Crime & Law Books > Paul Britton Crime & Law Books

Advantages: Awe inspiring, very thorough, thrilling
Disadvantages: Shocking, many gorey details

...would like to make about The Jigsaw Man is that at no time does Paul Britton spare the details of his cases, though some of the things he has investigated are gruesome he is not afraid to describe them thoroughly and with a strange sense of enthusiasm. Alongside this is his struggle to maintain his own self as he explains that for every crime scene he goes to he leaves a part of himself behind and rightfully so considering what he has described. ...
...written insight into the criminal mind and the complexities behind it without the need for psychological, potentially confusing wording. You may think this all sounds so gruesome, but it gets worse, this book is infact a autobiographical piece describing a handful of Paul Britton's investigations from his vast career this may indeed be the most fascinating part as all these tales, almost supernaturally strange, are real. While reading i also noticed ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting
Disadvantages: Doesn't flow.Small print

Easter Monday, 4th April 1983, the biggest cash robbery in British history at that time, was carried out on the Security Express depot in London. Well planned and executed, the gang left no clues behind. First published in 2002, the book is the story of that robbery by its co-authors, Peter Wilton, the officer in charge of the investigation, the gang members John and Ronnie Knight and finally, Pete Sawyer, an investigative journalist. My impression ...
...from his own research and from interviews he had with the Knights and Wilton, which may have been a condition of them being named as co-authors, who knows? After an initial page with a very brief detail of each of the authors, a short co-authors note follows which is written solely by Sawyer himself, in which he outlines how the book has been put together. The story itself begins with a prologue relating to a drug's raid carried out in March 1983 ... Read review

Advantages: keeps you in the know
Disadvantages: none

...asked me to teach her the highway code,so out came my old faithfull book that i kept,pleased that i did,only to find my daughter had brought a new updated book,i was shocked to find so much had changed .enbarrassed by this.I thought its time to learn again, my daughter and i sat down together ,every night and learned the highway code,it taught me many a thing i did not know,Also my daughter and i had fun,and quilty time together. So keep up to date ... Read review

Advantages: Well argued case, easy to read format
Disadvantages: Does not present an alternative

I think most people will recall this story which made headline news around the world. But as a quick recap, two British backpackers had bought an old VW combi van and were using it to explore Australia. One night in July 2001, they were driving the Stuart Highway through the outback when they were stopped by somebody driving another vehicle, Peter got out of the car and was never seen again. Joanne was tied up and bundled into the other van, she ...
...until she managed to flag down some help. I remember the story breaking in the UK and being filled with horror at the ordeal described by Joanne Lees. I subsequently kept up to date with the developments right through to the trial. When some opinion started to turn against Joanne, I thought it was unfair and some of it truly ridiculous. For example she was criticised for not attending press conferences and when she did for wearing a T-shirt with ... Read review

Advantages: A sober, restrained and excellently-written catalogue of murder
Disadvantages: A grim and unsettling subject

...it used to be. For the Victorian aficionado, murder, however depraved, was a human act to be savoured at arms length in front of a roaring fire while sipping a glass of Madeira (or absinthe, for those of a more bohemian persuasion). Those old-fashioned connoisseurs of crime were able to detach themselves from the swirl of emotion and anguish that inevitably clung to each case and examine methods, motives and consequences calmly and with cosy fascination. ...
...in murdering. Nowadays, however, the great beast of 24-Hour-News means that heinous acts demand our attention almost as soon as they happen, and when we direct our gaze towards them they are still cocooned inside a seething ball of emotions: the shock; the horror; the reactions from family and friends; the inevitable tearful press-conferences. We hyper-emotional moderns are more inclined to fixate on, even consume, newsworthy anguish, and to see ... Read review