True crime

May 1991: In the seaside town of Castlerock in Northern Ireland and the bodies of two people - police officer Trevor Buchanan and nurse Lesley Howell - are found in a car filled with carbon monoxide. Their spouses were having an affair and apparently the pair are so distraught they have taken their own lives. Their adulterous spouses - Sunday school teacher Hazel Buchanan and dentist Colin Howell - had met in the local Baptist Church. Following the apparent double-suicide, they continued their a. ..More

An exciting new history of the Mafia's rise in early 20th-century New York and how the forgotten Morello gang became the New World's first godfather. ..More

Marisa Merico, the daughter of one of Italy's most notorious Mafia Godfathers, was dazzled by her father, Emilio DiGiovine. To her he was all powerful, sophisticated and loving; to the rest of the world he was staggeringly ruthless. Marisa knew her father. ..More

The Scarpas were a New York Mafia dynasty led by Greg Scarpa Senior, nicknamed 'The Grim Reaper' for his brutal addiction to violence and murder. This work tells a tale of violence, wealth, and sex, set in a world where a man's word is both everything and nothing.. ..More

A seemingly innocent sip of Coca-Cola, drunk by a starving and desperately thirsty 14-year-old girl led to the first of Radhika Pariyar's human trafficking experiences. Drugged, Radhika woke up hours later, in great pain, only to discover that her kidney had been removed and sold to the highest bidder.. ..More

A collection of unusual, if not sensational, murder cases that recalls strange crimes and offers insights into particularly macabre and shocking modern murders. This title covers many of the cases that shed light on advances in crime detection, law enforcement and forensic science.. ..More

Presents the author's travels that take him as close to home as Liverpool and as far away as Colombia and East Timor. This book introduces some of the most frightening men in the world.. ..More

A story of Campania under the rule of a murderous organization.. ..More

In the summer of 1933 a group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. This book features the story of these outlaws whose exploits became folklore.. ..More

'That confidence trickster gave me an idea. An idea that could be made to work. All it needed was guts and brains. And I think I had them both.' So wrote Dugmore Boetie, recreating his lost days of Johannesburg's Sophiatown, and most of the rest of South Africa, improvizing his smitten life of thievery and apartheid woes.. ..More