True crime

Examining the brutal killing of a female Harvard graduate student in 1969, 'We Keep the Dead Close' is a memoir of mirrors, misogyny and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto anot...

How do you become a human mole, a forensic genius with a bloodhound's nose for clues? Recovering bodies, finding discarded remains, identifying unmarked graves and saving people from locations and situations too dangerous for the normal emergency services are all in a day's work for Peter Fauldin...

It's not just the five-star dining, or the casinos, or the clubs, or the crowds. It's the electrifying chemistry of America's most round-the-clock city. In this dazzling 24-hour journey, James Patterson lifts the lid on America's notorious hub of gambling and excess. Fuelled by original interview...

It's not just the five-star dining, or the casinos, or the clubs, or the crowds. It's the electrifying chemistry of America's most round-the-clock city. In this dazzling 24-hour journey, James Patterson lifts the lid on America's notorious hub of gambling and excess. Fuelled by original interview...

This memoir from the UK's most eminent forensic scientist includes some of the most fascinating criminal investigations she has worked on. Never before has criminal justice rested so heavily on scientific evidence. With ever-more sophisticated and powerful techniques at their disposal, forensic s...

A revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper case, this reveals the dark secrets of the biggest manhunt in British history. Newly updated, this edition includes Sutcliffe's bid for freedom in 2008, and the verdict from court in 2010.

Joey O'Callaghan was just 18 years old when he became a ghost - the youngest ever person to be signed up to the Witness Protection Programme. Groomed into a drug gang from the age of 10, a cold-blooded assassination sickened him to his core, and he broke the golden bond of gangland silence. His e...

The incredible untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the SOE and became the Gestapo's most wanted Allied spy, written by acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell. 'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST B...

In late eighteenth-century Yorkshire a powerful gang of counterfeiters held the local community in its spell. In a remote valley near Halifax called Cragg Vale, gold coins of the realm were clipped and filed, then returned to circulation, while the extra metal collected was melted down to produce...

One of the most notorious killers in British history, Peter Sutcliffe is held at Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital and is among only a handful of prisoners who will never be free. He was convicted of murdering 13 women, but retured police officer Chris Clarke has uncovered major holes in the case wh...