Neil Root

Gone: The Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence and Her Father's Desperate Search for the Truth

by Neil Root

The last time that anyone heard from 35-year-old Claudia Lawrence, a chef at the University of York, was when she sent a text message to a friend on 18 March 2009 at 8.23 p.m. She has never been heard from or...

Frenzy!: How the tabloid press turned three evil serial killers into celebrities

by Neil Root

Murder has transfixed the popular press for centuries. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that murder began saturating front pages and making these monsters what we today recognise as...

Twentieth-Century Spies

by Neil Root

The deadly world of high-level espionage is on full display in this heart-pumping exposé on the world's most glamorous and dangerous jobs

A unique investigation of the most important cases of the twentieth...