20 Bizarre True Crime Cases to Send the Willies Right Up You!"More interesting than another Ted Bundy book!"Ritual Murder in a Sleepy English Village - In 1945 Britain, witchcraft was long gone, but ask any local from the sleepy town of Lower Quinton, what happened to Charles Walton, and they'll tell you it was – witchcraft!Headless Body in Topless Bar - If the New York Post's headline of 'Headless Body in ...

20 Bizarre True Crime Stories to Have You Crapping in Your Coffin!"This series discombobulates your brain and shivers your timbers!"The Villisca Axe Murders - In a town known as the pretty place, an entire family were killed by an axeman who had been hiding in their attic waiting for them to go to sleep, in a case that continues to haunt to this day.The Uncatchable - A man known as the Greek Robin Hood, wen...

The most dangerous place isn't outside. It's inside the home.Family Killers explores fifteen disturbing true crime cases where the violence didn't come from strangers, but from those closest.Parents. Partners. Children. Siblings.These are crimes built on trust, proximity, and relationships that should have been safe. Some were calculated. Others unfolded in moments of anger, delusion, or collapse. Many were hidden behind ordinary lives until the tru...

In 1929, the mysterious death of writer and occultist Norah Fornario on the Scottish island of Iona captured the public's imagination. A century later, questions about what really happened to her remain unanswered.Grief-stricken after losing her mother and grandparents at a young age, Norah, sometimes known as Netta Fornario, turned to the occult in search of answers about the mysteries of life and death. Her fascination with the elemental kingdoms, where the veil between worlds is...

THE CANALS RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF HIS VICTIMSPrivate investigator Harrison Lake is having a run of bad luck when he gets a phone call from a mysterious girl begging for help. She claims to have been abducted, with only one number on the phone left for her – Harrison's.When Harrison becomes a suspect in the abduction, he is forced into a race against time to solve his own case, but finds himself drawn into a deadly game, orchestrated by an unidentified serial killer....

20 Bizarre True Crime Stories to Give You Brown Trousers!"Like a Netflix true crime series - in a book!"Yuba County Five Mystery - On a freezing Winter's night in California, five men drive up a treacherous mountain road and into bizarre true crime legend. What happened next raises enough questions to fill a book.The Abduction of Dirk the Penguin - When Dirk the penguin went to bed at Sea World on Queenslan...

ONE NIGHT. ONE LOCATION. NO WAY OUT.Private investigator Harrison Lake accepts an invitation to a prestigious hotel's final night but is forced into action when a body is found in one of the guest rooms.When another guest turns up dead, Harrison finds himself at the centre of a terrifying hostage situation, as he and nine others are ordered to remain in the hotel by a mysterious voice.With no way out, and with police surrounding the building, Harrison is forced to u...

20 Bizarre True Crime Stories to Bring on the Screaming Meemies!"More hair-raising than a ghost walk through Windsor!"The Beast of Bodom - Four teenage friends go camping for the night on the shoreline of an idyllic lake. As the Sun rises the next morning, only one has survived the night – barely.Drained of Blood - During annual carnival celebrations, a call-girl was murdered in her apartment and the blood ...

The Algarve, Portugal, visited by 20 million tourists a year, home to 460,000 people, and a playground for a serial killer known as the Monster of the Algarve.Private investigator Harrison Lake returns to Albufeira to provide a fresh take on the case, sixteen years after his parents died in an accident on the town's shoreline.But things quickly take a sinister turn when another victim is discovered, and Harrison is forced to choose between solving the mystery at all costs o...

20 Bizarre True Crime Stories to Give Santa the Shits!"More interesting than Christmas dinner with the in-laws!"Sodder Children Disappearance – After escaping a Christmas Eve house fire, two parents comforted four of their children, but five more were left inside – only for investigators to find no evidence the children had been in the house at all.The Great Coram Street Murder – In Victorian London, a lady...

What does it really take to make the podium? Which of the biological, environmental and psychological factors really shape a champion's route to the top?To answer these questions, Ben Oakley has taken the original step of combining existing research with a study of leading athletes' autobiographies. Looking at the early histories and initial challenges of serial champions in their own words, Podium sheds new light on their commonalities.A similar focus in training,...

Athletic Development: A Psychological Perspective is an examination of the psychological factors that help or hinder the development of participants in sport. This includes influences such as families, coach-athlete interactions, and transitional episodes on an individual’s pathway in sport.This edited collection of topical chapters shines a unique psychological perspective on the athlete’s development through sport. It explores a range of contemporary themes that influenc...