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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->1785150731|title=Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee|author=Casey Cep|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=Sometimes you begin reading a book and before you've got to the bottom of the first page you know that it's going to be brilliant. You sense the author's effortless grasp of her subject matter and you already know that her use of words is almost surgical in its precision. The hands holding you are safe, which considering that this is a book about two subjects where facts are in short supply, is somewhat surprising. Our first subject is the Reverend Willie Maxwell. Over seven years, six people close to the Reverend had died, with Maxwell benefiting substantially from insurance policies which he'd taken out on their lives.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=191240804X|title=The Murder of Harriet Monkton|author=Elizabeth Haynes|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=''But that's just it'', she said. ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harriet. It's some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquest: something to be summed up like a spirit, to be examined and pored over, to be sneered at and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrion.''

<!And that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends -a fellow teacher, her would- Winn be lover, her seducer and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Winn_Helloknew.jpg|left|link=http://www Some spoke of her as kindly, virtuous and pious, but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromley.amazon She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life.co.uk/dp/1785783475/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the chaste life expected of a young, unmarried woman in 1843.}}{{Frontpage|isbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Winn_Hello|title===[[Hello, Shadowlands by |author=Patrick Winn]]==|rating=4 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] summary=''Hello, Shadowlands'' chronicles a booming crime wave in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar to the abortion pill black market in the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts and historical context. It is devastating to imagine the very real human lives that are swept up in this cloud of refuse, and how the West helped create it and is doing nothing to prevent it. [[Hello, Shadowlands by Patrick Winn|Full Review]] <!-- Orth -->}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=Orth_Versace| styletitle="widthVulgar Favours: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Assassination of Gianni Versace|author=Maureen Orth[[image:Orth_Versace.jpg|leftrating=5|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785943103?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785943103]] True Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vulgar Favours: The Assassination of Gianni Versace by Maureen Orth]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] What is it about true crime which makes it so fascinating What is it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to such a wide audience? I guess it's wanting to try to figure out what happened to make these people partake in the awful crimes they committed, or else the same inexplicable impulse people have to such slow down when they overtake a wide audience? I guess car crash on the motorway. Whatever itis, Maureen Orth's wanting to try to figure out what happened to make these people partake in the awful crimes they committed, or else the same inexplicable impulse people have to slow down when they overtake a car crash book, Vulgar Favours, taps right on the motorwayinto it. Whatever it is, Maureen Orth's book, Vulgar Favours, taps right on into it. [[Vulgar Favours: The Assassination of Gianni Versace by Maureen Orth|Full Review]]}}<!-- {{Frontpage|isbn=Masters -->Killing|-title=Killing for Company| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Brian Masters|rating=5[[image:Masters Killing.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784759422?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784759422]] True Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Killing for Company by Brian Masters]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] Killing for Company is a detailed criminal is a detailed criminal study of Dennis Nilsen, unique in that it was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation and includes material from Nilsen's prison diaries. Covering Nilsen's early life, his career and subsequent murders, this is a detailed analysis of the man behind the murder and an attempt, on Masters' part, to understand what shaped Nilsen and what could have caused such apparently senseless violence. [[Killing for Company by Brian Masters}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=Grisham_Innocent|title=The Innocent Man<!-- |author=John Grisham -->|-rating=4.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|True Crime[[image:Grisham_Innocent.jpg|left|linksummary=https://wwwMany readers may be drawn by the fact that the internationally bestselling John Grisham is the author here.amazon.coI, however, must admit that although I have enjoyed some of the films based on his books, I have never actually read any of them. This hasn't been due to deliberate avoidance, I just haven't gotten around to it. I was keen then to read this True Crime title and see what Grisham would bring to the table, so to speak.uk/gp/product/1784759414?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784759414]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Nelson Red|title==[[The Innocent Man by John Grisham]]Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial|author=Maggie Nelson|rating=4|genre=True Crime [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] Many readers may be drawn by the fact that the internationally bestselling John Grisham is Maggie Nelson is the author here. of four volumes of poetry and five wide-ranging works of nonfiction that delve into the nature of violence and sexuality. From what I however'd heard about her writing, must admit that although I have enjoyed knew to expect an important and unconventional thinker with a distinctive, lyrical style. Now Vintage is making some of the films based on his booksher backlist, I have never actually read any of themincluding this book (originally published in 2007) and the uncategorisable Bluets, available for the first time in the UK. This hasn't been due to deliberate avoidance, I just haven't gotten around to it. I was keen then to read this True Crime }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Carrere_Adversary|title and see what Grisham would bring to the table, so to speak. [[The Innocent Man by John Grisham=The Adversary|Full Review]]author=Emmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale (translator)|rating=4<!-- Nelson -->|-|genre=True Crime| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalOn 9th January 1993, Jean-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Nelson Red.jpg|left|link=https://wwwClaude Romand orchestrated a horrifying chain of events which exposed a shocking double life, a history of lies and a breath-taking capacity for deceit.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784705799?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784705799]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Red Parts: Autobiography The Adversary dissects the choices and actions of a Trial by Maggie Nelson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]Romand which led to the brutal murders of his wife, [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] Maggie Nelson is children and parents and the author attempted murder of four volumes his mistress, the impact of poetry his deception on those around him and five wide-ranging works his sensational trial. Carrère is as integral a part of this story as Romand, his coverage of nonfiction that delve into the nature of violence trial and sexuality. From what I'd heard about her writing, I knew to expect an important and unconventional thinker with correspondence with him whilst in prison form a distinctive, lyrical style. Now Vintage is making some significant part of her backlist, including this book (originally published in 2007) the story as do his feelings and the uncategorisable Bluets, available response to Romand's justification for the first time in the UKhis actions. [[The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Carrerre -->|isbn=Grann_Killers|-title=Killers of the Flower Moon| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"David Grann|rating=5[[image:Carrere_Adversary.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784705802?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784705802]] True Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale (translator)]]=== [[image:4star''Killers of the Flower Moon'' tells the story of the Osage tribe, forced to settle in the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] On 9th January 1993 Jean-Claude Romand orchestrated a horrifying chain of events which exposed a shocking double lifeIn an unexpected turn of fortune, a history of lies and a breath-taking capacity for deceit. The Adversary dissects prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the choices Osage into unimaginable wealth and actions fortune making them some of Romand which led to the brutal murders richest people in the world. Then members of his wife, children and parents and the attempted murder of his mistresstribe start to die, the impact slowly at first of his deception on those around him apparently natural causes then, in increasingly violent ways. An investigation into the matter stalls and his sensational trial. Carrère is as integral beset by incompetence and a part general lack of this story as Romand, his coverage interest in the fate of the trial Osage until the FBI becomes involved and correspondence with him whilst in prison form draws together a significant part team of the story as do his feelings battle-scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and response the increasingly angry Osage, the race to Romand's justification for his actionsfind the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double-crosses than any murder mystery. [[The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale (translator)|Full Review]]}}<!-- Grann -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Talty_Black| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Black Hand|author=Stephan Talty[[image:Grann_Killers.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0857209027/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] True Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Killers History is a fascinating subject to study as there is so much of it, so why do we keep going back to the Flower Moon by David Grann]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] ''Killers same places? I feel like I have walked the steps of Julius Caesar and married at least two of the Flower MoonHenry VIII'' tells the story of the Osage tribes wives, forced so often I have read about them. There are countless other tales out there to settle in the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage Countylearn about that may be more obscure, but are just as exciting. In an unexpected turn of fortune, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some of the richest people in the world. Then members of the tribe start to die I don't know much about New York around 1900, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly but after reading ''The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent ways. Investigation into the matter stalls and place to live, but an interesting one to learn about.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Tierney_Doctor|title=The Doctor's Wife is beset by incompetence and Dead|author=Andrew Tierney|rating=4.5|genre=True Crime|summary=In 1849 a general lack of interest in woman named Ellen Langley died at her home in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary Ireland. She was the fate wife of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved a prosperous doctor and draws together came from a team of battle scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increases, from both well-respected family; so why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been confined to the grim attic rooms of the FBI house she shared with her husband and the increasingly angry Osage, the race then exiled to find rented lodgings in the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mystery. [[Killers most impoverished part of the Flower Moon by David Grann|Full Review]] <!their famine-- TALTY -->ravaged town? Why had her death caused such uproar and ultimately, why had her husband been charged with murder? }}{{Frontpage|-isbn=Preston_Very| styletitle="widthA Very English Scandal: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment|author=John Preston[[image:Talty_Black.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785037129/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|True Crime===[[The Black Hand by Stephan Talty]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] History is Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of person who was generally liked by others. He was flamboyant and gregarious but could give the impression that meeting someone had made his day. He never seemed to forget a fascinating subject name and he was witty, charismatic and very charming. He appeared to study as there is so much of itbe a decent man, so why do we keep going back to the same places? I feel like with views with which I would have walked agreed on race, capital punishment and membership of the steps of Julius Caesar Common Market, as the European Union was then known. For this was the nineteen sixties and married Thorpe had entered Parliament at least two the age of Henry VIII's wivesthirty and by 1967 he would be party leader. On the surface, so often I have read about themhe was a man who had everything going for him. There are countless other tales out there to learn about that may be more obscure}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ricca_Holmes|title=Mrs Holmes: Murder, but are just as excitingKidnap and the True Story of an Extraordinary Lady Detective|author=Brad Ricca|rating=3. I don't know much about New York around 19005|genre=True Crime|summary=Grace Humiston, but after reading ''The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place to live, but an interesting one to learn aboutAmerican lawyer and travelling detective in the early years of the twentieth century, was well ahead of her time. Long before women were readily accepted in the legal profession, she became the first female US District Attorney, taking on cases nobody else wanted, setting herself up as an advocate for the disadvantaged, charging minimal fees and working hard on what seemed to be utterly hopeless cases. With her flair for publicity, she made good copy and was always good for a story in the papers. Her nickname 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes' was an apt one. [[The Black Hand by Stephan Talty|Full Review]] <!-- Tierney -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tierney_Doctor.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1844883922/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Osang_Scholl|title==[[The Doctor's Wife is Dead by Andrew Tierney]]Scholl Case|author=Anja Reich-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)|rating=5|genre=True Crime [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] In 1849 a woman named Ellen Langley died at her home in NenaghI think I'd like Ludwigsfelde. I wouldn't have liked it when it was an industrial village, Cowith one or two huge mechanical plants and nothing else to its name. Tipperary Ireland. She was But now, even with the constant hum of the wife autobahn (one of a prosperous doctor and came from a well-respected family; so why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she Hitler's) keeping it company, it must have an appeal. It has been confined to rebuilt, refashioned and remodelled since the grim attic rooms end of East Germany, under the house she shared with her husband most prosperous and then exiled to rented lodgings forward-looking mayor in the most impoverished part of their faminestate, if not the country. He, it was, who put in a mostly-ravaged town? Why had her death caused such uproar and ultimatelynude swimming spa. It has dispensers for doggy poo bags, why had her husband been charged with murder? [[The Doctorso there's Wife is Dead by Andrew Tierney|Full Review]] <!-- Preston -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Preston_Verynothing as uncouth as taking your own. The mayor, bless him, even expanded the motorway to three lanes in each direction.jpg|link=http://wwwIt is within touch of Berlin, and in tune with so many business wants, yet is surrounded by woodland.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241973740/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]Woodland where, between Christmas and New Year a few years back, the mayor's own wife and dog were found, both having been strangled… }}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-alignBard_Capital|title=Capital Punishment: left;"London's Places of Execution|author=Robert Bard|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=[[A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies The majority of books on true crime and murder focus first and foremost on specific incidents. This concise volume takes a Murder Plot at different approach, in dealing with them according to where the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston]]===executioner completed his task.}}[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True CrimeFrontpage|True Crime]]isbn=Wilber_Good Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of person who was generally liked by others. He was flamboyant and gregarious but could give |title=A Good Month For Murder|author=Del Quentin Wilber|rating=2|genre=True Crime|summary=I like to read crime fiction in part because it allows me to keep the impression that meeting someone had made his day. He never seemed to forget a name dark world of murder and he was wittymayhem at arms-length, charismatic and very charmingwhilst still enjoying the vicarious thrills. He appeared to be After all, this is fiction and therefore a decent manmade-up death. However, with views with which I would sometimes it is important to have agreed on race, capital punishment and membership a reality check and read a bit of non-fiction. The problem is with true crime as a genre is that it is sometimes written the Common Marketsame as fiction, as the European Union was then knownalthough it is 'real’. For this was Is there a place to sensationalise actual death for the nineteen sixties and Thorpe had entered Parliament at the age entertainment of thirty and by 1967 he would be party leader. On the surface he was a man who had everything going for him. [[others?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Bell_AZ|title=The A-Z of Victorian Crime|author=Neil R A Very English Scandal: SexBell, Trevor N Bond, Lies Kate Clarke and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John PrestonM W Oldridge|Full Review]] <!-- Ricca -->rating=4.5|-genre=True Crime| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ricca_HolmesVictorian crime has never ceased to cast its spell.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445663449/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagIs it because such terrible goings-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mrs Holmes: Murder, Kidnap and on took place sufficiently long ago that they do not disgust us in the True Story same way as equally dreadful events from, say, the last few days of which we read from today's papers or online coverage? Whatever the reason, there is an Extraordinary Lady Detective by Brad Ricca]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] Grace Humistonendless fascination with murders and other major transgressions of the law from the era of gas lamps and swirling fog – true Victorian melodrama, an American lawyer misbehaviour and travelling detective in the early years of horror from real-life writ large. It is amply catered for in this title, the twentieth century, was well ahead joint work of her timefour authors. Long before women were readily accepted in the legal profession, she became the first female US District Attorney, taking on cases nobody else wanted, setting herself up as an advocate for the disadvantaged, charging minimal fees and working hard on what seemed to be utterly hopeless cases. With her flair for publicity she made good copy, and was always good for a story in the papers. Her nickname 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes' was an apt one. [[Mrs Holmes: Murder, Kidnap and the True Story of an Extraordinary Lady Detective by Brad Ricca|Full Review]] <!-- Osang -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Osang_Scholl.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925240932/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Scholl Case by Anja Reich-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] I think I'd like Ludwigsfelde. I wouldn't have liked it when it was an industrial village, with one or two huge mechanical plants and nothing else to its name. But now, even with the constant hum of the autobahn (one of Hitler's) keeping it company, it must have an appeal. It has been rebuilt, refashioned and remodelled since the end of East Germany, under the most prosperous and forward-looking mayor in the state, if not the country. He it was who put in a mostly-nude swimming spa. It has dispensers for doggy poo bags, so there's nothing as uncouth as taking your own. The mayor, bless him, even expanded the motorway to three lanes in each direction. It is within touch of Berlin, and in tune with so many business wants, yet is surrounded by woodland. Woodland where, between Christmas and New Year a few years back, the mayor's own wife and dog were found, both having been strangled… [[The Scholl Case by Anja Reich-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Bard -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bard_Capital.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445667363/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Capital Punishment: London's Places of Execution by Robert Bard]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] The majority of books on true crime and murder focus first and foremost on specific incidents. This concise volume takes a different approach, in dealing with them according to where the executioner completed his task. [[Capital Punishment: London's Places of Execution by Robert Bard|Full Review]] <!-- Wilber -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilber_Good.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509830502/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Good Month For Murder by Del Quentin Wilber]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] I like to read crime fiction in part because it allows me to keep the dark world of murder and mayhem at arms-length, whilst still enjoying the vicarious thrills. After all, this is fiction and therefore a made up death. However, sometimes it is important to have a reality check and read a bit of non-fiction. The problem is with true crime as a genre is that it is sometimes written the same as fiction, although it is 'real’. Is there a place to sensationalise actual death for the entertainment of others? [[A Good Month For Murder by Del Quentin Wilber|Full Review]] <!-- Bell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bell_AZ.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445647869/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The A-Z of Victorian Crime by Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and M W Oldridge]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] Victorian crime has never ceased to cast its spell. Is it because such terrible goings-on took place sufficiently long ago that they do not disgust us in the same way as equally dreadful events from, say, the last few days of which we read from today's papers or online coverage? Whatever the reason, there is an endless fascination with murders and other major transgressions of the law from the era of gas lamps and swirling fog }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Glenny_Nemesis|title=Nemesis – true Victorian melodrama, misbehaviour and horror from real life writ large. It is amply catered for in this title, the joint work of four authors. [[The A-Z of Victorian Crime by Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and M W Oldridge|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreviewHunt For Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal|author= Misha Glenny|title= Nemesis – The Hunt For Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal|rating= 4.5|genre= True Crime

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Garner_House|title=This House of Grief

|summary= This is an account of a harrowing event in Australia's recent history: the drowning of three young boys when the car being driven by their father, Robert Farquharson, veered off the road and fell into a dam. The father escaped unhurt. The tragedy was appropriated by the national media and led to a drawn-out prosecution of the father for murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240681</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Quillen_Inside|title=Inside Alcatraz: My Life on the Rock

|genre=AutobiographyTrue Crime|summary=It sounds like something from a Hollywood movie. A group of young prisoners make a daring escape from prison and go on the run, cleverly evading capture thanks to quick wits and creative thinking. After managing to cover some distance, the men began to feel ''smart, confident and quite comfortable,'' thinking that they had managed to outwit the police. A rude awakening with a gun to the head one morning proved otherwise. The circumstances of their escape meant that their capture would lead to a long incarceration in one of the most notorious prisons in the world: Alcatraz. ''Inside Alcatraz'' is the story of one of those men, Jim Quillen, and his long road to redemption.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784750662</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Platt_Criminal|title=Criminal Capital: How the Finance Industry Facilitates Crime

|genre=Business and FinanceTrue Crime|summary=It used to be estate agents we reviled the most, but they've now achieved relative respectability. MPs briefly took the top spot, but for many years now the list has been topped by bankers following the 2008 financial crisis, when huge taxpayer-funded financial bailouts were required to keep the world's financial system afloat. Most people will think that we've heard the worst of what has been going on, but Stephen Platt believes that excessive risk -taking and mis-selling might well be just a minor part of what is ''still'' happening in the industry and that government attempts to counter the problems are misguided and unlikely to be effective.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113733729X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jayne Anne Phillips|title=Quiet Dell|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary= Chicago – 1931. Asta Eicher is a widow, with three children and a crippling sense of loneliness. When Harry Powers asks her to marry him, she is delighted – and the new family soon leave in order to travel to West Virginia. They are never seen again. Back in Chicago, Emily Thornhill is one of the few women journalists in Chicago, and is sent to investigate the disappearance, trying to establish what happened to the family. As she becomes ever deeper involved with the investigation, Emily begins to discover things she never expected – both about the case, and herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590255</amazonuk>