Britain Crime

SECOND EDITION — Completely Revised & Expanded for 2025 Dive into the Dark Heart of British True Crime – Now Sharper, Deeper, and More Unbelievable Than Ever In this fully updated Second Edition of 50 Bizarre True Crime Cases That Shocked Britain, acclaimed author Julian Maddox revisits the most chilling and twisted crimes in British history — now enhanced with new research, forensic updates, and re-edited case files for an even more gripping reading experience. From the psychological darkness of Dennis Nilsen and the ritual murder of Charles Walton to the unsolved mysteries of the ...

She slept with the devil. She killed with the devil. She never stopped loving the devil. July 1963: All of England is rocking to the music of Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, and Elvis. It’s also the month when Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, two of England’s most prolific serial killers, would claim their first victim. He was a child they buried in the muddy, swampy moors near Manchester. Sleeping With The Devil: A Shocking True Crime Story of the Most Hated Woman in Britain is the tale of two bloody years in the 1960s. It was a time when British parents hugged their children a little tighter to ...

Oxford colleges. Milton Keynes estates. Affluent Berkshire. Fifteen documented crimes that shattered the belief that serious violence always happens somewhere else. The Thames Valley is commonly presented as the safe side of England: prosperous commuter towns, respected institutions, carefully planned communities and quiet residential streets within easy reach of London. But respectability is not the same as protection. Spanning more than a century of British true crime, Thames Valley examines fifteen murders, attacks, miscarriages of justice and institutional failures from Oxfordshire, ...

A gripping British crime thriller set in Suffolk’s mysterious Rendlesham Forest, Mad Dogs follows DI Harrison Baird as he races to solve a deadly midnight attack and abduction while a ruthless killer—and the detective’s own dangerous past—close in. The past always comes back to bite...

1925. LONDON. When Alice Diamond, a.k.a. “Diamond Annie,” is elected the queen of the Forty Elephants, she’s determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She’s ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her “family”—it’s how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she’s now the target for one of Britain’s first policewomen.

The cup was already on the table. In this atmospheric work of British true crime history, Poisoned Britain explores the real poisoning cases, arsenic murders and domestic crimes that shocked Victorian, Edwardian and modern Britain. Murder did not always arrive with a knife in the dark. It arrived as tea, medicine, jam, chocolate, flypaper, morphine — or a dose that looked like care. Poisoned Britain uncovers the domestic murders that changed British crime: servants accused from below stairs, wives judged by scandal, doctors trusted at the bedside, carers who turned dependence into ...

Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found himself in on England's south coast—and then in walked his old flame Lucy and her new husband and ex-Judge, Gregory Bath. Entreated by Lucy to join her party for an evening back at the Bath residence, Hugh is powerless to resist, but when the night ends with the judge's inexplicable murder he is pitched back into a world of chaos and crime—a world he had tried to escape for good.

Two thousand years of fear, power, rebellion — and the endless question of how a society controls those who break its rules. Crucifixion & Criminality is a thrilling, immersive ride through England’s darkest cells, bloodiest rituals, and most astonishing transformations in crime and punishment. From the moment the first blow is struck on an Anglo‑Saxon hillside to the cold steel doors of the modern prison, this book pulls readers into a world shaped by terror, authority, ingenuity, and survival. Step inside… The age of feud and fire, where a killing sparked spirals of revenge and ...

In the dark lodging houses of Edinburgh, two men discovered that the dead could be turned into profit. William Burke and William Hare began by selling a single corpse. What followed was something far worse. As the demand for cadavers surged and legal supply failed, they crossed a brutal line from body trading into murder. Their victims were the poor, the vulnerable, and the forgotten. Their destination was the dissecting room. Burke and Hare: The Murders That Fed Anatomy is a full-length historical true crime account of one of Britain’s most infamous murder cases. It traces the rise of ...

Brought to you by Penguin. WHAT MAKES A MURDERER? Unraveling the Dark Psychology Behind Britain’s Most Notorious Killers From Forensic Psychiatrist, Dr Duncan Harding SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025 A young girl burns down the family home A man doesn’t remember...

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the DCI Robert Kett series Alex Smith, comes the second novel in a mystery series filled with the gripping action and hilarious comedy fans have come to love. Welcome to Southwold! Some wounds never heal… With his first case in Suffolk...

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the DCI Robert Kett series Alex Smith, comes the first in a brand-new mystery series filled with the gripping action and hilarious comedy fans have come to love. Welcome to Southwold! It may be heaven on earth, but all hell has broken loose...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This novel blindsided me with twists and surprises that had me gasping…and with a poignancy about relationships and love that one rarely finds in the genre. A brilliant, brilliant book.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author From the author of...

SMALL TOWN MONSTERS — Second Edition: Fully Revised and Expanded Britain's true crime anthology of rural murder — now completely rewritten. Thirteen real murders. Thirteen British villages. Thirteen killers who hid in plain sight — protected not by distance but by silence. This fully revised Second Edition of Small Town Monsters takes thirteen cold cases and unsolved murders from across British history — 1806 to 2004 — and rebuilds each investigation from the ground up. Every chapter has been rewritten using court records, police files, coroner's inquests, and forensic archives. ...

Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear’s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities...

Twelve murders. One hundred and twelve years. And a railway that kept running through every one of them. From the telegram that caught a poisoner fleeing London in 1845 to the Underground stabbing that 18,000 interviews could not solve in 1957, Death on the Line is a forensic investigation into the crimes that exploited Britain's railways — and the cases the railway could not explain. Each chapter opens on a single object: a single-line token handed to a driver moments before a stationmaster was shot. A book left open on a dying woman's lap. An open safe in an empty booking office. A ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin “[A Spy Among...

The New York Times bestseller One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly “[A] brilliant new entry in Smith’s catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of...

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival. When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting...

This program is read by the author. In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world. The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's...