Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
‘Grimly fascinating … engrossing’ Daily Mail
NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION.
Criminal or forensic psychology
We All Go into the Dark
A captivating, eloquent and nuanced book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board.
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York Times
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept
The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?
The Killer Across the Table: Inside the Minds of Psychopaths and Predators
‘John Douglas is the FBI’s pioneer and master of investigative profiling’ Patricia Cornwell
A Life of Crime: The Memoirs of a High Court Judge
A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall.
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves
Fascinating and provocative, Ariely’s The Truth About Dishonesty is an insightful and brilliantly researched take on cheating, deception and willpower. Internationally bestselling author Ariely pulls no punches when it comes to home truths.
The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery
The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double-murder.
Forty Years of Murder
Christie, Hanratty, The Krays … murderers haunt the mind. We read about them in the press with horrified curiosity and, if we’re lucky, this is as close as we get. But Home Office Pathologise Keith Simpson spent forty years in the very midst of murder. This is his autobiography.