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[[Category:New Reviews|True Crime]]__NOTOC____NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=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=Anthony Summers191240804X|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 In Your Lifetimeour 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-be lover, her seducer and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. 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. She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life. 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=Winn_Hello|title=Hello, Shadowlands|author=Patrick Winn|rating=4|genre=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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Orth_Versace|title=Vulgar Favours: The Assassination of JFKGianni Versace|author=Maureen Orth|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=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 slow down when they overtake a car crash on the motorway. Whatever it is, Maureen Orth's book, Vulgar Favours, taps right on into it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Masters Killing|title=Killing for Company|author=Brian Masters|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=Killing for Company 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grisham_Innocent|title=The Innocent Man|author=John Grisham

|summary=Originally published as Many readers may be drawn by the fact that the internationally bestselling John Grisham is the author here. I, 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Nelson Red|title=The Kennedy Conspiracy'Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial|author=Maggie Nelson|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=Maggie Nelson is the author of four volumes of poetry and five wide-ranging works of nonfiction that delve into the nature of violence and sexuality. From what I'd heard about her writing, I knew to expect an important and unconventional thinker with a distinctive, lyrical style. Now Vintage is making some of her backlist, including this book (originally published in 2007) and the uncategorisable Bluets, available for the first time in the UK.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Carrere_Adversary|title=The Adversary|author=Emmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale (translator)|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=On 9th January 1993, Jean-Claude Romand orchestrated a horrifying chain of events which exposed a shocking double life, a history of lies and a breath-taking capacity for deceit. The Adversary dissects the choices and actions of Romand which led to the brutal murders of his wife, children and parents and the attempted murder of his mistress, Anthony Summers has massively revised the textimpact of his deception on those around him and his sensational trial. Carrère is as integral a part of this story as Romand, updated it his coverage of the trial and correspondence with him whilst in prison form a significant part of the latest evidence story as do his feelings and itresponse to Romand's been republished as justification for his actions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grann_Killers|title=Killers of the Flower Moon|author=David Grann|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=''Not in Your Lifetime: The Assassination Killers of JFKthe Flower Moon'' which refers tells the story of the Osage tribe, forced to settle in the statement made by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was asked if the truth about rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what happened would come outbecome Osage County. He said that it wouldIn an unexpected turn of fortune, prospectors struck oil, but added instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some of the richest people in the world. Then members of the rider that ''it might not be tribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then, in your lifetime''increasingly violent ways. Fifty years on most An investigation into the matter stalls and is beset by incompetence and a general lack of interest in the fate of the people directly Osage until the FBI becomes involved are now deadand draws together a team of battle-scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osage, but the race to find the truth has not officially emergedbecomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double-crosses than any murder mystery. In fact}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Talty_Black|title=The Black Hand|author=Stephan Talty|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=History is a fascinating subject to study as there is so much of it, it's difficult so why do we keep going back to avoid the thought that same places? I feel like I have walked the US government would prefer that it did not see the light steps of Julius Caesar and married at least two of dayHenry VIII's wives, so often I have read about them. Further documents There are due countless other tales out there to learn about that may be released in 2017more obscure, butare just as exciting. I don't know much about New York around 1900, in the meantime Anthony Summer has examined what is availablebut after reading ''The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place to live, investigated on his own behalf and given us this comprehensive bookbut an interesting one to learn about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755365429</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tierney_Doctor|title=A Very British Murder: the Story of a National ObsessionThe Doctor's Wife is Dead|author=Lucy WorsleyAndrew Tierney

|summary=The British are an illogical raceIn 1849 a woman named Ellen Langley died at her home in Nenagh, Co. Short Tipperary Ireland. She was the wife of genocide, murder is a prosperous doctor and came from a well-respected family; so why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been confined to the worst, most shocking crime an individual can commit, yet it has become a kind grim attic rooms of commodity which over the last years has been endlessly packaged as a mass market entertainment industry. We buy newspapers house she shared with her husband and magazines with blowthen exiled to rented lodgings in the most impoverished part of their famine-by-blow accounts of dreadful true life cases, we read thrillers, watch TV drama series ravaged town? Why had her death caused such uproar and documentariesultimately, and we can take part in why had her husband been charged with murder mystery evenings and weekends at pubs and hotels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906343</amazonuk>?

{{Frontpage|isbn=Preston_Very|title=A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment|author=John Preston|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=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 name and he was witty, charismatic and very charming. He appeared to be a decent man, with views with which I would have agreed on race, capital punishment and membership of the Common Market, as the European Union was then known. For this was the nineteen sixties and Thorpe had entered Parliament at the age of thirty and by 1967 he would be party leader. On the surface, he was a man who had everything going for him.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter MooreRicca_Holmes|title=Damn His BloodMrs Holmes: Being Murder, Kidnap and the True Story of an Extraordinary Lady Detective|author=Brad Ricca|rating=3.5|genre=True Crime|summary=Grace Humiston, an American 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Osang_Scholl|title=The Scholl Case|author=Anja Reich-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=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 Detailed History remodelled since the end of East Germany, under the Most Barbarous most prosperous and Inhumane 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… }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Bard_Capital|title=Capital Punishment: London's Places of Execution|author=Robert Bard|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wilber_Good|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 dark world of murder and mayhem at Oddingley 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 Quick same as fiction, although it is 'real’. Is there a place to sensationalise actual death for the entertainment of others?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Bell_AZ|title=The A-Z of Victorian Crime|author=Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and Awful RetributionM W Oldridge

|summary=In 1806 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 Reverend George Parker was Rector last few days of Oddingleywhich we read from today's papers or online coverage? Whatever the reason, a quiet little Worcestershire village. Married there is an endless fascination with a small daughter, he was also a part-time farmer murders and kept a herd other major transgressions of four dairy cows which were taken by a servant to graze in a meadow in the north law from the era of his parish every morninggas lamps and swirling fog – true Victorian melodrama, misbehaviour and horror from real-life writ large. This gave him the chance to enjoy a gentle stroll along the peaceful lanes when he went to fetch them home It is amply catered for in this title, the afternoon for milkingjoint work of four authors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554674</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben MezrichGlenny_Nemesis|title=Straight FlushNemesis – The Hunt For Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal|author=Misha Glenny

|summary=Ben MezrichMany of us have had a 's latest book tells the story of six college kids - frat brothers from the University of Montana - who built up AbsolutePokerSliding Doors' moment.com, one of A single incident that grabs life by the world's largest poker sites - only for shoulders and shoves it to come crashing down as the legality of online poker became more in a completely new and more of an issue, with the Department of Justice getting involvedunexpected direction. We find out in the first chapterFew can have travelled quite so far, quite so quickly as one of the six prepares to return to the USA from Central America to face prosecution, that things have gone horribly wrong. Just how horribly wrongAntonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, we have to wait to find out..aka Nem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022640</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Bennett and Paul BeggGarner_House|title=Jack the Ripper: CSI: WhitechapelThis House of Grief|author=Helen Garner

|summary=He was This is an avenging doctor, he was account of a foreign madman, he was royalty, he was a she – he was even ''Sherlock'' bleeding ''Holmesharrowing event in Australia''. Whoever s recent history: the actual Jack drowning of three young boys when the Ripper was I doubt will ever be known. What is for sure is that new books that cover car being driven by their father, Robert Farquharson, veered off the subject with any conviction have to fall road and fell into one of two camps – those positing a new suspect, or those presenting dam. The father escaped unhurt. The tragedy was appropriated by the known facts about the crimes national media and their victims in led to a new fashion. This book is definitely in drawn-out prosecution of the latter categoryfather for murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0233003622</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max DecharneQuillen_Inside|title=Capital CrimesInside Alcatraz: Seven centuries of London life and murderMy Life on the Rock|author=Jim Quillen|rating=4.5

|summary=True crime has been one It sounds like something from a Hollywood movie. A group of young prisoners make a daring escape from prison and go on the great growth areas of publishing in 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 last few yearspolice. As more than A rude awakening with a gun to the head one author morning proved otherwise. The circumstances of their escape meant that their capture would lead to a long incarceration in one of the field as observed, everyone loves a good murder most notorious prisons in a manner the world: Alcatraz. ''Inside Alcatraz'' is the story of one of speakingthose men, Jim Quillen, and anybody who is looking for books on murders in London will find no lack of choicehis long road to redemption.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847945902</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LongPlatt_Criminal|title=Murders of LondonCriminal Capital: In How the steps of the capital's killersFinance Industry Facilitates Crime|author=Stephen Platt

|summary=While It used to be estate agents we reviled the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal in one case in depthmost, therebut 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 always room for another title at financial system afloat. Most people will think that we've heard the other end worst of the spectrumwhat has been going on, dealing in brief with but Stephen Platt believes that excessive risk-taking and mis-selling might well be just a variety minor part of murders over what is still happening in the industry and that government attempts to counter the yearsproblems are misguided and unlikely to be effective.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>