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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 Best True Crime Books

The Secret Barrister
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The Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister
£9.99   £7.99
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Doing Justice
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Doing Justice
Preet Bharara
£20.00   £16.99
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The Vory
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The Vory
Mark Galeotti
£10.99   £8.99
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
£8.99   £6.99
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When the Dogs Don't Bark
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When the Dogs Don't Bark
Professor Angela Gallop
£20.00   £16.99
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Talking with Serial Killers
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Talking with Serial Killers
Christopher Berry-Dee
£8.99
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The Gypsy Code
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The Gypsy Code
Mike Woodhouse
£8.99
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My Life with Murderers
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My Life with Murderers
David Wilson
£20.00   £15.99
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Mindhunter
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Mindhunter
John Douglas
£8.99
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Forensics
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Forensics
Val McDermid
£9.99
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The Stranger Beside Me
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The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule
£10.99
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Strangeways
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Strangeways
Neil Samworth
£7.99
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Helter Skelter
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Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi
£8.99
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Manhunt
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Manhunt
Colin Sutton
£8.99
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Silent Sisters
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Silent Sisters
Joanne Lee
£7.99
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Our Best New True Crime Books

Crossing the Line of Duty
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Crossing the Line of Duty
Neil Root
£16.99
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The Mechanism
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The Mechanism
Vladimir Netto
£8.99
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Bad Blood
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Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
£9.99   £7.99
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Court Number One
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Court Number One
Thomas Grant
£25.00   £21.99
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The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg
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The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg
Klaus Gietinger
£14.99   £12.99
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Making Evil
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Making Evil
Dr Julia Shaw
£14.99
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The Murderer of Warren Street
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The Murderer of Warren Street
Marc Mulholland
£9.99
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The Twins - Men of Violence
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The Twins - Men of Violence
Kate Kray
£8.99
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The Feather Thief
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The Feather Thief
Kirk Wallace Johnson
£9.99
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The Good Mothers
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The Good Mothers
Alex Perry
£9.99
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Voices from the Blue
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Voices from the Blue
Jennifer Rees
£18.99
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Nine Lives
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Nine Lives
Aimen Dean
£10.99
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Operation Playboy
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Operation Playboy
Kathryn Bonella
£8.99
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Bones
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Bones
Joe Tone
£9.99
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My Mother, the Psychopath
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My Mother, the Psychopath
Olivia Rayne
£7.99
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Cruel Britannia

The best British true crime books

 

Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter
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Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter
Carol Ann Lee
£18.99
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Wicked Beyond Belief
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Wicked Beyond Belief
Michael Bilton
£12.99
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Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son
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Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son
Gordon Burn
£9.99
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Yorkshire Ripper
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Yorkshire Ripper
Chris Clark
£8.99
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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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A History Of British Serial Killing
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A History Of British Serial Killing
David Wilson
£10.99
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A Fine Day for a Hanging
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A Fine Day for a Hanging
Carol Ann Lee
£8.99
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Happy Like Murderers
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Happy Like Murderers
Gordon Burn
£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
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ROSE WEST: The Making of a Monster
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ROSE WEST: The Making of a Monster
Jane Carter Woodrow
£12.99
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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
£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 & Rose
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Fred & Rose
Howard Sounes
£9.99
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A Very British Murder
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A Very British Murder
Lucy Worsley
£10.99
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Criminal Masterminds

The best true crime 'classics'

Homicide
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Homicide
David Simon
£12.99
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In Cold Blood
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
£8.99   £6.99
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Helter Skelter
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Helter Skelter
Vincent Bugliosi
£8.99
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
£8.99   £6.99
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Papillon
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Papillon
Henri Charriere
£9.99
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Hell's Angels
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Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson
£8.99
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Mindhunter
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Mindhunter
John Douglas
£8.99
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The People V. O.J. Simpson
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The People V. O.J. Simpson
Jeffrey Toobin
£9.99
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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
£10.99
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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
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The Drugs Don't Work

The best books on the drug trade

Drug Warrior
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Drug Warrior
Jack Riley
£8.99
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The Last Narco
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The Last Narco
Malcolm Beith
£9.99
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El Narco
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El Narco
Ioan Grillo
£9.99
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Amexica
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Amexica
Ed Vulliamy
£13.99
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Snowblind
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Snowblind
Robert Sabbag
£9.99
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Chasing the Scream
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Chasing the Scream
Johann Hari
£9.99
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American Kingpin
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American Kingpin
Nick Bilton
£12.99
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Marching Powder
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Marching Powder
Rusty Young
£9.99
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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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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
£9.99
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Snowing in Bali
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Snowing in Bali
Kathryn Bonella
£9.99
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Books Behind Bars

The best prison books 

Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg
Ben Stewart
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Midnight Express
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Midnight Express
Billy Hayes
£9.99
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Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole
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Banged Up Abroad: Hellhole
James Miles
£8.99
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Life in Strangeways
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Life in Strangeways
Alan Lord
£8.99
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Orange Is the New Black
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Orange Is the New Black
Piper Kerman
£8.99
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Close But No Cigar
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Close But No Cigar
Stephen Purvis
£9.99
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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
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Hotel K
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Hotel K
Kathryn Bonella
£8.99
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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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The Damage Done
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The Damage Done
Warren Fellows
£7.99
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War on the Street

The best books on gangs and gangsters

 

The Vory
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The Vory
Mark Galeotti
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The Mammoth Book of Gangs
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The Mammoth Book of Gangs
James Morton
£8.99
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Siberian Education
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Siberian Education
Nicolai Lilin
£12.99
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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
£9.99
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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
£8.99
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Gangs
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Gangs
Ross Kemp
£9.99
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Gangs II
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Gangs II
Ross Kemp
£9.99
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Going to the Mattresses

The best books on the Mafia

 

Mafia Life
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Mafia Life
Federico Varese
£8.99
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White Shotgun
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White Shotgun
Attilio Bolzoni
£12.99
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Mafia
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Mafia
Nigel Cawthorne
£6.99
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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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The Ice Man
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The Ice Man
Philip Carlo
£8.99
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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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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 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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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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Mafia
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Mafia
A. G. D. Maran
£7.99
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Keep it in the Family

The best books on the Krays

The Twins - Men of Violence
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The Twins - Men of Violence
Kate Kray
£8.99
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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 Profession of Violence
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The Profession of Violence
John Pearson
£8.99
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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 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
£8.99
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The Kray Madness
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The Kray Madness
Chris Lambrianou
£7.99
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Me and My Brothers
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Me and My Brothers
Charlie Kray
£9.99
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The Krays: A Violent Business
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The Krays: A Violent Business
Colin Fry
£12.99
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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 Past is a Dangerous Place 

The best historical true crime books

 

The Five
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The Five
Hallie Rubenhold
£16.99   £14.99
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The Murderer of Warren Street
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The Murderer of Warren Street
Marc Mulholland
£9.99
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City of Light, City of Poison
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City of Light, City of Poison
Holly Tucker
£10.99
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They All Love Jack
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They All Love Jack
Bruce Robinson
£10.99
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Kate Summerscale
£10.99
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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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The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
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The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper
James Carnac
£9.99
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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
£8.99
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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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