True Crime

David L. Owen / Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them (Coffee Table Book)

Hidden Evidence takes you to the scenes of 40 infamous crimes and into the heart of the forensic investigations. These are the true crime shockers that have grabbed headlines and aroused public passions. David Owen explains the scientific procedures...

Martin Fido / The Chronicle of Crime : TThe Infamous Villains of Modern History and their Hideous Crimes (Coffee Table Book)

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John George Pearson / The Profession of Violence - The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may...

Judith Tebbutt / A Long Walk Home

This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates;...

John Glatt / The Doomsday Mother

At first, the residents of Kauai Beach Resort took little notice of their new neighbors. The glamorous blonde and her tall husband fit the image of the ritzy gated community. The couple seemed to keep to themselves--until the police knocked on their...

Detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda / I Will Find You : Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime

Detective Lt. Joe Kenda, star of the successful crime documentary series Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, shares his deepest, darkest, and never before revealed case files from his 19 years as a homicide detective. Joe Kenda investigated 387...

Allen Foster / Foster's Book of Irish Murder

to James Finnegan’s demise, how one man’s dream led to a mysterious death being solved, and how a woman’s corpse seemingly fell from the sky in Clare. Foster’s Book of Irish Murder is full of victims and monsters, heroic...

Robin Barratt / Bouncers and Bodyguards

"Bouncers and Bodyguards" is a collection of astonishing true stories about the tough world of personal protection and nightclub doors from some of Britain's most notorious figures. Read how Charlie Bronson helped his friends out on the doors of his...

Marc Goodman / Future Crimes

Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside. Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative, adopters of technology and modern times have lead to modern crimes. Today's criminals are...

Jayne Sterne / Destroyed

When eight-year-old Jayne left bomb-torn Northern Ireland, her family stayed with relations and a distant relative began a campaign of abuse so horrifying that her world was shattered forever. When the family moved again, Jayne thought the nightmare was...

Mark Brandon Read / Chopper 6 : No tears for a Tough Guy

Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read is Australia's most famous standover man and one of its most prolific authors. He has written eleven volumes of memoirs and a crime fiction bestseller. Now, from inside a maximum security jail where he is serving an...

Minette Walters / A Dreadful Murder : The Mysterious Death of Caroline Luard

A body is found in the woods . . .Based on the true story of the shocking murder of Mrs Caroline Luard, which took place in Kent in August 1908.Caroline Luard is shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds of a large country estate. With few clues...

Ron Halliday / Evil Scotland

Scotland is one of the friendliest and most hospitable countries in the world. Yet it has a sinister side that includes a history of horrific murders, satanism, ritual killings, supernatural occurrences, alien abductions and phantom beasts. All of...

Martin Dillon - The Sorrow and the Loss: The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women - BRAND NEW

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Martin Dillon returns to shine a light on the role of women in the Troubles, amplifying voices long silenced by the din of history. Through raw and compelling testimonies from both sides of the community,...

Pan Publishing / Gotcha! (5 Book Box Set) ( UK True Crime )

Gotcha! (5 Book Box Set) - true crime with a UK flavour from Pan Publishing -  Valerie McLean / Married to the Guv'nor Reg and Ron Kray / Our Story Ronnie Knight / Gotcha Freddie Foreman / Getting it Straight Charlie Richardson / My Manor

Igloo Books / Serial Killers (Hardback)

Why does someone become a serial killer, murdering not once, but over and over again, in a planned and methodical way? How does murder become such a cold and calculated act? Ted Bundy, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Fred and Rosemary West, all are...

Ian Brady / The Gates of Janus : Serial Killing and Its Analysis (Hardback)

''To understand human character, one must first explore the depraved reaches of human consciousness'' An edited edition of notorious Moors Murderer Ian Brady's account of murder.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Michael Varnado / Victims of Dead Man Walking (Hardback)

A vivid eyewitness account of the investigation into the murder of Faith Hathaway by Robert Lee Willie and Joe Vaccaro.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in...

Robert Cooley / When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down (Large Paperback)

A Chicago mob attorney describes his double life as an FBI informant; his role in bringing down the Chicago Outfit, perhaps the most powerful family in the history of organized crime; and his new life in the Witness Protection Program. By the author of...

Hilary Burrage / Female Mutilation: The Truth Behind the Horrifying Global Practice of Female Genital Mutilation (Large Paperback)

The numbers of girls and women affected around the world are staggering. Death is not an uncommon outcome. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the partial or complete removal of the external female genitals for cultural rather than medical...

Charles W. Socarides / The Mind of the Paedophile (Large Paperback)

The Mind of the Paedophile discusses one of the most controversial and misunderstood subjects in the psychoanalytic arena today - paedophilia. A variety of treatments and therapies, including brain surgery, electric shock treatment and incarceration,...

Giacomo Papi / Under Arrest: A History of the Twentieth Century in Mugshots (Large Paperback)

What is so fascinating about a mug shot? Is it the guilty pleasure of seeing the mighty fall? Or the voyeuristic appeal of witnessing people at their most vulnerable? Arrested collects hundreds of these flashes of humanity from the last 150 years Brown...

David Fine / The Beat: Life on the Streets (Large Paperback)

Who are the women who walk the beat in Dublin’s red-light districts? How did they get there? Why do they stay? What happens when they try to leave? What are their lives really like? The Beat: Life on the Streets in a fascinating, disturbing account...

Scott H. Decker , Barrik van Winkle / Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence (Large Paperback)

This study is based on three years of field work with ninety-nine active gang members and twenty-four family members. The book describes the attractiveness of gangs, the process of joining, their chaotic and loose organization, and their members'...

Howard Marks / Mr Smiley: My Last Pill and Testament (Large Paperback)

Howard Marks has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But determined not to go quietly into the night, he has decided that it is time to release Mr Smiley, the story of his last, and arguably his biggest ever, drug scam at the height of the '90s ecstasy...

Clint Willis / Mob: Stories of Death and Betrayal from Organized Crime (Large Paperback)

Adrenaline Books' search for the world's best and most exciting stories has taken readers from the peaks of Everest to the jungles of Papua, New Guinea to the battlefields of World War II. Now, the editor of publishing's most successful adventure...

Jon Shatford , William Doyle / Dome Raiders How Scotland Yard Foiled the Greatest Robbery of All Time (Large Paperback)

The Press called it 'THE HEIST OF THE MILLENNIUM' and 'A PLOT WORTHY OF JAMES BOND'.In 2000, a gang of villains from the South East of England hatched an audacious plan to steal the world's largest perfect diamond from the Millenium Dome in broad...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Central Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2023 ( Murder Most Local - Book 6 )

This is the 6th book in the Murder Most Local Series of County Cork. This covers all the remaining county From Ballincollig to Mallow, Glanmire to Fermoy and everywhere in between. Like the books for the rest of Cork, this book tells the stories of...

Rastello Luca / I Am The Market (Large Paperback)

This is the story of ordinary, respectable men, who behind the scenes have managed to rise to the peak of the international narcotics trade. It is not the story of those who swallow capsules, but those who smuggle cocaine in cargo shipments, in...

Beatrix Campbell / Goliath (Large Paperback)

In this book the author argues that the violence, joyriding and urban rioting of 1991 reveal a new face of late 20th-century Britain. Through her conversations with joyriders, offenders, police officers, community activists and "ordinary" citizens, the...

Bob Woffinden / Hanratty : The Final Verdict (Hardback)

James Hanratty was executed on 4 April 1962. It was one of the last executions to take place in Britain, and has remained the most controversial of all. The murder for which he was convicted and killed was known as the A6 Murder Case. Even as the verdict...

William Bratton , Peter Knobler / The Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic (Hardback)

When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City's police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold The NYPD would fight crime in every borough...and win.  It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can't win the war on crime...

Ben Mezrich / Sex on the Moon (Large Paperback)

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an...

Billy Hayes & William Hoffer / Midnight Express ( Film Tie In )

  For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport, tried, and sentenced to 30 in a Turkish...

David Seabrook / Jack of Jumps

Between 1959 and 1965, eight prostitutes were murdered in West London by a serial killer. These murders were the most notorious unsolved crimes of the 20th century. The killer's motive and identity were the subject of endless speculation by the media,...

Colin Blaney / Grafters: The Inside Story of the Wide Awake Firm, Europe's Most Prolific Sneak Thieves

Updated with new photographs. Colin Blaney's "Grafters", originally published in 2004, was a ground-breaking expose of the links between criminal gangs and football hooliganism. In the intervening period the book and the phrase have become part of the...

Ray , Sean O'Riain / Condemned: Letters from Death Row

Condemned:Letters from Death Rowby "Ray" and Seán Ó Riain is a collection of letters between a former Cork teacher and a death row inmate that develops into a unique friendship-one thatis in itself a subtle, rallying cry against an American...

John Marlowe / Forcible Confinement: Monstrous Crimes of the Modern Age

This book is a study of the warped thinking that went into some of the world's most macabre crimes, as well as a clinical examination of the purpose-built rooms, hidden spaces, and soundproof dungeons increasingly prepared for victims. John Marlowe takes...

Adam LeBor / The Believers: How America Fell for Bernard Madoff's $65 Billion Investment Scam

How 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...

Cath Senker / Cybercrime and the Dark Net

With the emergence of the internet new forms of crime became possible. From harassment and grooming to fraud and identity theft the anonymity provided by the internet has created a new world of crime of which we all must be aware. The threat of hackers...

Paul Holes / Unmasked: Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**"It’s a mark of the highest honor when I say it’s even more riveting than an episode of 'Dateline'."—The New York TimesFrom Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State...

Mia Flores & Olivia Flores / Cartel Wives : A True Story of Deadly Decisions, Steadfast Love, and Bringing Down El Chapo

An astonishing, revelatory, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.Olivia and Mia Flores are married...

William Balsamo / The Mafia : The First 100 Years

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Jim McDowell / The Mummy's Boys

They were the last of Ulster s Brigadiers of Bling . The Shoukri brothers - Andre and Ihab - were both Brigadiers in the Province's biggest paramilitary organisation - the Ulster Defence Association. They were also gangsters and drugs Godfathers who...

Michael Sheridan / Murder at Shandy Hall: The Coachford Poisoning Case (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Paul Williams / Gilligan... (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Paul Williams / Murder INC. (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

'The rise and fall of Ireland's most dangerous gang' This book has been signed by the author - to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a...

Piers Paul Read / The Train Robbers - Their Story(Vintage Paperback)

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Ciarán Prior - Traces of Truth : A CSI Investigates Life and Death- PB - BRAND NEW 2024

BRAND NEW - PUBLISHED 19TH SEPTEMBER 2024 ''This book recounts some of the more significant instances of grief, tragedy and sorrow I encountered throughout my crime scene investigation career. Along with some relevant snapshots from my earlier frontline...

Kate Summerscale / The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (Large Paperback)

In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the...

Sara Payne, Linda Watson-Brown / Letters to Sarah

"It has been seventeen years since you went missing, princess. It has been twenty-five years since you were born. There have been too many Christmases without you …"In the summer of 2000, schoolgirl Sarah Payne went missing from a beach where she...

Mia Flores, Olivia Flores / Cartel Wives: A True Story of Deadly Decisions, Steadfast Love, and Bringing Down El Chapo

An astonishing, revelatory, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.Olivia and Mia Flores are married...