New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Blake Pub
06 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Blake Pub
JAN-MARCH 06
Berry-Dee C & Morris S
Killers on the Web
Published February 2006 by Blake Pub at £17.99
ISBN: 1844541886
Evil roams the Internet just as it does even the most quiet of streets in the real world. World-renowned criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes an unflinching look into the darkest recesses of the world wide web and what he has unearthed will make you switch off your computer - for good. From cannibals ordering a human meal by email to mail-order brides whose quest for better lives end in grisly murder, this is the only guide you need to avoid the perils of the online world. With years of experience in understanding the criminal mind, Berry-Dee rigorously analyses how the ease of access to the most depraved of materials on the net has fed the imagination of the world's sickest fiends. From the bondage festishist who killed an innocent acquaintance to the girl who learned how to commit suicide from the web, these all-true stories will shock you to your core.
Steven Morris is editor of The New Criminologist, and a true crime consultant and programme researcher for numerous TV documentaries. He has immense knowledge of serial homicide, the psychology and causation of serial murder, offender profiling, and internet crime and predation in all its varied forms.
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David Blackie
Death on a Summer’s Day
Published January 2006 by Blake Pub at £17.99
ISBN: 1844541908
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"Death on a Summer's Day" tells the extraordinary story of one of the most appalling and shocking public executions ever to take place in Britain. The only ever murder to be recorded live by dozens of journalists and TV crew members, the tragic assassination of innocent Town Planner, Harry Collinson by embittered and deranged landowner, Albert Dryden, shocked a nation and led to a national media frenzy in which opinions were strongly divided about whether or not it was a case of simple murder or if more was afoot - a support group for the murderer was even formed! At last, author David Blackie, who witnessed the crime and was consulted by the police about the case as a firearms expert, tells the full story from both sides. Also included is an exhaustive interview with Albert Dryden, who is serving a life-sentence for murder in Britain's toughest jails. This is a staggering, shocking and moving book that leaves readers to draw their own conclusions about one of Britain's most famous murders. Essential true crime reading.
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Wensley Clarkson
Kenny Noye: Public Enemy No 1
Pbk published February 2006 by Blake Pub at £6.99
ISBN: 1844541932
Kenneth Noye is a criminal mastermind and millionaire. The man at the top of organised crime in Britain fled the country after the murder of young motorist Stephen Cameron on the M25. His extradition from Spain caused banner headlines across the country. This book contains sensational material that could never be published until now: information on Noye's criminal dealings, the sinister truth of his life of crime. Bestselling investigative journalist Wensley Clarkson has penetrated the inner sanctum of Noye's closest family and criminal associates to paint a chilling portrait of a brilliant master criminal. Fully updated for the paperback, Clarkson details exactly how Noye continues to control his extensive criminal empire from behind bars.
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Wensley Clarkson
Killing Charlie
Pbk published February 2006 by Blake Pub at £7.99
ISBN: 1845960351
The Bloody, Bullet-riddled Hunt for
the Most Powerful Great Train Robber of All.
"Killing Charlie" charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular fall of Charlie Wilson, the most powerful villain to emerge from the ultimate British crime of the twentieth century: "The Great Train Robbery". Wilson moved on from armed robbery to become an all-powerful figure in the drug underworld. But his life of greed and corruption came to a violent end when his rivals decided to wipe him off the face of the earth - with the tacit approval of Spanish, British and US drug enforcement agencies. Meticulously researched, "Killing Charlie" pulls the reader into Wilson's bizarre, sordid, crime-filled world - one that took him from the mean streets of south London to even harsher prison corridors, and from a quiet life in small-town Canada to the heated, manic, cocaine-fuelled Costa del Sol. Containing interviews with many of Wilson's former associates, the book also reveals how Wilson was feared by many other criminals; how his love of pretty women almost cost him his life; and how he desperately tried to 'retire', only to discover the inevitable - that gangsters never rest in peace.
Wensley Clarkson is a investigative journalist and the author of many other true crime books, including Killer On The Road, Bindon, Whatever Mother Says, Hit ’Em Hard and Moody. He has also written screenplays and television documentaries and his books have sold more than a million copies in 17 countries worldwide.
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Steven Fielding
Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners
Published February 2006 by Blake Pub at £17.99
ISBN: 1844541924
For fifty five years, generations of the Pierrepoint family served as fearsome hangmen in England. The dynasty began in 1901 with Henry Pierrepoint. He was followed into the gruesome profession by his brother Thomas and in time, his eldest son Albert. Between them, they carried out an amazing 900 executions. This book recounts the lives and tales of the Pierrepoint family; their reasons for taking up the profession and the inside details of the execution cases and the deeds themselves. Insight is shed on the feuds and intense rivalry between fellow hangmen as well as the notorious cases that kept the family firmly in the spotlight. With extracts from diaries and comments on the families representation in the media, this book provides a fascinating look at a profession that is long gone, but certainly not forgotten.
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Sandra Lee
A Crime of Passion
Pbk published January 2006 by Blake Pub at £6.99
ISBN: 1844541894
An incredible addition to the Blake True Crime Library, "A Crime of Passion" is the shocking true story of Katherine Knight and her crimes - the ritual slaying of her partner for a cannibal feast.
Knight, a 44-year-old abattoir worker, stabbed father-of-three John Price 37 times, skinned his body, cooked his head, and served him up as a meal for his children in a heinous act that rocked her town and chilled the world to the bone. Drawing on numerous first hand accounts, and a detailed assessment of Kathy's personal life, this is an incredibly disturbing profile of normality twisted out of all recognition into the dark world of the remorseless psychopath.
"A Crime of Passion" offers a fascinating insight into the true motivation behind such a grotesque act and is a horrifying story of love, lust, revenge and murder - all the more shocking for every word is true.
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James Morton
Gangster Speak Dictionary of Criminal and Sexual Slang.
Pbk published January 2006 by Blake Pub at £6.99
ISBN: 0753510731
This is a dictionary for the Dave Courtney market. An Aladdin's cave of criminal slang as spoken in the UK, America and Australia. If you're scratching or set tripping, if you're viper mad or coming heavy, if the ming are on the wing and you've no idea what any of this means, then you need "Gangster Speak". From the shocking to the ridiculous, "Gangster Speak" contains over 2,500 linguistic gems. Did you know: ghosting is the practice of transferring a troublesome prisoner to another establishment during the night without warning; a hobbit is a prisoner who complies with or sucks up to the system; to put on armour means to layer oneself with magazines to deflect knife wounds in a prison fight; hooch is from the Native American hoocheno and means 'illicit liquor'; and a Bernie is a victim who might be armed and prepared to use a weapon, after Bernard Goetz who killed a robber on the subway. Providing a useful guide to the nicknames of criminals, as well as fascinating word histories and multiple definitions for different uses of a word around the globe, with "Gangster Speak" you'll never be lost for words.
James Morton gained his knowledge of criminal slang whilst working as a solicitor. He is author of the popular Gangland series as well as several books with Mad Frankie Fraser.
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Norman Parker
Life After Life
Pbk published January 2006 by Blake Pub at £7.99
ISBN: 1844542211
Norman Parker has spent over half his life in prison. A double murderer, he mixed at close quarters with some of Britain's most hardened criminals: the Krays, the Richardsons and the Great Train Robbers. After 24 continuous years in prison he was finally released, into a world that had changed more than he could have imagined. But life on the outside was tough, as Norman re-established himself not only as a bestselling author, but also as a face on the underworld crime scene. Then the one thing happened that he had been waiting for in all the years he had been inside - he fell hopelessly, desperately in love. The relationship was a fiery and tempestuous one, and one destined to end in disaster. Her life was fuelled by an overpowering drug habit that led them to associate with the dark underbelly of London life. Then, in a cruel twist of fate, she became victim to suicide pact serial-killer. What happened next almost defies belief...
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Jeremy Pudney
The Bodies in Barrels Murders
Pbk published February 2006 by Blake Pub at £7.99
ISBN: 1844542076
It was the biggest and most grisly case in criminal history. When bodies were discovered hidden in barrels in 1999 in South Australia, Jeremy Pudney was one of the first journalists to cover the case that stunned the entire world. Now, using his years of experience as a police reporter for the Adelaide Advertiser and Network Ten, Pudney pieces together the complete story of the Snowtown murders. Not only does he investigate the lives of the convicted men but he delves deeper, revealing a complex social web that enabled them not only to claim 12 victims but also to conceal their crimes for a long time. What he has discovered will undoubtedly shock, as he takes an unflinching look at one of the most terrifying series of brutal and senseless slayings ever unearthed. Not every detail was made public at the time and the book is packed with exclusive information never before seen.
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Sue Williams
And Then the Darkness - Peter Falconio & Trials Joanne Lees
Published January 2006 by Blake Pub at £17.99
ISBN: 184454267X
Story of the Disappearance of Peter Falconio & Trials of Joanne Lees.
Two young English tourists watch a glorious Australian Outback sunset, and are waylaid in the middle of nowhere by a predatory stranger. There’s a single gunshot, and then the darkness …
Hours later, Joanne Lees is found wandering the highway, cut and bleeding, her hands bound together and tape matted in her hair. Her boyfriend Peter Falconio seems to have vanished into thin air, leaving behind only a pool of blood on the side of the road.
Joanne's account of her ordeal — the apparent murder of her lover, her capture at gunpoint, and her miraculous escape from the back of her attacker’s 4WD into the bush — sparked a frenzy of media interest and
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