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The bizarre true story of the world’s first hand transplant, the surgeons who made it happen, and the compulsive thief who got a new set of fingerprints—and took them on the lam. When surgeons completed the world’s first hand transplant in 1998, it was supposed to be a moment of triumph...

A powerful and personal memoir that tells the real story behind the headlines of how two people got caught up in a struggle against Putin’s regime – one that continues today. The photo of Alexander Litvinenko lying on his deathbed in November 2006, poisoned by polonium, caused shockwaves...

Julen står för dörren, men den fridfulla stämningen infinner sig aldrig. Kan Bella verkligen andas ut? Mannen som förföljde henne tros ha drunknat, men ingen kropp har hittats. Ett inbrottsförsök gör deras hem till en brottsplats. Och vem följer deras minsta steg i mörkret? Mitt i...

An intimate, shocking true story from the Parisian demi-monde of the 1960s, Murder in Paris ’68 evokes an era when the high-life and the low-life went hand in hand. It was a time when the French New Wave of cinema was taking the world by storm, a time of glamour, sports cars, casinos, and nightclubs—and at the heart of it all, the man of the moment, the enigmatic film star Alain Delon, dubbed "the most beautiful man in the world."

England, 1582: Weil sie den geforderten Lohn für eine Heilung nicht erhält, gerät die Heilerin Ursula Kemp in einen Streit mit ihrer Nachbarin. Kurz darauf bricht die Krankheit erneut aus. Es folgt eine Anzeige, ein erzwungenes Geständnis und schließlich der Scheiterhaufen. Dies ist nur ein Beispiel von vielen für die systematische Verfolgung von Hexen. Doch wie konnte aus banalstem Nachbarschaftsneid und oder Existenzsorgen eine systematische Verfolgung werden, der in Europa zehntausende Unschuldige zum Opfer fielen?

Hannes Liebrandt und Niklas Fischer führen uns anhand von zehn Fällen zu Tatorten von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, um diese Fragen zu klären. Wir erfahren, warum Alexander der Große einen seiner engsten Gefährten tötete, wie die Familie Medici Opfer zahlreicher Mordanschläge wurde und warum die Ungarin Elisabeth Báthory als »Blutgräfin« bekannt wurde.

Dubious ninja training. A scam religion. Swords, guns and homemade bombs. Extortion gone wrong. All cooked up in a cosy lounge room over a nice cuppa in Australia's least-likely-to-succeed capital, Hobart. Criminally Bad is journalist and comedian Claire Sullivan's deep dive into the...

There’s a point in every investigation where the information runs out, but the decision can’t wait. For more than 35 years, Glen McEwen operated at the highest levels of policing, leading complex investigations across Australia and the region. In Crime, Chaos and Controversy, he offers a...

The shocking story of corruption, violence and organised crime inside the CMFEU In 2024, the spotlight fell on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), and specifically the Victorian branch. Whistleblowers and witnesses pointed to the union's sinister links with outlaw...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and his daughter Morgan Olsen, the gripping true-crime story of America’s Lady Bluebeard—a seemingly ordinary wife accused of poisoning husband after husband, who very nearly got away with all of it. On a hot August afternoon in 1920 at...

One woman’s unlikely rise to the top of the professional blackjack world, mastering the art of advantage play while building an elite team to beat casinos at their own game. From an early age, Gina Fiore wanted to win. Her desire was borne from her family’s financial instability—countless...

From the murky corridors of power to the empty streets of our ghost estates, Frank Connolly exposes the Ireland that decades of corruption built. Drawing on fifteen years as an investigative journalist with The Sunday Business Post and the Irish Mail on Sunday, Connolly charts the scandals that...

The city pulled him in. The lie pulled him under. Undercurrent is a first-hand account of what happens when a police officer disappears into an undercover identity and stays there too long. Brisbane, mid-1990s. Jason Somerville is a young Queensland police officer who never planned on joining...

This is the story of a crime that reverberated around the world. The victim is a tree. For more than a century, the tree at Sycamore Gap stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Planted in the nineteenth century, it became an iconic local landmark. It was immortalised in the 1991 film...

A work of true crime following one American family’s search for the truth after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day, from acclaimed and bestselling author...

From the acclaimed author of American Sherlock and host of multiple true-crime podcasts—including her newest podcast, Buried Bones—this Audio Original tells the story of the infamous but relatively little-known Ratcliffe Highway Murders and the indelible print they left on literary and...

A sweeping and cinematic narrative history that follows Renoir’s La Petite Irène, tracing its theft from one of Paris’s wealthiest Jewish families during WWII and the fate of the girl it immortalized. “A vivid and deeply reported portrait of looted art, memory, and one family’s struggle...

You’ve never heard of Roman Ganzha. But if you lived or worked in America between 1997 and 2016, there’s a good chance he stole from you. The Spider King is the never-before-told true story of a Ukrainian child prodigy who became one of the most dangerous cybercriminals and real-world...

Brought to you by Penguin. Edinburgh, 1878. A medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle squeezes into the Royal Infirmary’s packed operating theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrated professor whose uncanny powers of observation blur the line between diagnosis and detective work...

The untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and...