Non-Fiction: True Crime

Murder, gunrunning, drug trafficking, kneecappings – Paul Ferris has been accused of many things in his life, some true, some not. What’s not in dispute is that he spent twenty-five years as one of Britain’s most feared gangsters. Out of prison and straight for five years, he recounts the stories of a tough existence that nobody knows better.

Tam McGraw was one of the most feared gangsters in Glasgow. Before his death from natural causes in July 2007, he had built up a huge crime empire which stretched from Glasgow to the Canaries.

A fascinating collection of true crime stories from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow’s toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets. Paul Ferris, T C Campbell and gangleaders galore have languished behind its grim walls and, a hundred years on, Barlinnie still makes headlines. This is its fascinating, turbulent story.

True crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and shocking cases from the last century.

McGraw was a ruthlessly efficient gangster who built a crime empire based on fear and cunning, violence and drugs. They called him The Licensee – but not because of the pub he owned. Street players knew what it meant: Licensed to Commit Crime.

Graeme Pearson is one of the UK’s most outspoken and respected senior police officers. This is the remarkable, revealing and compelling story of one man’s determination to succeed and his life fighting crime.

"Gangs of Glasgow" takes an in-depth look at the evolution of the city's gangs from organised mobs of the Thirties to the smart-suited men of violence of the modern day.

Throughout his amazing career, Les Brown was in the thick of the action and here he gives a rare and intensely human insight into many aspects of his work. Glasgow Crimefighter tells the inside story of cases and criminals who have written themselves into the history of a city where brawling is said to be in the blood.

As legendary Glasgow detective Les Brown re-investigates cases from Stratford in east London to Wick, via Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, he finds that, often, the official police line doesn't quite add up...

Murder, gunrunning, drug trafficking, kneecappings - Paul Ferris has been accused of many things in his life, some true, some not. What's not in dispute is that he spent twenty-five years as one of Britain's most feared gangsters. Out of prison and straight for five years, Paul still hasn't forgotten the common thugs and big-time players that surrounded him or the world of violence, fear and uneasy alliances that he inhabited with them.

Reg McKay reveals the the truth about the killers, the victims and life and death on the streets of Europe's Murder Capital.

Murder, madness and maliciousness abound in this hangman's dozen of she devils. Culled from over five hundred years of bloody history by crime writer and journalist Douglas Skelton, these pages uncover the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know.