Ulrik Skotte In 1978 the Bulgarian author and dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated by a poisoned umbrella on Waterloo Bridge in London. His murder is the most iconic killing in...

Helmut Walser Smith Traces the events surrounding the murder of a German boy in 1900 and the Jewish butcher accused of the crime, piecing together the rumors, accusations, and anti-Semitic...

Rich Cohen Was he New York City's last pirate...or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, port by port--for fans of Gangs...

Dr Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson The Dead Do Tell Tales...A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition....

Donald Goddard with Lester K Coleman From the conspiracy world - where pigs can fly, written in the early 1990s, this book may be a progenitor of the species Conspiracy...

Nick Pron WARNING: This book contains graphic descriptions of violence.Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo might look like the ideal couple, but they were a nation's most despicable killers. Karla began...

Sarah Churchwell A fascinating look at the autumn of 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda returned to New York and the seeds for The Great Gatsby were sownSince its...

Joseph Wambaugh Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion...

Richard Lloyd Parry An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman.Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo...

John Follian John Follain, who covers Italy for the Sunday Times, tells the definitive inside story of this extraordinary case.Shortly after 12:30 pm on 2 November 2007, Italian police were called...

Robert Kolker New York Times BestsellerSoon to be a Netflix film.The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island...

Gitta Sereny In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused...