Book Reviews

The popular image of Victorian Britain is an ordered, well-behaved and well-mannered society; it is not of an era littered with riots, violent muggings, and terrorist attacks. Bombers, Rioters and Police Killers by Simon Webb sets the record straight by...

The story Shannon O'Leary has to tell in her autobiography The Blood On My Hands is chilling and it is terrifying. A child who endures a childhood full of terror is child that when grown into an adult, has to...

Prince George’s County lies on the border to Washington DC and author Del Quentin Wilber gains full access to their homicide squad, shadowing them from the moment they get the call of a murder taking place.

Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution in a book by Dean Kirby.

Criminal court cases in Japan begin with the fairly predictable,the defendant pleads guilty, and end with the utterly predictable, the defendant is found guilty. What happens in between is the interesting bit.

Serial killer Ted Bundy was a handsome and charming man at first glance, but he was a man who harboured dark thoughts and sinister intentions. A man who just before his execution, after receiving three death sentences for his crimes,...

On 12th February 2008 at Green Junior High in Oxnard, California, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed 15-year-old Larry King inside their computer class. A violent act carried out in front of 26 horrified classmates and their teacher.

Hate and fear are two of the most powerful weapons this world has ever and will ever have. The massive murder machine that was Nazi Germany and its alliance knew how to manipulate these feelings in a way that started...

Serial killers are an unique kind of individual. Their behaviour has fascinated psychologists, criminologists, journalists and the general public for years. To that end there is a never-ending stream...

The harsh punishments of the Victorian prison system are showcased in Victorian Convicts, a book examining the lives and crimes of 100 Victorian criminals.

A fascinating look at the elite Ghost Squad police unit created to tackle post World War II crime in London in a book by Dick Kirby.

A fascinating inside look at the work of a police sketch artist, recreating the faces of suspects using just the fragmented memories of eyewitnesses.