Crime

Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A valuable diamond brooch was missing, and police soon fastened on a suspect - Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant who was rumoured to have a disreputable character. Slate...

1940s private detective Red Benton puts his ingenuity and charm to work in two stories of mystery and murder. 'Concerto for Fear' features a murderous piano and a seemingly cursed new piece of music with a deadly low G.

Martin Corona is a multiple murderer who has admitted to killing at least 8 people. Over a period of 16 months during his cartel hit man career, in three separate incidents, one family lost a son, a son-in-law and nearly lost two daughters. A 9-year-old girl witnessed her mother and aunt being sh...

Con men are artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. They hold a deep, enigmatic fascination for us. But how do they do it? Whether it's a suspicious-looking email or a multimillion-dollar global swindle, Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of ...

Set in the rolling hills and villages of the Cotswolds and brimming with warmth and intrigue, this collection of twelve short stories from Rebecca Tope features familiar characters and places from her popular 'Cotswold Mystery' novels.

Set in the rolling hills and villages of the Cotswolds and brimming with warmth and intrigue, this collection of twelve short stories from Rebecca Tope features familiar characters and places from her popular 'Cotswold Mystery' novels.

Interest in art crime is at an all-time high. Academia is committing greater resources to it, lawyers are increasingly specialising in the field, and the public is enthralled. But with art crime as old as the art market itself, what does this rapid increase in interest mean? Is criminality on the...

Offers an account and analysis of the concerns of green criminology. This book explores the dimensions of environmental crime and the explanations for it. It also deals with the range of responses to environmental crime - environmental law enforcement, regulation, environmental crime prevention a...

'Criminology' covers a wide range of topics: the historical and contemporary understandings of crime and criminal justice; different forms of crime - from street crime to state crime; and more. The book includes questions, summaries, key concepts, and tables and diagrams throughout, and has an ex...

For the past decade European gangsters have been fighting a turf war with homegrown British gangsters for control of the criminal badlands of London, Kent, Essex and throughout the UK. Many of these foreign gangs see Kent and Essex as a stepping-stone to the total domination of the British underw...