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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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephan TaltyTalty_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, so why do we keep going back to the same places? I feel like I have walked the steps of Julius Caesar and married 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 ''The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place to live, but an interesting one to learn about.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew TierneyTierney_Doctor|title= The Doctor's Wife is Dead|author=Andrew Tierney|rating= 4.5|genre= True Crime|summary= In 1849 a woman named Ellen Langley died at her home in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary Ireland. She was the wife of 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 grim attic rooms of the house she shared with her husband and then exiled to rented lodgings in the 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844883922</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241973740</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Brad RiccaRicca_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 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663449</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Osang_Scholl|title=The Scholl Case
|author=Anja Reich-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)
|rating=5
|genre=BiographyTrue 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 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240932</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Bard_Capital|title=Capital Punishment: London's Places of Execution
|author=Robert Bard
|rating=4
|genre=HistoryTrue 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445667363</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|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 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 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509830502</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Bell_AZ|title=The A-Z of Victorian Crime|author= Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and M W Oldridge|title=The A-Z of Victorian Crime
|rating=4.5
|genre=True Crime
|summary= 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 – 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647869</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Misha GlennyGlenny_Nemesis|title= Nemesis – The Hunt For Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal|author=Misha Glenny|rating= 4.5|genre= True Crime
|summary=Many of us have had a 'Sliding Doors' moment. A single incident that grabs life by the shoulders and shoves it in a completely new and unexpected direction. Few can have travelled quite so far, quite so quickly as Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, aka Nem.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Garner_House|title=This House of Grief
|author=Helen Garner
|rating=4
|genre=True Crime
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Quillen_Inside|title=Inside Alcatraz: My Life on the Rock
|author=Jim Quillen
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Platt_Criminal|title=Criminal Capital: How the Finance Industry Facilitates Crime
|author=Stephen Platt
|rating=4
|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>
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