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In the 1840s, the workhouse was the centre of Britain’s response to poverty. This book tells the story of one such institution — Southwell Workhouse — during a single Victorian decade, when the New Poor Law was working exactly as intended. Based entirely on contemporary records, this is not a novel and not a work of fiction. It reconstructs daily life inside the workhouse through its own rules, registers, and reports: admission, classification, routine, labour, diet, punishment, illness, authority, and exit. Families were separated, work was enforced, hunger was regulated, and decline...

In late-Victorian London, Minnie Pheby became a scandal: a young woman accused of burglary at a time when breaking into houses was considered a man’s crime. Branded by the press as the “lady burglar”, she was hunted, punished, and turned into a cautionary tale. Catwoman of West London reconstructs her story from surviving records — and reveals what her crimes exposed about class, gender, and the fragile promise of the Victorian home.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.