Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, this remarkable story unfolds like a gothic thriller. For 150 years scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands.

Lorenzo, Michael, John and Tommy shared everything– the laughter and the bruises of an impoverished childhood on New York’s violent West Side. Until one of their pranks misfired and they were sent to a reformatory school. Twelve months of systematic mental, physical and sexual abuse left the boys transformed for ever. Eleven years later, one of them had become a journalist, one a lawyer – and the other two killers for the mob. In a chance encounter they came face to face with one of their torturers and shot him dead in front of several witnesses. The trial that followed brought the four friends together again in one last, audacious stand – and a courtroom climax as gripping as any John Grisham novel.

Douglas focuses his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims and an uncanny understanding of the perpetrators, Douglas looks at the obsessions that lead to rape, stalking and sexual murder through such cases as Ronnie Shelton, the serial rapist who terrorised Cleveland; Joseph Thompson, New Zealand's South Aucland rapist; the stalking and killing of television star Rebecca Schaeffer; and New York's notorious 'Preppie Murder'

Sexy siren Amy DeChant had a lifelong habit of finding men - rich men - who would take care of her. And when the money ran out, so did Amy. When she met wealthy bookie Bruce Weinstein at a poker room in Las Vegas, she found the perfect prey.....

Robert D'Onston Stephenson is the man Melvin Harris proves beyond reasonable doubt to be Jack the Ripper. One of the world's leading experts on the Ripper case, Harris was instrumental in exposing the so-called 'Ripper Diary'. Now, based on many years research, he reveals the true face of Jack the Ripper.