New True Crime titles
1399066609 
Hardback 
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Resource type: Physical
1472148002 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Ebury Digital
Resource type: Physical
Note: Jillian Lauren set out to research a serial killer for her novel. Instead, she put one at the centre of her life. After an interview with LAPD detective Mitzi Roberts, Lauren became obsessed with murderer Samuel Little. Following months of exchanging letters with him in prison, Lauren finally got a face-to-face meeting.
1399042459 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword True Crime
Resource type: Physical
Note: This text is devoted to the Wigwam murder. It uses hitherto unseen Canadian files for the first time and includes eye-witness testimony of those who were there. M.J. Trow provides the full background to both the victim and the alleged killer as well as describing in detail the brilliant forensic science in the case.
1471186237 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: Stephane Brietwieser stole over 300 art pieces in the course of 200 heists. While travelling around Europe and working as a waiter in the mid-90's, Stephane orchestrated cunning heists almost fortnightly. His routine nature and relentlessness led the Guardian to call him 'arguably the world's most consistent art thief'.
1789465508 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: A gripping and atmospheric true-crime noir. It is the story of Britain's 1960's gambling boom, as the country emerged from years of hardship to embrace exotic night-life and entertainment, all supplied by the Mafia.
1783787708 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Granta Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir to a small estate, found himself suddenly without money. The solution, he decided, was to rob a bank. To do this, he would need a gun and a car. In the process of procuring them, he killed two people, and the circumstances of his eventual arrest in the apartment of Ireland's Attorney General nearly brought down the government
1915306388 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Mirror Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: On 6 April 2016 Julia went to pick up her three children from the rental home of her ex-husband Mario Deus where he had been taking care of them over the Easter holidays. Nothing could have prepared her for the unthinkable horror of seeing their lifeless bodies where she thought they were sleeping.
1529099889 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: The sweeping history of the American dream, Manhattan's Chinatown underbelly, and the grandma mastermind behind one of the largest human smuggling rings.
075099889X 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: The History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Southeast England in the 1740s was not a pleasant place. Foreign wars, rebellion and fractious politics rattled the state and made life difficult for most. In this chaos, the old practice of smuggling reached new and dangerous heights. Violent gangs of smugglers terrorised communities and confounded government attempts to stop them. The most famous of these, the Hawkhurst Gang, operate like a modern drug cartel fuelled by illegal tea.
0241461960 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Allen Lane
Resource type: Physical
Note: With lucidity and wit, Scott Shapiro establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators including Robert Morris Jr, the graduate student who accidentally crashed the internet in the 1980s
1399041037 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Resource type: Physical
Note: Utilizing forensic evidence that was ignored by the police, and documents that have never before been released to the public, Alan Strachan has produced the horrific account of a man who was wrongfully executed for rape and murder - even though it is quite possible that there was neither a rape nor a murder.
1399070614 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword True Crime
Resource type: Physical
Note: Why does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an extraordinary reputation today? How come his criminal career has inspired a profusion of often misleading literature and film? This eighteenth-century villain is often portrayed as a hero - dashing, sinister, romantic, daring, a Robin Hood of his times.
1800960883 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Monoray
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 'Taxtopia' a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naif to skilled tax consultant - and in doing so blows the lid on the murky world of making the tax burdens of the ultra-wealthy disappear. In the topsy-turvy world of tax avoidance, you can get richer by buying a yacht, the world's biggest exporter of coffee is Switzerland, and billionaires like the Duke of Westminster, Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos often pay less tax than you do.
0008500223 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: William Collins
Resource type: Physical
Note: The author explores the strange history of death and murder in early modern England, yet the stories within may appear shockingly familiar.
0008531455 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Mudlark
Resource type: Physical
Note: Francisco first became acquainted with the East End of Glasgow as a child, through his aunt's stories about her first social work job in the city during the early 1990s. Two decades later he moved there to study for his Masters in the mid-2010s. It was around then that Francisco heard the story of Bible John for the first time.
1399098802 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword True Crime
Resource type: Physical
Note: The second book published in this series carries on from where 'The Moors Murderers' left off and continues the horrific story of the crimes perpetrated by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and tells of what happened at their trial in 1966.
1399081381 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Frontline Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Doubts about James Earl Ray, Dr. Martin Luther King's lone assassin, arose almost immediately after the civil rights leader was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on 4 April 1968. From the start, his aides voiced suspicions that a conspiracy was responsible for their leader's death. Over time many Americans became convinced that the government investigations covered up the truth about the alleged assassin.
1906772894 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Ian Fleming Publications
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'The Diamond Smugglers' is the true story of an operation responsible for smuggling millions of pounds worth of precious gems out of Africa. Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, drew on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies' counter-attack to explore the world of the real master criminals of his time.
1398505366 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 1996 and 1999, two elderly couples died in the small town of Wilmslow, Cheshire. In each case the husband was blamed for turning berserk and killing his wife using a horrifying level of violence. The police failed to make a link between the deaths - despite the similarities. That might have been the end of the matter.
1474620574 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Resource type: Physical
Note: On the evening of Halloween in 2015, Morgan Hehir was walking with friends close to Nuneaton town centre when they were viciously attacked by a group of strangers. Morgan was stabbed in the heart and lungs and died hours later. He was 20 years old and worked in the local hospital, a graffiti artist who dreamed of moving away and building a life for himself.