The anatomy murders

Up the close and down the stair,Up and down with Burke and Hare.Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief,Knox the man who buys the beef.—anonymous children's songOn Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the ...

What happened to mickey?

Donald "Mickey" McDonald was charged in 1939 with the killing of a bookmaker, supposedly Toronto's first gangland slaying. Two murder trials, a sensational escape from Kingston Penitentiary, and a $50,000 bank robbery established Mickey as a national crime figure, though the circumstances of his ...

The city of the living

A CRIMEREADS AND WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023 A spellbinding, best-selling work of true crime about one of the most shocking murders in recent Italian history and set in a Rome that will be a constant revelation to anyone who knows only the city’s well-worn tourist paths. In March ...

Murder in the heartland: book three

In a place where murder isn’t supposed to happen—rural Missouri and Southern Illinois—deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches—murder is swift and can h...

Trace

The riveting inside story of a journalist investigating the shocking cold-case murder of a bookseller.

Tokyo noir

A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime exposé, and memoir. It’s 2008, and it’s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-s...

The last yakuza

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before in this gripping, true crime story by the author of Tokyo Vice. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese, living in small-town Japan. He has two talents: playing guitar and picking fights. When his dream of be...

The fabulous flying mrs miller

The remarkable true story of a beguiling 1920s housewife who seeks international fame, fortune and adventure as an aviator but finds herself the central figure in a sensational Miami murder trial.

A murder without motive

A police procedural, a meditation on suffering and an exploration into the human condition.

Alligator in the ocean

Alligator in the Ocean illustrates one family’s drive to stop a serial predator and overcome the heart-wrenching struggles that followed.Anina Swan shares the true account of how she survived the brutality of a serial predator, Ivan, unveiled traumatic amnesia, and rallied help to stop his crime ...

Unconfined

A surprising journey of finding hope and faith when life takes a terrible detour.

A bullet for jesus

“But Bill isn’t there some other way? I didn’t give up all I had and come here just to let some ‘punk’ gang leader kill me?” “Well Jim, there’s the door; you can either go out, turn left, walk down to the corner, face Eddie, and see if he really intends on killing you: or you can turn right and r...

Hands through stone

This fascinating and gripping portrayal is the only book-length account ever written about criminal mastermind Clarence Ray Allen, the last man to be executed in the state of CaliforniaEven hardened detectives were shaken by the scene at Fran's Market in rural Fresno County that night in 1980: fo...

Murder by the bay

Documenting the murders in San Francisco that captivated both the city and the country, this dynamic history shows how the Bay Area can compete with Paris, London, and New York in the splendor of its suspenseful, horrifying, and audacious misdeeds. From the Montgomery Street killing of James King...

California's deadliest women

California’s Deadliest Women presents fascinating and grimly comic profiles of 28 female murderers. Some killed for money, some for revenge, and some for no reason at all—but all share a cold contempt for human life.

That lonely section of hell

Former police detective Lorimer Shenher's “inside account of the Pickton serial murders is both a horrifying and compelling read. "—Peter Vronsky, author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of MonstersIn this searing personal account, ex-police detective Lori Shenher (who transitioned to in...

Murder, inc., and the moral life

Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia’s New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed “Murder, Inc.” Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular.

From hell. nueva edición (cómic / comic book)

Nueva rotulación y nueva traducción Reedición de la obra completa de Moore y Campbell, revisada y complementada con comentarios de Alan Moore. Se trata de una revisitación del mito de Jack el Destripador, a su vez que una disección despiadada de la sociedad victoriana. Esta famosa novela gráfic...

Pablo escobar in fraganti: lo que mi padre nunca me contó / pablo escobar caught in the act: what my father never told me

Historias jamás reveladas del jefe del Cártel de Medellín

Caza al hombre: cómo atrapamos a pablo escobar / manhunters: how we took down pablo escobar

En las décadas que pasaron en la DEA, Javier Peña y Steve Murphy se dedicaron a la caza y captura de narcotraficantes, pero sin duda su mayor desafío fue Pablo Escobar, el cerebro del cartel de Medellín y responsable del tráfico de toneladas de cocaína a Estados Unidos y a Europa en las décadas d...

Sombras del crimen: misterios y venganzas en el mundo de la mafia, las drogas y el narcoterrorismo / chasing shadows

GANADOR DE LOS TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2024 Jack Kelly es un desgastado agente de la DEA, cuyo trabajo consiste en olfatear dinero. Antes de pensar en su jubilación o en un cargo de escritorio que le permita descansar más, decide aceptar una última misión: el Proyecto Casandra. Con el fin de desmantela...

Underground: el atentado con gas sarín en el metro de tokio y la psicología japonesa / underground: the tokyo gas attack and the japanese psyche

Una estremecedora crónica de la fragilidad de la sociedad actual. Pese a las intenciones de quienes lo perpetraron, el ataque con gas sarín que se produjo en el metro de Tokio en marzo de 1995 sólo se cobró once vidas. Sin embargo, miles de personas resultaron heridas y muchas otras sufrieron su...

Mi vida y mi carcel con pablo escobar / my life and my prison with pablo escobar

Cuando conoció a Pablo Escobar, con solo trece años, Victoria Eugenia Henao ignoraba que su vida estaba a punto de convertirse en una pesadilla terrible, y que jamás dejarían de señalarla con el dedo por ser la mujer con la que se casó y tuvo dos hijos el mayor narcotraficante de todos los tiempo...

Opus: ingeniería financiera, manipulación de personas y conspiración de la extrema derecha en el seno de la iglesia católica / opus: the cult of dark money

Sesenta años de una conspiración amparada por el dinero y la religión. El periodista de investigación Gareth Gore llegó a España en 2017 para informar sobre el inesperado derrumbe del Banco Popular, considerado hasta entonces como una de las entidades más rentables del mundo. Lo que había de ser ...

Obedeceré a dios: el crimen que puso la fe a prueba / under the banner of heaven. a story of violent faith

El 24 de julio de 1984, Allen Lafferty, un mormón practicante, se encontró con una escena terrible: su mujer y su hija de quince meses habían sido brutalmente asesinadas. Allen no tenía ninguna duda de la identidad de los culpables: sus hermanos, Ron y Dan Lafferty, dos fanáticos convencidos de q...

Y dejé de llamarte papá: el caso francés que ha conmocionado al mundo (crimen real) / i’ll never call him dad again (true crime)

El caso que ha conmocionado al mundo. El testimonio único de la hija de Gisèle Pelicot: cómo su familia convirtió un trauma inimaginable en una lucha colectiva. «Caroline, gracias por todo lo que has hecho por las víctimas de la sumisión química. Voy a mostrarte el mejor ejemplo de tu lucha», G...

Ya no quiero ser valiente (novela crimen real) / i don't want to be brave anymore (true crime novel)

Este libro empezó a escribirse mucho antes de que siquiera se esbozara su indignante y atroz argumento. Comenzó a echar raíces desde el día en que la narradora descubrió en el periódico una palabra sucia y oscura: «Feminicidio». Un libro que sabía iba a consumirla, a fragmentarla y que, después, ...

Permiso para matar: una investigación sobre los crímenes cometidos por las fuerzas de seguridad del estado / permission to kill

Cuando el asesino es el Estado: un libro durísimo, pero necesario, que recoge los desgarradores testimonios de las víctimas civiles de la violencia ejercida por las fuerzas de seguridad. «Esta es una guerra contra el pueblo de México. Se dice que es una guerra contra el crimen organizado, pero no...

Esto no es noticia (novela crimen real) / this is not news (true crime novel)

«La fuerza ficticia de esta novela, inspirada en hechos reales, sólo puede ser igualada con la pluma sobria de Philippe Besson, un escritor en la cima de su carrera», La Provenza «Papá acaba de matar a mamá». Tras la conmoción por la inaudita noticia que le dio su hermana, el primogénito alerta a...

La asesina inocente / the innocent killer

La prensa que apoyó a María Teresa en su reinado la pinta como víctima de las circunstancias; mientras que la prensa del Estado, como asesina a sangre fría. México, 1928. Mientras el país despierta con la noticia del atentado contra el presidente Álvaro Obregón, María Teresa Landa solo tiene...

Mindhunter: cazador de mentes / mindhunter: inside the fbi's elite serial crime unit

Es la historia, contada por él mismo, de John Douglas, el hombre que revolucionó las técnicas para estudiar las mentes de los criminales en serie. Durante veinticinco años como agente especial del FBI, Douglas contribuyó a resolver los casos más difíciles, con aciertos asombrosos, como el que le ...

Narcas: el ascenso al poder de las jefas seretas del crimen organizado / narcas: the secret rise of women in latin america's cartels

«Las investigaciones contemporáneas sobre el papel de las mujeres en el tráfico de drogas lamentablemente siguen siendo deficientes. Este libro es solo la punta del iceberg en la comprensión de su rol dentro del crimen organizado latinoamericano y la cultura que las rodea». Pablo Escobar, Joaquín...

Atrocity on the atlantic

Finalist, 2025 Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book • Honourable Mention, Keith Matthews Best Book Award presented by Canadian Nautical Research SocietyHow a German submarine sank a Canadian military hospital ship during the First World War and sparked outrage.On the evening of Jun...

Bad trips

Slava Pastuk made a decision that changed his life when he became involved in a global drug-smuggling conspiracy to import cocaine into Australia. Bad Trips is a story of crime, sex, drugs, and rap music, with a backdrop of one of the world’s hippest and most influential websites, VICE.

Arctic predator

The shocking crimes of a trusted teacher wrought lasting damage on Inuit communities in Canada’s Arctic. In the 1970s, a young schoolteacher from British Columbia was becoming the darling of the Northwest Territories education department with his dynamic teaching style. He was learning to speak ...

Personal foul

In this book NBA referee Tim Donaghy tells his story of gambling addiction, betting with inside information, the investigation, trial, and punishment.

Dictionary of corruption

Written by an expert team, this is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals. It establishes a common interpretation of the language and terminology in the field of corruption and anti-corruption studies. From amakudari to zero tolerance, over 250 key terms...

About canada: corporate crime

When corporations misbehave the consequences are devastating. The monetary costs of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct result of financial mismanagement, were in the trillions, and yet none of those responsible were held to account. The monetary costs of Criminal Code theft pale in comparison, a...

Script to scream

A washed-up scream queen. A deadly comeback. One last chance to be the final girl. Jennifer Hawkins was once a legendary final girl, the face of a cult slasher franchise that defined an era of blood-soaked cinema. Now an aging actress clinging to relevance, she’s offered a mysterious opportunity ...

The california kid

A compelling tell-all from the unique perspective of convicted felon Owen Hanson, The California Kid reveals the unbelievable story of one man’s unexpected journey from troubled child to infamous criminal.

I am a mob boss

I could've died a thousand times. People were out to get me, as they always are when you run the show.It's kind of silly that it's cancer that's going to get me, but now I know the end's not going to come from a sudden bullet to the skull one night, at least I have enough time to tell my story.It...

The butterfly thief

A scientific true-crime caper stretching across the globe, The Butterfly Thief pieces together the bizarre story of one of the largest, most systematic, and baffling museum heists in the records of natural history. In January 1947, a chance discovery rocks the world of natural science—over 3,000 ...

On the parole board

An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.

Killer moms

A murder at the hands of a mother is a heartbreaking deviation and a crime against nature! How can a mother commit such an appalling crime? How can she end the lives of the innocents she so recently bore and nurtured? A mother is supposed to be loving, protective, caring, and kind. She’s suppose...

Into the darkness

How did Phoebe Handsjuk fall to her death? In Into the Darkness, Robin Bowles uses her formidable array of investigative and forensic skills to tell a tale that is stranger than fiction.

The family

A powerful work of investigative journalism about a notorious cult based in Melbourne, Australia, that captured world-wide headlines. The apocalyptic group The Family and their guru, Anne Hamilton-Byrne, captured international headlines throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Starting in Melbourne, Austr...

Wakool crossing

In November 1916, just a few years after Federation and while Australia was at war in Europe, Hazel Hood, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of a Riverina grazier, went to a local dance and never came home. Her mysterious disappearance caused a sensation in the district around the pioneer settlem...

Death on the derwent

Don't fool yourself that the innocent never go to jail. When Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht, moored in the Derwent Estuary near the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's marina, on the night of 26 January 2009, he left behind his pipe and tobacco — something that his partner of 18 years, Sue N...

The woman who fooled the world

The jaw-dropping story of Instagram influencer and wellness scammer Belle Gibson, whose cancer diagnosis and cure was all a lie. NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES STARRING KAITLYN DEVER Entrepreneur. Inspiration. Guru. Australian wellness influencer Belle Gibson shot to fame after she convinced the wo...

The stained man

Attempted murder, lies, legal and political backdoor dealings, this work of historical true crime—“A two-volume mystery!” Mark Twain called it—brings to life the riveting story of Australia’s most notorious scandal. Sydney, 1895. Richard Meagher is a brilliant criminal defense solicitor with ambi...

A witness of fact

The compelling story of South Australia’s disgraced former chief forensic pathologist and the legal scandals in which he became implicated. For nearly three decades, Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia’s forensic pathology services, and played a vital role within the state’s criminal...

You could do something amazing with your life [you are raoul moat]

An award-winning true-crime story about a fugitive on the run, told from his point of view. Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award for Nonfiction.

The hanged man

Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on 3 February 1967, following his conviction for the shooting murder of a prison warder during a daring escape from the maximum-security Pentridge prison thirteen months before. The decision of the Victorian government in December 1966 to proceed with Ry...

The devil takes bitcoin

From the author of Tokyo Vice comes the wild, true story of cyber-era commerce, crime, cold-hard cash, and one of the greatest heists in history. Even in hell, Bitcoin talks. This modern take on an old Japanese saying still holds true. Cryptocurrency was supposed to do for money what the internet...

The love of a bad man

An electrifying short story collection about the wives, lovers, and mistresses of history’s most notorious men.

The power of conviction

James Tillman was stretched out on his basement couch, relaxing after a long day of work at the car wash, the smell of sweet onions and simmering steak filling the air of his modest apartment in the projects of Hartford, Conn. His mother, a bible perched nearby, was softly singing a hymn when she...

Cold serial

"Cold Serial" paints the picture of five girls who were raped and strangled in the Dayton, Ohio, area between 1900 and 1909. The working conditions, lack of rights for women and police protection, and the sexism of the age portray these girls as victims not only of a crime but also of their time....

Hard drive

On June 24, 2012, Dr. Shane Truman Todd, a young American engineer, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment, just a week before his scheduled return to the United States. Although Shane had repeatedly expressed apprehension about his work with a Chinese company and fear his life was being th...

400 things cops know

400 Things Cops Knows shows police work on the inside, from the viewpoint of the regular cop on the beat

The newhall incident

Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red Pontiac with two men in it was stopped, four young California Highway Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wounds. The incident still stands as the worst of its kind and has changed the way police forces operate the world over.

Black bart: boulevardier bandit

California Gold Country historian George Hoeper reveals what promises to be the final piece to the 100-year-old puzzle of the infamous stagecoach robber Black Bart. For over eight years the mysterious and very polite Charles Boles (alias Black Bart) plagued Wells Fargo & Co. with a string of ...

Six gun sound

This account of the struggle to bring law and order to a city rich with gold rush money, at odds with Mexican bandits, and teeming with forty-niners and confederate sympathizers chronicles the chaotic early days of Los Angeles, which boasted the highest homicide rate in America by 1850. From prof...

Perilous trails, dangerous men

Punctuated by gunshots and posse hoofbeats, these true tales, many told for the first time, illustrate, in both words and rare photographs, perilous trails and dangerous men from a time gone forever. Profiling men such as stagecoach robber Shorty Harris, who just wanted to buy a restaurant with h...

On the run

This true adventure begins in the late 1800s in the rough-and-tumble towns of northern California and ends on the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1920s. After running away from home, Douglas McHardie found himself in Arizona, where things took a horrible turn for the worse as he found him...

Death in california

With details about grim and grisly fatalities, this history of California's arcane deaths encompasses the murders and accidents that at one time shocked the West Coast. The stories of hangings, gun accidents, suicides, crashes, and overdoses of both the famous and obscure offer a bizarre and ligh...

Murder in the garden, volume ii

Presenting 16 famous criminal cases from Fresno California at the turn of the 20th century, this gripping history brings fascinating tales of murder and mayhem to light. Introducing a blend of memorable and tragic figures, such as the ""Old Broom Man"" or the ""Black Widow,"" a longtime detective...

Legends of the california bandidos

""California Banditos"" presents extraordinary, little-known tales of the infamous bandits and highwaymen who plied their trade in early California.

Murder in the garden

Presenting 15 famous cases from Fresno, California, set in the first part of the 20th century, a long-time detective in the sheriff's office introduces key figures such as a bootlegger, an unfortunate local dubbed Alligator Jack, and a perpetrator known as the Fig Garden Fiend. Featuring local la...

Behind san quentin's walls

It’s one of the most famous prisons in American history, featured in countless movies and novels. Its inmates have included such diverse characters as Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Eldridge Cleaver, Merle Haggard, and Neal Cassady. It’s the one of the oldest continually operating institutions of...

California feuds

Chronicling the ignominious yet fascinating side of this state, this account shares tales of personal vendettas in a time when men made their own laws and left women to pick up the pieces.

In those days: arctic crime and punishment

Volume two of this series shares tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters—as well as the wrongfully accused—in the early days of Northern colonization.

Leyendas legendarias: los archivos secretos de los casos más inexplicables / legendary legends

Las investigaciones e infografías sobre los casos de crímenes, fenómenos paranormales y eventos históricos más peculiares y fantásticos, que se ganaron el título de Leyendas Legendarias. Tipos de OVNI Críptidos de América Mothman Los narcosatánicos y otros caníbales La Mataviejitas El caso ...

El hombre que amaba a los perros / the man who loved dogs

Una fascinante indagación histórica, en forma de novela, sobre uno de los asesinos más conocidos de la Historia: Ramón Mercader, el asesino de Leon Trotski.En 2004, a la muerte de su mujer, Iván, aspirante a escritor y ahora responsable de un paupérrimo gabinete veterinario de La Habana, vuelve l...

El que tenga miedo a morir que no nazca: retrato de san pedro sula, honduras / fear death, don't be born

Para conocer esta historia desde su interior, el prestigioso periodista Juan Martínez d’Aubuisson investigó por más de 10 años las causas que provocaron que San Pedro Sula, Honduras, se transformara en una de las ciudades más homicidas del mundo. Vivió en barrios feroces, entrevistó en prisión a...

Historias de altamar: lecciones de una vida en la línea de combate / sea stories

Tras el éxito de sus libros anteriores como Tiende tu cama, que ha vendido más de un millón de copias, el almirante William H. McRaven regresa con asombrosas historias de valentía y heroísmo durante su carrera como Navy seal y comandante de las Operaciones Especiales de Estados Unidos. McRaven pa...

True crime: la fascinación del mal / true crime: the fascination with evil

Un libro que cambiará la manera de ver el true crime. ¿Por qué nos fascina la violencia y en particular el asesinato? ¿Cuánto hay de ficción y de realidad en los productos que se presentan bajo la etiqueta de true crime? Al buscar la respuesta a estas preguntas, Vicente Garrido ofrece un extraord...

Cuando la justicia desampara: la historia de una madre que vengó el secuestro y asesinato de su hija a manos de un cártel / fear is just a word

FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MOORE DE DERECHOS HUMANOS MEJOR LIBRO DEL AÑO 2023: The New Yorker, The Economist, Biblioteca Pública de Chicago «Ahmed escribe sobre la violencia en México con perspicacia y sobriedad. Mantiene una distancia cautelosa, muchas veces estimulante, permitiendo que la historia se...

La colonia lebarón: la historia al interior del clan: crímenes, pactos de sangre y fe en la tierra prometida / the colony: faith and blood in a promised land

La historia al interior del clan: crímenes, pactos de sangre y fe en la tierra prometida. El 4 de noviembre de 2019 un grupo de hombres armados abrió fuego contra tres vehículos en los que viajaba la familia LeBarón. Murieron tres mujeres y seis de sus hijos, apenas niños, mientras que otros cinc...

Secret tales of the arctic trails

From the paleolithic to high-tech oil drilling, the enduring saga of crime and punishment is told by these talented story-spinners in these tales of detection, mystery, and adventure.

The desperate ones

Ed Butts recounts the intriguing stories of some of Canadas most desperate criminals whose stories have been all but forgotten until now!

Deadly triangle

The 1935 murder of architect Francis Rattenbury, designer of the iconic Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his wife, Alma Rattenbury, and George Stoner, their chauffeur (also her lover and half her age), became one of the twentieth century’s most...

The last to die

The story of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, the last two people executed in Canada, who met their gruesome deaths at Torontos Don Jail on December 11, 1962.

Martensville: truth or justice?

When a child abuse scandal is uncovered at an unlicensed daycare in small-town Saskatchewan, the community is polarized.

Murderous minds on trial

Forensic psychiatrist Stanley Semrau takes us through some of the most dreadful stories from his own career and from historical sources.

The ghosts that haunt me

A true crime memoir chronicling a former homicide investigator’s darkest memories, taking readers into the labyrinth of a homicide investigation and what goes on in the detective’s mind during each investigation.

Murder

In Murder, the keenly researched chapters tell the stories behind some of Canadas most fascinating murder cases, from colonial times to the 20th century, and from the Atlantic provinces to the West Coast and up to the Arctic.

Death in the queen city

In 1894, the death by gunshot of 18-year-old Frank Westwood baffled Toronto police until their arrest of a strong-willed woman of colour named Clara Ford.

Running with dillinger

From the last men to be hanged in P.E.I to the bandits who plundered banks and trains in Canada and the U.S, this collection of true crime stories picks up where The Desperate Ones left off.

Traitor by default

At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre stories to emerge at the end of the Second World War was that of Kanao Inouye. Born in Kamloops, B.C., in 1916, he had reloc...

Unsolved

Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and in-depth police investigations, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada every year. Robert J. Hoshowsky examines 12 crimes that continue to haunt us, all of which remain open.

By reason of insanity

The life of David Michael Krueger, who, on his first day pass from his Brockville, Ontario, psychiatric hospital, brutally murdered another patient.

Flim flam

Through this exploration of white-collar crime in Canada, youll discover that we have some of the most colourful hucksters in the world.

A daughter's deadly deception

Now a Netflix Documentary What Jennifer Did • A sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets.“The book is pure story: chronological, downhill, fast.” — Globe and MailFrom the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect ...

Uncertain justice

An exposition of the patriarchal values that lie at the core of criminal law, and the class and gender biases that permeate its procedures and applications.

No memory for murder

A spellbinding story of murder in a popular Halifax park, high courtroom drama, and hints of demonic possession and satanic worship.In 1975, Jimmy Odo was charged with the murder of fourteen-year-old Tony Cluett, who was found strung up crucifixion-style in Halifax’s Point Pleasant Park. Six year...

On the lam

Fascinating stories of the age-old tug-of-war between prisons struggling to keep inmates inside and escapees desperate to get out. A convict who returned to the prison he had recently escaped from in a vain attempt to foment a mass breakout; a murderer on the run who veered from folk hero to pers...

Snatched!

In 1934, 53-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped and held ransom for three days. This bizarre true crime story traces the abduction through to the abductors' trials. From a heavily populated hideout to a case of mistaken identity, follow the story of the first person in Canada...

Deadly encounters

Eight intriguing Alberta crimes are dramatically presented in this well-researched book.

Line of fire

Renowned true crime writer Edward Butts takes a hard-hitting, compassionate, probing look at some of the stories involving the hundreds of Canadian law-enforcement officers who have found themselves in harms way.

We want to negotiate