True Crime

Sarah Forsyth / Slave Girl : Abducted by traffickers. Sold as a sex slave. This is my true story.

 Sarah Forsyth has spent most of her life in fear. After overcoming the hurt and heartbreak of a horrific childhood, Sarah managed to build a new life for herself as a nursery nurse.Then, one day, she spotted a newspaper advert for a job in a creche...

Nicola Tallant / The Witness (Large Paperback)

 'A superb book... Joey's story is extraordinary and its authenticity and relevance to the times we're living in is stunning' Eamon Dunphy'Gritty, terrifying and the most incredible true gangland story you will ever read. The Witness is hard to put...

Nick Foster / Murder at Roaringwater (Large Paperback)

 Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of the final days of young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. This is a violent, unresolved murder, where the victim seemed to have a premonition of her own terrible end.For six years, Nick Foster has...

Stephen Breen / Fat Freddie (Large Paperback)

 'Explosive' Irish Sunday Mirror'A fascinating read' Sean O'Rourke, Today with Sean O'Rourke, RTE'Fat' Freddie Thompson first appeared in court in 1997. He was seventeen and already aspiring to be a major crime boss. Over the next twenty years his...

Nicola Tallant / Clash of the Clans (Large Paperback)

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Marie Cassidy / Beyond the Tape - The Life and Many Deaths of a State Pathologist

 The Number One bestselling memoir from Ireland's former state pathologistIn 1997, Dr Marie Cassidy arrived in Dublin from Glasgow. There to discuss a possible deputy state pathologist post with Professor John Harbison, instead she was whisked by...

Abigail Dean / Girl A

 LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTONS CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR'The year's best debut' SUNDAY TIMES'The best crime novel of the year' INDEPENDENT'Sensational. Gripping, haunting, and beautifully written' RICHARD OSMANCHOSEN AS A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE...

Mike James / Women Who Kill Viciously

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Robert Sabbag / Snowblind

  When it was first published in the mid-seventies, Snowblind established itself as an essential piece of true crime writing. The story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who...

Charles Bronson / Bronson (Hardback)

  Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement, during which time he has gained a fearsome reputation as one of the world’s toughest and most dangerous convicts. He has been locked in dungeons, in iron boxes cemented...

Suzanne OMalley / Are You There Alone? (Hardback)

 As a journalist, Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary Yates hours after their mother, Andrea Yates, drowned them in their suburban Houston home in June 2001. Over twenty-four months, O'Malley interviewed...

William C. Rempel / At The Devil's Table

 AN IMPOSSBLE CHOICEJorge Salcedo was trapped. For years, he had climbed the ladder inside the Cali drug cartel, the world's most powerful crime syndicate, and risen to Head of Security. But he'd kept clean, avoided the dirty work, managed to sleep...

Gerri Chanel / Saving Mona Lisa

 In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history.As the Germans neared Paris in 1940,...

James Durney / The Mob : The History of Irish Gangsters in America (Hardback)

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Gregg Hill / On The Run (Hardback)

  Henry Hill's business partner, Jimmy Burke has whacked every person who could possibly implicate him in the infamous Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport. On his way to prison, lifelong ganster Henry is given two options: sleep with the fishes, or...

Martina Cox / With Hope in Your Heart : The Sean Cox Story (Large Paperback)

 A remarkable story of turning heartbreak into hopeLife as we know it can change in an instant, in the blink of an eye. And it did for Martina Cox and her family in 2018. On an ordinary day in April of that year, Sean Cox travelled to Anfield to...

Ioan Grillo / Gangster Warlords (Large Paperback)

 In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In...

Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy

 The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'Recruited after...

T. Christian Miller / Unbelievable

 The real-life investigation behind the hit Netflix series, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists.SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARDShe said she was raped.Police said she lied.She was made to retract the report - but the nightmare only got...

Karen Edwards / A Killer's Confession: And a Mother's Fight for the Truth (Hardback)

 A mother's fight to bring her daughter's killer, Christopher Halliwell, to justice'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what would have been my daughter's 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and...

Reg Kray / A Way of Life (Hardback)

  This is "Reggie's" story, a diary of his life, with reflections on the past and the role he found for himself "on the inside". It is a story of courage and remorse, revelation and friendship. For the first time, he speaks of his marriage to...

Ross Kemp / Ganglands: Russia

  Trojan Industries are in Russia and there's a new gang in their sights. Eagles 88, a twisted group of Neo-Nazi extremists, are terrorizing the streets of Moscow, attacking innocent civilians. Can Alexi Zukov, Trojan's latest teenage recruit,...

Dirk Kurbjuweit / Fear (Large Paperback)

 You'd die for your family. But would you kill for them?Family is everything.So what if yours was being terrorised by a neighbour - a man who doesn't listen to reason, whose actions become more erratic and sinister with each passing day? And those...

Tom Lyons / Fingers : The Man Who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and Cost US €5.4bn (Large Paperback)

 Michael Fingleton was an Irish banking legend, the ultimate big money lender. He took Irish Nationwide Building Society from an obscure mortgage provider to a multi-billion euro property-lending casino, leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab for...

Diane Fanning / Written in Blood

 Accident or Murder?The Petersons seemed like the ideal couple: well-respected, prosperous and happy. All that came crashing down December 2001, when Kathleen apparently fell to her death in their secluded home. But blood-spattered evidence and a...

Christopher Berry-Dee / Talking with Female Serial Killers

 Christopher Berry-Dee, criminologist and bestselling author of books about the serial killers Aileen Wuornos and Joanne Dennehy, turns his uncompromising gaze upon women who not only kill, but kill repeatedly.Because female murderers, and...

Shirley Sleator / Private Investigator

 In 1979 Shirley Sleator set up her own private investigation agency in Dublin to do just that. The work came flooding in and Shirley soon found herself the detective of choice for many corporate clients, working on cases that took her the length...

Ken Boyle / The Murder of Dr Muldoon

 A priest and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin's north inner city in February 1923. Three local women notice the couple's suspicious behaviour and apprehend them. The two are handed over...

Marie Cassidy / Beyond the Tape - The Life and Many Deaths of a State Pathologist (Large Paperback)

 In 1997, Dr Marie Cassidy arrived in Dublin from Glasgow. There to discuss a possible deputy state pathologist post with Professor John Harbison, instead she was whisked by police escort to a Grangegorman murder scene. There was no turning back.She...

Michael Clifford / A Force for Justice : The Maurice McCabe Story (Large Paperback)

 The full story of the single greatest scandal in Irish policing history - from the journalist who brought it into the national arena.When, in 2008, Sergeant Maurice McCabe complained of shoddy investigations into serious crime in County Cavan,...

Brian Radford / Caught Out : Shocking Revelations of Corruption in International Cricket (Hardback)

 International cricket is being contaminated by crooked players, ruthless gamblers and bent officials. This staggering catalogue of revelations exposes appalling scandals involving the biggest names in the sport. Often under enormous pressure from...

Jack Riley / Drug Warrior

 'I WANTED TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE CARTELS. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT HARD FOR YOU.BUT AS I WOULD SOON FIND OUT, THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE IT HARD FOR ME, TOO.'Infiltrating cartels and bringing down...

Dick Lehr / Whitey

From the bestselling writers of Black Mass, now a major film, comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger - the most brutal modern day mafia boss since Gotti.Drawing on previously classified material, Whitey tells the story of James J. 'Whitey'...

Kate Summerscale / The Wicked Boy

 Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr...

Chris Moore / The Bankrupt, the Conman, the Mafia and the Irish Connection

  Colin Lees was everybody's friend. A successful businessman in the little town of Magherafelt, Co. Derry, he had charm, good connections and was a winner. Until, that is, it all went wrong. It all went wrong in 1992. His business empire...

Tom Reddy / Murder will out (Large Paperback)

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Kennerk, Barry - Shadow of the Brotherhood : The Temple Bar Shootings - PB - BRAND NEW

The true story of a fascinating manhunt launched to track down the Fenian assailants of two Dublin Metropolitan Policemen in Temple Bar, 1867. When gunmen disappear into the Dublin fog, they leave two seriously wounded police constables in their wake...

Richard Preston / The Hot Zone (Hardback)

  As the tropical wildernesses of the world are destroyed, and nature's balance is thereby upset, previously unknown viruses are ready to emerge from the wreckage and enter human populations. In 1967 in Germany, a healthy monkey-keeper died a...

Michaella McCollum / You'll Never See Daylight Again (Large Paperback)

 The gritty prison memoir of Michaella McCollum, one half of the infamous 'Peru Two', imprisoned in a Peruvian jail for attempting to smuggle 11kg of cocaine from Peru to Madrid in August 2013.She was just a regular girl, spending the summer working...

Michael Clifford / A Force for Justice (Large Paperback)

 THE UPDATED BESTSELLERSergeant Maurice McCabe never set out to be a whistleblower. When, in 2008, he complained of shoddy investigations into serious crime in County Cavan, nothing could have prepared him for what was in store.For exposing gross...

Dillon Martin / The Trigger Men (Hardback)

 In "The Trigger Men", Martin Dillon delves into the dark and sinister world of Irish terrorism and counter-terrorism. Over three decades, he has interviewed and investigated some of the most professional, dangerous and ruthless killers in Ireland...

Wensley Clarkson / Armed Robbery (Hardback)

  In the last fifty years, the changing face of British crime has turned the UK into the wild west of Europe. For decades drugs dominated the UK underworld, but in recent years a spate of major robberies - or heists - has grabbed the headlines...

Robert Baer / See No Evil

 See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of...

Paddy Hayes / Break-Out!

  In 1940 German prisoner of war Hans Marschner managed to saw his way out of Mountjoy, only to be recaptured; in 1943 a young girl eating breakfast was surprised by twenty-one men emerging in her coal shed from the tunnel that had brought them...

Carl Chinn / Peaky Blinders - The Real Story

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable...

John Silvester / Underbelly : The Gangland War

  They called Carl Williams 'The Truth' but the truth was he was just a fat kid with a pill press and a taste for fast food, women and bucks. He got lucky the day Jason Moran shot him in the belly instead of the head. Carl didn't return the...

Gitta Sereny / Cries Unheard (Hardback)

  Pieces together the damaged life of Mary Bell, who aged 11 was tried and convicted of manslaughter after the death of two young boys. Only as an adult has she been able to realize the moral enormity of her crimes. The story of her life forces...

Pat Marry / The Making of a Detective (Large Paperback)

 When he retired in 2018 Pat Marry had been instrumental in solving dozens of serious crimes, including many murders.But as a newly qualified garda in 1985, Marry had no idea how to become a detective. He soon realised he would have to learn on the...

Claire Welch / Crimes of the Century: Gangs

  Gangs have been a way of life for decades, and while the culture may be different today, living on the edge of society is still a mainstay for gang members. Weapons are still part of the package and violence and intimidation prevail. It wasn't...

Paddy Armstrong / Life After Life (Large Paperback)

 Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images that flash through my mind are hardly believable - sometimes, it feels like I'm remembering someone else's life. The truth is, I've lived three very different lives: the one before...

Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback)

 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on...

Mark Bowden / Finders Keepers (Large Paperback)

  Times were hard for Joey Coyle. A dockworker from a struggling neighbourhood of south Philadelphia, Joey lived with his ailing mother and a drug habit he could barely support. One February afternoon in 1981, he was on his way to score when he...