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Whatever dark corner you wish to enter, we have the perfect book to guide you.  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. Enjoy your reading and remember, don't have nightmares.

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Our Bestselling True Crime Books

Killers of the Flower Moon
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Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
£8.99
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McMafia
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McMafia
Misha Glenny
£8.99   £6.99
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Mindhunter
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Mindhunter
John Douglas
£8.99
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Talking with Psychopaths
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Talking with Psychopaths
Christopher Berry-Dee
£7.99
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Vulgar Favours
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Vulgar Favours
Maureen Orth
£8.99
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I Let Him Go
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I Let Him Go
Denise Fergus
£16.99   £12.99
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
£12.99
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Talking with Serial Killers
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Talking with Serial Killers
Christopher Berry-Dee
£8.99   £6.99
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The Devil At Home
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The Devil At Home
Rachel Williams
£6.99
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Blood on the Page
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Blood on the Page
Thomas Harding
£20.00   £16.99
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Out of Thin Air
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Out of Thin Air
Anthony Adeane
£16.99
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Acid Attack
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Acid Attack
Russell Findlay
£8.99
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The Real Peaky Blinders
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The Real Peaky Blinders
Carl Chinn
£12.95
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Lady Killers
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Lady Killers
Tori Telfer
£8.99
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Forensics
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Forensics
Val McDermid
£9.99   £7.99
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McMafia
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McMafia
Misha Glenny
£10.99
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The Spider Network
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The Spider Network
David Enrich
£9.99
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Serial Killers
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Serial Killers
Brian Innes
£7.99
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The Vory
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The Vory
Mark Galeotti
£20.00   £15.99
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The Secret Barrister
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The Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister
£16.99   £13.99
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Hunting El Chapo
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Hunting El Chapo
Andrew Hogan
£14.99
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Orders To Kill
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Orders To Kill
Amy Knight
£20.00
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All-American Murder
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All-American Murder
James Patterson
£20.00   £16.99
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Class of '88
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Class of '88
Wayne Anthony
£8.99
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Chasing Phil
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Chasing Phil
David Howard
£14.99
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Confessions of a Cartel Hitman
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Confessions of a Cartel Hitman
Martin Corona
£8.99
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Member of the Family
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Member of the Family
Dianne Lake
£8.99
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My Little Eye
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My Little Eye
Stephanie Marland
£7.99
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Tracking a Serial Killer
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Tracking a Serial Killer
Chris McNab
£16.99
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I Let Him Go
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I Let Him Go
Denise Fergus
£8.99
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The Murderer of Warren Street
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The Murderer of Warren Street
Marc Mulholland
£16.99
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Pure Evil
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Pure Evil
Geoffrey Wansell
£7.99
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The Godfather Of British Crime
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The Godfather Of British Crime
Freddie Foreman
£8.99
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Fast Eddie
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Fast Eddie
Eddie Maher
£8.99
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Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter
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Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter
Carol Ann Lee
£8.99
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Thomas Harding Picks his Top True Crime Reads

Thomas Harding Picks his Top True Crime Reads

Thomas Harding introduces his new book Blood on the Page and recommends his favourite true crime reads.

Criminal Masterminds

True crime 'classics'

Helter Skelter
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Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi
£9.99   £7.99
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Mindhunter
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Mindhunter
John Douglas
£8.99
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Homicide
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Homicide
David Simon
£12.99
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The People V. O.J. Simpson
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The People V. O.J. Simpson
Jeffrey Toobin
£8.99
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In Cold Blood
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
£8.99   £6.99
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Hell's Angels
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Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson
£8.99
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People Who Eat Darkness
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People Who Eat Darkness
Richard Lloyd Parry
£10.99
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Ghettoside
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Ghettoside
Jill Leovy
£9.99
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
£9.99
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Papillon
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Papillon
Henri Charriere
£9.99
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The Executioner's Song
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The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
£14.99
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Pimp: The Story Of My Life
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Pimp: The Story Of My Life
Iceberg Slim
£9.99
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My Dark Places
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My Dark Places
James Ellroy
£9.99
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The Jigsaw Man
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The Jigsaw Man
Paul Britton
£8.99   £6.99
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Cruel Britannia

British true crime books

 

Wicked Beyond Belief
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Wicked Beyond Belief
Michael Bilton
£12.99
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Sexy Beasts
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Sexy Beasts
Wensley Clarkson
£9.99
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One Last Job
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One Last Job
Tom Pettifor
£8.99   £6.99
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Face to Face with Evil
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Face to Face with Evil
Chris Cowley
£7.99
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The Murders at White House Farm
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The Murders at White House Farm
Carol Ann Lee
£7.99
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A History Of British Serial Killing
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A History Of British Serial Killing
David Wilson
£10.99
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The Great Train Robbery
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The Great Train Robbery
Nick Russell-Pavier
£12.99
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Yorkshire Ripper
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Yorkshire Ripper
Chris Clark
£8.99
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Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son
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Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son
Gordon Burn
£8.99
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Fred And Rose
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Fred And Rose
Howard Sounes
£9.99
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Happy Like Murderers
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Happy Like Murderers
Gordon Burn
£12.99
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A Very British Murder
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A Very British Murder
Lucy Worsley
£9.99
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Books Behind Bars

Books on prison life

Orange Is the New Black
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Orange Is the New Black
Piper Kerman
£8.99
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The Parkhurst Years
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The Parkhurst Years
Bobby Cummines
£7.99
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Killing Time
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Killing Time
Karl Williams
£7.99
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Inside Alcatraz
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Inside Alcatraz
Jim Quillen
£8.99   £6.99
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Close But No Cigar
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Close But No Cigar
Stephen Purvis
£18.99
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Life in Strangeways
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Life in Strangeways
Alan Lord
£8.99
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Hotel K
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Hotel K
Kathryn Bonella
£8.99   £6.99
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A Prison Diary Volume I
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A Prison Diary Volume I
Jeffrey Archer
£7.99
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Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole
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Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole
James Miles
£8.99
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The Damage Done
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The Damage Done
Warren Fellows
£7.99
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Midnight Express
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Midnight Express
Billy Hayes
£9.99
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg
Ben Stewart
£9.99
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War on the Street

Our choice of books on gangs and gangsters

 

The Mammoth Book of Gangs
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The Mammoth Book of Gangs
James Morton
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Siberian Education
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Siberian Education
Nicolai Lilin
£10.99
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Hell's Angel
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Hell's Angel
Sonny Barger
£9.99
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Gang War
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Gang War
Peter Walsh
£7.99
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Gangster Warlords
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Gangster Warlords
Ioan Grillo
£9.99
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The Gangs Of Manchester
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The Gangs Of Manchester
Andrew Davies
£7.99
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London's Gangs at War
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London's Gangs at War
Dick Kirby
£12.99
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Gangs Of London
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Gangs Of London
Brian McDonald
£8.99
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The Gangs Of Birmingham
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The Gangs Of Birmingham
Philip Gooderson
£10.99
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The Gangs Of Liverpool
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The Gangs Of Liverpool
Michael Macilwee
£7.99
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Hoods
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Hoods
Carl Fellstrom
£7.99
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Young Blood
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Young Blood
Graham Johnson
£8.99
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Young Guns
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Young Guns
Steve Hackman
£7.99
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No Angel
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No Angel
Jay Dobyns
£9.99
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Legends of the Firm
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Legends of the Firm
Cass Pennant
£7.99
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Going to the Mattresses

Books on the Mafia

 

Gomorrah
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Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano
£9.99
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My Italians
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My Italians
Roberto Saviano
£9.99
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Mafia Life
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Mafia Life
Federico Varese
£14.99
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Into the Heart of the Mafia
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Into the Heart of the Mafia
David Lane
£8.99
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White Shotgun
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White Shotgun
Attilio Bolzoni
£12.99
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Cosa Nostra
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Cosa Nostra
Massimo Picozzi
£17.99
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The Mafia
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The Mafia
George Carpozi
£12.99
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The Ice Man
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The Ice Man
Philip Carlo
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The Honoured Society
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The Honoured Society
Norman Lewis
£12.99
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Lucky Luciano
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Lucky Luciano
Tim Newark
£11.99
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The Dark Heart of Hollywood
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The Dark Heart of Hollywood
Douglas Thompson
£8.99
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Vendetta
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Vendetta
John Follain
£8.99
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I Heard You Paint Houses
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I Heard You Paint Houses
Charles Brandt
£9.99
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Keep it in the Family

The Krays

The Krays: The Prison Years
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The Krays: The Prison Years
David Meikle
£7.99
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Bringing Down The Krays
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Bringing Down The Krays
Bobby Teale
£9.99
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The Profession of Violence
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The Profession of Violence
John Pearson
£8.99
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The Cult Of Violence
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The Cult Of Violence
John Pearson
£8.99
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Our Story
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Our Story
Reginald Kray
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The Kray Madness
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The Kray Madness
Chris Lambrianou
£7.99
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The Twins
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The Twins
Kate Kray
£7.99
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Reggie Kray's East End Stories
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Reggie Kray's East End Stories
Reg Kray
£9.99
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The Krays and Me
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The Krays and Me
Charles Bronson
£8.99
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Me and My Brothers
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Me and My Brothers
Charlie Kray
£9.99
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Doing the Business
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Doing the Business
Charlie Kray
£7.99
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The Krays: A Violent Business
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The Krays: A Violent Business
Colin Fry
£8.99
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One of the Family
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One of the Family
Maureen Flanagan
£6.99
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The Drugs Don't Work

The best true crime books on the drug trade

The Last Narco
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The Last Narco
Malcolm Beith
£9.99
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Marching Powder
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Marching Powder
Rusty Young
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Snowblind
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Snowblind
Robert Sabbag
£8.99
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Zero Zero Zero
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Zero Zero Zero
Roberto Saviano
£9.99
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Powder Wars
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Powder Wars
Graham Johnson
£7.99
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Chasing the Scream
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Chasing the Scream
Johann Hari
£9.99
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The Infiltrator
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The Infiltrator
Robert Mazur
£8.99
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Mr Nice
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Mr Nice
Howard Marks
£10.99
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Narcoland
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Narcoland
Anabel Hernandez
£10.99
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Cocaine Confidential
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Cocaine Confidential
Wensley Clarkson
£8.99
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Snowing in Bali
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Snowing in Bali
Kathryn Bonella
£8.99
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El Narco
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El Narco
Ioan Grillo
£9.99
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American Kingpin
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American Kingpin
Nick Bilton
£12.99
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The Past is a Dangerous Place 

Historical true crime books

 

City of Light, City of Poison
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City of Light, City of Poison
Holly Tucker
£19.99
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They All Love Jack
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They All Love Jack
Bruce Robinson
£9.99   £7.99
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Kate Summerscale
£9.99
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The Wicked Boy
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The Wicked Boy
Kate Summerscale
£8.99
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The Wicked Boy
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The Wicked Boy
Kate Summerscale
£8.99
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The Devil In The White City
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The Devil In The White City
Erik Larson
£9.99
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Mr Briggs' Hat
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Mr Briggs' Hat
Kate Colquhoun
£8.99
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A Different Class of Murder
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A Different Class of Murder
Laura Thompson
£8.99
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The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
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The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
James Carnac
£8.99
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The Napoleon of Crime
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The Napoleon of Crime
Ben Macintyre
£9.99
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Naming Jack the Ripper
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Naming Jack the Ripper
Russell Edwards
£7.99
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The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet
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The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet
Duncan Hamilton
£10.99
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Digging in the Dark
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Digging in the Dark
Ben Johnson
£12.99
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