Crime

Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his 12-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother w...

Agatha Christie's classic short story collection, published to tie-in with a new BBC TV adaptation of the book's most enduring and shocking thriller, 'The Witness for the Prosecution'.

Written by the two journalists who uncovered the details of Gibson's deception, 'The Woman Who Fooled the World' tracks the 23-year-old's rise to fame and fall from grace. Told through interviews with the people who know her best, it explores the lure of alternative cancer treatments, exposes the...

The story of the first policewomen in Britain, the prejudices they faced, and the impact they had on women's rights.

Packed with original case files, genuine crime scene photographs and original sketches, Mark Silverman's casebook is the ultimate insider's account of the fascinating world of forensic science.

When Isabel Eriksson wakes up she's not sure where she is. She's got a needle in her arm. Next to the bed a man is sitting and staring at her. He tells her that he intends to keep her locked up. Isabel realises that the only way for her to get out alive is to somehow make him release her and so a...

As a single 51-year-old woman, Elizabeth had given up hope of ever becoming a mother. When she was approved to adopt 10-year-old Lara, it was a dream come true. Elizabeth knew that that her new daughter had had a difficult past but when she found out that Lara had been abused, the extent of her e...

This is a work of narrative non-fiction based on the last days of the fugitive Raoul Moat, a Geordie bodybuilder and mechanic who became nationally notorious in Britain one hot summer's week when, after killing his ex-girlfriend's new lover, shooting her in the stomach, and blinding a policeman, ...

From shy, abused child to one of London's most wanted teenage armed robbers, this is the extraordinary story of one man's fight to leave his criminal past behind.