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The disturbing, criminal history of Britain?s ?World Capital City of Pop?-home of murderers, thieves, bodysnatchers... and The Beatles. The city of Liverpool, England, was like every other city energized by the Victorian boon in industry and trade. It is best known today as the home of the British Invasion and music that changed the world. But Liverpool?s history has a less harmonious side, and a dark past that reaches...
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John Blake
Pub. Date
2021
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What does it take to catch a predator who has terrorised southeast England for over fifteen years? Delroy Grant - dubbed the Night Stalker - was one of the nation's most wanted men, a shocking sex predator. During his seventeen-year reign of fear, he established a clear MO. Visit a target at night. Remove a window pane and slide in. Unscrew the lightbulbs. Cut the power. Rip out the telephone wires. Tiptoe to the bedroom. Wake the victim by shining...
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2020
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The only full-length study of Charles Sobrhaj - one of the world's greatest conmen, and notorious serial killers. Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world?s great con men, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up with a fluid sense of identity, moving to France before being imprisoned and stripped of his multiple nationalities. Driven to floating...
7) House arrest
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Chronicle Bks
Pub. Date
2015
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A story in verse which follows a year in the life of a boy under house arrest for stealing a credit card in order to buy the medicine his sickly brother needs.
8) Clutch
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Walker Bks
Pub. Date
2023
Description
The birdwatching detectives set out to catch an egg thief that has moved into Aves Wood, especially when Twitch becomes the prime suspect.
9) Wrecked
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Guppy Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2020
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After becoming involved in a fatal accident, two teenagers' long-term relationship begins to unravel.
10) Superhero Max
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Ladybird
Pub. Date
2015
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A boy with boots that make him fly has to stop a lady criminal after she stole his boots to escape from a bank.
11) The Agathas
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Oneworld Publications Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
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Alice and Iris become detectives to uncover just how many secrets their seaside town is hiding.
13) The special ones
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Egmont Books
Pub. Date
2016
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A girl tries to escape from an isolated cult and the psychopath who runs it.
14) Day 7
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Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
2017
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Martha must try and save Isaac who is now incarcerated in the very cell she has been released from.
20) Family of liars
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Hot Key Books
Description
The prequel to 'We were liars' with a story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.