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From Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy and David Berkowitz, the 1970s were a time of notorious and brutal serial killers. Find out more about them, along with some you may never have heard of. The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game...
Editeur : Union Square & Co.
Parution : 2021-08-24
Collection :
Profiles in Crime
Format(s) : ePub
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The third title in our Conversations with a Killer series focuses on one of the most notorious serial killers of the 1970s, Ed Kemper, a key character in the hit Netflix series Mindhunter. If there ever was a human monster that walked this earth, it was the highly...
Editeur : Union Square & Co.
Parution : 2021-07-20
Collection :
Conversations with a Killer
Format(s) : ePub
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A true crime page-turner about a Victorian doctor, a serial killer ahead of his time, using poison for an international murder spree that kept ahead of the burgeoning field of forensics. “A tour de force of storytelling.” —Louise Penny,...
Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2021-07-13
Format(s) : ePub
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There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers. No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers...
Editeur : Union Square & Co.
Parution : 2021-07-13
Collection :
Profiles in Crime
Format(s) : ePub
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What’s scarier than a murderer? Someone with the charisma to compel others to kill for them . . . or to kill themselves. Meet these cult leaders—and get an inside look at their beliefs and how they controlled others. Some cults, led by leaders...
Editeur : Union Square & Co.
Parution : 2021-06-29
Collection :
Profiles in Crime
Format(s) : ePub
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Royal scandal, set against the background of the Jacobean court, involving love, bribery, poison, treachery and black magic - 'a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Telegraph'A gripping detective story ... Wonderfully dramatic ... Probably the juiciest court scandal of the...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2021-02-18
Format(s) : ePub
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The unbelievable account of life as a hitman from a man who has been doing it for decades. Hitmen commit heinous crimes virtually every day of the week and, in most instances, we don't even realise.I've been a killer for hire for more than twenty years now, but life as...
Editeur : Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution : 2020-10-29
Format(s) : ePub
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'The Dictionary of Crime is now the first book I reach for when beginning a new novel. An essential resource, it's packed with explanations, insider information, contemporary and historical slang, as well as some downright bizarre laws and practices. It's funny,...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2020-07-23
Format(s) : ePub
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In the early hours of 7th August 1985, five members of the Bamber family were shot dead with a .22-calibre Anschutz rifle. Sheila Caffell, who was known to have struggled with mental illness, was at first thought to have murdered her twin sons and adoptive parents and...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2020-06-04
Format(s) : ePub
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For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. Modern forensic investigation originates with Frances...
Editeur : Endeavour
Parution : 2020-04-02
Format(s) : ePub
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**THE TRUE STORY BEHIND MAJOR ITV DRAMA WHITE HOUSE FARM, NOW ON NETFLIX**'An extraordinary book . . . both deeply moving and quietly inspiring' FREDDIE FOX'A beautiful, very moving book' CRESSIDA BONASIn 1985, the shocking murder of a family of five in a quiet country...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2020-01-09
Format(s) : ePub
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNDiamond thief, guerrilla fighter, spy, decorated hero, bohemian rogue and lover of several notorious women - all describe Major Harry Larkyns. Yet he has long been dismissed as merely a liar and a cheat, famous only for being...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2019-11-14
Format(s) : ePub
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A mother's fight to bring her daughter's killer, Christopher Halliwell, to justice'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what would have been my daughter's 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me my beautiful...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2019-08-22
Format(s) : ePub
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'Aflame with tension. An intricate, powerful thriller - rivals the very best of Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner' AJ Finn, author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW*****************She was the most brutal killer of our time. And she may have been my mother...When website columnist...
Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2019-07-04
Format(s) : ePub
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In STAY SEXY & DON'T GET MURDERED, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, hosts of true crime comedy podcast 'My Favorite Murder,' open up about their lives more intimately than ever in their confessionally honest and hilarious debut book, titled after their podcast...
Editeur : Trapeze
Parution : 2019-05-30
Format(s) : ePub
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Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard. In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives in London to...
Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2019-04-04
Format(s) : ePub
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BE THE FIRST TO READ DAVID WILSON'S NEW TRUE CRIME BOOK "A PLOT TO KILL" BY PRE-ORDERING NOW 'Hugely insightful and thought provoking . . . I read it from cover to cover in one go' - Emilia Fox'With characteristic brilliance and admirable sensitivity, Wilson...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2019-03-21
Format(s) : ePub
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'A CHILLING new memoir by the daughter of mass murderer Fred West and his wife Rose describes the savage cruelty of her upbringing in 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester' DAILY MAIL'Mae, I mean this ... I'm not a good person and I let all you children down ...' Rose West, HM...
Editeur : Seven Dials
Parution : 2018-09-06
Format(s) : ePub
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019"Like Don DeLillo's JFK-themed Libra, the novel is an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction" Glasgow Herald"A masterful writer" Nicole Krauss"Vasquez has succeeded García Márquez as the literary grandmaster of...
Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2018-05-03
Format(s) : ePub
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******* A TIMES 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' **********Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for non-fiction***'A magnificent, meticulous and startling re-examination of a crime that haunts the world's imagination' Geoffrey Wansell, author of An Evil Love: The Life of Frederick...
Editeur : Coronet
Parution : 2017-09-28
Format(s) : ePub
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