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‘More chilling than a horror film and more thought-provoking than an HBO doc … I Will Find You is at once hard to read and even harder to put down’ CosmopolitanA hard-hitting memoir about a woman’s search to understand the man who raped herJoanna Connors was thirty years old when she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger.After this horrifying trauma, she became afraid of everything – flying, driving, travelling in a car while someone else drove. She had children, but hovered over them constantly, terrified about what might happen to them as well. Then, when her daughter was sixteen,…

Following the recent death of Charles Manson – the leader of the sinister 60s cult – Dianne Lake reveals the true story of life with Manson and his ‘family’, who became notorious for a series of shocking murders during the summer of 1969.In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious criminals and life as one of his “girls.”At age…

‘A must read’ Gillian FlynnOne night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this terrible crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades.In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patrick Radden Keefe offers not just a forensic account of a brutal crime but a vivid portrait of the world in which it happened. The tragedy of an entire country is captured in the spellbinding narrative of a handful of characters, presented in…

A tale of survival and freedom, Stolen Innocence is the story of one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her life.In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at the age of fourteen. This harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of the lengths to which Jeffs went in order to control the sect’s women.Now, in this…

A ‘MAKING A MURDERER’ set in South Africa – a gripping true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheidIn 1993, in the final, fiery days of apartheid, a 26-year-old white American activist called Amy Biehl was murdered by a group of young black men in a township near Cape Town. Four men were tried and convicted of the murder and sentenced to eighteen years in prison. A few years later they had been freed. Two of the men were subsequently employed by Amy’s parents to work at a charity set up in her memory. The men grew close to the Biehls. They called them…

Лето 1945 года. За короткий срок в Москве совершено четыре похожих убийства. Все жертвы, мужчины примерно одного возраста, убиты точным ударом ножа в шею и ограблены. Сыщики МУРа Иван Старцев и Александр Васильков уверены, что искать нужно матерого преступника, имеющего специальную подготовку. Не исключено, что это фашистский…

Анита и Алекс Максимовы приехали в Испанию – на родину Аниты, чтобы поддержать в трудный час ее сестру-близнеца Кончиту. И оказались в гуще таинственных и опасных событий: в тихом городке под Мадридом действуют неуловимые бандиты, цели которых непонятны, а методы внушают страх. Явления призраков, ночные налеты, поджоги,…

Новое увлечение появилось у молодежи города Североеланска: и студенты, и молодые чиновники, и даже барышни из благородных семей, подпоясавшись специальными кушаками, лазают по скалам. И никто из них не знает, что в облюбованном ими Черном Городище скрывается целая банда… Она хорошо организована, ею руководит человек…