True Stories

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's ...

With more than its fair share of dramatic mountains, moorlands, lochs and rivers, Scotland is famously one of the most beautiful countries in the w...

'Why do you stick with me through all this?' Billy asked. 'Because I love you.' In 1997, Alix Chapel's world was to change forever when her husban...

By the age of six, Nicolai Lilin had been given his first 'pike knife' by an uncle, and by the age of twelve, he had been convicted of attempted mu...

Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition eramen born in the quarter century span from...

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a Virginia county reeling, reporter Monica Hesse drove to Accomack to cover the trial of Charlie Smit...

The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didnt stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which buil...

The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilberts remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a p...

Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley is a troubled 13-year-old...

In 1971 Alec Crawford is determined to make his fortune from ship salvage. Early attempts lead nowhere until he teams up with a new partner, Simon ...

Harry and Tom Eeles both served in the Royal Air Force as pilots over the time span of 1929 to 2010, eighty years of the Royal Air Force''s one hun...

The Watchman didnt arrive in a Batmobile but drove a tan, four-door Pontiac. He was in costume, of coursea trench coat, motorcycle gloves, army boo...

In the Margins Book Award Winner       Ronald Kitchen was walking to buy cookies for his young son on a summer evening in 1988 when Chicago detecti...

On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four mont...

The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, un...

For decades, a war to control Glasgow's streets has been waged. On one side are some of the most violent and dangerous criminals in the world and, ...

The ax-man murders of 1912 in Louisiana and Texas leave a bloody trail of evidence that points to the largest, unsolved serial killing in history o...