Crime

This is a collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan - including the untold story of her first case.

This publication is a collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan - including the untold story of her first case.

A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats ...

Insightful and grippingly written, 'The Boy in the River' is an inside account of a series of extraordinary criminal investigations and a compelling personal quest into the dark heart of humanity.

On 2 November 1996, 16 year old Damien Nettles went out for the evening with friends in his home town in Cowes, Isle of Wight. He hasn't been seen since. His mother Valerie has spent 22 years in anguish, trying to find out what happened to her son. Now, for the first time in book form, Valerie te...

Serial killer Patrick Mackay was dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain when he appeared in court in 1975 charged with three killings, including the axe murder of a priest. The Nazi-obsessed alcoholic had stalked the upmarket streets of West London hunting for victims and was suspected of at le...

This is a directory of all police forces known to have existed in the British Isles since the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 with lists of chief officers of those forces from their inception. The book includes an introductory essay on the organization of police 1829-2012 and a bibliography of indiv...

In the winter of 1979, aged just 27, the inmate who would come to be known as 'Charlie Bronson' was considered uncontrollable by the prison system. Certified insane, he was transferred from Parkhurst Prison to the most infamous high-security psychiatric hospital in England, Broadmoor Asylum for t...

8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for Richard Phillips, captain of an United States-registered cargo vessel headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, 200 or so miles off the east coast of Africa, armed Somali pirates attacked and boarded the freighter. It was the first tim...

These are the last 12 stories Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920's in which they were written, and Doyle can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction.