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[[Category:New Reviews|True Crime]]__NOTOC__ {{Frontpage|isbn=1785150731|title=Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee|author=Casey Cep|rating=5|genre=True Crime__NOTOC__|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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=191240804X|title=The PoisonerMurder 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.'' And that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends - a fellow teacher, her would-be lover, her seducer and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke of her as kindly, virtuous and pious, but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromley. She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the chaste life expected of a young, unmarried woman in 1843.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Winn_Hello|title=Hello, Shadowlands|author=Patrick Winn|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=''Hello, Shadowlands'' chronicles a booming crime wave in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar to the abortion pill black market in the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts and historical context. It is devastating to imagine the very real human lives that are swept up in this cloud of refuse, and how the West helped create it and is doing nothing to prevent it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Orth_Versace|title=Vulgar Favours: The Life 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, or else the same inexplicable impulse people have to slow down when they overtake a car crash on the motorway. Whatever it is, Maureen Orth's book, Vulgar Favours, taps right on into it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Masters Killing|title=Killing for Company|author=Brian Masters|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=Killing for Company is a detailed criminal study of Dennis Nilsen, unique in that it was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation and includes material from Nilsen's prison diaries. Covering Nilsen's early life, his career and Crimes subsequent murders, this is a detailed analysis of Victorian Englandthe man behind the murder and an attempt, on Masters's Most Notorious Doctor part, to understand what shaped Nilsen and what could have caused such apparently senseless violence.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grisham_Innocent|title=The Innocent Man|author=Stephen BatesJohn Grisham

|summary=Just to fend off any accusations of a spoiler, Many readers may be drawn by the fact that the fate of Dr William Palmer internationally bestselling John Grisham is probably just as well-known to those with an interest in the subject as that of President Kennedy or Princess Dianaauthor here. Stephen Bates’ account of ‘the Prince of Poisoners’ starts offI, thereforehowever, with an account must admit that although I have enjoyed some of the proceedings films based on 14 June 1856 when over 30his books,000 people gathered outside Stafford Prison I have never actually read any of them. This hasn't been due to deliberate avoidance, I just haven't gotten around to it. I was keen then to read this True Crime title and see him keep an appointment with what Grisham would bring to the hangman after being found guilty of murdertable, so to speak.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715647504</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Nelson Red|title=The Faithful ExecutionerRed Parts: Life and Death in the Sixteenth CenturyAutobiography of a Trial|author=Joel F HarringtonMaggie Nelson|rating=3.54

|summary=Frantz Schmidt, Maggie Nelson is the official executioner author of four volumes of poetry and torturer in Nuremberg, five wide-ranging works of nonfiction that delve into the Albert Pierrepoint nature of his day, entered his terrible profession by accidentviolence and sexuality. In 1553, shortly before he was bornFrom what I'd heard about her writing, the Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach had three gunsmiths arrested after they were found guilty of plotting I knew to kill him. Invoking expect an important and unconventional thinker with a local customdistinctive, he called on a random bystander to execute themlyrical style. Now Vintage is making some of her backlist, including this book (originally published in 2007) and his choice fell on Heinrich Schmidt to carry out the sentence. If he disobeyeduncategorisable Bluets, he and available for the two men standing next to him would also be summarily hanged. Having thus been made to carry out one execution, Schmidt and his family were ostracised by all respectable citizens first time in their home town of Nuremberg and banned from all public buildings. He therefore had no choice but to take it up as a lifelong careerthe UK.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572664</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Carrere_Adversary|title=The Mad SculptorAdversary|author=Harold SchechterEmmanuel Carrere and Linda Coverdale (translator)

|summary=The modern proliferation On 9th January 1993, Jean-Claude Romand orchestrated a horrifying chain of TV channels has not filled our screens with copious amounts events which exposed a shocking double life, a history of quality television that we can't find time to watch, but instead has given us countless channels we cannot be bothered to seelies and a breath-taking capacity for deceit. Some The Adversary dissects the choices and actions of these channels are packed Romand which led to the gills with True Crime Documentaries that go into lurid detail about brutal murdersof his wife, kidnappings children and other unsavoury businessparents and the attempted murder of his mistress, the impact of his deception on those around him and his sensational trial. ‘The Mad Sculptor’ by Harold Schechter Carrère is as integral a True Crime novelpart of this story as Romand, but is it his coverage of the trial and correspondence with him whilst in prison form a well-researched slice significant part of nonfiction, or another avenue the story as do his feelings and response to glorify crime Romand's justification for those fans of TV Crime?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851360</amazonuk>his actions.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Grann_Killers|title=The Wolf Killers of Wall Streetthe Flower Moon|author=Jordan BelfortDavid Grann|rating=2.5|genre=AutobiographyTrue Crime|summary=As if we didn't have enough excuses 'Killers of the Flower Moon'' tells the story of the Osage tribe, forced to appreciate settle in the 'Masters rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County. In an unexpected turn of fortune, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the Universe' Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some of the financial sectorrichest people in the world. After Then members of the tax dodgingtribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then, in 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 bonus scammingFBI becomes involved and draws together a team of battle-scarred, price fixing unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and the valiant attempt increasingly angry Osage, the race to bring down find the entire world economy comes Jordan Belfort aka truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double-crosses than any murder mystery.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Talty_Black|title=The Black Hand|author=Stephan Talty|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=History is a fascinating subject to study as there is so much of it, so why do we keep going back to the same places? I feel like I have walked the Wolf steps of Julius Caesar and married at least two of Wall StreetHenry VIII's wives, so often I have read about them. To There are countless other tales out there to learn about that may be fair to Belfortmore obscure, he plied his trade long before the most recent financial meltdownbut are just as exciting. Still I don't know much about New York around 1900, hebut after reading 's managed 'The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place to piggy back the latest crash via a best selling book which has been re-released live, but an interesting one to coincide with a film adaptation starring Leonardo Dicapriolearn about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444778129</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vincent BugliosiTierney_Doctor|title=ParklandThe Doctor's Wife is Dead|author=Andrew Tierney

|genre=HistoryTrue Crime|summary=''Parkland'' is not just In 1849 a woman named Ellen Langley died at her home in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary Ireland. She was the wife of a book about history but prosperous doctor and came from a book ''with'' well-respected family; so why was she buried in a history. Vincent Bugliosi published pauper''Reclaiming History: The Assassination s coffin? Why had she been confined to the grim attic rooms of President John F. Kennedy'' the house she shared with her husband and then exiled to rented lodgings in 2007 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 much murder? }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Preston_Very|title=A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the book being based on his preparation for a mock trial Establishment|author=John Preston|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of Lee Harvey Oswald which person who was shown on British televisiongenerally liked by others. This book He was an exhaustive look at what happened in Dallas flamboyant and at subsequent events such as gregarious but could give the trial of Jack Ruby impression that meeting someone had made his day. He never seemed to forget a name and he was witty, charismatic and the conspiracy theories very charming. He appeared to be a decent man, with views with which I would have abounded in agreed on race, capital punishment and membership of the Common Market, as the intervening fifty yearsEuropean Union was then known. ''Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'' For this was published in June 2008 the nineteen sixties and is - as Thorpe had entered Parliament at the title suggests - restricted to what happened on 22 November 1963 age of thirty and the following three daysby 1967 he would be party leader. ''Parkland'' is On the film tie-in version of that booksurface, he was a man who had everything going for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393347338</amazonuk>

{{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 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Osang_Scholl|title=The Scholl Case|author=Anthony SummersAnja Reich-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=I think I'd like Ludwigsfelde. I wouldn't have liked it when it was an industrial village, with one or two huge mechanical plants and nothing else to its name. But now, even with the constant hum of the autobahn (one of Hitler's) keeping it company, it must have an appeal. It has been rebuilt, refashioned and 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… }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Bard_Capital|title=Not In Your LifetimeCapital Punishment: The Assassination London's Places of JFKExecution|author=Robert 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>