True Crime

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...

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....

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...

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,...

A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquin Archivaldo "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, building on Noah Hurowitz's revelatory coverage for Rolling Stone of El Chapo's federal...

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...

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...

The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious Lowcountry clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity-by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the place.The...

'The suddenness of the punch had caught me off guard ...I knew then that something was definitely wrong.' On 31 July 1975, members of The Miami Showband were returning to...

First published in 1999, Bloody Women was a runaway success. The book tells the stories of seventeen Irish murders, all committed by women. Some are notorious, some less well known:...

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...

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,"...

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,...

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...

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...

Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case which spanned over 14 years. For the first time, the files have been opened, the detectives are talking and...

Angela Cannings was charged with murder directly after she and her husband Terry lost their third infant in ten years. She was convicted because of a medical theory that came...

The pre-dawn arrests of the last remaining mafiosi in December 2008 signalled the end of the Sicilian Mafia as we know it. In Mafia: Inside the Dark Heart, A.G.D. Maran...

In 1980, my life as a 'Goodfella' came to an end...I traded my Brioni and Armani suits for T-shirts and jeans. I became a normal citizen. I became Joe Schmoe,'...

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...

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...