Australian Desperadoes: The Incredible Story of How Australian Gangsters Terrorised California by Terry Smyth
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Coves - San Francisco's first organised-crime gang - were Australians- men and women with criminal careers in Australia who had come to the US, mostly illegally, during the gold rush. The Coves had come not to dig for gold but to unleash a crime wave the likes of which America had never seen. Robber ...Show more
Murder Without Motive - the Killing of Rebecca Ryle by Martin McKenzie-Murray
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
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Ice Nation: Cracking an Ice Syndicate: A Detective's Gripping Inside Story by Jason Bray
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
When the young and impressionable sons and daughters of rural Australia were promised power and riches beyond their wildest dreams by an older sadistic boss, they become a highly manipulated and dangerous group of drug dealers. Intent on distributing their own brand of ice and justice into regional comm ...Show more
Catch and Kill - Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
Ray: "Riveting. Compelling. The story of how Ronan Farrow held his ground against the powerful media establishment, unprincipled lawyers, public relations spinmasters, spies, to expose the sexual predations of Hollywood mogul Henry Weinstein. An Australian-born media executive tried to stop the book fro ...Show more
Dark Man: Australia's First Serial Killer by Jason Foster
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Dark Man is the amazing true story of one of Australia's first serial killers, who kept the colony of New South Wales in the grip of fear as the police ruthlessly hunted their man. In late 1896, three men go missing in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Each man has answered a newspaper advertiseme ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more
Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 'Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about ...Show more
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar by Virginia Vallejo
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now a major motion picture Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media person ...Show more
The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
. . . he is hard to frighten . . . he is very methodical . . . he does not like sunlight because he is very fair-skinned . . . he has the tattoo of St George and the Dragon . . . - Witness statement given to the Crime Intelligence Unit, Brisbane, 1974. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey, along with his accomp ...Show more
The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer and the Meaning of Murder by Claudia Rowe
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I'll have to give it to you, when confronted at least you're honest, as honest as any reporter...You want to go into the depths of my mind and into my past. I want a peek into yours. It is only fair, isn't it?' - Kendall Francois..In September 1998, young re ...Show more
All-American Murder by James Patterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'The man behind the hugely popular Alex Cross series has interviewed those closest to Hernandez to get the full, winding story on the NFL star turned murderer.' Sun 'Patterson unravels Hernandez's complicated and troubling story.' CBS News 'This disturbing true-crime thriller is another fast and capti ...Show more
Mandatory Murder by Steven Schubert
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A compelling true story of homicide and injustice in an outback town At first it looked like a swag, said the grader driver who found the body just off the road outside the outback town of Katherine. Police identify the dead man as Ray Nicefero, who'd recently appeared in court for aggravated assault an ...Show more