True Drama

BRITISH LEGAL HISTORY - The Fielding Brothers & Bow Street Runners - the early days and beginnings of policing in England with the infamous Fielding Brothers, the early Bow Street Runners, Robert Peel, Jerome Caminada, and other brutal crime fighters, covering highway robberies, gruesome murders, street crime and a host of dangerous attacks on society. A fascinating slice of legal history and nostalgia, featuring Victorian & Edwardian Manchester crime.

Whenever someone asks me what the most memorable tour was during my 15 years as a tour operator and tour guide, I never hesitate to say – this one – THE FLINDERS AND BIRDSVILLE TOUR. When I look back on it, I often wonder how we got away with it. This is a true story of a group of Kiwi Seniors on a bus trip through Outback Australia in 2008. The travelers survived, sadly the bus did not.

This is a book about Joe Ricci, a dangerous person who abused children at his adolescent treatment center in Maine, which made him and his partner Dr. Gerald Davidson millions of dollars during its three decades of operation. Ricci and Davidson also ran a harness racetrack in Maine where Ricci terrorized his employees, while running for governor of the state and manipulating the iconic news show 60 Minutes to broadcast a flattering profile of him. Author Maura Curley, a journalist and one time insider who handled the marketing for Ricci and Davidson's businesses, interviewed former ...

In the early hours of January 29, 2022, Boston police officer John O’Keefe was found dead beneath a blanket of snow outside a fellow officer’s home. His girlfriend, Karen Read, a respected analyst and educator, soon found herself accused of backing her car into him and leaving him to die. But was it a crime of passion—or a cover-up? "Snowfall and Lies: The Karen Read Mystery That Shook Massachusetts" dives deep into one of the most sensational and controversial trials in recent Massachusetts history. From suspicious police behavior and missing surveillance footage to shocking autopsy ...

Return to Cedar Hill, the first of the Hills of Burlington series, is the story of six contemporary women, family and friends of different generations yet drawn together at a time when they are all at a crossroads in their lives…and searching for something they’ve not yet found.In search of something she can’t quite put a name to Mary Lane returns to the place her family has called home for almost two hundred years. Some would say she was looking for a new beginning, and others who thought they knew her well would insist she was starting over. All that mattered to Mary was that she ...

In the quiet, close-knit town of Lake Redding, a sudden abduction shatters the community's calm. When seven-year-old Lacy Peters vanishes, her teenage cousin Blakely is left haunted by secrets that everyone in town seems to be hiding. As Blakely digs deeper into the mystery, she uncovers a web of lies that could unravel the town’s reputation and bring a long-buried truth to light. In a race against time, Blakely must piece together the clues before Lacy’s fate is sealed forever.

When Sasha’s son Simon vanishes, she teams up with Beth, a former FBI agent, to find him. Their investigation leads them to Tyler, a mysterious newcomer whose guarded behavior only deepens their suspicions. As they uncover a chilling pattern of boys aged 7 to 9 disappearing every December within a 100-mile radius, they also unravel the town’s tangled web of secrets and deception. In this tight-knit community, friends and neighbors harbor hidden motives and dark pasts, where trust becomes a luxury Sasha can't afford.

This is a fascinating, well-researched short-story collection of two sensational murders that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Catawba County, North Carolina, but made headlines around the world. The stories revolve around love, lust, jealousy and cold-blooded murder. White Beauty, Black Beast is the story of “Aunt Sarah” Eller Wycoff who served most of her life - more than 40 years - in North Carolina’s state penitentiary as an accessory to murder. She refused pardons from five governors that would have set her free and allowed her to go home. Three years before ...

Esta novela es una especie de True crime sin crime, una narración que podrás leer como la obra literaria que es, o bien como la radiografía de una experiencia particular. Lo que aquí leerás será una historia real: la mía. La de mi encuentro con el monstruo. De cómo me atrapó y cómo escapé de él. ¿Preparado para entrar en ella? Otras obras de la autora: -HERMANAS, nominada al premio Nadal 2024 -LOS OJOS DE LA MUERTE -ÁNGELA -LA CONDESA MUERTA -SEGUNDAS OPORTUNIDADES -TODO EL MUNDO ES GILIPOLLAS -LOS MUERTOS SÍ HABLAN -Saga SERES MALDITOS -DESPUÉS DE DIOS -CUENTOS PARA VAGOS

A gripping journey of a mother's relentless pursuit through danger and deceit to reclaim her missing son. In a gripping tale of courage and desperation, Annabelle's world spirals when her son Fergus is abducted. Teaming up with her husband Benny and best friend Barb, she embarks on a relentless quest for clues. Facing uncooperative local police, they turn to the FBI, uncovering chilling ties to Annabelle's past and a kidnapper driven by vengeance. With time against them, Annabelle forms an unlikely alliance with a mob boss, both united in a single mission. This intense story captures the ...

Annapolis Royal, 1755. When frontier tensions boil over, the people of Acadie find themselves caught between two warring empires. Hoping to remain neutral, the Acadians are shocked when the English government instead orders them rounded up and exiled, their lands forfeited and their homes burned. Torn from his family, his home destroyed, blacksmith Isaac Doiron is trapped in the infernal hold of a transport ship heading out to sea. Determined to reunite with his wife and son, he hungers for escape. When all hope seems lost, he meets a prisoner on board who will change the course of his life...

The book, Raised by God, tells the story of a girl born to a young woman with remarkable beauty. A few days after her birth, her Grandfather, a high school headmaster, went to register her birth. However, the registrar misspelt the child's surname on the document. When her parents discovered the error, they asked the grandfather to change it. He refused, saying, "Leave it as it is spelt in the document. The child is set apart from the rest." The girl's mother was saddened as it was her first child. However, the grandfather was the head and authority of the household, and everyone listened ...

A single night, a vanished child, and a hidden truth that turns desperation into a deadly game In this riveting abduction mystery, Chloe's world shatters when her daughter vanishes, dismissed by police as a custody issue. Driven by maternal instincts, she embarks on a frantic search, uncovering a personal vendetta against her by a ruthless predator. As Chloe battles against time and a psychopathic kidnapper, she's drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. This heart-stopping novel offers relentless suspense, a courageous heroine, and a villainous twist that will leave you breathless. ...

What if you could truly understand your child? For Patricia Miller, a mother on a mission, her son Ethan would have the baseball career she'd mapped out. But he was pulling away, their connection frayed by unspoken truths and the weight of her ambition. She feared she was losing him, but had no idea how to stop. Until an old, forgotten baseball unleashes an impossible magic. Patricia awakens in her son's teenage body, while Ethan himself has vanished. Now, the life she so fiercely controlled is controlling her. From disastrous physics tests to the startling reality of Ethan's secret dreams,...

She is my sworn enemy. She is the love of my life. I run the Margarelli crime family with an iron fist. But when the girl I used to love starts a bloody mob war, I can't stand the thought of fighting back. So I do the only thing I can do. I seduce her. I protect her. I fight for her. I want her and I want to save her. But having her in my bed is dangerous for both of us. I can handle that. The real danger is letting her into my heart. Black Hearted is a stand alone novel with no cheating and a guaranteed HEA! It exists in the same world as the Untouchables MC and the Devil's Riders series.

Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and unable to begin writing her next book, Delphine meets L. L. is the kind of impeccable, sophisticated woman who fascinates Delphine - a woman with smooth hair and perfectly filed nails and a gift for saying the right thing. Delphine finds herself irresistibly drawn to her, their friendship growing as their meetings, notes and texts increase. But L. begins to dress like Delphine, and, in the face of Delphine's crippling inability to write, L. even offers to answer her emails, and their relationship rapidly intensifies.

In Jonathan True's "Honorable Order of Drunken Liars," readers are transported into the midst of a unique writers' group that defies the challenges of the pandemic by convening in the familiar setting of a local bar. Led by the charismatic storyteller William S. Black, this eclectic group of wordsmiths gathers to share their tales, discuss life's intricacies, and find solace in each other's company during uncertain times. Against the backdrop of social distancing and safety precautions, the writers' group transforms the bar into a sanctuary of creativity and camaraderie. As they sit at a ...

Working at a little shop on Main Street in a small town is exactly the break that executive Merry Anna Foster needs following her divorce. She’s made a bet with her ex-husband that she can live on the amount of money she’s giving him in alimony. If she can do it, then Kevin will have to stop complaining and leave her alone. But after three months of this new life, will she even want to leave Antler Creek?

BASKING ON INSANITY BEACH Jock is in control, master of all he surveys. All his life he has tormented people, casting their damaged souls adrift in his wake. Now retired he has a new focus on life, as a self righteous Chairman of a Body Corporation that runs 36 Units in a little suburb call Beachview. With years of practised domestic espionage behind him he sets out to maliciously sabotage every tenant he dislikes. When will the forces of Karma finally accumulate enough to teach him his lesson? Has he trodden on enough toes to receive the retaliation he so richly deserves? Is mere vengeance...

Can Matt forgive the man who broke his heart and learn to trust him again, or has he already given him too many chances? Matt Jacobs has had a very bad day. First his boiler breaks down in the middle of his shower then he learns his beloved cat would rather live with his crotchety old neighbor. But while he’s in work, at a job he hates, a phone call from the hospital gives Matt the worst news of all—his father has just passed away. When the man he’s been ‘dating’ for the past five months tells him he’s getting married to a woman, Matt doesn’t know if he can take any more bad ...