Book Reviews

A book review examining miscarriage of justice cases in 20th century London, where despite best intentions, the criminal justice system got it wrong.

Richard O'Jones from True Crime Historian interviews author Brian Forschner in a podcast discussing his book Cold Serial: The Jack the Strangler Murders.

The best criminal profiling books written by FBI profilers who have been inside the minds of the world's worst serial killers. Read if you dare!

The desperate cries of a fatally injured young woman ring out into the night. She knows she can be heard but realises as her life ebbs away, that no one is coming to her aid.

A review of this forensic true crime book examining the use of DNA testing and evidence in some of the most high profile criminal cases in the UK.

In 1966 three young Beaumont children vanished in Adelaide, Australia. 50 years on, author Michael Madigan explores this mysterious unsolved case.

From Oscar Wilde to Charles Bronson, author Stephen Wade explores the famous criminals of Britain, their prison time and just what makes them notorious.

To take the life of your own child is beyond a criminal act. It is a violation of the trust a child has in the people they believe in the most; their parents.

A deeply personal book from Lionel Dahmer, the father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, trying to understand his son's actions.

In his first historical true crime book, Brian Forschner uncovers an unknown serial killer who in 1900’s Dayton, Ohio brutally murdered five young women.

A book review of the John George Haigh serial murder case of 1944-49, where in order to hide his victims, Haigh dissolved their bodies in vats of acid.