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Inside the Monkey House: My Time as an Irish Prison Officer (REPRINT)

Cuffe, John
9781848892996
Re-print, originally published in 2017. When John Cuffe entered Mountjoy as a young prison officer in May 1978, he stepped back into Victorian times. He knew nothing about jails, apart from what he had seen in black-and-white films on RTE: 'good' sheriffs and 'bad' hombres. Here, he reveals the raw truth of thirty tough years on the inside. Join him on a vivid, eye-opening journey .
€16.99

Cold Cases Files: On the Trail of Ireland's Undetected Killers

Cummins, Barry
9780717148028
The Cold Case Files is the latest behind-the-scenes book from Ireland's most respected crime journalist, Barry Cummins. With unparalleled access to the Garda Cold Case Unit, Cummins explores the new investigations into some of Ireland's oldest and most shocking unsolved murders.
€14.65

The Framing of Harry Gleeson

Fagan, Kieran
9781848892460
In November 1940 the body of Moll McCarthy, an unmarried mother of seven, was found in a field in Tipperary. She had been shot. The man who reported the discovery was her neighbour Harry Gleeson. Within three months, he was convicted by an all-male jury. Within five months, he was hanged. But he was innocent, the victim of a local conspiracy.
€12.99

The Line

Gargan, Ian
9780717170937
A provocative blend of memoir and case study from Ireland's leading criminal psychologist.
€22.53

Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

Harkin, Greg
9780862788438
The news story of the year: an explosive expose of how British military intelligence really works, from the inside.
€13.99

Let This be Our Secret

Henderson, Deric
9780717147700
The shocking true story of a killer dentist, his mistress, how they murdered their spouses - and how they almost got away with it.
€10.99

The Joy: Mountjoy Jail. The Shocking, True Story of Life on the Inside: 2014

Howard, Paul
9781847177445
One man's story of life in The Joy - compulsive, chilling and frank. A no-holds-barred account of a criminal's time in the notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to journalist Paul Howard. New introduction by the author.
€14.83

The Missing Postman: What Really Happened to Larry Griffin?

O Drisceoil, Mr Fachtna
9781856356930
Fachtna O Drisceoil weaves the pieces of this mystery together, using new evidence which paints a sordid portrait of lies, half-truths, conspiracy, intimidation and Garda brutality in the 1920s.
€15.20

About Time: Surviving Ireland's Death Row

Pringle, Peter
9781845887605
On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: `Peter Pringle, for the crime of capital murder ... the law prescribes only one penalty, and that penalty is death.'The problem was that Peter did not commit this crime.
€19.18

BREAKING THE SILENCE

Ridge, Martin
9780717143979
At Christmas 1997, a local priest Fr Eugene Greene reported to the Gardai that a man had tried to blackmail him. His hubris set in motion a Garda investigation which revealed him as a serial child sex abuser for decades. As word of the investigation spread, 26 men came forward. Most were from the tiny Gaeltacht parish of Gort an Choirce.
€20.16

Badfellas

Williams, Paul
9780241954744
Organized crime took hold in Ireland and soon armed robberies, kidnappings and murder became commonplace. This book traces how the hugely lucrative drug trade that then emerged led to the gang wars that have corroded communities and devastated countless lives. It describes in gripping detail the shocking depths to which the mobsters have sunk.
€12.70