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Sophie Lyons was trained to steal as a child and spent decades moving through the crowded cities of the nineteenth century, surviving by skill, performance, and constant motion. In The Woman on the Circuit, Alana Sanchez traces Lyons’ life across New York, Canada, and the wider urban crime circuit, not as spectacle, but as labour. Drawing on court records, newspaper reporting, and Lyons’ own writing, this book examines the systems that shaped her choices: women’s criminal networks, policing and courts, public morality, and the narrow paths available to women who lived outside ...

In 1931, the discovery of human remains packed into railway trunks sent shockwaves across the United States. The crime was horrifying. The response was swift. And the woman at the centre of it all, Winnie Ruth Judd, was sentenced to die. What followed was not justice as the public imagined it, but a long institutional reckoning. The Trunk Murders is a work of historical true crime that moves beyond lurid retellings to examine what happened after conviction: the death sentence the state could not carry out, the declaration of insanity that spared Judd’s life, decades of psychiatric ...

In the early twentieth century, Linda Burfield Hazzard claimed she could cure disease through fasting. Patients came to her retreat seeking health, discipline, and certainty. Many left dangerously weakened. Some did not leave at all. The Woman with the Cure examines the rise and fall of Hazzard and her infamous sanitarium, known as Starvation Heights. Through careful historical analysis, this book traces how authority, belief, and isolation combined to turn care into coercion — and why intervention came too late. A sober work of historical true crime, this is not a story of spectacle, but...

House of Bourbon is a sweeping, factual narrative of the dynasty that helped shape modern Europe. From Henry IV’s hard-won settlement after the French Wars of Religion to Louis XIV’s Versailles state, from the fall of Louis XVI and the fate of Marie Antoinette and Marie Thérèse Charlotte to the Bourbon transformation of Spain, this book traces how power is claimed, defended, and reinvented across centuries. Moving between Paris and Madrid, revolution and restoration, constitution and dictatorship, it follows the Bourbons as a living case study in legitimacy: how rulers win obedience, ...

Rome whispers about a poison that looks like holy water. They call it Aqua Tofana—a saint-faced bottle passed hand to hand, a rumour with a price, a promise made to desperate wives behind shuttered windows. Men call it evil. Priests call it temptation. The streets call it justice. But Giulia knows what it really is: a brand built in the cracks of a city that leaves women no safe exits. When a quiet network of laundresses, servants and midwives begins to fray under pressure—boots on stone, coins offered for silence, and the Church leaning close—Giulia must protect the one person she ...

When Care Decides is a meticulously researched true-crime narrative that examines how trust, authority, and institutional silence enabled one of history’s most disturbing medical crimes. Through the life of Jane Toppan, a nurse who killed her patients while acting in the name of care, this book exposes the systems that failed to see — and the quiet decisions that proved fatal. Written with restraint and insight, When Care Decides is not a story about madness, but about what happens when care is given the power to choose.

In a respectable home, secrets are meant to stay hidden. Walburga “Dolly” Oesterreich was a wealthy wife living an ordinary life on the surface — until a teenage lover vanished into the attic above her marriage. For years, the household carried two realities at once: husband and wife below, the hidden man above, sustained by silence and routine. Then Fred Oesterreich was shot dead in his own home. The crime scene was staged as a burglary, valuables were taken, and Dolly was locked inside a wardrobe to appear helpless. Police searched for an intruder while the truth remained inside the...

She called herself a countess. Europe believed her. In the grand hotels of the Belle Époque, a woman known as the Comtesse de Monteil drifted through the Riviera’s glittering corridors—charming the elite, earning their trust, and leaving behind empty jewel cases and unanswered questions. Police traced her across Brussels, London, Nice, and beyond, but her disguise held until one night in 1908, when she was finally caught in the act. The Comtesse of Crime is a glam-noir true crime story of deception, luxury, and the dangerous power of belonging—told through verified contemporary ...

In 1895, Bridget Cleary was killed by those closest to her. Convicted she had been taken by fairies and replaced by a changeling, her death has long been misremembered as folklore. In truth, it was the result of sustained domestic violence, collective belief, and a legal system that failed to protect her. Drawing on contemporary trial records, newspaper accounts, and social history, The Burning of Bridget Cleary strips away myth to examine how power, belief, and authority converged to erase a woman who resisted submission. This is not a story about superstition. It is a true-crime ...

The Infirmary Ward takes readers inside the workhouse infirmaries of 19th-century England and Wales, where sickness and poverty collided under the Poor Law. Drawing on official records, inspection reports, and contemporary accounts, this book explores how care was delivered to the poorest and most vulnerable: the sick, the elderly, women in childbirth, children, and those deemed “incurable.” It examines daily life in the wards, medical treatment, nursing, diet, discipline, and the moral assumptions that shaped who deserved comfort and who did not. More than a history of medicine, The ...

In the desolate plains of Kansas, Kate Bender became a name whispered with fear. But there is more to a woman than a crime. Now she tells her own story - the choices, the darkness, and bestrewn road to survival. Evil is not just born. It is made. And some lines were never meant to be crossed.

A woman was starved to death in her own home — surrounded by people who chose not to stop it. In Victorian England, Harriet Staunton died slowly from starvation while living under the control of her husband and his family. There were no blows, no weapons, and no single moment of violence — only confinement, deprivation, and sustained neglect. The Penge Murder reconstructs Harriet’s life, inheritance, marriage, and death using contemporary records, inquest evidence, and medical understanding of the period. It examines how domestic authority, gendered assumptions, and collective silence...

When poisoned chocolates spread terror through Victorian Brighton, suspicion fell on no one — until it fell on Christiana Edmunds. Respectable, intelligent, and outwardly composed, Edmunds defied every expectation of a criminal. Her case forced Victorian England to confront uncomfortable questions about obsession, insanity, and female violence. The Chocolate Poisoner is a gripping true crime history of a woman who reasoned carefully, acted deliberately, and was silenced for the rest of her life.

A boarding house promised safety. Inside, people disappeared. In Sacramento, Dorothea Puente took in vulnerable tenants — elderly, disabled, and isolated — then quietly redirected their benefits and erased them from view. For years, the system accepted her explanations. Then bodies were found buried behind the house. The Boarding House is a chronological account of the Dorothea Puente case, separating record from rumour and restoring the victims to the centre of the story. A true-crime manuscript about greed, control, and what happens when disappearance becomes normal.

On 5 November 1878, Ella Hearn was shot in her family home in Pocomoke City, Maryland. The accused was Lillian Duer—her closest companion. What followed was a month-long vigil, a fugitive escape, a coroner’s inquest, and a sensational trial in Snow Hill. Based on surviving 19th-century reporting, The Duer–Hearn Case reveals a story of obsession, coercive control, and a justice system shaped by gender and class.

Darling built her studio to survive the past. But the past has found her again. When strange signs appear, and the mannequins begin to feel less like objects and more like witnesses, Darling realizes someone—or something—is inside her world. And this time, it wants the people she loves.

In the quiet town of Correggio , Leonarda Ciunciulli was known as a respectable shopkeeper, a devoted mother, and a woman other trusted with their fears. She sold soap. She offerred advice. She listened. Told in Leonarda's own voice, I AM THE SOAP MAKER, is a literary true-crime novel inspired by the crimes of Leonarda Ciunciulli.

In the glittering halls of Versailles, power was theatre — and belief was everything. In 1785, a diamond necklace worth a fortune vanished into the shadows of Paris. The crime that stole it was audacious: forged letters, a counterfeit Queen, secret meetings beneath moonlit gardens, and a cardinal desperate to regain royal favour. Yet the greatest twist was this — Marie Antoinette never ordered the necklace at all. And still, the scandal wrapped itself around her name like a noose. At the centre of the deception stood Jeanne de la Motte, a woman with noble blood and empty pockets, who ...

In London's working class district, the Forty Elephants, moved unseen. This all-female gang operated for decades with adept coordination and ruthless consistency. Outsmarting department stores, confounding police, and defying expectations in a city that never, never, never saw them coming.

Between 1871 and 1873, travellers vanished along a lonely Kansas trail. The Bloody Benders is the true story of America's first known serial killer family. Reconstructed from historical records, newspaper archives, and modern criminological analysis. This is not folklore, this is history.