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This Storm

By James Ellroy

El Sicario: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

By Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By Imani Perry

Blue Blood

By Edward Conlon

Urban Warrior

By Helen Barnett

The Killer Catcher: Britain's Top Ballistics Expert Reveals How He Hunted the World's Deadliest Criminals

By Brian J. Heard

Strangeways Unlocked: The Shocking Truth about Life Behind Bars

By Neil Samworth

Harold Shipman Prescription For Murder

By Brian and Jean Whittle and Ritchie

The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates and Race, Class and Crime in America

By Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.

How To Be A Police Officer

By Graham Wettone

The Midwife's Confession

By Diane Chamberlain

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

The Killing Season: A Summer in South-Central with LAPD Homicide

By Miles Corwin

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

What's Tha Up To Nah?

By Martyn Johnson

The Good Guys Wear Black: Real-life Heroes of the Police's Rapid-response Firearms Unit

By Steve Collins

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver (The Confessions Series)

By Eugene Salomon

The Lies We Told

By Chamberlain, Diane, Diane Chamberlain

Running with the Firm

By James Bannon

Into the Night: A Year with the Police

By Matt Lloyd-Rose

Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row

By Damien Echols

The Guardians: The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Grisham, John

Official and Confidential: Secret Life of J.Edgar Hoover

By Anthony Summers

My Hero Theo: The brave police dog who went beyond the call of duty to save lives

By Gareth Greaves

Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement: A Guide for Officers and Their Families

By Kevin M Gilmartin

Poison Tree

By Kevin Taylor

Changing Police Culture: Policing in a Multicultural Society

By Janet B. L. Chan (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover

By Richard Gid Powers