This volume contains 360 real-life murder stories, arranged in diary form for the fascination of all true crime addicts.

From notorious killers like Crippen, Nilsen, the Kray twins, Florence Maybrick and Charles Manson to less infamous crimes of the 20th century and before, it is a catalogue of tragic, quirky, gory, ingenious, bungled and horrifying murders.

New Superintendent of the Virginia State Police, Judy Hammer is at her wits' end trying to protect the public from the politicians and vice versa. Amid the mayhem, an island off the coast declares UDI - claiming its independence lies with its first settlers - from London's Isle of Dogs.

Patricia Cornwell devides her time between Richmond, Virginia and New York. She has won numerous awards for her ground-breaking Dr Kay Scarpetta series. She has helped to establish the Virginia Institute of Forensic Sciene and Medicine and serves as its Chairman of the Board

A what-if thriller of chilling credibility from the author of Resurrection Day

It is the very near future. The American economy is in tatters, the US has been the cause of war between India and Pakistan and has become the worid's pariah state.
Drew, an ex-speciai forces operative, is sett[ing into civilian life with his lover, Sheila. But on a weekend break in the Appalachians, they shelter from a storm in a defence bunker, a bunker Dew realises is highly secret. And when Drew and Sheila are captured, it is not by the state but a group planning a coup, and when he puts that knowledge together with what he had seen in the bunker he knows they intend to destroy far more of America than its central government ...

'What if the American economy collapsed, determined that the only way back to greatness was to stage a military coup?'

For more than two decades, "Vanity Fair" has published Dominick Dunne's revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. The pursuit of justice has become his passion - a passion that began during the trial of the man who murdered Dunne's daughter and who was sentenced to six and a half years and released in less than three. Dunne's account of that trial and its shocking result is one of the many essays in this volume. Whether writing of Vicki Morgan's hideous death, Claus von Bulow's romp through two trials, or the media frenzy of Los Angeles in the age of O.J. Simpson, Dominick Dunne tells it from his unique perspective.

When a young girl law student is found brutally murdered, her outraged father accuses his daughter's arrogant professor of killing her. The professor hires attorney Casey Jordan to represent him, which she does successfully. But she is stunned to receive a confession from him after his acquittal.

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Believers in the theory of nominalism have set some Cambridge colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics, and Michael, the Senior Proctor, has his work cut out to keep the peace. Then a nominalist is murdered and his junior proctor, Walcote, is found hanged.
Matthew Bartholomew learns that Michael, his lifelong friend, is in at[ probability the thief who retieved one of the anti-nominalist colleges of some of their most precious papers. If that charge were proved it would put paid to Michael's long-term plans to become Master of Michaelhouse - but would he kit[ to protect himself? Matthew knows the only way he can quiet his own conscience is to solve the murders himself ...

When police question John Berger about the explosion that destroyed his office building, he recounts a vivid memory of playing in a chess tournament out of town. However, there is no record of any such tournament, and John quickly becomes a suspect - and begins to realise that his grasp on reality is nothing more than an illusion. He confides in the FBI agent assigned to investigate the explosion, and together, they uncover a terrorist operation involving brain washing - an operation in which Berger was a guinea pig. Now, the two must work against Berger's growing insanity to stop the devastating plan that threatens the nation.