A true crime memoir like no other, Professor David Wilson gets inside the mind of a murderer and tries to uncover what drives men to kill

What does it mean to write about a killer? From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himself entangled in this strange, true story.

Using sensational public trials, in America, Britain and France, this book takes madness and passion into the courts and puts them on trial.

A piercing account of life as a forensic psychiatrist

Features some of the most notorious and often baffling cases in Leicestershire's history. These are the stories of those involved in Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths, at a time when murder was a capital offence and guilt or innocence was proven without the benefit of modern forensic technique or DNA profiling.

A brutal murder in a small fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the nature of good and evil, in this masterfully told true story.

A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham

From the bestselling author of Blood Relations, a compelling account of Britain's most baffling unsolved murder, described by P. D. James as 'more mysterious and fascinating than any crime fiction'.

A collection of hard man accounts, including true stories of men living on the very edge of what is normal to the rest of us - the merciless streets of Mafia, Triads, Yardies, Yakuza, Hell's Angels and Chinese Tongs. This work is useful for those interested in violent true crime, how real criminals think, and the darker elements of society.