Crime category: 24427 books

The Port Fairy Murders is the sequel to The Holiday Murders, a political and historical crime novel set in 1943, featuring the newly formed homicide department of Victoria Police. The department has been struggling to counter little-known fascist groups, particularly an organisation called...

818 pages of gritty, East End noir. The Towers - Book One Oppression. Despair. Rebellion *What pushes a teenager from the toughest sink estate in East London to join The Met? * The Towers is the first book in the East End Noir Series by Natalie Hames and introduces the...

The goal of this book is to provide practitioners and policymakers with knowledge about why kids become involved in gangs and to offer effective and promising strategies that prevent them from doing so. Topics covered include: Why Is Gang-Membership Prevention Important? * The Attraction of...

Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation. One of the greatest ports in the world, and Europe's western gateway to the Atlantic, Liverpool's emerging wreath and prosperity brought with it a huge influx of crime to the streets, and...

For it was during a BBC press interview (Scotland Yard; 2014) that Brian was asked: “What is the most unusual case you have ever encountered?” Brian replied to the reporter: “Well, the hunt for Gabriel is certainly the most disturbing, but if I am asked ‘unusual’, then it has to be the case...

More than five hundred years of British true crime stories—from mutinies and murders to duels and executions.   This collection of historical true crime tales includes more than twenty notorious episodes that range from medieval times to the modern era, and offers a fascinating insight into criminal...

This is my memoir of Billy and Gyp Hill – Britain’s most successful criminal couple – and me, their only child. Billy was the Boss of Britain’s Underworld. A mentor to the Kray twins, Billy introduced ‘project crime’ to Britain and got clean away with the 1952 Eastcastle Street robbery...

It’s November in Chicago. Still healing from an encounter with the Corn Flakes Killer, Lieutenant Michelle “Mickey” Rooney and her partner, Sam Tanner, head out into the snowy night to investigate four seemingly unrelated drug killings. They appear to be run-of-the-mill drug deals gone bad…until...

The true story of the first female serial killer to die in the electric chair Nicknamed “the Blonde Borgia,” Anna Marie Hahn was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. When the State of Ohio strapped its first woman...

It was one of those typical restless nights... Short crime fiction in the style of Donald E Westlake. Suburban man needs a vicarious thrill in his marriage. He decides to search for it in a neighbor's house, after breaking in. A light diversion for a rainy afternoon. Please don't try this at home! Please...

This absorbing collection delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Buckinghamshire during its history. Cases of robbery, murder, and self-destruction are all examined as the darker side of the county’s past is exposed. From John Owen, who slaughtered seven people, to the case of...

SHRUNK: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful stories by Canadian and international forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about the many complex mental health issues they face and the care involved in dealing with them. Unlike any other book within the genre...

In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported...

Les principaux détectives qui nous viennent spontanément à l’esprit sont Hercule Poirot et Sherlock Holmes, mais connaissez-vois cet autre détective, injustement méconnu par le grand public mais tout aussi remarquable : Joseph Rouletabille. Et ridicule, Rouletabille pourrait l’être avec...