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[[Category:New Reviews|True Crime]]__NOTOC____NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785150731|title=The Faithful ExecutionerFurious Hours: Life Murder, Fraud and Death in the Sixteenth CenturyLast Trial of Harper Lee|author=Joel F HarringtonCasey Cep|rating=3.5

|summary=Frantz Schmidt, the official executioner Sometimes you begin reading a book and torturer in Nuremberg, before you've got to the Albert Pierrepoint bottom of his day, entered his terrible profession by accidentthe first page you know that it's going to be brilliant. In 1553, shortly before he was born, You sense the Margrave author's effortless grasp of Brandenburg-Kulmbach had three gunsmiths arrested after they were found guilty her subject matter and you already know that her use of plotting to kill himwords is almost surgical in its precision. Invoking a local customThe hands holding you are safe, he called on which considering that this is a random bystander to execute thembook about two subjects where facts are in short supply, and his choice fell on Heinrich Schmidt to carry out the sentenceis somewhat surprising. If he disobeyed, he and Our first subject is the two men standing next to him would also be summarily hangedReverend Willie Maxwell. Having thus been made Over seven years, six people close to carry the Reverend had died, with Maxwell benefiting substantially from insurance policies which he'd taken out one execution, Schmidt and his family were ostracised by all respectable citizens in on their home town of Nuremberg and banned from all public buildings. He therefore had no choice but to take it up as a lifelong careerlives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572664</amazonuk>

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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Winn_Hello|title=The Mad SculptorHello, Shadowlands|author=Harold SchechterPatrick Winn

|summary=The modern proliferation of TV channels has not filled our screens with copious amounts of quality television that we can't find time to watch'Hello, but instead has given us countless channels we cannot be bothered Shadowlands'' chronicles a booming crime wave in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar to seethe abortion pill black market in the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts and historical context. Some of these channels are packed It is devastating to imagine the gills with True Crime Documentaries very real human lives that go into lurid detail about murdersare swept up in this cloud of refuse, kidnappings and other unsavoury businesshow the West helped create it and is doing nothing to prevent it. ‘The Mad Sculptor’ by Harold Schechter is a }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Orth_Versace|title=Vulgar Favours: The Assassination of Gianni Versace|author=Maureen Orth|rating=5|genre=True Crime novel, but |summary=What is it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to such a well-researched slice of nonfictionwide 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 another avenue else the same inexplicable impulse people have to glorify crime for those fans of TV Crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851360</amazonuk>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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Masters Killing|title=The Wolf of Wall StreetKilling for Company|author=Jordan BelfortBrian Masters|rating=2.5|genre=AutobiographyTrue Crime|summary=As if we didnKilling for Company is a detailed criminal study of Dennis Nilsen, unique in that it was produced with Nilsen't have enough excuses to appreciate the s full cooperation and includes material from Nilsen'Masters of the Universes prison diaries. Covering Nilsen' s early life, his career and subsequent murders, this is a detailed analysis of the financial sector. After the tax dodging, man behind the bonus scamming, price fixing murder and the valiant an attempt to bring down the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka the Wolf of Wall Street. To be fair to Belfort, he plied his trade long before the most recent financial meltdown. Stillon Masters' part, he's managed to piggy back the latest crash via a best selling book which has been re-released to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicapriounderstand what shaped Nilsen and what could have caused such apparently senseless violence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vincent BugliosiGrisham_Innocent|title=ParklandThe Innocent Man|author=John Grisham

|genre=HistoryTrue Crime|summary=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'Parkland'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 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 not just 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 book about history but horrifying chain of events which exposed a book ''with'' shocking double life, a historyof lies and a breath-taking capacity for deceit. Vincent Bugliosi published ''Reclaiming History: The Assassination Adversary dissects the choices and actions of Romand which led to the brutal murders of President John F. Kennedy'' in 2007 with much his wife, children and parents and the attempted murder of his mistress, the book being based impact of his deception on those around him and his preparation for sensational trial. Carrère is as integral a mock trial part of Lee Harvey Oswald which was shown on British television. This book was an exhaustive look at what happened in Dallas and at subsequent events such this story as Romand, his coverage of the trial and correspondence with him whilst in prison form a significant part of Jack Ruby the story as do his feelings and response to Romand's justification for his actions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grann_Killers|title=Killers of the conspiracy theories which have abounded in Flower Moon|author=David Grann|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=''Killers of the intervening fifty years. Flower Moon''Four Days tells the story of the Osage tribe, forced to settle in November: The Assassination the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County. In an unexpected turn of fortune, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some of President John Fthe richest people in the world. Kennedy'' was published Then members of the tribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then, in June 2008 increasingly violent ways. An investigation into the matter stalls and is beset by incompetence and a general lack of interest in the fate of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved and draws together a team of battle- as scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osage, the race to find the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double-crosses than any murder mystery.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Talty_Black|title suggests - restricted =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, so why do we keep going back to what happened on 22 November 1963 the same places? I feel like I have walked the steps of Julius Caesar and the following three daysmarried at least two of Henry VIII's wives, so often I have read about them. There are countless other tales out there to learn about that may be more obscure, but are just as exciting. I don't know much about New York around 1900, but after reading ''ParklandThe Black Hand'' is the film tie-in version of that bookby Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place to live, but an interesting one to learn about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393347338</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony SummersTierney_Doctor|title=Not In Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFKDoctor's Wife is Dead|author=Andrew Tierney

|summary=Originally published as ''The Kennedy Conspiracy''In 1849 a woman named Ellen Langley died at her home in Nenagh, Anthony Summers has massively revised Co. Tipperary Ireland. She was the text, updated it with the latest evidence wife of a prosperous doctor and itcame from a well-respected family; so why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been republished as ''Not confined to the grim attic rooms of the house she shared with her husband and then exiled to rented lodgings in Your Lifetimethe most impoverished part of their famine-ravaged town? Why had her death caused such uproar and ultimately, why had her husband been charged with murder? }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Preston_Very|title=A Very English Scandal: The Assassination 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 JFK'' 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 refers to 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 statement made age of thirty and by Chief Justice Earl Warren 1967 he would be party leader. On the surface, he was a man who had everything going for him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ricca_Holmes|title=Mrs Holmes: 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 asked if 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 truth about disadvantaged, charging minimal fees and working hard on what happened would come outseemed to be utterly hopeless cases. He said that it wouldWith her flair for publicity, but added she made good copy and was always good for a story in the rider that papers. Her nickname 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes'it might not be in your lifetimewas 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. Fifty years on most 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 people directly involved are now deadend of East Germany, but under the most prosperous and forward-looking mayor in the truth has state, if not officially emergedthe country. In factHe, itwas, who put in a mostly-nude swimming spa. It has dispensers for doggy poo bags, so there's difficult to avoid the thought that nothing as uncouth as taking your own. The mayor, bless him, even expanded the US government would prefer that it did not see the light of day. Further documents are due motorway to be released three lanes in 2017each direction. It is within touch of Berlin, butand in tune with so many business wants, in the meantime Anthony Summer has examined what yet is availablesurrounded by woodland. Woodland where, investigated on his between Christmas and New Year a few years back, the mayor's own behalf wife and given us this comprehensive book.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|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0755365429</amazonuk>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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilber_Good|title=A Very British Good Month For Murder: the Story of a National Obsession|author=Lucy WorsleyDel Quentin Wilber|rating=4.52

|summary=The British are an illogical race. Short I like to read crime fiction in part because it allows me to keep the dark world of genocidemurder and mayhem at arms-length, murder is whilst still enjoying the worstvicarious thrills. After all, most shocking crime an individual can committhis is fiction and therefore a made-up death. However, yet sometimes it has become is important to have a kind reality check and read a bit of commodity which over non-fiction. The problem is with true crime as a genre is that it is sometimes written the last years has been endlessly packaged same as fiction, although it is 'real’. Is there a mass market place to sensationalise actual death for the entertainment industry. We buy newspapers and magazines with blow-by-blow accounts of dreadful true life cases, we read thrillers, watch TV drama series and documentaries, and we can take part in murder mystery evenings and weekends at pubs and hotels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906343</amazonuk>others?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter MooreBell_AZ|title=Damn His Blood: Being a True and Detailed History The A-Z of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick 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>