5 Top biography books like The Krays: The Prison Years by David Meikle

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The Krays: The Prison Years

By: David Meikle

4.01

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In the 60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were Britain’s most notorious gangsters. With violence and intim…

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1. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.07

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tor… read more

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"I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may …"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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2. Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen

By: Brian Masters

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

On February 9th 1983 Dennis Nilsen was arrested at his Muswell Hill home, after human remains had b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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3. I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

By: Neil Strauss , Kevin Hart

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart tu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

4. The Liar (Eddie Flynn #3)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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5. The Glass Room (Vera Stanhope, #5)

By: Ann Cleeves

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied… read more

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6. Eye For An Eye

By: M.J. Arlidge

4.09

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

RIGHT OR WRONG? Only nine criminals in the UK have been granted lifelong anonymity. Their crimes … read more

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  • crime
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7. Pure Evil

By: Lynda La Plante

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

ALL KILLERS WANT TO MAKE THE FRONT PAGE . . . The brilliantly gripping new thriller from the Que… read more

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  • crime
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8. The Guilty Couple

By: C.L. Taylor

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Five years ago, Olivia Sutherland was wrongfully convicted of plotting to murder her husband. No… read more

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  • crime
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9. The Girls Who Disappeared

By: Claire Douglas

3.90

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

A journalist's life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that… read more

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  • crime
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10. The Death Watcher (Robert Hunter, #13)

By: Chris Carter

4.46

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

Pre-order the 13th chilling and adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller, from the #1 Sunday Times … read more

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  • crime
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11. Truly Madly Deadly (DCI Kett #15)

By: Alex Smith

4.66

Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition

Love Can Be Murder… It’s Valentine’s Day, and DCI Robert Kett and the Extreme Crime Task Force … read more

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  • crime
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12. An Almost Perfect Holiday

By: Lucy Diamond

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Almost Perfect Holiday is a warm and witty story of friendship, family and hope, by the Sunday T… read more

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13. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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14. A Rose Petal Summer

By: Katie Fforde

3.65

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE... Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland… read more

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15. Liar

By: Lesley Pearse

3.90

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Amelia White dreamed of being a reporter, but the closest she'd come was selling advertising in the… read more

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  • crime
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16. The Burning Girls

By: C.J. Tudor

4.02

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

An unconventional vicar moves to a remote corner of the English countryside, only to discover a com… read more

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  • crime
"You’re not protecting me when you keep stuff from me, you’re just worrying me."

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

"Comfort always dispels rage more quickly than shouting does. [the Rev. Jack Brooks]"

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

"...confessing one truth can be a good way to deflect from others. [the Rev. Jack Brooks]"

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

"The Church isn’t just for those who believe in God. It’s for those who don’t have anything to believe in. The lonely, lost and homeless. A place of refuge."

-C.J. Tudor, The Burning Girls

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17. The Hiding Place

By: C.J. Tudor

3.60

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man comes an unputdownable psychological thriller about a ma… read more

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  • crime
"Nunca voltes atrás. É o que nos estão sempre a dizer. As coisas terão mudado. Não serão como te recordas. Deixa o passado no passado. É claro que esta última é mais fácil de dizer que de fazer. O pas…"

-C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

"We romanticize the past with our period dramas and glossy film adaptations. A bit like we do with nature. Nature is violent, unpredictable and unforgiving. Eat or be eaten. That's nature. However muc…"

-C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

"And after all, kids will be kids. The problem is, if you let kids be kids, then before you know it they're smearing their faces in pigs' blood, pushing each other off the edge of cliffs and smashing …"

-C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

"Grief is personal. It isn't something you can share like a box of chocolates. It's yours and yours alone, a spiked steel ball chained to your ankle, a coat of nails around your shoulders, a crown of …"

-C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

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18. The Dinner Lady Detectives (Dinner Lady Detectives, #1)

By: Hannah Hendy

3.27

Format: 290 pages, ebook

Murder is a dish best served ice cold... Margery and Clementine are enjoying a peaceful middle-a… read more

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  • crime
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19. The Couple at No. 9

By: Claire Douglas

4.07

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

It was the house of their dreams. Until the bodies were found . . . BODIES FOUND UNDER PATIO … read more

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  • crime
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20. An Endless Cornish Summer

By: Phillipa Ashley

4.10

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

Escape to the seaside with this gorgeous new series from the Sunday Times bestselling author – perf… read more

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21. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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22. A Special Cornish Christmas

By: Phillipa Ashley

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

For Bo Grayson, Christmas has always been the most wonderful time of the year. Well, until she had … read more

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23. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

By: Louise Kennedy

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more

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24. The Serial Killer’s Daughter (The Serial Killer's Family, #2)

By: Alice Hunter

3.85

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

Is murder in the blood? In a sleepy Devon village, a young girl is taken from the streets. Local… read more

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  • crime
Cover of The Twins: Men of Violence by Kate Kray

25. The Twins: Men of Violence

By: Kate Kray

3.66

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

Nobody knew the twins like Kate Kray. Married to Ron, she was granted unique access into the shadow… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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26. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies

By: Amanda Brown

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Gotcha!: The Untold Story of Britain's Biggest Cash Robbery by Peter Wilton

27. Gotcha!: The Untold Story of Britain's Biggest Cash Robbery

By: Peter Wilton

4.28

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

On Easter Monday 1983 armed robbers got into the supposedly impregnable Security Express depot in S… read more

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Cover of The Krays: The Prison Years by David Meikle

28. The Krays: The Prison Years

By: David Meikle

4.01

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In the 60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were Britain’s most notorious gangsters. With violence and intim… read more

Similar categories in David Meikle's The Krays: The Prison Years book and David Meikle's The Krays: The Prison Years

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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29. Cannibal Killers: Monsters with a Taste for Murder

By: Moira Martingale

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Moira Martingale’s comprehensive study, Cannibal The Impossible Monsters, was originally written i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Surviving the Krays: The Final Explosive Secret about the Krays by David Teale

30. Surviving the Krays: The Final Explosive Secret about the Krays

By: David Teale

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

David Teale- groomed by the twins, controlled by threats, raped by Ronnie, falsely imprisoned by th… read more

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3.94

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3.82

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4.32

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