True Crime Books
From the chilling In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, to Robert Sabbag's cocaine classic Snowblind via John Dickie's wonderful study of the Mafia, Cosa Nostra, here you’ll find our most popular true crime classics and the most chilling new real-life crime stories. Enjoy your reading and remember, don't have nightmares.
Our Best True Crime Books
Our Best New & Coming Soon True Crime Books
Great Books You Must Read
Our selection of classic paperbacks
Cruel Britannia
The best British true crime books
The Past is a Dangerous Place
The best historical true crime books
In early modern England, murder truly was most foul. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proceedings which promised not only gore, but desperate confessions and the grandest, most righteous human drama. Bookshops saw grisly stories of crime and death sell like hot cakes.
This history unfolds the true stories of murder, criminal investigation, early forensic techniques, high court trials and so much more.
The Drugs Don't Work
The best books on the drug trade
Books Behind Bars
The best prison books
War on the Street
The best books on gangs and gangsters
Going to the Mattresses
The best books on the Mafia
Keep it in the Family
The best books on the Krays
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