Hitmen for hire, drugs for sale. Inside the dangerous world that lurks beneath the bright, friendly light of your internet screenDark...A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in mysterious circumstances in a Bangkok jail cell, just as the author arrives there.Who is Variety Jones and why have darknet markets ballooned tenfold sinc...

A look into the dark side of the internet's secret underbellyThe dark web is the internet's evil twin, where anything can be bought and sold. Drugs, weapons, and hackers-for-hire are available at the touch of a button.Most who visit merely look around, happy to satisfy their curiosity before leaving, never to return. But some are sucked into the criminal underworld and find themselves doing things they would never have contemplated in the real world—orderin...

It takes just seconds for someone to die. Sometimes questions remain: was it an accident, suicide, or something more sinister?An elderly couple having an illicit affair disappear into the bush, their campsite destroyed by fire but their vehicle untouched. Who are the mysterious "Hill People" and does a missing drone hold the key to the mystery?A skydiver plunges to his death and investigators soon discover his parachute had been tampered with. But with a hundred potential m...

Deluded narcissists. Obsessed fans. Sinister internet trolls. Stalkers who turned deadly.A Hollywood starlet on a smash-hit sitcom enjoys rising fame, unaware that her greatest fan is hell-bent on meeting his crush. When she films a love scene, his adoration turns into a quest to see her punished.A gameshow winner turns to writing books. When one is given a scathing review, he tracks down the reviewer with bloody results.A teenage boy enjoys online ...

Four shocking crimes. Four lives lost. Countless lives shattered.An eleven-year-old girl never makes it home from a Halloween party. When the people of the tight-knit Oil City discover what was done to her, they cancel Halloween until the real monsters who roam their streets can be caught.A fourteen-year-old girl is excited to attend her first evening party with local teens. What happens there is every parent's nightmare, but it is made infinitely worse whe...

True tales of serial killers who went viral.Serial killers have been with us for decades. The internet has put them in our pockets.The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs: A pair of teens go on a murderous spree, filming themselves along the way. When their deadly rampage is finished, more than twenty are dead and their exploits are immortalized in the most shocking video ever to circulate the internet, "3 Guys, 1 Hammer."Pedro Rodrigues...

Dark . . . A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure.Darker . . . A death in Minnesota leads detectives into the world of dark web murder-for-hire where hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin is paid to arrange killings, beatings, and rapes.Darkest . . . A video circulates and the pursuit of the monsters responsible for 'Daisy's Destruction' lead detectives into the unimaginable horror of...