True Crime

BE THE FIRST TO READ DAVID WILSON'S NEW TRUE CRIME BOOK "A PLOT TO KILL" BY PRE-ORDERING NOW Expanded and updated, this is the definitive history of British serial killing...

Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and Frank Lucas is no exception. At the age of six he watched his cousin die in a lynching and in that moment...

Meet the DeMeo gang - the most deadly killers the New York Mafia has ever known.They started out as a small-time Brooklyn corner crew, but once the killing started it...

The Stardust... The Fremont... The Marina. They ran them all.And they lost.Big time.No one knew more about casinos than Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, the gambling mastermind who, along with his best...

"Talk about stranger than fiction. Selwyn Raab tells riveting, true tales of the fabled mob figures. It's 'The Godfather' annotated - a classic piece of reporting by a man who...

In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have...

"I was seventeen years old. I liked girls. I liked fist fighting. I liked to drive fast cars. I liked hamburgers and french fries. I liked playing stickball in the...

The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover and a reluctant hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885James Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the...

Winner of BEST NEW AUTHOR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025Highly commended for BOOK OF THE YEAR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025Shortlisted for THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION...

This book traces the Mafia's beginnings from an underground patriotic society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily, through the group of Italian immigrants - the Black Hand...

Vito Ciancimino - Don Vito da Corleone - spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics, business deals and the secret service. Don Vito recounts years of previously...

'Glittering... the author's obvious enthusiasm for the subject is matched by impressive erudition' The SpectatorWhen does a bandit become a monarch? When does a gang become a government? And is...

FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman 'I loved it' Richard Osman'Shattering' Val McDermid'Gripping'...

Award-winning journalist - and author of Hello, Shadowlands - Patrick Winn reveals the inside story of a forbidden republic - the narco-state of the Wa.The jagged mountains dividing China and...

THE INSTANT NYT BESTSELLER'Fascinating' - The GuardianA gripping account of the little-known plot that could have put an end to JFK's historic presidency - before it even began.From the New...

For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy - a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western...

This book tells the stories of crimes committed in the frenzies and frustrations of love - violent and tragic endings to a love story that has gone wrong. Passion, jealousy,...

The true story behind the ITV series, A Confession 'The gripping allure of long-form podcasts, such as Serial' Observer On the evening of Saturday, 19 March 2011, D.S. Stephen Fulcher...

An ordinary family house in a quiet West Country town - 25 Cromwell Street, Glouster. Now known throughout the world as the House of Horror: The home of Fred and...

When it was first published in the mid-seventies, Snowblind established itself as an essential piece of true crime writing. The story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the...

Citizen Quinn tells the staggering story of the rise and fall of Ireland's richest man: Sean Quinn. A few years ago, Sean Quinn was ranked among the two hundred richest...

The six-six-Sixties were the Devil's decade. With their heady cocktail of glamour and gore, dissatisfied youth have been drawn back to those years time and time again in search of...

Britain's foremost writer on crime turns to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. The basis of the upcoming ITV drama, Lucan, starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher EcclestonFor over thirty years, John...

They met while working together in Georgia: 17-year-old Larry Kelley and 31-year-old wife and mother Gina Spann. Their unusual friendship soon blossomed into something much more when Gina invited Larry...

Once the UK's most wanted man, Ronnie Knight was imprisoned for his part in the 1983 London Security Express heist of [pound]7 million ([pound]26 million today).

'The view swung easily and smoothly, showing that the front door hadn't been forced, showing the scuffing of the carpet, the first flecks of blood at the top of the...

THE #1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERFor almost forty years, Paul Williams has chronicled the life and crimes of some of Ireland's most notorious godfathers, killers and thieves. In Crooks he brings...

John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. His book The Profession of Violence was published 28 years ago (by W&N) to huge acclaim and is still in...

THE CHILLING NEW BOOK FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR, HOWARD SOUNES THAT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON THE FRED AND ROSE WEST MURDER INVESTIGATIONSThirty years since the death of Fred West and the...