True Crime

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...

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,...

Philippe Sands / The Ratline : Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF SHAFAK'A taut and finely crafted factual thriller' OBSERVER'A triumph of research and brilliant...

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...

Michael Sheridan / Murder at Ireland's Eye (Large Paperback)

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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...

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...

Kate Colquhoun / Mr Briggs' Hat (Hardback)

  In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was travelling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He entered a First Class carriage on the 9.45pm Hackney service of the North London railway. At Hackney, two bank clerks entered the carriage...

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...

Bastian Obermayer / The Panama Papers (Large Paperback)

 Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents showing a mysterious bank transfer for $500 million in gold. This...

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...

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...

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...

Gerard Doherty / Will You Murder My Husband?: Catherine Nevin and the IRA

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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...

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...

Wallace, Colm - Sentenced to Death : Saved From the Gallows - Historic Irish Murder Cases - PB BRAND NEW

“The fruit of my experience has this bitter aftertaste. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.” Albert Pierrepoint, executioner. Ireland has had a bitter history of capital punishment. Long before we became a...

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...

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...

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...

David McMillan / Escape

  Among the 600 foreigners jailed in the 'Bangkok Hilton', one man resolves to do what no other has done: Escape. This is the true story of drug smuggler David McMillan's perilous break-out from Thailand's most notorious prison. After more than a...

Jimmy Holland / Lost in Care

  Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care, and the beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities,...

John Carreyrou / Bad Blood : Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

 'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018The full inside story of the breathtaking...

Jimmy Guerin / Justice Denied : Significant Unsolved Crimes in Ireland (Large Paperback)

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Paul Williams / Evil Empire : The Irish Mob and the Assassination of Journalist Veronica Guerin (Hardback)

 On June 26, 1996, an international outcry was heard over the assassination of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, gunned down by Ireland's most vicious gang. It was the first European case of what the police called...

Jeffrey Archer / A Prison Diary Volume I : Belmarsh: Hell (Hardback)

 The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of...

Mark Fuhrman / Death and Justice : An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine (Hardback)

   Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Into the debate steps Mark Fuhrman, America's most famous detective, and no stranger to controversy himself.Are...

Joanna Connors / I Will Find You : In Search of the Man Who Raped Me

   A hard-hitting memoir about a woman's search to understand the man who raped herJoanna Connors was thirty years old when she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger.Many years later she realised she had to confront the fear that had ruled her...

Helen Morrison M.D / My Life Among the Serial Killers

   Helen Morrison produces controversial theories as to why people commit multiple murders, having interviewed some of the most notorious killers in the world. Are serial killers born? Does child abuse really play a part in the formation of a...

Catherine Johnson / Con Men

     Con men have many tricks and schemes to part you from your money. This book will help you see when something is just too good to be true! Barrington Stoke specialises in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers. All of...

Misha Glenny / McMafia : Crime Without Frontiers (Large Paperback)

   * In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime.* For three years, he has been recording the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai,...

Paul Williams / Murder Inc.

     Murder Inc. is the latest blockbuster by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams. Murder Inc. is the definitive account of how organized crime exploded in Limerick from the 1990s and in the noughties. It...

Gerry O'Carroll / The Sheriff : A Detective's Story (Large Paperback)

   Since Gerry O'Carroll joined Ireland's Garda in the early 1970s, there has been much bloodshed and plenty of controversy. As one of the force's most distinguished detective inspectors, he has seen his fair share of both. Following his first...

Warren Fellows / The Damage Done : Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison

   Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big...

James Morton / Gangland: The Early Years

    The early criminals were just as violent, dangerous and daring as their more recent relations. After a raid on the American Express in Paris, Eddie Guerin was sent to Devil's Island from which he escaped and survived, probably by eating...

Dana Kollman / Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand : True Life Experiences of an American Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)

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