East London's crime history must be amazing to research and choosing which to write about must be a difficult choice.

Of course being a crime buff this was of interest to me and I wasn't at all disappointed.

A superbly written book it is filled with the dark side of the Capital and is a brilliant book to pick up and peruse at leisure.

I will definitely be gifting several copies to my friends.

NetGalley, reviewed by Tracy Shephard

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Although my family has its origins in London, most of them from the east end, I wouldn't be able to say with any confidence if Whitechapel and the Ripper murders were in the East End or not. It seems a shame that one specific area of London has this awful reputation, which author David Charnick investigates so thoroughly, but such a lot of terrible things seem to have happened there!

Books Monthly, November 2016 – reviewed by Paul Norman

The author has set out to provide in considerable detail a wide-ranging selection of historical East London crimes that does not include Ripper or Kray mythology. In this he has been successful with a well written easy to read romp through hundreds of years of crimes in a compact book.

Robert Bartlett

The information is interesting and I definitely wanted to learn more about the weavers riots in Spitalfield.

NetGalley, reviewed by Rosemarie Cawkwell

After spending the best part of my holiday in London last summer, I was excited to read about some of East London's earliest recorded crime history. I was not disappointed. David Charnick has taken a sometimes dry subject matter of criminal history (London's weavers) and made it very readable. I appreciated that he informs the reader the name of the present-day site for the misdeeds and crimes.

NetGalley, reviewed by Laura Ayers