unmissable. -- Chris CleaveExceptional. This book will take an honoured place on the shelf that includes David Simon's classic Homicide -- Martin AmisFantastic. Not just a gritty, heart-wrenching, and telling book, but an important one. Everyone needs to read this book -- Michael ConnellyThe best crime journalism since Serial * Esquire *
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Out of Orange
Book SynopsisThe real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time--a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond. Fans nationwide have fallen in love with Orange Is the New Black, the critically acclaimed and wildly popular Netflix show based on Piper Kerman''s sensational #1 New York Times bestseller. Now, Catherine Cleary Wolters--the inspiration for Alex Vause, Piper''s ex-girlfriend, friend, and sometimes-romantic partner on the show--tells her true story, offering details and insights that fill in the blanks, set the record straight, and answer common fan questions.An insightful, frustrating, heartbreaking, and uplifting analysis of crime and punishment in our times, Out of Orange is an intimate look at international drug crime--a seemingly glamorous lifestyle that dazzles unsuspecting young women and eventually leads themto the seedy world of prison. Told by a woman originally thrust into the spotlight without her permission--Wolters learned about Piper''s memoir in the media--Out of Orange chronicles Wolter''s time in the drug trade, her incarceration, her friendships andacquaintances with odd cellmates, her two marriages, and her complicated relationship with Piper. But Wolters is not solely defined by her past; she also reflects on her life and the person she is today.Filled with colorful characters, fascinating tales,painful sobering lessons, and hard-earned wisdom, Out of Orange is sure to be provocative, entertaining, and ultimately inspiring--Trade Review"A powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond." -- Publishers Weekly "It's a riveting tale, told well and full of lessons for those willing to listen. ... detailed here in a voice that is heartfelt and honest, toughening when it needs to but remaining steadfast." -- Eloise Kinney, Booklist "Don't mistake Wolters's sticking to the facts for lack of engrossing intrigue. Anecdotes about her globetrotting and law-breaking-not to mention her affair with Kerman-make for can't-put-it-down entertainment." -- Next Magazine "Wolters's accessible and honest memoir opens the door and invites readers in. Patrons won't meet Alex Vause, the sultry drug-trafficking queen of OITNB. Instead, they'll meet Wolters-a woman with aspirations, whose missteps take her on unexpected journeys. -- Library Journal "Where Piper's account has given us a voyeuristic look at prison life that allows us as a nation to congratulate ourselves on being so well adjusted and normal compared to the people whose lives we can't stop watching, Wolters' book sounds much more authentic, insightful, and heartbreaking." -- Tattle "In [Wolter's] book, she tells an honest and emotional tale of the decisions and the mistakes she made, as well as the struggle to keep them from defining the rest of her life. -- Amos Lassen, Reviews by Amos Lassen In prose that is brilliant (at times breathtaking), Cleary also offers us a story of regret and redemption...She writes unflinchingly about her ordeals in the violent and overcrowded prison system." -- Janet Mason, Huff Post Books
£999.99
HarperCollins Bind Torture Kill
Book SynopsisReveals the horrific tale as seen through the eyes of the killer, Denis Radar, his victims, the investigators, and the reporters who covered it all.
£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Stolen Innocence
Book SynopsisIn September 2007, a packed courtroom in St George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This title tells the story of one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her life.Trade Review"Wall's story couldn't be more timely. Her descriptions of the polygamous sect's rigidity are shocking, but what's most fascinating is the immensely likeable author's struggle to reconcile her longing for happiness with her terror of it's consequences." -- People
£14.37
Penguin Publishing Group Murder Machine
Book SynopsisThe inside story of a single Brooklyn gang that killed more Americans than the Iraqi army.—Mike McAlary, columnist, New York PostThey were the DeMeo gang—the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
£9.49
Monsoon Books Bali Raw
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Hodder & Stoughton Girl in the Cellar The Natascha Kampusch Story
Book SynopsisThe first book to investigate one of the most notorious kidnapping cases of our times and how Natashca survived eight years in captivity. Written by two journalists who have been tracking the case ever since her disappearance, it contains a wealth of exclusive new information.Trade Review'A riveting account of the trials of Natascha Kampusch... The authors have come as close as possible to uncovering the full and shocking story.' * The Sun *'An astonishing true story' * News of the World *'Reveals more twists' * Grazia *
£10.99
Pocket Books The Cases That Haunt Us From Jack the Ripper to
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Milo Books How To Rob A Train: The Man Behind Britain's Most
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Monsoon Books Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye: True
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Empire Publications Ltd Two Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald: A Tale of
Book SynopsisOf all the millions of words written in anger or certainty regarding arguably the greatest murder mystery of all time, the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, one testimony remains glaringly absent. The deposition of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, was silenced by Jack Ruby''s bullet before he could tell his story to a shocked and grieving world. The Two Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald is a unique work. No other book in the public domain concentrates on Lee Oswald''s point of view; a young man caught up by, then hopelessly trapped in, history. From the moment of his return from the Soviet Union, Oswald became tangled in a web of intrigue, deception and murder. And yet, no amount of speculation or rumour mongering can lend history in general and Oswald in particular, his own words. "I''m just a patsy!" Oswald screamed, as he was led along a corridor in the Dallas Police Building, shortly after his arrest that fateful weekend. We will never truly know how innocent, or guilty, Oswald was. But his memory deserves a hearing. The most accurate hearing possible.
£8.54
Picador USA Secrecy World
Book SynopsisNow a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio BanderasTwo-time Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit from these activities, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to look the other way. In Secrecy World, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonsecaa trove now known as the Panama
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Open Road Media Evidence of Love
Book Synopsis The “fascinating” true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty’s utility room that morning was all too real. Based on exclusive interviews with the Gore and Montgomery fa
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mollys Game Movie TieIn
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Random House USA Inc The Ratline
Book SynopsisA tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, a mysterious death in the Vatican, and the Nazi escape route to Perón's Argentina,the Ratline—from the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street.Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable. —John le Carré, internationally renowned bestselling authorBaron Otto von Wächter, a lawyer, husband, and father, was also a senior SS officer and war criminal, indicted for the murder of more than a hundred thousand Poles and Jews. Although he was given a new identity and life via “the Ratline” to Argentina, the escape route taken by thousands of other Nazis, Wächter and his plan were cut short by his mysterious, shocking death in Rome. In the midst of the burgeoning Cold War, was he being recruited by the Americans or by the Soviets—or perhaps both? Or was he poisoned by one side or the other, as his son believes—or by both? With the cooperation of Wächter’s son Horst, who believes his father to have been “a good man,” award-winning author Philippe Sands draws on a trove of family correspondence to piece together Wächter’s extraordinary life before and during the war, his years evading justice, and his sudden, puzzling death. A riveting work of history, The Ratline is part historical detective story, part love story, part family memoir, and part Cold War espionage thriller.
£999.99
Random House Canada Hard Road
Book SynopsisThe founding father of Canadian bikers shares the story of his fascinating life.
£13.29
Aspen Publishing White Collar and Corporate Crime: A Case Study
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Hachette Australia The Husband Poisoner
Book Synopsis**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime**Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members. For readers of compelling history and true crime, from critically acclaimed, award-winning author Tanya Bretherton.After World War II, Sydney experienced a crime wave that was chillingly calculated. Discontent mixed with despair, greed with callous disregard. Women who had lost their wartime freedoms headed back into the kitchen with sinister intent and the household poison thallium, normally used to kill rats, was repurposed to kill husbands and other inconvenient family members. Yvonne Fletcher disposed of two husbands. Caroline Grills cheerfully poisoned her stepmother, a family friend, her brother and his wife. Unlike arsenic or cyanide, thallium is colourless, odourless and tasteless; victims were misdiagnosed as insane malingerers or ill due to other re
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Random House USA Inc Veritas A Harvard Professor a Con Man and the
Book SynopsisFrom the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author comes the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard.In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star religion professor at Harvard, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she’d found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene “my wife.” The mysterious manuscript, which King provocatively titled “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” had the power to topple the Roman Catholic Church. It threatened not just the all-male priesthood, but centuries of sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and women’s leadership, much of it premised on the hallowed tradition of a celibate Jesus. Award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar covered King’s announcement in Rome but left with a question that no one seemed able to answer: Where in the world did this history-making papyrus come from? Sabar’
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Silvertail Books American Ruin: Life and Death on the Streets of Detroit - America's Deadliest City
Book SynopsisWhen Michael Matthews first visited Detroit, he was grimly fascinated by the place. The sheer scale of the crime and desolation was unlike anything he had seen before. He was hooked, and returned whenever he could. Over dozens of visits, he got to know the people – cops, reporters and gang members as well as ordinary Detroiters trying to live their lives in peace – and formed deep bonds with them, which led him into places and situations no writer has ever seen before. AMERICAN RUIN is the story of Michael’s journey into the soul of this broken city, a shocking, violent and heart-breaking portrayal of a modern tragedy. Detroit was once the richest city in America, celebrated around the world for its prolific car production and flourishing music scene – the American Dream come true. Then came its fall. Detroit became the deadliest place in America, with more murders per capita than any other major city in the country. With drugs and guns rife on the streets and its administration riddled with corruption, the city was dying and anyone who could was getting out. AMERICAN RUIN is an explosive portrait of a city trying desperately to get back on its feet and the people prepared to give everything for their home.
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Duckworth Books Things We Didnt Talk About When I Was a Girl
Book SynopsisFifteen years ago, Jeannie's relationship with a close friend ended in rape. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, recurring nightmares have returned and to process her conflicted feelings of betrayal she resolves to face her trauma head-on.Trade Review'Cuts through the silence of deep betrayal, gives contour to the aching space between forgiveness and absolution, and offers a living testament to the endless wreckage of sexual assault’ Amy Jo Burns, author of Cinderland'Explodes rape culture at the level of language, shows us how we are trapped and how we might make ourselves free. This is a brilliant book, an astonishingly fierce inquiry into the places language won't go' Emily Geminder, author of Dead Girls 'Vanasco has written exactly the book we need right now. I wish everyone would read it' Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me'Brave and compelling... Vanasco muddles through the silt of her thoughts to create a language for something we don’t talk about' Paris Review, staff pick'Brave and urgent... a searching, brilliant book and Vanasco is a formidable talent. We are lucky to have her' Daniel Gumbiner, author of The Boatbuilder'Wickedly clever and powerful... a necessary book' Krystal A. Sital
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Cedar Fort Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial
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