True stories books

The forgotten cloak-and-dagger history of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt to develop long-range...  Read More >>

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Every murder is shocking, but few crimes shock society more than when the killer is a woman. There has been an explosion...  Read More >>

The true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in...  Read More >>

Voted Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice. The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of...  Read More >>

This is the true story of Vito Ciancimino--Don Vito da Corleone, the Mayor of the Corleones --who spent forty years...  Read More >>

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A vain man of good looks but no family ties to the Mob, Vincent Vinny Gorgeous Basciano worked his way up to acting...  Read More >>

In 1970s Las Vegas--a heyday of Mafia misdeed in Sin City--a fearless young man launched a crusade to eradicate...  Read More >>

In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern...  Read More >>

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From the renowned chronicler of law-and-order in Gilded Age New York City, the sensational grave robbery of A. T....  Read More >>

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Early on 21 February 1814, an army officer revealed that the French had been defeated and Napoleon killed. When...  Read More >>

Graverobbing was a dark but profitable industry in pre-Victorian Scotland - criminals, gravediggers and middle-class...  Read More >>

WELCOME TO THE MURKY WORLD OF POLITICAL DONATIONS. Big business, eccentric loners, lobbyists, fraudsters, senior...  Read More >>

Hundreds of dark and scandalous events have happened in Warwick over the centuries, from the murder of Piers Gaveston,...  Read More >>

Presents twenty-five historic cases of murder committed in the Channel Islands that include: a fatal assault on...  Read More >>

A veteran detective hunts someone from his past to find justice for the brutalized victims of human trafficking....  Read More >>

Contained within the pages of Gloucestershire Murders are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders...  Read More >>

Neil R Storey has drawn on a vast array of original sources - among them witness statements, coroners' reports and...  Read More >>

A shocking expose on the life and death of political peace activist Mary Pinchot Meyer, whose relationship with...  Read More >>

In this fascinating book, Dane Love uncovers a strange collection of tales of devious fraudsters and curious hoaxes....  Read More >>

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