Coming autumn 2025: A true crime take on the biggest issues of our time.
Praise for Green Crime
“Julia Shaw brilliantly sets the pace for criminal acts that the world needs to know about. I found Green Crime deeply compelling. A true crime thriller that, for once, has global consequences” - Adam Rutherford, scientist, BBC presenter, and author.
Summary of Green Crime
Enter a world where people are murdered, ecosystems are destroyed, and corruption is rampant. Where organised crime groups infiltrate desperate communities, and corporate gangsters think they are above the law.
And, closely following their every move, are teams of secret agents, vigilante groups, and scientists who are revolutionising the fight for our planet. Using insider sources and her expertise as a criminal psychologist, Julia Shaw peers inside the minds of environmental criminals.
Dr Julia Shaw explores six world-changing crimes. The true story behind famous cases, like the Deepwater horizon oil spill and the Dieselgate emissions scandal, and cases that everyone should know, like the case of the Shuidong Syndicate and the chase of the Thunder.
As she tells each harrowing case, she reveals how earth’s killers think, why their crimes are so deadly, and how we can stop them from stealing our future. In Green Crime, criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw takes on the minds of the people destroying the planet, and how to stop them.
Publishers
German: 28 August, 2025 (publisher: Ulstein)
UK: 9 October, 2025 (publisher: Canongate)
US & Canada: 4 November 2025. Publisher: Chelsea Green (Penguin Random House)
To aquire international rights, please contact my literary agent Will Francis.
More Praise for Green Crime by Dr Julia Shaw
With a global scope and a sharp eye on the future, Green Crime shows us who breaks environmental laws, how, and why. It's a resounding call for all of us to fight for the planet we live on – and never give up.
Alex von Tunzelmann, historian and author of Fallen Idols
Julia Shaw has written a brilliant book that will completely change the way you think about the world, and how we treat it.
Romesh Ranganathan, comedian and TV personality
Green Crime by Dr. Julia Shaw is a welcome insight into the criminal behavior that threatens our collective survival.
Captain Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace
The criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw is to be congratulated as she has written the most logical and hopeful book about the climate crisis that I have ever read, based on her applied work and, on this occasion, her passionate desire to “unmask Earth’s killers”. Travel with her on a thrilling journey in the air, forests, oceans and “deep in the ground” as she shows us how to become one of “Earth’s guardians” and so save our planet from environmental destruction by the all too knowable villains who want to do it harm.
This is a book that reminded me why I became a criminologist and why studying the discipline attracts so many young people to the subject. Rousing and gripping in equal measure - and written with absolute clarity – it should be read by everyone who cares about the future and who wants some guidance about helping humanity to get there.