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Harold Shipman was a trusted British family doctor — and one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history.For years, patients entered his care believing they were safe. Behind that trust was a horrifying pattern of suspicious deaths, forged records, and families left with unanswered...

An immersive account of a seemingly loving father’s transformation into a "family annihilator." In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son at Moselle, their home in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. By then, the story had become headline news across the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. For seventeen years, someone mailed and planted homemade bombs across America. The targets were universities, a computer shop, an airliner and a family home in New Jersey. Sixteen bombs, three dead, twenty-three injured, and not one useful clue to the...

There's nothing more chilling than an unsolved crime, particularly one involving direct harm to human life; be it murder or rape, these are the crimes whose effects extend furthest and cause most pain to humanity: how much worse when they go unsolved and, as such, unpunished?

Hannes Liebrandt und Niklas Fischer führen uns anhand von zehn Fällen zu Tatorten von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, um diese Fragen zu klären. Wir erfahren, warum Alexander der Große einen seiner engsten Gefährten tötete, wie die Familie Medici Opfer zahlreicher Mordanschläge wurde und warum die Ungarin Elisabeth Báthory als »Blutgräfin« bekannt wurde.

Have you ever come face-to-face with the devil? In a tapestry of sports, business, and dating, there is an evil presence that is not quite visible to anyone: the Bedroom Strangler. A serial killer who scales 15-story buildings, enters through the balcony, and stealthily slithers under the bedroom bed, with the sole intent of raping and murdering innocent women in their sleep. He has been classified as the worst serial killer in Ontario's history and Canada's most dangerous criminal ever, operating at the height of London's 40-year serial killer period, from 1974 to 1978. 

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen comes the true story behind one of America’s most shocking cases of religious manipulation and murder. On the day after Christmas 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a small house on a quiet...

Bondi Terror tells the story of the deadliest terror attack in Australian history - in gripping, minute-by-minute detail. The attack would leave 15 people dead, including a 10-year-old girl and an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor, and dozens more severely wounded. Bondi Terror reconstructs the...

Four Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant. The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his...

The Lindsay Clancy Case examines the closely watched criminal trial, the 11–1 jury split that resulted in a mistrial, the postpartum psychosis defense, key evidence and testimony, and the legal questions still ahead. A concise true-crime account of the case, courtroom arguments, mental-health...

A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases. The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling, prizewinning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous...

A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Review Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of the year by the FT Nominated for the Women's Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the 2025 ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction “A trove of thrilling material . . . skillfully examines the racism...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue "An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction Winner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction Now the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein's The Holly...

1921, Oklahoma. Dépossédés de leurs terres, les Indiens Osages ont été parqués dans une réserve aride. Mais sous leurs pieds coule un océan de pétrole. De quoi rameuter, en quelques mois, les vautours blancs assoiffés d'or noir. Bientôt, les membres les plus riches de la tribu...

This intimate exploration of race and inequality in America tells the story of a journalist’s long-time relationship with his mentee, Jorell Cleveland, through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and investigates Jorell's tragic fatal shooting. In 2005, soon after Ben Westhoff moved to St...

For the first time, the full story of a crime that has haunted New England since 1873. The cold-blooded ax murder of two innocent Norwegian women at their island home off the coast of New Hampshire has gripped the region since 1873, beguiling tourists, inspiring artists, and fueling conspiracy theorists. The killer, a handsome Prussian fisherman down on his luck, was quickly captured, convicted in a widely publicized trial, and hanged in an unforgettable gallows spectacle.

THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING QUEEN OF CLASSIC CRIME, DOROTHY L SAYERS 'Dorothy L. Sayers is one of our best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph 'One of crime fiction's most memorable detectives' The New York Times 'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy...

Longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2026 One of the Sunday Times Best Non-Fiction Books to Read in Summer 2026 'In this remarkable book, utterly gripping over 400 pages, high-end novelised non-fiction takes a big leap forward' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'This is a stylish, intelligent...