True Stories

A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California...

The Mullers had a solid marriage and two wonderful children, but over the years sex had fallen low on their to-do list. The lack of intimacy wasn't...

For more than 500 years con artists have been parting the greedy, gullible, unwary or soft-hearted from their money. From the very first recorded c...

Months later, the schoolgirl was systematically groomed and raped by a group of predatory Asian men. They separated her from her friends and passed...

'People reckon my life has been glamorous. Well, if this is glamour, then they are just off their heads' Unbeknown to both of them, it was to be Ca...

What started as a patrol to combat commercial plundering of Somali fish stocks has now grown into a highly organised and lucrative business. In a w...

Drawing on extensive interviews and correspondence with many of Tann's surviving victims, Barbara Raymond shows how Tann not only popularised adopt...

Chopper turns his attention to the vicious Melbourne underworld war that began in the late 1990s and would kill more than 30 gangsters before the p...

The explosive true story of a gun for hire'Hard eyes stare out of massive beards, their faces marked by the scars of battle. With these guys their ...

The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.Judy, a beautiful liver and white Engli...

Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tra...

Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in t...

A Grim Almanac of Lancashire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuri...

This absorbing collection delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Stirling during its long history. Cases of murder, robbery, ass...

Warm, funny and moving; the perfect summer read. For fans of Arthur, Finding Gobi and Damien Lewis' A Dog Called Hope.When Steve Jamieson met Bilbo...

I was first drawn to working in oncology while I was a student nurse at St Thomas' Hospital in London. There I met a woman who had been diagnosed w...