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The compelling memoir from the UK's most eminent forensic scientist and some of the most fascinating criminal investigations she has worked on.

Never before has criminal justice rested so heavily on scientific evidence. With ever-more sophisticated and powerful techniques at their disposal, forensic scientists have an unprecedented ability to help solve even the most complex cases. 

This is the true story of the greatest special forces' operation of the 20th Century and the first shot in the West's long war against international terrorism. It is a tale of human drama and unbearable tension in which courage, comradeship, fanaticism, incompetence and luck all play their part.

This deeply personal book not only shows the human cost of political failure but explains how short-sighted encouragement of jihadis to fight the Russians, followed by prosecution of ill-thoughtout wars, has resulted in the spread of terrorism throughout the Islamic world.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.

Based on the best part of a decade embedded with the homicide units of the LAPD, this groundbreaking work of reportage takes us onto the streets, inside the homes and into the lives of a community wracked by a homicide epidemic.

This is an emotive story which tells the tale of a small town community shattered by a brutal crime, and concludes with the execution of McGladdery, the last man hanged in Northern Ireland.

Crimes of the Century provides a stunning single volume visual record of many of the most memorable British crimes of the twentieth century. Packed with 250 fascinating photographs, many of them previously unpublished, this book will provide a unique insight into British criminality. All of life is here: passion, cruelty, stupidity, obsession, love and selfishness.

30 inside stories of the American Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and others. Images of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific - what is the reality? Investigative journalist Roger Wilkes has put together the largest ever collection of insider stories from prominent ex-mafiosi, infiltrators and award-winning writers.

Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s.

The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty

This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since 1969, and most of them have died at the hands of their neighbours.