True Crime

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...

Lee Israel / Can You Ever Forgive Me?

 Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy-Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as...

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...

Ross Kemp / Gangs (Hardback)

 Across the world millions of people are members of street gangs. In groups they fight, stab, rob, rape and murder anyone who isn't one of their own. And when rival gangs meet - what you get is warfare.Ross Kemp infiltrates these groups of criminals...

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,...

Mark Bowden / Killing Pablo (Large Paperback)

  This work charts the rise and spectacular fall of the Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, richest and most powerful criminal in history. The book exposes the massive illegal operation by covert US Special Forces and intelligence services to...

Zoe Patterson / Trafficked Girl

 When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a residential unit known to be 'a target for...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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Ken Foxe / Snouts in the Trough : Irish Politicians and Their Expenses - PB - 2010

From the salubrious offices of John O'Donoghue, the former Ceann Comhairle, to Senator Ivor Callely's long commute to work, award-winning journalist Ken Foxe provides an irresistible read. This is an eye-opening glimpse into the world of unearned...

Tom Reddy / The Murder File : An Irish Detective's Casebook

 For nearly twenty years, Superintendent George Lawlor was head of the Murder Squad in Ireland. The Murder File is a collection of the murders that George Lawlor investigated and solved in the course of his distinguished career.Lawlor was a...

Michael L. Sheridan / Frozen Blood : Serial Killers in Ireland

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Terry Manners / Deadlier Than the Male : Stories of Female Serial Killers

    The phenomenon of the female serial killer has been increasingly capturing the public's attention. This book examines the motivation of, among others, the revengeful Aileen Wournos, the materialistic Dorothea Puente, the sexually abused...

David V. Canter / Mapping Murder : Walking in Killers' Footsteps

    In his groundbreaking study, renowned criminal psychologist and profiler David Canter lifts the lid on geographical profiling and takes us on the murderer's journey in both the psychological and literal sense. He leads us through the...

Kathryn Bonella / Hotel K : The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail

   THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side,...

Rosie Lewis / Trapped: The Terrifying True Story of a Secret World of Abuse

   Trapped was a Sunday Times bestseller and the first memoir from foster carer Rosie Lewis.Phoebe, an autistic nine-year-old girl, is taken into police protection after a chance comment to one of her teachers alerts the authorities that all...

John Follain / The Last Godfathers

   THE LAST GODFATHERS charts the rise of the notorious Corleone clan. From its humble origins in the town of Corleone, the clan manipulated Cosa Nostra's code of honour, deceiving and bludgeoning its way to the top of the secret brotherhood,...

Gail Bell / The Poison Principle

    When Dr William Macbeth poisoned two of his sons in 1927, the secret remained buried. But secrets can be as corrosive as poison, and the story of Macbeth haunted his descendants. Macbeth's granddaughter, Gail Bell, is determined to...

David Harvey / Obsession Celebrities and Their Stalkers

    "One million women and 370,000 men are stalked each year, and this exposT uses stalker incidents involving famous celebrities to explore the twisted mind of a stalker. Offering glimpses into the Los Angeles District Attorney files,...

Stephen Rogers / Onthegame.ie : Prostitution in Ireland Today

   Clare* is a pretty, unremarkable young English woman who enjoys walks in the country, meeting up with friends for a meal, watching Eastenders every night. She has got a wisdom tooth coming through that is driving her to distraction. She is...

Shy Keenan / Where Angels Fear : Children betrayed. Innocence lost. And how two women risked everything to save them.

    Shy Keenan and Sara Payne met because their lives had been connected by the same evil. Shy finally won justice in a court of law over the abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather, and Sara was grieving for her little girl...

Anthony Sadler / The 15:17 to Paris

   The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers,...

Neil Fetherstonhaugh / They Never Came Home

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Misha Glenny / McMafia : Seriously Organised Crime

   **Now a major BBC series starring James Norton** Have you ever bought a pirate DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam? Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through...

Ross Kemp / Gangs II

 Hard man Ross Kemp journeys into dark heart of some of the most notorious gangs on earth in Gangs II.Ross Kemp once again squares up to the world's deadliest gangsters in this breathtaking follow up to the bestselling Gangs. This time his travels...

A.J. Davidson / Kidnapped : True Stories of Twelve Irish Hostages

   Kidnapping is a particularly heartless crime. Not only is the victim held in conditions of physical and psychological stress, his or her family suffer the trauma of knowing that their loved one has been taken by force and that they are...

Wolfgang Eulitz / The General And I : The Untold Story Behind Martin Cahill's Hotdog War

 The General and I is the story of one man's struggle against a criminal psychopath. Wolfgang Eulitz was a hard-working hotdog vendor on Dublin's notorious Leeson Street, but after four successful years the General appeared on the scene wanting to...

A.P Richards / Irish Murders

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Sarah Mcinerney / Where No One Can Hear You Scream : Murder and Assault in the Wicklow Mountains

 Since 1925, a startling number of young women have been found dead in the Dublin-Wicklow Mountains. The small winding roads, the dense foliage and the isolation have combined to make the area a favourite burial ground amongst murderers.A number of...

Mark Brandon Read / Chopper II : How to Shoot Friends and Influence People

 Mark Brandon Read - Chopper to his friends and enemies - has become a cult figure across the world. Since the success of the movie of his life, and the accompanying book, his exploits have shocked and amused readers in several countries. An...

Colin & Damon Wilson / Serial Killers (Large Paperback)

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Eamon Dillon / The Fraudsters : Sharks and Charlatans - How Con Artists Make Their Money

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Charlotte Greig / Evil Serial Killers : In the Minds of Monsters (Large Paperback)

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Miriam Ali / Without Mercy : A Mother's Struggle Against Modern Slavery

 Providing an account of her battle with an abusive man and with bureaucracy, this is the story of a woman's fight against a violent and tyrannical relationship, and her struggle to reclaim her two daughters, sold into marriage in the Yemen. Mirian...

Colin Martin / Welcome To Hell : One Man's Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton

 Colin Martin's autobiography chronicles an innocent man's struggle to survive inside the Bangkok Hilton. He describes his arrest and vicious torture by police, the unfair trial and the eight years of brutality and squalor he had to endure in one of...

James Morton / East End Gangland

   The East End has always held a malign fascination for the general public. In this book James Morton looks at this phenomenon from the days of the unsolved murders committed by Jack the Ripper to the 1960s when the Kray Twins held the reins...

Frank Connolly / Tom Gilmartin : The Man Who Brought Down a Taoiseach and Exposed the Greed and Corruption at the Heart of Irish Politics (Large Paperback)

 No. 1 BestsellerA successful property developer in England, the Sligo-born Tom Gilmartin had ambitious plans for major retail developments in Dublin in the late 1980s. Little did he know that in order to do business in the city, senior politicians...

Ralph Bulger / My James : The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father (Hardback)

 James Bulger was just a few weeks shy of his third birthday when, on 12 February 1993, he wandered away from his mum Denise in a shopping mall in Bootle. Grainy images from a security camera showed him trustingly holding the hand of ten-year-old...

Kate Kray / Ultimate Hard Bastards : The Truth About the Toughest Men in the World

   Meet the hardest men in Britainminders, villains, gangsters, bodyguards, SAS hitmen, murderers, and terrorists. In this awesome follow-up to the hugely successful "Hard Bastards" and "Hard Bastards 2, " Kate Kray, who was married to Ronnie...