History

The brutal murder of 19-year-old Pamela Werner in the city of Peking one night in January 1937 shocked the world, but the police never found or nam...

Saturday, 23rd November 2013. It was just another day in America. And as befits an unremarkable day, ten children and teens were killed by gunfire....

As a medical detective of the modern world, forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal's chief goal is to bring perpetrators to justice. He has performed...

A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family... a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial k...

In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the ...

translated by Virginia Jewiss A groundbreaking, unprecedented bestseller in Italy, Roberto Saviano's insider account traces the decline of the city...

translated by Virginia Jewiss Gomorrah is both a bold and engrossing piece of investigative writing and one heroic young man's impassioned story of...

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade -...

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found brutally murdered. B...

Five teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold story. No Return is a unique insight in...

Zachary Swan: world-class smuggler of the finest cocaine, wicked genius, first-class fool. In his brief and brilliant career as a founding father o...

On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting...

Cutting through the myths about the white market, Tome Feiling's The Candy Machine is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before. Gabriell...

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, ...

As a child, Charlie Rizzo had been told that his father lost his vision in a hunting accident. It wasn't until Charlie found himself in a jail cell...

After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has gone unsolved since it was carried out on the morn...

translated by Tara F. Chace When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twis...

The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet. Too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these treacherous w...

In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract...

Saville's corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the ...

A middle-aged carpenter beats his 91-year old mother to death and goes to work the following day, leaving the body for his wife to find. An 82-year...

translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but t...

translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrif...