BOOKS
Our Bookshop is an independent shop in Tring and are proud to be supporting Crimecon for the third year running. Visitors will find a broad range of books for all the authors at the event, particularly those doing book signings and the shop will have signed books available as authors visit.
Jam Jar
Darren Stanton
Would you like to be powerfully confident? Have you tried to make changed in your life in the past only to give up shortly after? Using both tried and tested and state of the art simple techniques, project jam jar is the concept of media psychological coach, body language expert and human lie detector, Darren Stanton. Make changes in minutes that last a lifetime. When would NOW be the best time to change?
Under World
Duncan Campbell
With stories of murder, theft, fraud and treachery, The Underworld is a deep-dive into the history of professional and organised crime in Britain. From the racetrack gangs and the smash-and-grab merchants, through the Soho vice bosses and the Kray twins, to the Great Train Robbers, the Hatton Garden burglars and the new wave of international hit-men and drug and sex traffickers, Duncan Campbell exposes the dark underbelly of Britain.
A unique perspective – told by the criminals themselves and the detective who pursued them – this is a definitive history from the very beginning to the present day.
Notorious
Raphael Rowe
Some would call this an autobiography. Others would say it’s a hell of a story. I call it my life. Living it had become the norm, but choosing to write about it wasn’t easy. It’s one thing to react to whatever life throws at you, and another to reflect on it. I’ve been sentenced to life imprisonment and confined to a prison within a prison, for a crime I did not commit. Being outspoken and relentless in fighting for justice had become my only choice, and as it turns out, my redemption. My personal life, on the other hand, I have chosen to keep private. Until now.
For the first time ever, this audiobook will walk you through my improbable personal journey with brutal honesty. The good, the bad and the ugly. My story, combined with an exceptional journey to the forefront of investigative journalism remains unparalleled. As the host of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons, I continue to do what no-one else has ever done before.
I am Raphael Rowe and my career was born as a result of spending 12 years in prison for crimes I did not commit.
All this has inspired me to try to make positive changes in prison systems throughout the world. I believe passionately that we can make such changes, and this is why I have set up the Raphael Rowe Foundation.
Justice for Helen
Marie McCourt
Burying a child is every parent's nightmare. But Marie McCourt has spent over 30 years yearning to do just that.
On 9 February 1988, Marie's 22-year-old daughter, Helen, left her office in Liverpool city centre and began her usual commute home. But she was never seen again. . . Within days, local pub landlord Ian Simms was charged with her murder. Despite Helen's body not being found, overwhelming DNA and circumstantial evidence at his trial secured his conviction, and he was sentenced to life.
But Simms' refusal to disclose the whereabouts of Helen's body means that Marie and her family have never been able to have a grave at which they can lay flowers and pay their respects.
For over 30 years, Marie has searched, in vain, for her daughter's body and campaigned tirelessly to prevent other families from facing the same horrifying fate, taking her fight to the houses of parliament. The resulting 'Helen's Law', ground-breaking legislation that recognises the distress caused to families of missing homicide victims, was passed in November 2020.
This is the incredible story of a mother, devastated by the loss of her daughter, who
found the strength and determination to change the law.
No one got cracked over the header no reason
Martin Brunt
What is it about crime that we find so fascinating, even if at the same time the details are repugnant? Why exactly do we immerse ourselves in true crime podcasts and TV shows? Has this appetite for gore shifted over the years? And what role does the crime reporter play in all of this?
In this compelling book, Martin Brunt draws on the most shocking and harrowing stories he’s covered over the past thirty years to document the life of a crime reporter and assess the public obsession with crime that his reporting caters for. He also considers the wider relationship between the press and the police, the impact of social media and the question of why some crimes are ignored while others grip the nation.
Featuring many undisclosed details on some of the biggest cases Brunt has covered, from the ‘Diamond Wheezers’ to Fred and Rose West, this blend of storytelling and analysis is not only a riveting overview of the nature of crime reporting but a reflection on the purpose of the profession in the first place.
The Prosector
Nazir Afzal
As a Chief Prosecutor, it was Nazir's job to make sure the most complex, violent and harrowing crimes made it to court, and that their perpetrators were convicted. From the Rochdale sex ring to the earliest prosecutions for honour killing and modern slavery, Nazir has helped communities that the conventional justice system ignores. His memoir "The Prosecutor" is both a searing insight into the justice system and a powerful story of one man's pursuit of the truth.
Stop the Killing
How to talk about guns with anyone
Katherine Schweit
Gun violence affects everyone.
I’m Katherine Schweit, an attorney, security consultant, and retired FBI special agent. I was tagged by the FBI to create their Active Shooter program after the terrible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since then, I’ve devoted my energy to helping prevent more tragedies.
You can make a difference. Parents, educators, community leaders, policymakers, and security professionals can all help stop the killing.
It starts with knowledge. You are part of the solution.
My mission is to teach people their role in ending gun violence in their community. Everyone’s action make a difference. It starts with knowledge.
Stop the Killing offers the first broad perspective into what each of us can do - parents, business owners, law enforcement, religious leaders, security experts - to end the mass shooting crisis plaguing America. Katherine shares her insider look at what we’ve learned (and failed to learn) about protecting ourselves and those we love.
The book busts myths, demystifies the language of active shooters, mass killings, threat assessment teams, and provides insight into the latest research and data, offers practical training tips, and takes readers from the latest prevention methods through the final steps of recovery.
Stop the Killing
How to end the mass shooting crisis
Katherine Schweit
How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis
I once focused on solutions for law enforcement but now I am laser focused on helping the public see they are the key to ending gun violence in their community. Everyone’s action make a difference. It starts with knowledge.
Stop the Killing offers the first broad perspective into what each of us can do - parents, business owners, law enforcement, religious leaders, security experts - to end the mass shooting crisis plaguing America. Katherine shares her insider look at what we’ve learned, and failed to learn, about protecting ourselves and those we love. The book busts myths, demystifies the language of active shooters, mass killings, threat assessment teams, and provides insight into the latest research and data, offers practical training tips, and takes readers from the latest prevention methods through the final steps of recovery.
The Girl for the Job
Danni Brooke
For over a decade Danni Brooke was one of the most effective female undercover cops in the UK, one of a very small number of women in the Met’s elite unit. She was so successful at taking down criminals she was seconded to forces around the country. Whether she was infiltrating organised crime gangs or disrupting drug supply lines, Danni played the innocent Essex girl, fooling even the most suspicious villains, using her quick wits to keep her out of trouble. She loved the job but the pressures of her work, and trying to balance the long hours with being a mother, were to take a toll on her personal life. In her honest, warm and gripping memoir, Danni also reveals why she left the police, how she found a new career (and love) on C4’s Hunted – and why the thrill of covert work still pulls her into private investigations.
The Hunt for the Silver Killer
David Collins
Following a long investigation, David Collins tells the truly unique story of a string of murder-suicides in north-west England and poses the terrifying question: are they the work of a serial killer who has been operating undetected since the mid-nineties? In 1996 and 1999, two elderly couples died in the small town of Wilmslow, Cheshire. In each case the husband was blamed for turning berserk and killing his wife using a horrifying level of violence. The police failed to make a link between the deaths – despite the similarities. That might have been the end of the matter. But when two coroner's officers began to piece together the evidence, it revealed a pattern which may prove the existence of a sadistic attacker known as 'the silver killer'. Using interviews with dozens of witnesses, including police investigators, forensic and crime scene experts, coroner's officers and family members, the author pieces together the clues in an attempt to solve the mystery of what really happened. A gripping true-crime investigation, the book reveals how suspicions were aroused and set investigators on a new trail to uncover the truth.
Murder by the Sea
David Howard & Robin Jarossi
Murder by the Sea is the official companion book to the long running CBS Reality series of the same name.
The New Millennium Serial Killer
Christopher Halliwell
In March 2011, a major police investigation was opened in the search for missing Swindon local, Sian O'Callaghan. When taxi driver Christopher Halliwell was arrested, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher didn't expect what happened next. After the body of another missing girl, Becky Godden-Edwards, was uncovered, the police had two murders on their hands and one suspect, but how many more unsolved murders could Christopher Halliwell be responsible for? The hidden cache of around 60 pieces of women's clothing and accessories that he led police to suggests that the number could be much higher than the two murders he has been convicted of. In The New Millennium Serial Killer, former police intelligence officer Chris Clark and true crime podcast host Bethan Trueman use their in-depth research to present a comprehensive study into convicted killer Christopher Halliwell. Discussing the crimes for which he was convicted but presenting them alongside the unsolved cases of missing and murdered women who fit with his victim type, and who went missing in the areas where he was familiar, from the 1980s to the time of his arrest in 2011. With many jobs over the years which allowed Halliwell to travel to different areas of the UK, along with a passion for fishing and narrow boating, including Yorkshire, East Lancashire, and the Midlands. With a foreword by former Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher, The New Millennium Serial Killer presents a fascinating account of this cruel killer and tells the heartbreaking stories of over twenty women whose cases remain unsolved today, seeking to find justice for their loved ones who are still waiting for answers. Do they remain with Christopher Halliwell and the collection of women's items?
I Don't Like Mondays
N. Leigh Hunt
In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She recieved a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street. The event is forever glorified by the song ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings. Long before Columbine and Sandy Hook, there was Brenda Spencer... I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS: The True Story of America’s First Modern School Shooting sifts through the mythology that has sprung up around this fateful day, presenting the raw and riveting facts for the first time. This book lays bare this seemingly average teenage girl’s brutal motives and subsequent arrest. N. Leigh Hunt spent years researching and uncovering shocking details from officers, investigators, and lost police dispatches. He has interviewed people who were on the scene and local reporters who spoke with the perpetrator directly after her shooting spree. Hunt has even cultivated an unlikely rapport with the killer and through personal interviews, has shed light on previously unknown details about her upbringing and influences.
Dead in the Water
Murder and Fraud in the world's most secretive industry
Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel
In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd’s of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. How had the pirates gotten aboard so easily? And if they wanted to steal the ship and bargain for its return, then why did they destroy it? The questions didn’t add up—and Mockett would never answer them. Soon after his inspection, David Mockett was murdered. Dead in the Water is a shocking expose of the criminal inner-workings of international shipping, told through the lens of the Brillante hijacking and its aftermath.
Top Girl
Danielle Martin - Ghostwriter Robin Eveleigh
Top Girl is the tell-all, true story of a grammar school girl turned county lines drug dealer.
Danielle has a safe, happy childhood growing up in West London, but her bright future fades as she turns her back on school for gang life and crime.
Betrayed by the police after a brutal gang rape, she finds protection under the wing of organised criminals and falls in love with the local ‘top boy’. However, her allegiances bring terror to her doorstep when gun-toting rivals target her flat – and the authorities answer by taking away her baby.
Heartbroken, Danielle spirals deeper into gang life and becomes a key player in a sprawling county lines operation, running drugs to satellite towns all over the UK from the gang’s London HQ.
The Harrods shopping sprees, designer handbags and hedonistic lifestyle are the envy of her friends, but the good times and cash mask the grim realities of her life.
A turning point comes when Danielle is arrested and – with the help of a probation officer – she begins to question whether she really is ‘top girl’ after all. But after five years deep in the high-earning street hustle, can she really leave it all behind?
Danielle’s gritty, emotional, no-holds-barred memoir lays bare the reality of a county lines insider and reveals the truth about life on the frontline of Britain’s biggest drug threat for a generation.
Madman in the Woods
Life next door to the Unabomber
Jamie Gehring
A haunting account of the 16 years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts. Ted was simply Ted, and erratic behavior, surprise visits, and chilling events while she was riding horses or helping her dad at his sawmill were dismissed because he was “just the odd hermit”. In fact, he was much more—Ted eluded the FBI for 17 years while mailing explosives to strangers, earning the infamous title of Unabomber.
In Gehring’s investigative quest 25 years later to reclaim a piece of her childhood and to answer the questions, why, how, she recalls what were once innocent memories and odd circumstances that become less puzzling in hindsight.
The innocence of her youth robbed, Gehring needed to reconcile her lived experience with the evil that hid in plain sight. In this book, through years of research probing Ted’s personal history, his writings, his secret coded crime journals, her own correspondence with him in his Supermax prison cell, plus interviews with others close to Kaczynski, Gehring unearths the complexity, mystery, and tragedy of her childhood with the madman in the woods. And she discovers a shocking revelation―she and her family were in Kaczynski’s crosshairs.
A work of intricately braided research, journalism, and personal memories, this book is a chilling response to the question: Do you really know your neighbor?
A Million Ways to Stay on the Run
The uncut story of the international manhunt for public enemy no.1 Kenny Noye
Donal MacIntyre & Karl Howman
No criminal sparked as much fear and loathing among the public and law enforcement as underworld crime boss, Kenny Noye.
A man with a central role in some of the most high-profile crimes of a generation. From the £125 million (current value) Brink’s Mat gold bullion raid to the death of Covert Police Operative John Fordham, and road rage victim Stephen Cameron, the multimillionaire villain became universally known as ‘Public Enemy: No 1’.
He had spent more than a third of his life in jail, but for two years, with near unlimited resources, and underworld connections around the globe, Noye played a game of hide and seek with Scotland Yard, MI5, INTERPOL, The FBI, and other national police forces as he fled the UK after the death of twenty-one-year-old Stephen Cameron in a road rage incident in May 1996.
From South America to Africa, from Cuba to Holland, France to Aruba, and beyond, Noye evaded capture despite the best efforts of some of the most powerful agencies and global security services. From dining with unwitting FBI officers on cruise ships to sitting on Castro’s presidential seat in Havana, Noye’s ‘Grand Tour on the Run’ was as unbelievable as it was unprecedented. It was life on the run but not as we know it.
Back in the UK, the family of Stephen Cameron grieved under the weight of the life of impunity and privilege that Noye was covertly leading but the takedown was as dramatic and extraordinary as the secrets of Noye’s life under the radar. The police would ultimately get their man.
His downfall would be placed at the door of an informant. Was it his lover or a gangland rival? Or was it the secret services? When the Spanish police ultimately swooped down with their English counterparts and arrested the affluent and charming ‘Mick the Builder’ – they were armed with a secret weapon of their own – Stephen Cameron’s fiancé.
With unique access to Noye, and key witnesses, the secret battle of wits between the underworld’s ‘Governor’ and law enforcement is reported in chilling detail.
The reader is given a 360’ vista of one of the most expensive manhunts in British policing history. The authors deliver a compelling account of a major criminal, who shunned the effective discomfort of bunkers and safe houses to live a life on the run brimming with luxury, women, sun, sea, and Bacardi – and all while hiding in plain sight.
Rose West
The making of a monster
Dr Jane Carter Woodrow
ROSE WEST is a gripping read which sheds light for the first time on the real story of Rose West - taking the reader on a journey from her childhood through to her becoming the country's biggest and most infamous female sexual predator and serial killer. Though the journey is not as readers might expect.
Unnatural Causes
The life and many deaths of Britain's top forensic pathologist
Dr Richard Shepherd
Dr Richard Shepherd is the UK’s foremost forensic pathologist. His 25-year career has been driven by his passion to discover the truth that a body leaves behind in the wake of their death. From crime scene to courtroom, his findings are crucial to the pursuit of justice. His work has seen killers put behind bars, exonerated the innocent, and turned open-and-shut cases on their heads.
Shepherd’s obsession with deciphering the puzzles of his silent patients was instilled from a very young age. At just 13 years old – after stumbling across a textbook on forensic medicine – he found himself hooked. This fascination led him to enjoy a preeminent career, during which he worked on over 23,000 cases; including the disasters of 9/11, the Bali Bombings and the Hungerford shootings of 1987, as well as head-line making investigations such as; the death of Princess Diana and the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
However, this continued exposure to some of the worst acts of violence imaginable took its inevitable toll. Shepherd became haunted by waking nightmares of the things he’d seen and was eventually diagnosed with PTSD. Although his diagnosis did mark the beginning of the end to career as a practising pathologist, it in no way dampened Shepherd’s faith in humanity.
Brutally honest, often funny and at times downright bizarre, Unnatural Causes presents a vivid account of human frailty as well as a touching tribute to the strength of its resilience.
The Seven Ages of Death
Dr Richard Shepherd
Dr Richard Shepherd, Britain's top forensic pathologist, has spent a lifetime close to the dead.
As a medical detective, each autopsy he carries out is its own unique investigation, uncovering the secrets not only of how a person died, but also of how, through every stage of life, the risks to each of us ebb and flow.
Through twenty-four of his most intriguing, enlightening and never-before-told cases, Dr Shepherd shares autopsies that span the seven ages of human existence, and have taught him as much about the marvels of life as the inevitability of death. From old to young, from murder to misadventure, and from illness to accidental death, each of these bodies has something to reveal: about human development, about mortality, about its owner's life story, about justice and even about Shepherd himself.
Stitched Up
Stories of life and death from a prison doctor
Dr Shahed Yousaf
'Stories that will curl your toes, make you laugh out loud and break your heart all at the same time.'
PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK, author of All That Remains
Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists?
Told from the inside out, this is a harrowing, humorous and hard-hitting tale of life behind bars by a prison doctor who has seen it all. Literally.
Dr Shahed Yousaf spends his time running between emergencies - from overdoses to assaults, from cell fires to suicides - with one hand perpetually hovering over the panic button. Being a prison doctor is not for the faint-hearted.
An outsider on the inside, in Stitched Up he introduces us to a cast of unforgettable characters, including killers, con men and auto-cannibals. To Dr Yousaf, they are patients first and prisoners second - because any one of us could end up on the wrong side of the law.
Dedicated to caring for people on the margins of society, he tells us honestly and compassionately what it's like to be their doctor in a system that's chronically overcrowded, drastically under-resourced and all too easy to ignore. But while the system is failing, he and his colleagues are doing their very best to prop it up. In stories that are frequently harrowing, sometimes humorous and always hard-hitting, we discover how difficult it is to be locked up - but that there is still hope for all those who dare to care.
For fans of This is Going to Hurt, The Secret Barrister and A Bit of a Stretch
What Lies Beneath
My life as a forensic search and rescue expert
Peter Faulding
Recovering bodies, finding discarded remains, identifying unmarked graves and saving people from locations and situations too dangerous for the normal emergency services are all in a day’s work for Peter Faulding.
So how did a boy with a love of unmapped systems of ancient disused mines under South-East England find himself, years later, as one of the UK’s most prolific cold-case forensic investigators? In this gripping and remarkable memoir, Peter tells his extraordinary life story in fascinating detail, from iconic protest sites to the scenes of some of the UK’s most notorious crimes, describing how he has developed into a highly regarded and highly skilled search specialist, whose job is to assist investigators and police as they search crime scenes and bring serial killers to justice.
For the first time, Peter gives new details on some of the country’s most harrowing murder cases – including that of serial killer Peter Tobin, the Nicola Payne case and the Helen McCourt murder; sheds new light on mysterious deaths, including MI6 worker Gareth Williams; and details the incredible lengths he goes to, to help investigators.
Get ready to join Britain’s most extraordinary forensic search expert on his journey through deadly booby-trapped tunnel systems and into dark waters that hold horrific secrets, then onwards through uninviting crime scenes and into the minds of killers.
An Evil Love:
The Life and Crimes of Fred West
Geoffrey Wansell
The reverberations from Fred West's crimes continue to this day. The story never dies.
West was perhaps one of Britain's most evil, feared serial killers. His horrifying compulsion to kidnap, rape and torture his victims before murdering them showed a savagery and cruelty that can barely be believed. His 'House of Horrors' at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, became a burial ground for the women who fell into his hands.
This new publication of Geoffrey Wansell's iconic, bestselling true crime masterpiece comes thirty years after West was arrested, in 1992. Dead by suicide by 1994, he never truly faced justice for the twelve murders he was charged with.
Wansell, chosen as West's official biographer, gained exclusive access to all West's police interview s, prison diaries, papers, solicitor interviews - and his private collection of video tapes, as well as all the interview s given by his wife, Rose West.
Once and for all, he reveals the full story of Fred and Rose West's lives and crimes, in a chilling book that sets the standard for exploring the minds of our most feared serial killers - up close and personal.
Manhunt
Colin Sutton
NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING MARTIN CLUNES - What does it take to catch one of Britain's most feared killers?
Levi Bellfield is one of the most notorious British serial killers of the last fifty years - his name alone evokes horror and revulsion, after his string of brutal murders in the early 2000s.
At 3:07pm on 21st March, 2002, Milly Dowler left her school in Surrey for the last time. Less than an hour later, she w as to be abducted and murdered in the cruellest fashion, sparking a missing person investigation that would span months before her body w as found.
In the two years that follow ed, two more young w omen - Marsha McDonnell and then Amélie Delagrange - were murdered in unspeakably brutal attacks.
Yet with three murdered w omen on their hands, and few leads open to them, investigating officers w ere running out of ideas and options, until SIO Colin Sutton was drafted into the investigation for the murder of Delagrange. Seeing a
connection between the three women, and thriving under the pressure of a serial killer hunt, Sutton was finally able to bring their murderer to justice after the case had begun to seem hopeless.
Manhunt tells the story of how he led the charge to find a mystery killer, against the clock and against the odds - day by day and lead by lead. At once a gripping police procedural, and an insight into the life of an evil man, this is the story behind what it takes to track dow n a shockingly violent murderer before he strikes again.
Manhunt:
The night stalker
Colin Sutton
What does it take to catch a predator who has terrorised southeast England for over fifteen years?
Delroy Grant - dubbed the Night Stalker - was one of the nation's most wanted men, a shocking sex predator. During his seventeen-year reign of fear, he established a clear MO. Visit a target at night. Remove a window pane and slide in.
Unscrew the lightbulbs. Cut the power. Rip out the telephone wires. Tiptoe to the bedroom. Wake the victim by shining a torch in their eyes. What follow ed w as often unspeakable.
When SIO Colin Sutton was drafted into the case, Grant had been at large for over a decade. Stepping up where others had failed, he began the determined, relentless police work that had marked the end for infamous serial killer Levi Bellfield. Case by case, clue by clue.
Night Stalker is the chilling true story of one of the most testing manhunts the Metropolitan Police have ever undertaken. It is a glimpse into the heart of darkness - and into the mind and work of the brilliant detective who brought one of London's most feared monsters to justice.
Murder Investigation Team:
Jack the Ripper
Steven Keogh
There have been countless attempts to solve the brutal murders committed by Jack the Ripper more than a hundred years ago. It seems that almost everyone has their own theory and their ow n suspect, ranging from the reasonably likely to the entirely preposterous. What this most famous of British criminal cases has always required is a professional eye to analyse with all the benefits of modern investigate techniques. Now that has been provided by Steven Keogh in Murder InvestigationTeam: Jack the Ripper.
In Murder Investigation Team, Former DI Steven Keogh stepped inside the mind of an investigator in a never-before-seen w ay, delving into the forensic detail of the processes that are used to catch killers and criminals. And in his second book, Murder Investigation Team: Jack the Ripper he takes his expertise to one of the most renowned of all murders in history: Jack the Ripper. Retracing the steps of the lead investigator, DCI Frederick Abberline, Steven reopens the investigation from a 21st century perspective, to give a fresh new perspective and insight into the gruesome Whitechapel murders.
Through meticulous research and exploring source material from a 21st century perspective, Steven offers a fresh, new and diverting perspective to one of the greatest unsolved crimes in British history.
Murder Investigation Team
Steven Keogh
Why are Scotland Yard murder detectives considered among the finest in the world? And why is so little known about how they truly work? ? Take a look at what lies behind that success with someone who knows.
DI Steven Keogh spent over half of his 30-year police career as a Scotland Yard detective, helping to hunt down terrorists and some of the worst murderers in London.
Step inside the mind of an investigator in a never-before-seen look into what it takes to catch killers and bring them to justice. In a journey from crime scene to trial, you will witness the emotional highs and low s of cracking real-life murder cases and discover why people kill, while debunking the myths that surround this detective work.
Are you ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about the world of murder investigations?
Traces
My Role in the Crime of the Century The memoir of a forensic scientist and
criminal investigator
Patricia Wiltshire
In Traces, Professor Patricia Wiltshire w ill take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where nature and crime are intertwined. She'll take you searching for bodies of loved ones - through woodlands and plantations, along
hedgerow s and field-edges, from ditches to living rooms - solving time since death and how remains were disposed of. She w ill show you how pollen from a jacket led to a confession and how two pairs of trainers, a car and a garden fork led to the location of a murdered girl. She w ill give you glimpses of her ow n history: her loves,
her losses, and the narrow little valley in Wales where she first woke up to the
wonders of the natural world.
From flowers, fungi, tree trunks to walking boots, carpets and corpses' hair, Traces is a fascinating and unique book on life, death, and one's indelible link with nature.
Inside Broadmoor
The Sunday Times Bestseller
Jonathan Levi & Emma French
Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic.
Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper), John Straffen and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and cannibal Peter Bryan.
The truth about w hat goes on behind the Victorian w alls of the high security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside.
Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date.
Published at the daw n of a new era for the hospital, this is the full story of Broadmoor's past, present and future and a dark but enlightening journey into the minds of Britain's most dangerous and how they are treated.
The Great Train Robber
My Role in the Crime of the Century
Chris Pickard
What is it that fascinates so many people about Ronnie Biggs and makes him a household name sixty years on from the crime that made his name? Is it the man or the myth that makes Ron a latter-day Robin Hood, and the odd man out who is best remembered from a gang of sixteen who held up a mail train in August 1963?
This book covers Ron's entire life including the Great Train Robbery, his conviction and subsequent escape from HMP Wandsworth. Ron tells how he managed to outrun and outthink the posse of law enforcement officers and the media that chased him around the world as one of its most w anted men. From his time in Australia, to his discovery and arrest in Brazil in 1974, it is all included here. It covers the two attempts to kidnap him, and his son Mike's rise to stardom.
For the first time Ron tells exactly what has happened to him since the early 1990s to today, including his strokes, his attempted suicide, the death of his partner and friends, the extradition attempts, the Rio carnival tribute, his decision to come back to the UK, and his much publicised return in 2001 after 13,068 days on the run. It also covers his death in 2013 and the legacy he leaves behind. This is not only Ronald Biggs' autobiography; it is also the most complete biography of one of the most famous names in British life of the last 50 years. A brand new 10,000-word timeline covers not only the life and times of Ronald Biggs, but includes the most detailed timeline and facts ever published about the events surrounding the Great Train Robbery itself.
This book will stand the test of time as the most complete telling of the life and times of the man who is Ronald Arthur Biggs, and his part in the Great Train Robbery.
Publishing in July 2023, in time for the 60th anniversary of the robbery
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages:
Letters from Serial Killers
Christopher Berry-Dee
Letters from Serial Killers is a unique study of the criminal mind based on the author's extensive correspondence with convicted serial murderers. Such a collection is extremely rare, and among the killers w hose correspondence is
examined are:
Arthur John Shaw cross, aka 'The Genesee River Killer'; Phillip Carl Jablonski, aka 'The Death Row Teddy'; Melanie Lyn McGuire, aka 'The Ice Queen'; Harvey 'The Hammer' Louis Carignan, aka 'The W ant-ad Killer'; Ian Stew art Brady, aka 'The Moors Murderer'; Hal Karen and Ronald 'Butch' Joseph DeFeo Jr, aka 'The Amityville Horror'; Gary Ray Bow les, aka 'The I-95 Killer';John 'J.R.' Edward Robinson, aka 'The Slavemaster'
Letters from Serial Killers is Christopher Berry-Dee at his steeliest best - exploring the down right creepy correspondence with murderers, serial killers and psychopaths behind bars, with exclusive scans of letters and eerily decorated envelopes. A must-have for fans of the series, based on a collection that will eventually be bequeathed to the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit at its headquarters at Quantico, Virginia.
Pure Evil
The gripping and twisty new 2023 thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama
Lynda La Plante
It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault. But it was just the beginning.
As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is warned by his mentor DCI Ridley that they have only scratched the surface of the man's crimes
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Then DCI Ridley is suddenly removed from his post. No one is to contact him - and no one will say why.
As Warr digs into Middleton's past, Ridley calls pleading for help, now accused of a murder he insists he didn't commit.
To catch a monster and exonerate his friend, Warr must weed out the lies. But what awaits Warr if he uncovers the truth?
Dark Rooms
The brand new Jane Tennison thriller from The Queen of Crime Drama
Lynda La Plante
Helena Lanark is the only one who knows about the horrors which once occurred in her family's house. The heiress of an immense family fortune, she now resides in a luxurious care home; her mind and memory fading fast.
Jane Tennison is leading a murder investigation into the recent brutal death of a young girl, her decomposed, starved body discovered in an old air raid shelter in the garden of the Lanark's now derelict house. Initially the focus is on identifying the victim, until another body is found hidden in the walls of the shelter.
As the investigation and search for answers intensifies, Jane travels to Australia. There she discovers the dark secret that the Lanark family has kept hidden for decades. A secret that not only threatens to bring down a family dynasty, but also places Jane Tennison in mortal danger . . .
The Hunt For the 60's Ripper
True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained
Robin Jarossi
While Sixties London was being hailed as the world’s most fashionably vibrant capital, a darker, more terrifying reality was unfolding on the streets In London a serial killer was stalking prostitutes, dumping their naked bodies in public places. Seven, possibly eight, women fell victim – making this killer more prolific than Jack the Ripper, 77 years previously. His grim spree sparked the biggest police manhunt in history.
But why did such a massive hunt fail? And why has such a traumatic case been largely forgotten today?
With shocking conclusions, secret police papers, crime reconstructions and interviews with contemporary police experts along with insights from the world’s leading geographic profiler, The Hunt for the 60s’ Ripper revisits this chilling case.
What do modern experts say about the case today? And why did the leading detective, John du Rose, claim to know all along who the killer was?
With original pictures and links to figures from the vicious world of the Kray twins and the Profumo Affair, the case exposes the depraved underbelly of British into perhaps the most shocking unsolved mass murder in modern British history.
The Real Ted Hastings
Robin Jarossi
‘The name’s Hastings, like the battle’ How Line of Duty became must-see TV and made a folk hero of character Ted Hastings. The inspiration behind Ted is an officer called Robert Mark, who set up A10, and his heroic and lonely battle against Met corruption.
Line of Duty holds its status as the defining TV crime drama of today. The conspiracy theme of the series chimes at a time when public institutions and representatives are distrusted.
Ted Hastings, the head of anti-corruption, has emerged as the beating heart of the drama. This book reveals how the compelling drama reflects real events and figures, most notably Robert Mark and his battle against Met corruption.
The show is a hit around the world, with a media obsession: who is H? The UK audience has grown from 4m to 16m and even the. late Queen Elizabeth was a fan.
‘None of my people would plant evidence. They know I would throw the book at them... followed by the bookshelf’
Starting with a bang – ‘I’ll put you all back in uniform’ were his first words to his team. New Met Commissioner Robert Mark – the inspiration for Ted Hastings – takes on his entire corruption-riddled detective branch in his first brutal speech. The scale of the problem facing Robert Mark – institutionalised corruption in CID.
The similarities between Ted Hastings and Robert Mark are evident – both flawed, uncompromising in making enemies, and had victories in fighting corruption.
Robert Mark’s powerful confrontation with the whole of CID in April 1972, established his forthright style and impact. ‘A good police force is one that catches more criminals than it employs.’
Mark, during his four years eleven months as commissioner, saw 478 men leave the force following or in anticipation of criminal/disciplinary proceedings. Departures in the previous decade had averaged about 16 a year.
His legacy was a dismantled corrupt network in Soho (he transferred vice work to the uniformed branch); a disrupted powerbase of CID officers and CID squads made more accountable by being put under a uniformed commander. He established the need for a dedicated team to investigate police corruption that lives on today.
Who Killed Epstein?
Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton (War On Drugs Book 5)
Shaun Attwood
Virginia Giuffre alleged that Epstein ordered her to have sex with Prince Andrew three times, including in an orgy on the paedophile island which included underage European girls. On the Lolita Express, Bill Clinton was photographed with Epstein’s “sex slaves.” After Epstein was suicided, both men denied any knowledge of his crimes.
As well as committing abhorrent acts of paedophilia for decades, Epstein had been managing a child-sex blackmail operation that had ensnared some of the world’s most powerful people, ranging from royalty to ex-presidents. Survivors have claimed that Epstein filmed some of his guests raping minors.
Whoever ordered the hit on the super-predator had a lot to lose.
This book examines the roles of Epstein and his accomplices in the honey-trap operation and the likelihood of a royal prince or an ex-president being co-conspirators in his assassination.
Elite Predators:
From Jimmy Savile and Lord Mountbatten to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell (War On Drugs Book 6)
Shaun Attwood
In 1966, Lord Mountbatten granted Jimmy Saville access to the highest levels of the royal family. What did they have in common? They used their prestige to abuse vulnerable minors, while relying on their power and establishment connections to remain untouchable.
In 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she had procured teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein and his predator pals. Their connections included the most powerful people in the world, ranging from royal family members such as Prince Andrew to former presidents including Bill Clinton.
While the mainstream media protects the innermost circles of the establishment, this book reveals the harrowing truth of elite child molesters and the calculated methods they employ to conceal their horrific activities, which often span decades.
Shallow Graves
My life as a forensic scientist in Britain’s biggest cases
Ray Fysh
The murder of Sarah Payne; Adam, the Torso in the Thames; the 7/7 and 21/7 London bombings; the Night Stalker; the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko…
The solving of these infamous cases can be linked to one man: Ray Fysh, one of the finest forensic detectives the country has ever seen. A working-class lad from South London, Ray began working for the Met Police in the 1970s, when forensic investigation was seen as little more than a geeky side show. But by the mid-90s,
Ray and his team had transformed their role, as they became critical to high-profile investigations and widely regarded as world-leading innovators in forensic techniques.
From a seven-month manhunt solved by a single hair, to the pioneering bone analysis which pinpointed the ancestry of an unidentified young boy, Ray and his team drove science forward in their quest for the truth. As Ray looks back, he gives unparalleled insight into the highs and lows of an astonishing career and the stunning realities of crime and forensics.
Ray Fysh received seven police commendations for his work as a forensic scientist
The cases discussed in the book include:
- Operation Cathedral – murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins
- Operation Sturdy – linked series of murders (Avril Johnson, Michelle Carby and Patrick Ferguson) – a fore runner of Operation Trident
- Operation Maple – murder of Sarah Payne – looking for that needle in the haystack
- Operation Greenfinch – murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce – a long wait for the offender to be identified
- Operation Swalcliffe – the murder of a young black boy whose torso was found in River Thames – pushing back the boundaries of forensic science
- Operation Orb – cross border investigation into a series of rapes committed by Antoni Imiela (the M25 rapist) – the pressure was on to identify this offender
- Operations Theseus and Vivace – the London Transport bombings of 7 July 2005 and 21 July 2005 – changing working patterns to ensure lab working 24 hours a day and the need to identify of the main charge of the 21/7 device – was it a viable IED
- Operation Whimbrel – the murder of Alexander Litvinenko using Polonium-210
- Operation Daphne – the investigation into the death of Alexander Perepilichny a Russian businessman and whistleblower – the need to prove the negative
- Operation Minstead – the 17 year investigation into a large number of burglaries, indecent assault and rape of elderly persons who lived alone and the pressure to catch the offender– we finally identified Delroy Grant as the man who committed these crimes
- Operations Holbrook, Tablow and Pastel – the investigations into the murders of Vicky Holbrook, Nathan Allen and Hamzah Khan respectively – all of which used advanced scientific methods outside the routine methods normally used in forensic science
Stolen Lives
True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained
Louise Hulland
136,000 people in the UK are in some form of slavery. This is big business, generating more than £120 billion annually for criminal organisations across the world.
Stolen Lives examines trafficking and slavery in Britain, hearing from those on the front line, including the police and charities involved with support and recovery. Powerful and moving testimony from survivors reveals the individual stories behind the headlines and charts one young woman's terrifying and ultimately inspiring journey to freedom and independence. Finally, it shows us what we can do to make a difference.
'A must read.' -Jeremy Vine
Let's Sell These People A Piece Of Blue Sky
Jon Atack
Human predators roam among us. Although there aren’t many of them, they have a tremendous influence. To them, the rest of us are prey. Predators manipulate their prey using well-tried tricks. Once you know these tricks, it is much easier to avoid them or to stop them in their tracks.Every bad relationship, every destructive group, every dangerous government has a human predator at its heart. Predators rely upon persuasion. In honest persuasion, we have access to all of the facts – and different opinions about those facts – and enough time and privacy to consider these facts and opinions.But then there is the type of persuasion used by predators, which is simply manipulation. To manipulate means to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner. Facts are hidden or distorted, and we are rushed into decisions that take away our own authority and harm our interests.Predators cause upset, conflict, corruption and devastation. By seeing through their methods, we can take power away from human predators and have a much greater chance to overcome the problems they cause in our personal and group relationships.This book will show you how to deal with predators and how to make society safe from their tricks and traps.
Opening Our Minds:
avoiding abusive relationships and authoritarian groups
Jon Atack
Human predators roam among us. Although there aren’t many of them, they have a tremendous influence. To them, the rest of us are prey. Predators manipulate their prey using well-tried tricks. Once you know these tricks, it is much easier to avoid them or to stop them in their tracks.Every bad relationship, every destructive group, every dangerous government has a human predator at its heart. Predators rely upon persuasion. In honest persuasion, we have access to all of the facts – and different opinions about those facts – and enough time and privacy to consider these facts and opinions.But then there is the type of persuasion used by predators, which is simply manipulation. To manipulate means to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner. Facts are hidden or distorted, and we are rushed into decisions that take away our own authority and harm our interests.Predators cause upset, conflict, corruption and devastation. By seeing through their methods, we can take power away from human predators and have a much greater chance to overcome the problems they cause in our personal and group relationships.This book will show you how to deal with predators and how to make society safe from their tricks and traps.
Scientology:
the Cult of Greed
Jon Atack
A hard-hitting introduction to the history and practices of the Scientology cult by a highly respected expert.
Unsolved Child Murders
True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained
Emily Thompson
An estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the U.S. Only one in 10,000 are found dead. Yet unsolved child murders are almost a daily occurrence-of nearly 52,000 juvenile homicides between 1980 and 2008, more than 20 percent remain open. Drawing on FBI reports, police and court records, and interviews with victims’ families, this book provides up-to-date details and evidence for 18 unsolved cases from 1956 to 1998.
Unsolved Murders:
True Crime Cases Uncovered
Emily Thompson
Discover the stories behind the most infamous unsolved murders of the last century, including the notorious Black Dahlia murder, the shootings of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, and the terrifying murders committed in San Francisco by the Zodiac Killer.
Cults Uncovered:
True Stories of Mind Control and Murder
Emily Thompson
Uncover the secrets of the world’s cruellest criminal cults, from the horrors committed by Charles Manson and his family, to the acts of extortion and abuse practised by NXIVM and its members.
Mysteries Uncovered:
True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained
Emily Thompson
UFOs, extra-terrestrial encounters, baffling disappearances-Mysteries Uncovered investigates, without prejudice, some of the most notorious, disturbing, and enduring mysteries ever recorded.
Murder Under the Microscope
Jim Fraser
'Jim Fraser has been at the forefront of forensic science in the UK for decades... A superb story of real-life CSI.' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes
'Powerful... Fascinating' Independent
Most murders are not difficult to solve. People are usually killed by someone they know, there is usually abundant evidence and the police methods used to investigate this type of crime are highly effective. But what about the more difficult cases, where the investigation involves an unusual death, an unusual killer, or is complex or politically charged? In these cases, bringing the accused before the courts can take many years, even then, the outcome may be contentious or unresolved.
In this compelling and chilling memoir, Jim Fraser draws on his personal experience as a forensic scientist and cold case reviewer to give a unique insight into some of the most notable cases that he has investigated during his forty-year career, including the deaths of Rachel Nickell, Damilola Taylor and Gareth Williams, the GCHQ code breaker.
Inviting the reader into the forensic scientist's micro-world, Murder Under the Microscope reveals not only how each of these cases unfolded as a human, investigative and scientific puzzle, but also why some were solved and why others remain unsolved or controversial even to this day.
Forensic Science - A Very Short Introduction
Jim Fraser
In this Very Short Introduction, Jim Fraser introduces the concept of forensic science and explains how it is used in the investigation of crime. He begins at the crime scene itself, explaining the principles and processes of crime scene management, and drawing on his own personal experience of high profile cases including, the murder of Rachel Nickell and the unsolved murder of Jill Dando. Fraser explores how forensic scientists work; from the reconstruction of events to laboratory examinations. He considers the techniques they use, such as fingerprinting, and goes on to highlight the immense impact DNA profiling has had. Providing examples from forensic science cases in the UK, US, and other countries, he considers the techniques and challenges faced around the world. This new edition has been fully updated to take into account developments in areas such as DNA analysis and drug analysis, and the growing field of digital forensics. Topical areas explored include the growing significance of cognitive bias in forensic science, and recent research that raises doubts about the validity of some forensic techniques.
The Dark Side of the Mind
Kerry Daynes
The Dark Side of the Mind - true stories from my life as a Forensic Psychologist
The world of the forensic psychologist can be highly unpredictable - the people you meet are rarely as they first appear. They may challenge you, frighten you and make you question what you thought you knew.
The job: to delve into the psyche of convicted men and women to understand what lies behind their actions.
Kerry Daynes, one of the most sought-after forensic psychologist's in the business, has seen it all. Her work has taken her from police interview rooms and the witness box to the cells of maximum-security prisons and the wards of secure hospitals.
Staring into the darker side of life comes with a price. Kerry's frank and blackly funny memoir gives us an unforgettable insight into the darker side of life.
What Lies Buried
Kerry Daynes
What Lies Buried - a Forensic Psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood
Listed for the 2022 CWA Golden Dagger Award For Non-Fiction
Kerry Daynes, leading forensic psychologist, has spent her career investigating the actions of convicted men and women. The classic question she is asked is 'are they mad or bad?'
But this question rarely tells us the whole story. Kerry's quest is to uncover what lies buried behind the most strange and disturbing behaviour.
In her new book, she opens the case files of some of her most perplexing clients, including a young murderer wh says he hears voices telling him to kill, a teacher who daubs children in red paint and an aspiring serial killer who faints at the sight of blood.
Kerry provides an unflincing, enlightening and provocative insight into the minds of her clients, challenging our notions of who, and what, is dangerous.
Expect to encounter intriguing characters, unlikely twists and turns, and Kerry's trademark dark humour.
Order Out of Chaos
Scott Walker
A new approach to succeeding in negotiations where failure is not an option, from one of the world's most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators.
Scott Walker has probably one of the most difficult jobs in the world. When pirates have hijacked a ship, when a criminal gang has kidnapped someone, when an entire company's future is being held to ransom from a cyber-attack, Scott is the person who gets called in. He has successfully negotiated more than 300 such incidents using the principles in this book.
His methods, centred in empathy, active listening, trust-based influence and emotional control, will help you achieve the outcome you want. Regardless of whether you're an executive in a multi-national organisation, the owner of a small business, a local sports team coach or running the family household, you're negotiating every single day, whether you realise it or not.
Learn the skills Scott uses to resolve life or death kidnappings all over the world - from the Niger Delta, China and the Philippines to the Middle East, Europe and Latin America - and how to apply them to your own personal and professional lives.
The proven techniques in this book enable you to develop a powerful negotiators mindset so you can influence and persuade anyone, on anything, at any time. Order Out of Chaos provides tools that cut straight to the most effective way of communicating, particularly in times of crisis, change and uncertainty.
In Two Minds
Dr Sohom Das
Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist
‘The vast majority of psychiatric patients are not violent. The vast majority of violent offenders are not mentally ill. But when the two worlds collide, the results can be catastrophic.’
As a forensic psychiatrist, it's Dr Das's job to treat and rehabilitate what some call the 'criminally insane', many of whom assault, rob, rape, and even kill. His work takes him to high-security prisons and securely locked hospital wards across the country, as well as inside courtrooms giving evidence as an expert witness.
From the young woman who smothered her two-year-old nephew in a flash of psychosis, to the teenager who set his house on fire with his mother locked inside, Dr Das must delve into the minds of these violent offenders to elicit their symptoms of mental illness, understand their actions and prevent future atrocities.
In this honest, revealing and at times humorous memoir, Dr Das shares stories from his fifteen years as a psychiatric doctor working with this dangerous clientele, detailing some of his most extreme, heart-breaking and bizarre cases – and how he's learned to live with his mistakes when the worst happens.
Compelling, enlightening and candid, IN TWO MINDS encapsulates true crime, mental health, psychology and the criminal justice system; for fans of Unnatural Causes, Dark Side of the Mind or The Prison Doctor.
The Governor
Vanessa Frake
Back in the day, I was a Governor of Security and Operations for HMP Wormwood Scrubs. If you're easily shocked or offended, you best look away now...
Having worked for 16 years in a high-security women's prison dealing with the likes of serial killers Rosemary West and Myra Hindley, Vanessa Frake thought she'd seen it all. That's until she was transferred to the notorious Wormwood Scrubs.
Thurst into a 'mans world', her no-nonsense approach and fearless attitude saw her swiftly rise through the ranks. From dealing with celebrity criminals and busting drug rings, to recruiting informers and being subject to violent attacks, this hard-hitting but often humorous memoir reveals all about life behind bars in unflinching detail.
Now, for one last time, The Gov opens the prison gates. Prepare for the madness and horror of daily life with the UK's most ruthless criminals.
No Ordinary Day
Matt Johnson with John Murray
‘An important book, especially now – both an intensely personal story, and a sober analysis of a political scandal’ Lee Child
On 17 April 1984, as police and anti-Gaddafi demonstrators gathered in the street outside the Libyan People’s Bureau in London, they had no way of knowing they were about to become part of one of the greatest tragedies in British policing history. At 10.17am automatic gunfire rained down on them. WPC Yvonne Fletcher was hit in the back and later died from her injuries. Twelve demonstrators were wounded. The gunmen were Libyans, both concealed behind a first-floor window of the Bureau.
Two weeks later, all those present inside the Bureau, including everyone suspected of involvement in the attack, were deported from the UK. Men guilty of terrorism and murder were neither arrested nor prosecuted.
As Yvonne Fletcher lay dying, her colleague and close friend PC John Murray cradled her in his arms. Before she lost consciousness, he promised her he would not rest until those responsible for her murder had been brought to justice.
Thirty-seven years would pass before John was able to fulfil that promise. Whilst writing John Murray’s story, Matt Johnson identified UK government duplicity, secret service deals and how a plan to finally defeat the all-powerful National Union of Mineworkers would place the government in an invidious position when pro- and anti-Gaddafi elements brought their fight to the streets of the UK. He was able to discover why, in 1984, her killers had been allowed to go free. His extensive research also revealed how events on 17 April resulted in a 30-year government campaign to bring the police services of the UK under political control, a campaign that has driven our police service into the state of disarray we see today.
The story behind what happened outside the Libyan People’s Bureau is complex, shocking and revealing. Matt Johnson’s compelling account pulls together a series of seemingly unconnected threads into a coherent whole, incorporating all the inter-related elements of politics, business, secret service missions and chance.
For some, this will be a very uncomfortable read. For many, it may confirm what they already suspect, that we, the public, know very little of the decisions being made by our elected representatives and the actions taken by official bodies, supposedly in our best interests.
The Girl I Never Knew
LaDonna Humphrey
For over two decades the identity of Melissa Witt’s killer has been hidden among the dense trees and thorny undergrowth rooted deeply in the uneven ground of a remote mountaintop in the Ozark National Forest.
Determined to find answers, LaDonna Humphrey has spent the past seven years hunting for Melissa’s killer. Her investigation, both thrilling and unpredictable, has led her on a journey like no other.
The Girl I Never Knew is an edge-of-your-seat account of LaDonna Humphrey's passionate fight for justice in the decades-old murder case of a girl she never knew. Her unstoppable quest for the truth has gained the attention of some incredibly dangerous people, some of whom would like to keep Melissa’s murder a mystery forever.
Strangled
LaDonna Humphrey with Alecia Lockhart
The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murderer to justice.
BATH, 1984
Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakens to news that her daughter Melanie has been murdered in a nearby street as she walked home from a club in the early hours.
Britain’s biggest manhunt begins. A trail of blood is found leading away from the scene. It’s a rare blood type. But despite a year-long inquiry and 94 arrests, the case is wound down. No one is charged with Melanie’s murder.
AVON & SOMERSET POLICE HQ, 2009
Detective Sergeant Julie Mackay, a 41-year-old single mother of three who has been overlooked for promotion for years, transfers to the Cold Case Unit. She unearths a file from the original inquiry and becomes hooked by the details: the rare blood type, Bath on a summer’s night, the investigative wrong turns … She takes on the case, and with the help of Melanie’s inspirational mother works tirelessly to rebuild it.
This is the true story of how she did it..
To Hunt A Killer
Julie Mackay and Robert Murphy
The gripping true story of how Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay brought Melanie Road’s murderer to justice.
BATH, 1984
Jean Road, a 49-year-old mother of three, awakens to news that her daughter Melanie has been murdered in a nearby street as she walked home from a club in the early hours.
Britain’s biggest manhunt begins. A trail of blood is found leading away from the scene. It’s a rare blood type. But despite a year-long inquiry and 94 arrests, the case is wound down. No one is charged with Melanie’s murder.
AVON & SOMERSET POLICE HQ, 2009
Detective Sergeant Julie Mackay, a 41-year-old single mother of three who has been overlooked for promotion for years, transfers to the Cold Case Unit. She unearths a file from the original inquiry and becomes hooked by the details: the rare blood type, Bath on a summer’s night, the investigative wrong turns … She takes on the case, and with the help of Melanie’s inspirational mother works tirelessly to rebuild it.
This is the true story of how she did it..
