Secondhand True Crime Books

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A book like no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history's most notorious murderer and...

INTRODUCTION BY MISHA GLENNY, author of McMafiaA gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering uncovered the...

Howard Marks is the most famous drug smuggler of his age, and a hero to a generation. On his release from one of America's toughest prisons, Howard made a promise...

'This book recounts some of the more significant instances of grief, tragedy and sorrow I encountered throughout my crime scene investigation career. Along with some relevant snapshots from my earlier...

'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermid'A gripping account of murder, misogyny and spectatorship' Sarah Waters, author of FingersmithFrom Britain's top-selling true crime writer...

A Dublin gangland king pin on the chase. A corrupt property mogul on the run. A hungry crime journalist determined to put his destroyed career back on track. And the...

"Compelling... This is a captivating account of Glossip's fight for truth." -- Sir Richard BransonA tense mix of Dead Man Walking and Making a Murderer, Surviving Execution combines the very...

Zachary Swan: world-class smuggler of the finest cocaine, wicked genius, first-class fool. In his brief and brilliant career as a founding father of the trade, Swan serves the world's most...

'At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United States. To be a wiseguy...

Orchestrated to the sounds of getaway cars and machine guns, the abduction of Oklahoma City businessman Charles Urschel in 1933 was a highly publicized crime in an era when gangsters...

Snowblind is the true story of Zachary Swan, an American smuggler, whose intricate and ingenious scams made him one of the most revered and legendary figures in the cocaine world...

In this sequel to the bestselling Gangs, Ross Kemp once again infiltrates groups of the deadliest criminals in countries as varied and far-reaching as Argentina, Bulgaria and Kenya.In Poland, while...

From the moment his mother went into labour with him - on a transatlantic flight - Alan Croghan's life was chaotic. As a young boy in north Dublin, he drank,...

One man's story of life in The Joy -- compulsive, chilling and frank.A no-holds-barred account of a criminal's time in the notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to journalist Paul Howard....

'A brilliant page-turner by one of Holland's finest investigative journalists' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind'Essential . . . What's revealed are networks of spies and criminals fighting an invisible war...

Ever wondered who murdered JonBenet Ramsey, or who terrorized San Francisco as the Zodiac Killer? Puzzled over the notorious Black Dahlia murder, or the shooting of TV presenter Jill Dando?...

He is America's most prolific serial killer. And yet Kermit Gosnell was no obvious criminal. The abortion doctor was a pillar of his community, an advocate for women's "reproductive health,"...

Thrust into care at six months of age because of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, Teresa Cooper's life began in a less than perfect way. But little did...

'I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it - about my 'personal' Dutroux Affair, my time in the company...

The definitive story of the Dennis Nilsen case featured in Netflix's Memories of a Murder: The Nilsen Tapes, and the book behind ITV's Des, starring David Tennant***WINNER OF THE GOLD...

It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound...

The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The GoldOn Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost GBP26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near...

A true story of murder and vengeance, a shattered community and a miscarriage of justice that echoes down the decadesOctober 1971. Nineteen-year-old Una Lynskey vanishes near her home in Co....

Using the latest modern technology available to forensic science, crime scene investigators answer questions others never even thought to ask. This book contains more than thirty fascinating modern cases of...

The harrowing true story of one boy's experiences in a brutal 'approved' school for young offenders in '50s London, run by Catholic monks where violence and abuse were rife. Beaten...

Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement. He has been locked in dungeons, in iron boxes concreted into the middle of cells and, famously,...

From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, for readers of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, or Emmanuel Carrere's The Adversary.In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir...

Real life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. Bringing Down the House is one of the exceptions: a real-life action thriller oozing with money,...

The No.1 Bestseller!'I was a very vulnerable young woman with three small children. I was lost ... Pat Quirke tried to come in and control everything'Bobby Ryan's disappearance in rural...

The No 1 Bestseller!'A triumph' Nicola Tallant, Sunday World Crime World podcast'An incredible catalogue of mayhem ... amazing' Pat Kenny, Newstalk'Riveting' Irish TimesMeet the Wilsons - the deadliest family in...

After the longest deliberation in the history of Irish criminal law, Catherine Nevin was convicted of the murder of her husband Tom at Jack White's Inn, County Wicklow, in 1996....

WOULD YOU RISK YOUR LIFE TO SAVE YOUR SOUL?Colombia in the 1990s was a country on the brink. A weak government battled in vain against billion-dollar cocaine cartels, run with...

In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room.Fearing that he would be held responsible, and sensing that his wife...

Number One BestsellerThe incredible story of the murder which gripped the nation.When Tom Nevin was brutally murdered in Jack White's Inn on the morning of 19 March 1996 there was...

The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020 'Reads like a thriller, or even a spy novel...Walsh keeps you gripped' Rosamund Urwin, Sunday Times'A turbulent but...