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Costa Killer: The true story of the return of the Holloway Strangler

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:52:08 +0000

A teenage girl was found dead in 2003 on the Costa del Sol having gone missing on the night of a local fiesta. Her murder bore remarkable similarities to that of another teenage girl nearby four years previously, and the Spanish police slowly groped towards the awful possibility that they were dealing with a serial killer. The author obtained exclusive interviews with all those closely involved for this in-depth investigation of the case.

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The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook: An illustrated encyclopedia

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:53:42 +0000

An invaluable reference book, which brings together in one volume all the primary sources relating to the Whitechapel murders – official records, pathologists’ reports, witness statements, extracts from police notebooks, and the entire contents of the Scotland Yard files, covering the formal investigations in 1888 and the years that followed.

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Ruth Ellis: My sister’s secret life

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:54:13 +0000

In 1955, Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, was found guilty of murdering her boyfriend, David Blakely. Ruth’s sister, Muriel Jakubait, tells us that behind Ruth’s glamorous lifestyle, there was childhood abuse and cruel manipulation. In the shadows was Ruth’s jealous other lover, the controlling and duplicitous MI5 operative, Desmond Cussen. It was Cussen, who taught Ruth how to shoot and clean guns, plied her with alcohol, supplied her with the fateful weapon and drove her to the Hampstead pub, where Blakely was drinking. Ruth Ellis is a powerful story of deadly deception at the height of the Cold War.

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The Lost

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:08:06 +0000

Private investigator Harry Lind doesn’t believe in ghosts and so doesn’t think twice about the ramblings of a drunken old hack. Little Grace Harper went missing over twenty years ago and missing girls can’t just reappear…or can they? It takes a brutal murder to make him think again.

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The Pact: Time is running out for Eve and her brother

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:07:53 +0000

Eve, the 34-year-old daughter of recently deceased conman Alexander Weston, knows a good deal when she sees it – and this one doesn’t even come close. However, with her vulnerable brother Terry being beaten up in jail, she can’t afford to be fussy. She needs to organise protection for him. The intimidating con, Martin Cavelli, seems the perfect solution, but how high a price is he going to exact?

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The Debt: A novel of the London underworld

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:07:40 +0000

An anonymous phone call was all it took to alert the police to a body at lap-dancing club The Palace. Now, eighteen years later, Johnny Frank is coming out of jail with only one thing on his mind – to kill the man who put him there. But first he’s going to make him suffer…

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The Mammoth Book of Hollywood Scandals

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:26:18 +0000

Michelle Morgan tells the stories of Hollywood’s secrets, lies, murders, suicides and mysteries. 60 famous as well as near-forgotten scandals across almost 100 years of Hollywood’s history include the tragic account of Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle’s murder trial that ruined his life, the death of Lana Turner’s boyfriend, and on through to the present day, with the divorce of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the death of Whitney Houston and the love-triangle between Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie.

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Marilyn Monroe: Private and undisclosed

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:02:12 +0000

Michelle Morgan ran the UK Marilyn fan club for many years, and is probably the most knowledgeable person on the planet about her. Her special talent is to find people who knew Marilyn, but have never previously shared their memories and photographs, that is until the very persuasive author discovered them for her intimate and illuminating biography of the actress’s private and professional life.

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