Crime

P.D. James was often commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. As the six tales presented here unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. Bullying schoolmasters receive their comeuppance, unhappy marriages and childhoods are a...

February 12 1993. Two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, began their day playing truant and ended it running an errand for a local video shop. In between they abducted and killed toddler James Bulger. This is the harrowing, sensitive, definitive account of this terrible crime an...

Investigative journalism at its best, 'The Snowden Files' tells the story of the individuals behind the biggest leak in history and the forces that tried to stop them.

Charlene Downes was a happy-go-lucky schoolgirl from Blackpool when aged 14 she began to start acting differently: staying out late, playing truant from school and hanging out with a new crowd. Typical teenage behaviour some would say, but when on the night of 1st November 2003 Charlene failed to...

Brave and gripping, 'Stalked' tells of one young woman's fight against the man who terrorised her, and her determination to defeat the fear and live a normal life.

The heart-breaking story of Rhys Jones, told by his mother. It's a Wednesday afternoon in the summer holidays, and Mel is expecting her youngest back for tea very soon. But instead she receives a frantic telephone call. Rhys has been shot on his way home. From that fateful day when Mel cradled he...

Natalie Queiroz was eight months pregnant when she was stabbed by her partner in the most vicious attack imaginable. 'Still Standing' is the story of one life-shattering event - what came before the fateful day, what happened on it, and how one woman and her baby survived to build and heal togeth...

'The Sting Man' is the amazing inside story of Mel Weinberg, one of the most fascinating fast-buck operators to ever live, and the incredible scandals he masterminded. Hustling his way from the streets of the Bronx to hawking bogus businesses around the world, Weinberg netted millions and famousl...

In 1991 Sture Bergwall, a petty criminal and drug addict, botched an armed robbery so badly that he was deemed to be more in need of therapy than punishment. He was committed to Sater, Sweden's equivalent of Broadmoor, and began a course of psychotherapy and benzodiazepines. During the therapy, h...

Neil 'Sam' Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all - gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be locked up and men...