Secondhand True Crime Books

Following the recent death of Charles Manson - the leader of the sinister 60s cult - Dianne Lake reveals the true story of life with Manson and his 'family', who...

Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you. Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their...

Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. Bringing Down the House is one of the exceptions. Cheating in casinos is illegal; card-counting - making...

'Brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious history writing' Mail on Sunday1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when...

In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he had ever...

Step inside one of Britain's most notorious prisons...During her time as a prison teacher Mim Skinner met every type of criminal. But her job was not to judge them, it...

'Reporting at its best. Immaculately researched, sober and informative' John le Carre'Compulsory reading...fast-paced and brilliantly written' Jeremy BowenAfter Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was filmed going in to the Saudi...

What if your lover vowed to destroy you if you left him? What if he became your tormentor? Stole your freedom? Made you feel crazy? And threatened your life?This is...

The most compelling account I've read from the other side of the fence...there are welcome moments of levity' The Times'Compelling, urgent and devastating. A triumph' The Secret Barrister'Funny, heart-breaking and...

Many researchers have tried over the decades to discover Mary Jane Kelly's true identity. She was the final and most brutally murdered victim of Jack the Ripper, but almost nothing...

The name Reggie Kray remains synonymous with London's East End to this day, and yet although much is known about Reg and his brother Ronnie's life of crime in the...

Duane 'Dog' Chapman entertains and inspires millions on Dog the Bounty Hunter, his top-rated TV show, but there is more to his story. From troubled beginnings and tragedy, to triumph...

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR SURVIVING LIFE IN PRISONCharles Bronson knows more about life in prison than anyone else in Britain - on either side of the bars. Jailed originally in...

From sex slaves to drug mules, The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep.Chasing the money from kidnapped Nigerian...

Pablo Escobar was the most notorious drug lord the world has ever seen. He became one of the ten richest men on the planet and controlled 80 per cent of...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the...

The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby's in 1997. The author's detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake...

Elliot Castro is unique in the history of British financial crime. No outside individual has stolen so much money for so long from the credit card system. Identifying the banks'...

On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington-defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case-was found guilty of rape and murder in the...

The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the 'Maguire Seven' wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA. On the night of October 5 1974,...

Enter the world of gangland crime. Some men command a respect that few others, even in this violent underworld, can equal. They live by a strict code and to them...

The inside stories of Ireland's most famous abduction cases.In the late 1970s and early 1980s Ireland was hit by a spate of high-profile kidnappings: Lord and Lady Donoughmore, Belfast-based German...

Around the world in 22 murders... LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER AWARD '22 hugely engaging and eloquent crime stories from around the world ... the plots sizzle...

Ned Kelly - Australia's beloved national icon - was once just a bushranger who had to be punished for his crimes. In 1880, everyone wanted him dead. There are many...