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|summary=I like Sometimes you begin reading a book and before you've got to read crime fiction in part because the bottom of the first page you know that it allows me 's going to keep be brilliant. You sense the dark world author's effortless grasp of murder her subject matter and mayhem at arms-length, whilst still enjoying the vicarious thrillsyou already know that her use of words is almost surgical in its precision. After allThe hands holding you are safe, which considering that this is fiction and therefore a made up death. Howeverbook about two subjects where facts are in short supply, sometimes it is important to have a reality check and read a bit of non-fictionsomewhat surprising. The problem is with True Crime as a genre is that it Our first subject is sometimes written the same as fiction, although it is 'real’Reverend Willie Maxwell. Is there a place Over seven years, six people close to sensationalise actual death for the entertainment of others?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509830502</amazonuk>Reverend had died, with Maxwell benefiting substantially from insurance policies which he'd taken out on their lives.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and M W Oldridge191240804X|title=The A-Z Murder of Victorian Crime Harriet Monkton|author=Elizabeth Haynes|rating=4.5

|summary= Victorian crime has never ceased ''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 cast its spellbe sneered at and judged. Is Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrion.'' And that was the problem: it because such terrible goingsseemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends - a fellow teacher, her would-on took place sufficiently long ago that they do not disgust us in be lover, her seducer and the same way man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke of her as equally dreadful events fromkindly, sayvirtuous and pious, but that was before her body was found behind the last few days of chapel which we read from todayshe regularly attended in Bromley. She's papers d been poisoned - or online coverage? Whatever had taken her own life. After the reasoninquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, there is an endless fascination with murders one who was about six months pregnant and other major transgressions of who had obviously not been living the law from the era chaste life expected of gas lamps and swirling fog – true Victorian melodramaa young, misbehaviour and horror from real life writ large. It is amply catered for unmarried woman in this title, the joint work of four authors1843.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647869</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Misha GlennyWinn_Hello|title= Nemesis – The Hunt For Brazil's Most Wanted CriminalHello, Shadowlands|author=Patrick Winn|rating= 4.5|genre= True Crime|summary=Many of us have had a 'Sliding Doors' momentHello, Shadowlands'' chronicles a booming crime wave in South East Asia. A single incident that grabs life by It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar to the shoulders and shoves it abortion pill black market in a completely new the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts and unexpected directionhistorical context. Few can have travelled quite so farIt is devastating to imagine the very real human lives that are swept up in this cloud of refuse, quite so quickly as Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, aka Nemand how the West helped create it and is doing nothing to prevent it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584654</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen GarnerOrth_Versace|title=This House Vulgar Favours: The Assassination of GriefGianni Versace|author=Maureen Orth|rating=45

|summary= This What is an account of it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to such a harrowing event in Australiawide audience? I guess it's recent history: wanting to try to figure out what happened to make these people partake in the awful crimes they committed, or else the drowning of three young boys same inexplicable impulse people have to slow down when they overtake a car crash on the car being driven by their fathermotorway. Whatever it is, Maureen Orth's book, Robert FarquharsonVulgar Favours, veered off the road and fell taps right on 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 murderit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240681</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim QuillenMasters Killing|title=Inside Alcatraz: My Life on the RockKilling for Company|author=Brian Masters

|genre=AutobiographyTrue Crime|summary=It sounds like something from Killing for Company is a Hollywood movie. A group detailed criminal study of young prisoners make a daring escape 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 go an attempt, on the runMasters' part, cleverly evading capture thanks to quick wits understand what shaped Nilsen and creative thinkingwhat could have caused such apparently senseless violence. After managing to cover some distance, }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grisham_Innocent|title=The Innocent Man|author=John Grisham|rating=4.5|genre=True Crime|summary=Many readers may be drawn by the men began to feel ''smart, confident and quite comfortable,'' thinking fact that they had managed to outwit the police. A rude awakening with gun to internationally bestselling John Grisham is the head one morning proved otherwiseauthor here. The circumstances of their escape meant I, however, must admit that their capture would lead to a long incarceration in one although I have enjoyed some of the most notorious prisons in the world: Alcatrazfilms based on his books, I have never actually read any of them. This hasn't been due to deliberate avoidance, I just haven'Inside Alcatraz'' is t gotten around to it. I was keen then to read this True Crime title and see what Grisham would bring to the story of one of those men, Jim Quillentable, and his long road so to redemptionspeak.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784750662</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen PlattNelson Red|title=Criminal CapitalThe Red Parts: How the Finance Industry Facilitates CrimeAutobiography of a Trial|author=Maggie Nelson

|genre=Business and FinanceTrue Crime|summary=It used to be estate agents we reviled Maggie Nelson is 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 taxpayerauthor of four volumes of poetry and five wide-funded financial bailouts were required to keep ranging works of nonfiction that delve into the world's financial system afloatnature of violence and sexuality. Most people will think that weFrom what I've d heard the worst of what has been going onabout her writing, but Stephen Platt believes that excessive risk taking I knew to expect an important and mis-selling might well be just unconventional thinker with a minor part distinctive, lyrical style. Now Vintage is making some of what is ''still'' happening her backlist, including this book (originally published in 2007) and the uncategorisable Bluets, available for the industry and that government attempts to counter first time in the problems are misguided and unlikely to be effectiveUK.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113733729X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jayne Anne PhillipsCarrere_Adversary|title=Quiet DellThe Adversary|author=Emmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale (translator)

|genre=True Crime (Historical)|summary= Chicago – 1931. Asta Eicher is On 9th January 1993, Jean-Claude Romand orchestrated a horrifying chain of events which exposed a widowshocking double life, with three children a history of lies and a crippling sense breath-taking capacity for deceit. The Adversary dissects the choices and actions of loneliness. When Harry Powers asks her Romand which led to marry himthe brutal murders of his wife, she is delighted – children and parents and the new family soon leave in order to travel to West Virginia. They are never seen again. Back in Chicagoattempted murder of his mistress, Emily Thornhill is one the impact of the few women journalists in Chicago, his deception on those around him and his sensational trial. Carrère is sent to investigate the disappearanceas integral a part of this story as Romand, trying to establish what happened to his coverage of the family. As she becomes ever deeper involved trial and correspondence with him whilst in prison form a significant part of the investigation, Emily begins story as do his feelings and response to discover things she never expected – both about the case, and herselfRomand's justification for his actions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590255</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura ThompsonGrann_Killers|title=A Different Class Killers of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucanthe Flower Moon|author=David Grann

|summary=It's difficult to believe that it's forty years since Killers of the Flower Moon'' tells the murder story of nanny Sandra Rivett and the subsequent disappearance Osage tribe, forced to settle in the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Lord LucanOklahoma in what would become Osage County. In an unexpected turn of fortune, not least because there have been numerous theories about what happened on November prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the 7th 1974 - Osage into unimaginable wealth and what became fortune making them some of Lucanthe richest people in the world. It might also be thought that - short Then members of the tribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then, in increasingly violent ways. An investigation into the Earl turning up with an explanation - there's not matter stalls and is beset by incompetence and a great deal ''new'' which can be added to general lack of interest in the fate of the Osage until the pile FBI becomes involved and draws together a team of published material battle-scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and the subjectincreasingly angry Osage, the race to find the truth becomes increasingly difficult, so I began reading ''A Different Class of Murder'' with the thought that there would be no great surprisesmore twists and double-crosses than any murder mystery.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855366</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Talty_Black|title=The Poisoner: The Life 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 the same places? I feel like I have walked the steps of Julius Caesar and Crimes married at least two of Victorian EnglandHenry VIII's Most Notorious 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 ''The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place to live, but an interesting one to learn about.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Tierney_Doctor|title=The Doctor 's Wife is Dead|author=Stephen BatesAndrew Tierney

|summary=Just to fend off any accusations of In 1849 a spoilerwoman named Ellen Langley died at her home in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary Ireland. She was the fate wife of Dr William Palmer is probably just as a prosperous doctor and came from a well-known respected family; so why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been confined to those the grim attic rooms of the house she shared with an interest her husband and then exiled to rented lodgings in the subject as that most impoverished part of President Kennedy or Princess Diana. Stephen Bates’ account 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: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of ‘the Prince the Establishment|author=John Preston|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of Poisoners’ starts offperson 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, thereforecharismatic and very charming. He appeared to be a decent man, with an account views with which I would have agreed on race, capital punishment and membership of the proceedings on 14 June 1856 when over 30Common Market,000 people gathered outside Stafford Prison to see him keep an appointment with as the European Union was then known. For this was the nineteen sixties and Thorpe had entered Parliament at the hangman after being found guilty age of murderthirty and by 1967 he would be party leader. On the surface, he was a man who had everything going for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715647504</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ricca_Holmes|title=The Faithful ExecutionerMrs Holmes: Life Murder, Kidnap and Death in the Sixteenth CenturyTrue Story of an Extraordinary Lady Detective|author=Joel F HarringtonBrad Ricca

|summary=Frantz SchmidtGrace Humiston, the official executioner an American lawyer and torturer travelling detective in Nuremberg, the Albert Pierrepoint early years of his daythe twentieth century, entered his terrible profession by accidentwas well ahead of her time. In 1553, shortly Long before he was bornwomen were readily accepted in the legal profession, she became the Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach had three gunsmiths arrested after they were found guilty of plotting to kill him. Invoking a local customfirst female US District Attorney, he called taking on a random bystander to execute themcases nobody else wanted, and his choice fell on Heinrich Schmidt to carry out setting herself up as an advocate for the sentence. If he disobeyeddisadvantaged, he charging minimal fees and the two men standing next working hard on what seemed to him would also be summarily hangedutterly hopeless cases. Having thus been With her flair for publicity, she made to carry out one execution, Schmidt good copy and his family were ostracised by all respectable citizens was always good for a story in their home town of Nuremberg and banned from all public buildingsthe papers. Her nickname 'Mrs. He therefore had no choice but to take it up as a lifelong careerSherlock Holmes' was an apt one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572664</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Osang_Scholl|title=The Mad SculptorScholl Case|author=Harold SchechterAnja Reich-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)|rating=45

|summary=The modern proliferation of TV channels has not filled our screens with copious amounts of quality television that we canI think I'd like Ludwigsfelde. I wouldn't find time to watchhave liked it when it was an industrial village, but instead has given us countless channels we cannot be bothered with one or two huge mechanical plants and nothing else to seeits name. Some But now, even with the constant hum of these channels are packed to the gills with True Crime Documentaries that go into lurid detail about murdersautobahn (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, kidnappings under the most prosperous and other unsavoury businessforward-looking mayor in the state, if not the country. ‘The Mad Sculptor’ by Harold Schechter is a True Crime novelHe, but is it was, who put in a wellmostly-researched slice of nonfictionnude swimming spa. It has dispensers for doggy poo bags, so there's nothing as uncouth as taking your own. The mayor, bless him, or another avenue even expanded the motorway to glorify crime for those fans three lanes in each direction. It is within touch of TV Crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851360</amazonuk>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…

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Wolf of Wall Street|authorisbn=Jordan Belfort|rating=2.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=As if we didn't have enough excuses to appreciate the 'Masters of the Universe' of the financial sector. After the tax dodging, the bonus scamming, price fixing and the valiant 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. Still, 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 Dicaprio.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Vincent BugliosiBard_Capital|title=Parkland|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=''Parkland'' is not just a book about history but a book ''with'' a history. Vincent Bugliosi published ''Reclaiming HistoryCapital Punishment: The Assassination of President John F. KennedyLondon'' in 2007 with much of the book being based on his preparation for a mock trial s Places 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 as the trial of Jack Ruby and the conspiracy theories which have abounded in the intervening fifty years. ''Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'' was published in June 2008 and is - as the title suggests - restricted to what happened on 22 November 1963 and the following three days. ''Parkland'' is the film tie-in version of that book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393347338</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewExecution|author=Anthony Summers|title=Not In Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFKRobert Bard|rating=4.5

|summary=Originally published as ''The Kennedy Conspiracy'', Anthony Summers has massively revised the text, updated it with the latest evidence majority of books on true crime and murder focus first and it's been republished as ''Not in Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFK'' which refers to the statement made by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was asked if the truth about what happened would come outforemost on specific incidents. He said that it wouldThis concise volume takes a different approach, but added the rider that ''it might not be in your lifetime''. Fifty years on most of the people directly involved are now dead, but the truth has not officially emerged. In fact, it's difficult dealing with them according to avoid where the thought that the US government would prefer that it did not see the light of day. Further documents are due to be released in 2017, but, in the meantime Anthony Summer has examined what is available, investigated on executioner completed his own behalf and given us this comprehensive booktask.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755365429</amazonuk>

{{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>