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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->1785150731<!-- Elizabeth Haynes -->|title=Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee|-author=Casey Cep| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"5|genre=True Crime[[image:191240804X.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwSometimes 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.amazon Our first subject is the Reverend Willie Maxwell.co 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.uk/dp/}}{{Frontpage|isbn=191240804X/ref|title=The Murder of Harriet Monkton|author=Elizabeth Haynes|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=nosim''But that's just it'', she said. ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it?tag=thebookbag-21]] 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.''

 | style="verticalAnd that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends -align: top; texta fellow teacher, her would-align: left;"|===[[The Murder be lover, her seducer and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke of Harriet Monkton by Elizabeth Haynes]]=== [[image:5starher as kindly, virtuous and pious, but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromley.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]]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=''But that's just it''Hello, she said. Shadowlands''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harrietchronicles a booming crime wave in South East Asia. Itilluminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar to the abortion pill black market in the Philippines using both Winn's some manufactured creature, personal accounts and historical context. It is devastating to imagine the very real human lives that exists only for are swept up in this blessed inquest: something to be summed up like a spiritcloud of refuse, to be examined and pored over, to be sneered at how the West helped create it and judged. Harriet deserves is doing nothing to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrionprevent it.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Orth_VersaceAnd 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|title=Vulgar Favours: The Assassination of Gianni 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, virtuous and pious, but that was before her body was found behind or else the same inexplicable impulse people have to slow down when they overtake a car crash on the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromleymotorway. She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own lifeWhatever it is, Maureen Orth's book, Vulgar Favours, taps right on into it. 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. [[The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Elizabeth Haynes|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Winn -->|isbn=Masters Killing|-title=Killing for Company| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Brian Masters|rating=5[[image:Winn_Hello.jpg|leftgenre=True Crime|linksummary=http://wwwKilling 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.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785783475/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[HelloCovering Nilsen's early life, his career and subsequent murders, Shadowlands by Patrick Winn]]===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[[image:4star|isbn=Grisham_Innocent|title=The Innocent Man|author=John Grisham|rating=4.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] ''Hello, Shadowlands'' chronicles a booming crime wave in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from summary=Many readers may be drawn by the meth industry in Myanmar to fact that the abortion pill black market in internationally bestselling John Grisham is the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts and historical contextauthor here. It is devastating to imagine the very real human lives I, however, must admit that are swept up in this cloud although I have enjoyed some of refuse, and how the West helped create it and is doing nothing to prevent it. [[Hellofilms based on his books, Shadowlands by Patrick Winn|Full Review]] <!-- Orth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Orth_VersaceI have never actually read any of them.jpg|left|link=https://wwwThis hasn't been due to deliberate avoidance, I just haven't gotten around to it.amazonI was keen then to read this True Crime title and see what Grisham would bring to the table, so to speak.co.uk/gp/product/1785943103?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785943103]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Nelson Red| styletitle="vertical-alignThe Red Parts: top; text-align: left;"Autobiography of a Trial|=author=Maggie Nelson|rating=[[Vulgar Favours: The Assassination of Gianni Versace by Maureen Orth]]4|genre===True Crime[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] What is it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to such a Maggie Nelson is the author of four volumes of poetry and five wide audience? -ranging works of nonfiction that delve into the nature of violence and sexuality. From what I guess it's wanting d heard about her writing, I knew to try to figure out what happened to make these people partake 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 awful crimes they committeduncategorisable Bluets, or else available for the same inexplicable impulse people have to slow down when they overtake a car crash on first time in the motorwayUK. Whatever it is, Maureen Orth's book, Vulgar Favours, taps right on into it. [[Vulgar Favours: }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Carrere_Adversary|title=The Assassination of Gianni Versace by Maureen Orth|Full Review]] <!-- Masters -->Adversary|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Emmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale (translator)|rating=4[[image:Masters Killing.jpg|leftgenre=True Crime|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784759422?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagOn 9th January 1993, Jean-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784759422]]  | style="verticalClaude Romand orchestrated a horrifying chain of events which exposed a shocking double life, a history of lies and a breath-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Killing taking capacity for Company by Brian Masters]]=== [[image:5stardeceit.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] Killing for Company is a detailed criminal study The Adversary dissects the choices and actions of Romand which led to the brutal murders of Dennis Nilsenhis wife, unique in that it was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation children and parents and includes material from Nilsen's prison diaries. Covering Nilsen's early life, the attempted murder of his career and subsequent murdersmistress, this the impact of his deception on those around him and his sensational trial. Carrère is as integral a detailed analysis part of this story as Romand, his coverage of the man behind the murder trial and an attempt, on Masters' correspondence with him whilst in prison form a significant part, of the story as do his feelings and response to understand what shaped Nilsen and what could have caused such apparently senseless violenceRomand's justification for his actions. [[Killing for Company by Brian Masters}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]]isbn=Grann_Killers|title=Killers of the Flower Moon<!-- Grisham -->|author=David Grann|-rating=5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|True Crime[[image:Grisham_Innocent.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784759414?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784759414]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Innocent Man by John Grisham]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] Many readers may be drawn by ''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. In an unexpected turn of fortune, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some of the fact that richest people in the internationally bestselling John Grisham is the author hereworld. I however, must admit that although I have enjoyed some Then members of the films based on his bookstribe start to die, I have never actually read any slowly at first of them. This hasn't been due to deliberate avoidanceapparently natural causes then, I just haven't gotten around to itin increasingly violent ways. I was keen then to read this True Crime title An investigation into the matter stalls and see what Grisham would bring to is beset by incompetence and a general lack of interest in the fate of the Osage until the tableFBI becomes involved and draws together a team of battle-scarred, so to speakunorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. [[The Innocent Man by John Grisham|Full Review]] <!-- Nelson -->|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| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Talty_Black|title=The Black Hand[[image:Nelson Red.jpg|leftauthor=Stephan Talty|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784705799?ie4|genre=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784705799]] True Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Red Parts: Autobiography History is a fascinating subject to study as there is so much of a Trial by Maggie Nelson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]it, [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] Maggie Nelson is so why do we keep going back to the same places? I feel like I have walked the author steps of four volumes of poetry Julius Caesar and five wide-ranging works married at least two of nonfiction that delve into the nature of violence and sexuality. From what IHenry VIII'd heard about her writings wives, so often I knew have read about them. There are countless other tales out there to expect an important and unconventional thinker with a distinctivelearn about that may be more obscure, lyrical stylebut are just as exciting. Now Vintage is making some of her backlist I don't know much about New York around 1900, including this book (originally published in 2007) and the uncategorisable Bluets, available for the first time in the UK. [[but after reading ''The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial Black Hand'' by Maggie Nelson|Full Review]]Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place to live, but an interesting one to learn about.}}<!-- Carrerre -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Tierney_Doctor| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Doctor's Wife is Dead|author=Andrew Tierney[[image:Carrere_Adversary.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784705802?ie5|genre=UTF8&tagTrue Crime|summary=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784705802]]  | style="verticalIn 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-align: toprespected family; text-align: left;"|===[[The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale (translator)]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{ratingso 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? }}} Star Reviews]] [[{{Frontpage|isbn=Preston_Very|title=A Very English Scandal:Category:True CrimeSex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment|author=John Preston|rating=5|genre=True Crime]] On 9th January 1993 Jean-Claude Romand orchestrated a horrifying chain |summary=Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of events which exposed a shocking double life, a history of lies 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 breath-taking capacity for deceit. The Adversary dissects the choices name and actions of Romand which led to the brutal murders of his wifehe was witty, children charismatic and parents very charming. He appeared to be a decent man, with views with which I would have agreed on race, capital punishment and the attempted murder membership of his mistress, the impact of his deception on those around him and his sensational trialCommon Market, as the European Union was then known. Carrère is as integral a part of For this story as Romand, his coverage of was the trial nineteen sixties and correspondence with him whilst in prison form a significant part Thorpe had entered Parliament at the age of the story as do his feelings thirty and response to Romand's justification for his actions. [[The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale (translator)|Full Review]]1967 he would be party leader. On the surface, he was a man who had everything going for him.}}<!-- Grann -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Ricca_Holmes| styletitle="widthMrs Holmes: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Murder, Kidnap and the True Story of an Extraordinary Lady Detective|author=Brad Ricca[[image:Grann_Killers.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/0857209027/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] True Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Killers Grace Humiston, an American lawyer and travelling detective in the early years of the Flower Moon by David Grann]]=== [[image:5startwentieth century, was well ahead of her time.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] ''Killers of the Flower Moon'' tells the story of the Osage tribeLong before women were readily accepted in the legal profession, forced to settle in she became the rockyfirst female US District Attorney, taking on cases nobody else wanted, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County. In setting herself up as an unexpected turn of fortuneadvocate for the disadvantaged, prospectors struck oilcharging minimal fees and working hard on what seemed to be utterly hopeless cases. With her flair for publicity, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth she made good copy and fortune making them some of was always good for a story in the richest people in the worldpapers. Then members of the tribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent waysHer nickname 'Mrs. Investigation into the matter stalls and is beset by incompetence Sherlock Holmes' was an apt one.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Osang_Scholl|title=The Scholl Case|author=Anja Reich-Osang and a general lack of interest in the fate of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved and draws together a team of battle scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom WhiteImogen Taylor (translator)|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=I think I'd like Ludwigsfelde. As pressure on White increasesI wouldn't have liked it when it was an industrial village, from both the FBI with one or two huge mechanical plants and the increasingly angry Osage, the race nothing else to find the truth becomes increasingly difficultits name. But now, even with more twists and double crosses than any murder mystery. [[Killers the constant hum of the Flower Moon by David Grann|Full Review]] <!-- TALTY -->|-| style="width: 10%; verticalautobahn (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-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Talty_Blacklooking mayor in the state, if not the country.jpg|link=http://wwwHe, it was, who put in a mostly-nude swimming spa.amazonIt has dispensers for doggy poo bags, so there's nothing as uncouth as taking your own.co.uk/dp/1785037129/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Black Hand 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 Stephan Talty]]=== [[image:4starwoodland.jpg|link=Category:{{{ratingWoodland where, between Christmas and New Year a few years back, the mayor's own wife and dog were found, both having been strangled… }}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]]{{FrontpageHistory is a fascinating subject to study as there is so much |isbn=Bard_Capital|title=Capital Punishment: London's Places of it, so why do we keep going back to the same places? I feel like I have walked the steps Execution|author=Robert Bard|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=The majority of Julius Caesar books on true crime and married at least two of Henry VIII's wivesmurder focus first and foremost on specific incidents. This concise volume takes a different approach, so often I have read about in dealing with themaccording to where the executioner completed his task. There are countless other tales out there to learn about that may be more obscure, but are just as exciting. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wilber_Good|title=A Good Month For Murder|author=Del Quentin Wilber|rating=2|genre=True Crime|summary=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 like to read crime fiction in part because it allows me to livekeep the dark world of murder and mayhem at arms-length, but an interesting one whilst still enjoying the vicarious thrills. After all, this is fiction and therefore a made-up death. However, sometimes it is important to learn abouthave a reality check and read a bit of non-fiction. [[The Black Hand by Stephan Talty|Full Review]] <!-- Tierney -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|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?}}{{Frontpage[[image:Tierney_Doctor.jpg|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1844883922/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Bell_AZ| styletitle="verticalThe A-align: top; text-align: left;"Z of Victorian Crime|author=Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and M W Oldridge|rating=4.5|genre=[[The Doctor's Wife is Dead by Andrew Tierney]]===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 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 Nenaghthe same way as equally dreadful events from, say, Co. Tipperary Ireland. She was the wife last few days of a prosperous doctor and came which we read from a well-respected family; so why was she buried in a paupertoday's coffinpapers or online coverage? Why had she been confined to Whatever the grim attic rooms reason, there is an endless fascination with murders and other major transgressions of the house she shared with her husband and then exiled to rented lodgings in law from the most impoverished part era of their famine-ravaged town? Why had her death caused such uproar gas lamps and swirling fog – true Victorian melodrama, misbehaviour and ultimatelyhorror from real-life writ large. It is amply catered for in this title, why had her husband been charged with murder? [[The Doctor's Wife is Dead by Andrew Tierney|Full Review]]the joint work of four authors.}}<!-- Preston -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Glenny_Nemesis| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Nemesis – The Hunt For Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal|author=Misha Glenny[[image:Preston_Very.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241973740/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] True Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Many of us have had a 'Sliding Doors' moment. A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies single incident that grabs life by the shoulders and shoves it in a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston]]=== [[image:5starcompletely new and unexpected direction.jpg|link=Category:{{{ratingFew can have travelled quite so far, quite so quickly as Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, aka Nem.}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime{{Frontpage|True Crime]]isbn=Garner_House Jeremy Thorpe was the sort |title=This House of Grief|author=Helen Garner|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=This is an account 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 manharrowing event in Australia's recent history: the drowning of three young boys when the car being driven by their father, with views with which I would have agreed on raceRobert Farquharson, capital punishment and membership of veered off the Common Market, as the European Union was then knownroad and fell into a dam. The father escaped unhurt. For this The tragedy was appropriated by the nineteen sixties national media and Thorpe had entered Parliament at the age led to a drawn-out prosecution of thirty and by 1967 he would be party leader. On the surface he was a man who had everything going father for himmurder. [[A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston|Full Review]] <!-- Ricca -->}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Quillen_Inside|-title=Inside Alcatraz: My Life on the Rock| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Jim Quillen|rating=5[[image:Ricca_Holmes.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445663449/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] True Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mrs Holmes: Murder, Kidnap It sounds like something from a Hollywood movie. A group of young prisoners make a daring escape from prison and go on the True Story of an Extraordinary Lady Detective by Brad Ricca]]=== [[image:3run, cleverly evading capture thanks to quick wits and creative thinking.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] Grace HumistonAfter managing to cover some distance, the men began to feel ''smart, an American lawyer confident and travelling detective in quite comfortable,'' thinking that they had managed to outwit the early years of police. A rude awakening with a gun to the twentieth century, was well ahead of her timehead one morning proved otherwise. Long before women were readily accepted The circumstances of their escape meant that their capture would lead to a long incarceration in one of the legal profession, she became most notorious prisons in the first female US District Attorney, taking on cases nobody else wantedworld: Alcatraz. ''Inside Alcatraz'' is the story of one of those men, setting herself up as an advocate for the disadvantagedJim Quillen, charging minimal fees and working hard on what seemed his long road to be utterly hopeless cases. With her flair for publicity she made good copy, and was always good for a story in redemption.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Platt_Criminal|title=Criminal Capital: How 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 RiccaFinance Industry Facilitates Crime|Full Review]] <!-- Osang -->author=Stephen Platt|-rating=4| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|True Crime[[image:Osang_Scholl.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925240932/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: It used to be estate agents we reviled the most, but they've now achieved relative respectability. MPs briefly took the top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Scholl Case spot, but for many years now the list has been topped by Anja Reichbankers following the 2008 financial crisis when huge taxpayer-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)]]=== [[image:5starfunded financial bailouts were required to keep the world's financial system afloat.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] I think I'd like LudwigsfeldeMost 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. I wouldn't have liked it when it was an industrial village, with one or two huge mechanical plants and nothing else }}Move on to its name. But now, even with the constant hum of the autobahn (one of Hitler[[Newest Women'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 – 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]] <!-- Glenny -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Glenny_Nemesis.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0099584654/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nemesis – The Hunt For Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] 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. [[Nemesis – The Hunt For Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny|Full Review]] <!-- Garner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Garner_House.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925240681/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[This House of Grief by Helen Garner]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] 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. [[This House of Grief by Helen Garner|Full Review]] <!-- QUILLEN -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Quillen_Inside.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784750662/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Inside Alcatraz: My Life on the Rock by Jim Quillen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]],[[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] 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 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. [[Inside Alcatraz: My Life on the Rock by Jim Quillen|Full Review]] <!-- PLATT -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Platt_Criminal.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/113733729X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Criminal Capital: How the Finance Industry Facilitates Crime by Stephen Platt]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]], [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] 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. [[Criminal Capital: How the Finance Industry Facilitates Crime by Stephen Platt|Full ReviewFiction Reviews]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}