Colonial Crimes

When Tiffany and Rosie travel to a colonial-themed town, they suspect the business manager might be engaging in some unethical practices... ... but they stumble into a murder instead. Who could've killed the much-disliked "town governor"? As secrets are unveiled, tensions rise, and the duo find themselves scrambling to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again... Praise for A.R. Winters: "The perfect balance of being lighthearted, but still a serious page-turning mystery." - Jaycie D, Amazon.com "A fun cozy mystery with engaging and entertaining characters" - lq, Amazon.com "For ...

Crime and Custom in Colonial Society brings together, for the first time in a single volume, the complete stories from In Court and Kampong and In Days That Are Dead by Hugh Clifford—newly introduced and contextualized by Graeme Newman for modern readers. Set in British Malaya at the height of empire, these vivid and often unsettling narratives explore a world where radically different systems of law, morality, and social obligation collide. In the kampong villages, life is governed by custom, kinship, and deeply rooted traditions. In the colonial courts, British officials impose formal ...

GERMANY’S COLONIAL REPORT CARD Genocide, Empire and the Forgotten German Legacy in Africa Germany’s African empire lasted only a few decades. But within that short time, it produced some of the most brutal episodes in colonial African history. From the Herero and Nama genocide in Namibia to the scorched-earth destruction of the Maji Maji rebellion in East Africa, Germany’s colonies became laboratories of: racial ideology, militarized rule, forced labor, concentration camps, and imperial violence. Why has this history remained so forgotten compared to other colonial empires? Did German...

A revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically undermined by the United States. "Fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas." —NPR "A triumph of archival research." —Jacobin In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the...

The bushrangers of colonial Australia represent one of history's most compelling stories of resistance, survival, and the collision between individual defiance and state power. This modern reader's edition tells the hidden story behind the legend—not merely recounting famous robberies and dramatic pursuits, but exploring the complex ecosystem that sustained the outlaws: the women who sheltered them, the communities that protected them, the Aboriginal trackers who hunted them, the sympathiser networks that made survival possible. You will encounter: Michael Howe, the first bushranger, ...

A vanished necklace. A luxurious train. And a murder that shatters the calm of paradise. Siam, 1939. When French detective Jacqueline Bodin boards the elegant Southern Royal Railway Line with her charming companion Lucien Dubois, she expects an unforgettable journey through Southeast Asia. But beneath the glittering surface of champagne glasses and refined company, dark secrets are waiting to emerge. A priceless pearl necklace disappears. A sudden rail disruption forces the elite passengers into the majestic Royal Railway Hotel. Then, a shocking murder rocks the colonial halls—and it ...

Early twentieth-century Singapore is a place where a person can disappear, and Harriet Gordon hopes to make a new life for herself there, leaving her tragic memories behind her--but murder gets in the way. Singapore, 1910--Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her...

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 ...

The convicts were sent away as Britain’s problem. They became part of Australia’s foundation. The Convict Nation tells the story of the transported men and women who helped shape early Australia through punishment, labour, survival, resistance, and reinvention. Britain sent convicts across the world to remove them from sight, punish them by distance, and use their labour in a new imperial settlement. But once they arrived in New South Wales, their story changed. They became workers, servants, road builders, domestic labourers, mothers, fathers, runaways, rebels, ticket holders, ...

Australia has always had a complicated relationship with authority. Few figures reveal that more clearly than the bushranger. The Bushrangers: Outlaws, Police and the Making of the Australian Legend tells the story of the armed horsemen who haunted colonial roads, robbed coaches, challenged police, terrified victims and later became part of Australia’s national mythology. This is not a romantic tribute to outlaws. Bushrangers were criminals, and many were violent men whose victims were ordinary travellers, workers, storekeepers, troopers and families. But their story cannot be understood ...

Mary Bryant was not meant to survive. Convicted in England and transported to the brutal new penal colony of New South Wales, she faced a life of hardship, hunger, and confinement at the edge of the known world. Instead, she attempted the unthinkable. In 1791, Mary Bryant, her husband, their children, and fellow convicts stole a small open boat and sailed more than 3,000 miles along the unforgiving Australian coastline in one of the most extraordinary escape attempts in penal history. This narrative true-crime biography traces her journey from Cornwall to transportation, from Sydney Cove to...

Crime is rampant as the Gold Rush sweeps through the vast Australian colony. Highways are threatened by roving gangs of bandits known as BUSHRANGERS. For two years from 1878, the northeast of Victoria crawled with policemen looking for the Kelly Gang led by Edward “Ned” Kelly. During this period Kelly told his story via several long letters penned during his chase.

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. This act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the definition of justice in early America. Leading historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, bringing us into the overlapping worlds of white colonists and Indigenous peoples in this formative period.

ITALY’S COLONIAL REPORT CARD Fascism, Empire and the African Experience Italy’s empire in Africa was built on dreams of glory, Roman revival and fascist power. But behind the propaganda of “civilization” stood: concentration camps, chemical warfare, forced labor, racial segregation, and brutal colonial repression. From the deserts of Libya to the mountains of Ethiopia, Italian colonialism became one of the clearest examples of how fascism and empire could merge into systems of organized violence. Why did Fascist Italy invade Ethiopia? Why has Italy’s colonial history remained less...

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection Postcolonial Love Poem, the brilliant second collection from Natalie Diaz, holds...

The Colonial Parkway Murders - the name given eight murders that took place in the Tidewater region in the late 1980s, two of which were on the historic Colonial Parkway, the nation’s narrowest National Park. Young people in the prime of their lives were the targets. But the pattern that stitched this special kind of evil together was more like a spider web of theory, intrigue, and mathematics. Then, mysteriously, the killing spree stopped. Now, father-daughter true crime authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester blow the dust off of these cases.

*Shortlisted for best audiobook at the True Crime Awards 2026* In this groundbreaking new book from the UK's leading criminologist, David Wilson explores what our nation's most lethal murderers reveal about us in a thrilling blend of history and true crime. Professor David Wilson is renowned for...

In keeping with the Akashic Noir series tradition, each story in Boston Noir is set in a different neighborhood of the city - the impressively diverse collection extends from Roxbury to Cambridge, from Southie to the Boston Harbor, and all stops in between. Lehane's own contribution - the longest story in the volume - is set in his beloved home neighborhood of Dorchester and showcases his phenomenal ability to grip the heart, soul, and throat of the reader.

A quick historical look at murder most foul in the Virginia of colonial times and the early Republic. Behind the facade of graceful mansions and quaint cobblestone streets evil lurks. A general look at crime, followed by four prominent murders from the period 1766-1806: (1) Ambrose Madison: The Master Slave Relationship, (2) Colonel John Chiswell: The Celebrity Murderer, (3) Richard Randolph: The Love Triangle, and (4) George Wythe: Family Matters.

In the 1820s, Cuban is still a colony of the Spanish Crown. Slavery is illegal, and yet it persists. There is constant tension between the colonists, the slaves and the corrupt Spanish officials. To make matters worse, there are Vampires in Habana and Werewolves in La Palma. Our narrator Ambrosio has just started med school. All he wants is to graduate, to return to his simple life in the countryside. Ever since he discovered that he was a dhampir, his life has become anything but simple. Vampires and werewolves have become part of his everyday reality. Follow Ambrosio as he tries to ...