True Crime

The Secret Barrister : Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

 The Sunday Times number one bestseller.Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or...

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...

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...

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...

Dave Courtney / Stop The Ride, I Want To Get Off

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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...

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...

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...

Christopher Parnell / Hells Prisoner (Large Paperback)

  Prepare yourself for a journey into the Indonesian penal system. A world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm. Where the guards turn a blind eye to the lethal weapons prisoners carry ...and use almost daily. Hell's...

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...

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...

Michelle McNamara / I'll Be Gone in the Dark : The #1 New York Times Bestseller

 ** SOON TO BE A MAJOR NEW DOCUMENTARY SERIES FROM HBO AND SKY **WINNER OF THE GOOD READS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018The masterful true crime account of the...

Cathy Glass / Cruel to Be Kind : Saying No Can Save a Child's Life

 Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before...

David Malone / The Boy in the Attic : The Chilling, Real-Life Story of a Satanic Murder and the Truth that Haunts

 Ireland 1973: a very different world. But a tiny village in County Dublin was about to lose its innocence for ever.On a bright and sunny June afternoon, a seven-year-old boy was left in the care of his teenage neighbour. No one knew, or would even...

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...

Miles Corwin / The Killing Season : A Summer in South-Central with LAPD Homicide

  Meet Pete Razanskas, 22-year veteran homicide cop and Marcella Winn, a rookie detective who grew up in the 'hood. They're an unlikely partnership whose job it is to attempt to close some of the hundreds of murder cases that happen every year in...

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...

Joe Navarro / What Every BODY is Saying : An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People (Large Paperback)

    What you say is often far less important than how you say it. One of the harbingers of success is understanding how nonverbal cues such as body language, dress, and demeanor affect how you are perceived and understood. In this book...

Marie Carthy / In Search of John : The Abbeylara story of depression, loss and a sister's quest for justice (Large Paperback)

   John Carthy was an average guy, a hard-working young man devoted to his mother and sister, who also happened to suffer from depression - in common with one in four Irish people today.But in April 2001, in the grip of a bi-polar episode,...

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,...

Tom Connolly / Detective : A Life Upholding the Law (Large Paperback)

   Tom Connolly joined An Garda Siochana in 1955, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. His early days on the force were spent in various villages and towns around Ireland, tracking petty thieves, raiding pubs and...

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...

John Douglas / Mindhunter : Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit

   ________________________________________Obsessed with Netflix's Mindhunter? Celebrate the launch of Season 2 with the bestselling true story of how one underfunded FBI team became the first to explore the dark world of serial murderers.John...

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...

Frances Smith / In Fear of Her Life : The True Story of a Gangland Marriage

      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 damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

John Preston / A Very English Scandal

 The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murderBehind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has...

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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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...

Justine McCarthy / Deep Deception : Ireland's Swimming Scandals

   Updated Edition In November 2009 former national and Olympic swimming coach Ger Doyle was convicted of thirty-five sexual offences against children. This is just the most recent of an appalling series of child sexual abuse scandals in Irish...

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,...

Margaret Nicholas / The World's Wickedest Women

    Describes women who have earned the reputation of being wicked, like Lucrezia Borgia and Lizzie Borden. This book analyzes their lives, their menfolk and the reasons behind their wicked behaviour.      All of our...

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...

Michael Bilton / Wicked Beyond Belief : The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

  Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case which spanned over 14 years. For the first time, the files have been opened, the detectives are talking and the victims are reliving the nightmare. For over twenty...

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,...

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...

Edward Conlon / Blue Blood

   'Superb. The most stunning memoir ever written about the cop world' Joseph Wambaugh'Beautiful and inspiring, terrifying and heartbreaking'James Frey'More chilling than even the most realistic cop dramas on TV'People'A great book...with...

Christopher Berry-Dee / Talking with Psychopaths and Savages

 Having spent years interviewing imprisoned criminals - including notorious serial killers - he discovered that the lack of remorse these people showed was in many ways even more terrifying than the crimes they had committed. Yet in the course of...