What's new? Our selectors have hand-picked the top new additions to the Christchurch City Libraries collection for espionage, crime, murder, and everything in between.
This book reexamines the infamous Crippen Murder through the perspectives of three women: Dr. Crippen's first wife Charlotte, his mistress Ethel, and Belle Elmore, whose death propelled the case, offering a fresh, multifaceted view of their lives…
A propulsive and moving memoir about a brother's decades-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding his sister's tragic death-and his own journey to forgiveness and closure that took him from the streets of Pittsburgh to the hills of San…
For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell unearths the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia. No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depravities of Louis…
Nature has given us a messy, imperfect world, but her job is to help make sense of it when we need it to most. A pioneer of forensic ecology - using the natural world to help solve crimes - Patricia has been involved in some of the most high-profile…
Mapping out the world's most infamous art thefts, forgeries, and acts of vandalism, this unique and visually striking reference illuminates acts of art crime around the globe. This book highlights seventy-five incidents in a unique format that…
London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in…
When his identical twin brother Simon was kicked to death, all Nick Dawson felt for the killers was hatred. Struggling in a world where his mirror image had vanished, he came to realise there was only one way to stop the torture - acceptance. Now a…
Troubled waters hide deadly secrets... When Nathan Carman, a young man with a complicated past, is miraculously rescued from a lifeboat bobbing in the unforgiving North Atlantic, questions swirl about the fate of his mother, who is presumed to have…
The definitive history of Russia's most secret spy programme, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. Shaun Walker brings…
Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting place-the home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of more than two dozen missing teenage boys hinted at a dark undercurrent that would go ignored for too long. While their siblings and…
In a quiet little town in northern France, an improbable sequence of events takes place which will go on to transform completely the struggle against organised crime in Europe. It all starts when the French cybercrime police hacks into an encrypted…
In June 1990, Ronald Baker, a straight-A UCLA student, was found repeatedly stabbed to death in a tunnel near Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and his followers once lived. Shortly thereafter, Detective Rick Jackson and his partner, Frank Garcia,…
In 'Legacy of Menace', Bobby opens up on what he went through at the hands of the Krays and the police, how his economy with the truth was his attempt to protect his brothers, and why he vanished, fearful of gangland retribution, when he was…
From the Mediterranean to the English Channel, the Rio Grande to Thailand, at any moment there are over 280 million people attempting to emigrate. While most migrants take legal channels, those outside the system represent financial potential for…
It is difficult to imagine a more heinous crime than the sexual abuse of children. Yet, terrifyingly, a new case of child sexual abuse is reported every seven minutes. In response to this crisis, self-appointed groups of citizens are fashioning…
