The Good Mothers: The Story of Three Woman Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omerta is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world's most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is the story of the women who broke the silence. We live in their bui ...Show more
Accidental Death?: When things aren't as they seem by Robin Bowles
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death', and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this way. Several of the cases examined here turned out, on investigation, not to be accidents at all. Some were crimes. Some remain unexplained; others were shown ...Show more
The People vs the Banks by Michael Roddan
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The Banks reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are beyond the law. The day of reckoning for liars and thi ...Show more
Manly Murders - A Lifesaver's Secret by Gunilla Haglundh
$24.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
The body of teenager, Mandy Courtin, is found on the rocks at North Head along with a suicide note. As Detective Inspector Stephen French meets with the parents, little does he know this note will unravel a trail of school and Facebook bullying, underage sex, rape and cover ups. Why is visiting Chief Su ...Show more
Certain Admissions: A Beach, A Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Who killed Beth Williams? On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When polic ...Show more
Monster by Allan Hall
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark, windowless cellar. Based on 150 ne ...Show more
The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women by Kay Saunders
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - together in the one big book. Tilly Devine, Mary Bryant, Helena Rubinstein, Lola Montez - th ...Show more
My Mother, A Serial Killer by Hazel Gaiter; Janet Fife-Yeomans (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A gripping and shocking story of a serial killer mother, and the brave daughter who brought her to justice. Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. Loved everywhere she went, the townsfolk of Wilcannia which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kind and caring. The officers a ...Show more
Ruth Ellis Last Woman to be Hanged by Robert Hancock
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On the eve of her hanging, Ruth Ellis wrote to a friend: 'I must close now but remember I am quite happy with the verdict, but not the way the story was told, there is so much that people don't know.' Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain. This is her story. In July 1955 Ruth Ellis was ...Show more
Loose Units by Paul F. Verhoeven
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Paul Verhoeven's father, John, is a cop. Well, an ex-cop. Long since retired, John spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. Paul, however, is something of an artsy, sensitive soul who can't understand why he doesn't have the same heroism and courage as h ...Show more
The Unusual Suspect: The Remarkable True Story of a Modern-Day Robin Hood by Ben Machell
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood, from Times feature writer Ben Machell.
Dead by Friday: How Lust and Greed Led to Murder in the Suburbs by Derek Pedley
$27.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
He was once a bronzed lifesaver but is now a balding, overweight Beaurepaires manager nearing 40, an ambitious man with desires his marriage cannot satisfy. She is 29, the wife of one of his employees; a serial cheater and manipulator, she can curl her lips into a knowing smile and bat bedroom eyes at a ...Show more