Crime category: 24427 books
by Sheila Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This absorbing collection delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Suffolk during the last 200 years. Cases of murder, robbery, child neglect and abuse, and arson are all examined as the shadier side of the county’s history is exposed. From the respectable young man who almost severed...
Criminal Children
Researching Juvenile Offenders, 1820–1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens.
How were juvenile delinquents dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What dire circumstances led to their behavior? Were the efforts to curb...
American Pain
How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
* Finalist for the Edgar® Award in Best Fact Crime
* New York Post**, “The** Post**’s Favorite Books of 2015”**
* Suspense Magazine**’s “Best True Crime Books of 2015”**
* Foreword Reviews**’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime**
* Publishers Weekly**, Big Indie Book of Fall 2015**
The...
Faces of Evil
Kidnappers, Murderers, Rapists and the Forensic Artist Who Puts Them Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Every day, Lois Gibson is able to put power, control and a sense of justice back into the hands of violent crime victims of heinous rapes, kidnappings and murders. Gibson, herself the subject of a violent rape, uses her skills to coax from the memories of victims the most intimate details possible and,...
Rough Justice
Memoirs of a Gangster
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Completed hours before Maurice Ward’s shocking murder, this remarkable book is the first autobiography of an Irish criminal. Recording his incarceration in Upton Industrial School, Ward recalls how the violence he suffered at the hands of the religious altered his personality and turned him to crime.
Refreshingly...
The Gatton Murders
A True Story of Lust, Vengeance and Vile Retribution
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
BOXING DAY, 1898. Three members of the Murphy family - Michael, Ellen and Norah — are returning to the family farm after a trip in to Gatton, a small town west of Brisbane. On a deserted, moonlit road a few miles out of town they are ambushed. Their horse is killed and the three young people are taken...
by Pierre De Champlain
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Originaire de Rimouski, Pierre de Champlain a étudié à l'Université d'Ottawa avant de travailler au parlement fédéral dans le domaine de la procédure parlementaire. En 1994, il devient analyste de renseignements à la Direction des renseignements criminels de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada, à...
by Lynne Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This absorbing collection delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Stirling during its long history. Cases of murder, robbery, assault, and fraud are all examined as the darker side of this historic city's past is exposed. From cases as famous as the execution of Andrew Hardie and...
by George Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
At an early age, Ryan felt deprived of attention from a loving family. He soon turned to friends who introduced him to drugs, which in turn led him to crime to sustain his habit and lifestyle. Hooked on crystal meth and the exhilaration of crime in the form of identity theft his life took on a whole...
by Geoff Wright
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
“A grim catalogue of killings and suspicious deaths that have darkened 130 years of Southport history is laid bare” (Southport Visitor).
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Southport takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains...
Armed Robbery
From the Great Train Robbery to the Graff's Gem Heist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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. The first and most notorious of these was the Great Train...
True Crime Serial Killers: True Stories Of Flesh-Eating Cannibals: Killers Of The Hungry Kind
True Crime Serial Killers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Have you ever had to ask yourself what the meat that you were eating really was? What if it was human flesh? What if instead of serving you that side of pork your friend promised, you were instead served a side of human arm?
It sounds pretty disgusting, however, this is the most basic description...
by Jock Serong
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
It starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single mother. The endless glow of summer, the bottomless fury of contest. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game.
Darren has two big talents: cricket...
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
From award-winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of Dead at the Saddleworth Moor, Prostitution in the Digital Age, and The Sex Slave Murders, comes the gripping historical true crime book, The Dreadful Acts of Jack the Ripper and Other True Tales of Serial Murder and Prostitutes.
The...