True Crime

The best crime book since Wiseguy Rich CohenA real-life Scarface, Jon was born into the Gambino Mafia family and witnessed his first murder aged s...

Oprah Daily ranked #1 of the best true crime books of all time. A riveting narrative that pieces together the life and murder of Black socialite Li...

The Sunday Times bestseller and inspiration for the ITV dramaDiamonds are a girl's best friendJoan Hannington was the most notorious female figure ...

The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered tha...

For as long as historical annals have been kept, they have recorded the frauds and fakes that have been imposed upon innocent dupes. Perhaps the ea...

Close to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootleggers home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve...

FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER AND THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER...Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters o...

How we explain the evils of the world - and the darkest parts of ourselves - has preoccupied humans throughout history.In The Devil's Best Trick, R...

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish his...

Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the Nove...

_British Gangs_ covers the first fifty years of the twentieth century, a time of upheaval and war during which the public came to fear groups of yo...

During his years as executioner between 1901 and 1924, John Ellis hanged over 200 men and women. Among them were some of the most infamous killers ...

On 3 April 1832, a twelve-year-old girl visited her grandfather's house, a public house known as Bill's o'Jack's on the edge of Saddleworth Moor, o...

Street kid turned undercover cop.'This time he wasn't getting up. Neither were the two young women he'd just murdered. The two unarmed young police...

At 7.15pm on Sunday August 29th 1819, the village of Ashow, Warwickshire was shook to its core by a young girl's scream at Dial House Farm. Thirtee...