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Marcel Berlins
Mute Justice
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Angela Tilby
Matricide Who Found God
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Lucy Moore
Honour among Thieves
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Margaret Forster
No Nearer an Answer
As If
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Colin Wilson
The Problem of Boredom in America
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Jerry Hayes
Liberal with the Truth
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
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Stephen Bates
Teenage Kicks
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
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Andrew Brown
With Evil Intent
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
By Asne Seierstad (Translated by Sarah Death)
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Simon Heffer
The Enemy Within
An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War
By Donald Thomas
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Tim Heald
Pub Idol
Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman
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Andrew Taylor
The Fraudulent Philanthropist
Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel
By David McKie
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Lilian Pizzichini
Lemon Squeezers
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
By John Dickie
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Deborah Bosley
Unfathomable Acts
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
By Helen Garner
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John Laughland
Who Are the Real Criminals?
Judgement Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
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Christopher Ondaatje
The Time of the Bodysnatchers
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
By Sarah Wise
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Cosmo Landesman
Pros & Cons
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
By Walter Kirn
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Andrew Lycett
Murder Most Fouled-Up
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
By Laura Thompson
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Andrew Lycett
Inspector Bucket Calls
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By Judith Flanders
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Christopher Ross
‘Like Goldman Sachs – With Guns’
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By Jake Adelstein
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Andrew Lycett
Day of the Detective
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House
By Kate Summerscale
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