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She was trusted with society’s most vulnerable. What she did instead shocked Victorian England. In the shadowed streets of 19th-century Britain, where poverty and desperation left countless women with impossible choices, one figure lurked behind a façade of compassion. Amelia Dyer, known as the baby farmer, offered relief to desperate mothers — for a price. What followed was one of the most chilling true crime stories in history.

A woman with a gun. A federal conviction. A sentence the system could not sustain. In 1899, Pearl Hart took part in one of the last stagecoach robberies in the American West. The crime was brief, poorly planned, and quickly punished. What followed was not. Convicted under federal law and sent to Yuma Territorial Prison, Hart became an administrative problem the justice system had not prepared for: a notorious female offender confined inside an institution built for men. Within months, the punishment imposed with public certainty began to unravel behind the scenes. The Stagecoach Robbery is ...

In October 1888, a gunshot shattered the fragile order of a young frontier town. When a North-West Mounted Police constable forced his way into a notorious Edmonton brothel, the woman behind the door refused to yield. The shot that followed wounded a Mountie—and exposed a system built on tolerated vice, selective enforcement, and silence. Big Nelly Webb, a madam operating at the edges of legality, became the centre of a public scandal that threatened police authority, unsettled civic respectability, and forced a courtroom to confront an uncomfortable truth: sometimes the law is the danger...

Darya Saltykova was a Russian noblewoman who exercised near-absolute authority over the people bound to her estates. For years, violence unfolded within that private world, sustained by serfdom, silence, and a system that treated suffering as an internal matter. In The Lady of the Estate, Alana Sanchez examines Saltykova’s case not as an isolated act of cruelty, but as a study of private power. Drawing on petitions, legal process, and the political context of Catherine II’s Russia, this book traces how abuse persisted, why intervention was delayed, and how punishment ultimately served ...

Florence Cook was a teenager when her name became evidence. In Victorian England, séances promised proof of life after death. Cabinets were built, conditions negotiated, and belief tested under dim light. At the centre of one of the era’s most disputed cases stood Florence Cook, a young medium whose performances drew the attention of scientist William Crookes—and ignited a controversy that would never fully close. This book examines the Florence Cook case as historical true crime: not as ghost story, and not as spectacle, but as an investigation into procedure, reputation, power, and ...

A nun who fled enclosure. A soldier who crossed oceans. A case that forced power to decide. Born in early seventeenth-century Spain and raised within convent walls, Catalina de Erauso escaped a life of enclosure and moved through the Spanish Empire under a male identity. She worked, travelled, fought, and survived in worlds governed by violence, honour, and rigid social control—until repeated conflict and custody brought her life under institutional scrutiny. The Lieutenant Nun reconstructs Catalina’s life as a historical case, following the points where private survival collided with ...

In the glittering shadow of Louis XIV’s Versailles, whispers travel faster than truth—and in the backstreets of Paris, a quiet trade promises desperate people what the law cannot: outcomes. At the centre of the scandal stands Catherine Monvoisin—La Voisin—midwife, fortune-teller, fixer. As sudden deaths multiply and rumours of powders and secret consultations reach the highest salons, the Crown unleashes an extraordinary tribunal to drag a hidden market into the light. Told in a gripping, reader-driven narrative, La Voison: The Affair of the Poisons traces the rise and fall of the ...

In 1890 London, Phoebe Hogg is a young wife and mother trying to survive the soot, the rent, and a marriage that offers little safety. Then she vanishes—and her name is swallowed by a scandal the city can’t stop consuming. At the centre stands Mary Pearcey: the “other woman,” a figure the newspapers are eager to turn into a monster. A pram, a jealous narrative, and a courtroom hungry for certainty propel the case toward a verdict that satisfies the public… but leaves haunting questions behind. Phoebe Hogg: A Life in the Shadows retells the Hampstead case through the woman history ...

The Angel Makers of Nagyrév were a group of women accused of poisoning husbands and relatives with arsenic in rural Hungary. As suspicious deaths mounted, investigators exhumed bodies and discovered poison in the remains. Arrests and trials followed between 1929 and 1931, shocking the world. Arsenic Village is a verified true crime account of the Nagyrév poisonings—how it happened, how it spread, and how the state finally responded.

Darling thought the curse that once claimed her had been broken. She was wrong. Pregnant and newly married, Darling begins to still again — not as a relapse, but as an evolution. As her body slows, the world around her adapts. Mannequins move when necessary. Silence becomes communication. Protection becomes instinct. As external pressure closes in and the past resurfaces, Darling, her husband John, their friend Ben, and the creations she brought into the world must act as a single system — not driven by fear, but by care. Inheritance of Stillness is a quiet, unsettling novel about love ...

This book delves into the notorious true crime case of Kate Webster. Kate was a Victorian-era domestic servant who turned to murder.

In a world where women were caregivers, where death among the poor was expected. Mary Ann Cotton became respectable. She was a nurse, a wife, a mother. And while she comforted, she poisoned. Arsenic and Respectability is a precise, unnerving portrait of a society where poisoning was easier concealed than suspected.

The true story of Belle Gunness, America's most deadly female serial killer. To her neighbours, in early 1900's Indiana, Belle Gunness seemed like a pious widow searching for a new husband on her secluded farm. In truth, she was luring unsuspecting men from across the country with promises of love. Her name was Belle exposes the brutal yet gripping reality of a woman who murdered without remorse - in a case more terrifying than fiction.

She's trapped in twelve solitary hours of violence. Trapped in her Mannequin form during the day, and hunting men at night. Only love will break her curse.

In a quiet Italian town, a woman opens a small shop. She sells soap. She offers advice. She listens. And three women disappear. The Soap Maker is a chilling true-crime novel about the life of Leonarda Cianciulli, the woman history would later reduce to a grotesque nickname "The Soap Maker Of Correggio"

This book examines the lives of poor women who came before Victorian courts, not merely as offenders, but as problems the law struggled to understand.

After working in the hospitality industry all his life, Aaron had seen and endured so much abuse of power and people that the pleasure the industry used to give to him was gone, replaced with anger and resentment. What he thought he could never do finally happened. His fantasies of getting revenge finally came to the surface, and he decided to create a cookbook of recipes—recipes for revenge.

Colin Bott is a middle-aged man who loses his job as an unsuccessful letting agent, and discovers how to speak at funeral services as a Celebrant. When attending the funeral of his boss’s wife, Colin discovers the service is being conducted by a non-religious person – a Celebrant. He is intrigued by this, and on losing his job, and several new job disasters, he decides that becoming a Celebrant is the job for him.