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From the chilling In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, to Robert Sabbag's cocaine classic Snowblind via David Grann's wonderful study of an FBI conspiracy, Killers of the Flower Moon, 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.

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Our Bestselling True Crime Books

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The Secret Barrister
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Joan
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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The Devil You Know
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Mindhunter
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A Thread of Violence
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The Serial Killer Next Door
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£22.00 £18.99
Story of a Murder
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£25.00 £20.99
The Umbrella Murder
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£25.00 £19.99
Unlawful Killings
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Bad Blood
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Rogues
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The Peepshow
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All That Glitters
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£20.00 £17.99
Rough Justice
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£22.00 £18.99
Murder in the Gulag
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£20.00 £16.99

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Our Best New True Crime Books

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The Siege
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£25.00 £19.99
The House of My Mother
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£20.00 £15.99
Joan
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£10.99
FRAMED
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£25.00 £21.99
Life Inside
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Meltdown
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£22.00
The Peepshow
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Lucky Loser
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£25.00
The Barn
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£25.00
Ross Kemp: Mafia and Britain
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Den of Spies
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Art Heist
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A Lethal Legacy
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Stolen Fragments
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The Murder of Judith Roberts
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The bestselling author of numerous seminal courtroom thrillers teams up with Jim McCloskey to dissect ten riveting real-life instances of injustice in the American legal system.
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Great Books You Must Read

Our selection of classic titles

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Killers of the Flower Moon
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In Cold Blood
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Mindhunter
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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Papillon
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Helter Skelter
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The Devil In The White City
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Hell's Angels
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The Stranger Beside Me
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The Jigsaw Man
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Columbine
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Homicide
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Under The Banner of Heaven
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The Adversary
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A Very English Scandal
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The Red Parts
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The Executioner's Song
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Cruel Britannia

The best British true crime books

Killing For Company
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Wicked Beyond Belief
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No Ordinary Day
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We All Go into the Dark
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Manhunt
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£10.99
The Murders at White House Farm
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Deep Cover
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£14.99
The Black Widow
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The Pembrokeshire Murders
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Bloody Valentine
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Happy Like Murderers
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Murder in the Graveyard
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Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son
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In Search of the Rainbow's End
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The Great Train Robbery
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The Sleep of Reason
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The Gold
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The Past is a Dangerous Place

The best historical true crime books

The Five
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
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The Devil In The White City
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The Angel Makers
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Furious Hours
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Victorian Murders
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The Wicked Boy
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Naming Jack the Ripper
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The Napoleon of Crime
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They All Love Jack
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The Professor and the Parson
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Conan Doyle for the Defence
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The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
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The Murderer of Warren Street
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Inside 10 Rillington Place
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Mr Briggs' Hat
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Murder By The Book: The Best True Crime Reads

Explore the dark, dangerous and utterly unputdownable world of true crime storytelling.


The Drugs Don't Work

The best books on the drug trade

Empire of Pain
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Mr Nice
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Marching Powder
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Zero Zero Zero
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Kilo
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£12.99
Powder Wars
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£10.99
Drug Warrior
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£8.99
Snowing in Bali
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The Last Narco
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Amexica
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£18.99
Drug War
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£11.99
Cocaine Confidential
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Snowblind
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£9.99
Dopeworld
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£10.99
Narcoland
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County Lines
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£9.99
Son of Escobar
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Books Behind Bars

The best prison books 

Inside Broadmoor
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The Prison Doctor
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A Bit of a Stretch
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Hotel K
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Midnight Express
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Orange Is the New Black
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Inside Alcatraz
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My Life with Murderers
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The Damage Done
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg
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Close But No Cigar
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Killing Time
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The Parkhurst Years
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Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole
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A Prison Diary Volume I
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War on the Street

The best books on gangs and gangsters

Ultra
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Hoods
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The Vory
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Hell’s Angel
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Gang War
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The Gangs of Manchester
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The Mammoth Book of Gangs
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Jimmy the Weed
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No Angel
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The Official Peaky Blinders Cookbook
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The Crossing
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Gangster Warlords
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Young Guns
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Young Blood
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Siberian Education
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The Dirty Dozen
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Going to the Mattresses

The best books on the Mafia

Gomorrah
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Cosa Nostra
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The Honoured Society
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The Ice Man
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Gotti
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Mafia State
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The Irishman
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My Italians
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The Mafia
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Vendetta
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Mafia, The
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The Mafia
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Lucky Luciano
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Borgata: Rise of Empire
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Mafia Princess
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Don Vito
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Keep it in the Family

The best books on the Krays

Our Story
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Krays: The Final Word
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The Godfather Of British Crime
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The Krays: The Prison Years
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Bringing Down The Krays
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The Profession of Violence
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Me and My Brothers
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One of the Family
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The Cult Of Violence
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The Kray Madness
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Vicious, Elegant Bastards
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The Twins - Men of Violence
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The Krays: A Violent Business
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Surviving the Krays
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Thou Savage Woman
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All That Glitters
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Story of a Murder
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Three Weeks in July
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The Sleep Room
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The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
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The Siege
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The Women Are Not Fine
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The Criminal Mind
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The Bureau
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Understanding Rose West
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Earth to Earth
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Under the Bridge
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Backbeat Gangsters
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